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Posts by Andres Kasekamp

Kahn was the most famous architect from Estonia.

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'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based intern...

Powerful speech invoking Vaclav Havel's greengrocer no longer accepting the lie. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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The Soviets terror bombed Baltic cities, notably Tallinn, shortly afterwards.

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sums it up

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Even though GWU has a shiny Pushkin monument!

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Evidence that Trump's refusal to sell Tomahawks to Ukraine because the US needs them was just another lie.

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This is very unfortunate timing as it coincides with the @balticstudies.bsky.social bi-annual conference at UIUC, so don't expect many proposals from Baltic scholars.

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Reap what you sow.

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Why are they always more concerned about promoting their own books?

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What a douchebag

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Genuine and blatant foreign interference

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The only mystery is why Americans put up with this

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All the guns in the US make that scenario more plausible

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In that analogy, Vance is AH, but he is not really his own man.

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I certainly don't have full confidence that the Western European leaders won't fall for empty US promises of security guarantees and lean on Zelenskyy to accept.

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We have already found out the answer months ago.

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That recalls the "Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, when Moscow cut a deal to divvy up an Eastern European country with a Western ex-democracy that backslid into fascism under a convicted criminal with a cult of personality."

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Excellent analysis

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That moment has already passed.

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And the news doesn't even mention it. Dementia has been normalized. Had it been Biden...

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It says more about him not respecting any constitutional restraints on himself.

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Sadly true

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Could the Baltic States be the new Ukraine? - ABC listen The Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – once part of the Soviet Union - are now all members of NATO. But Latvia and Estonia both have large Russian speaking minorities. Analysts worry that...

Provided historical context on Baltic geopolitics for Australian Radio. Ignore the headline. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Andres Kasekamp. USA kehtestas Kanadale 35% tollimäära | ERR ERR

Rääkisin Trumpi tollimaksude mõjust vikerraadio.err.ee/media/video/...

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What impressed @markhertling.bsky.social the most while visiting each Baltic state wasn’t that their governments are clear-eyed and proactive, but that the ordinary citizens were, too...they harbor no illusions about the threats...they are not merely reacting to danger, but preparing for it—together

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Trump keeps crossing major lines...

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Musk's fate will be more like that of Khodorkovsky than Prigozhin. Still early days in the development of the authoritarian regime.

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Mart Laar, Lennart Meri, Edgar Savisaar: the Estonians who led the Singing Revolution that led to the demise of the USSR

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Excellent, I will make use of this with my students!

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Might be teaching Harvard students in September. Toronto's Munk School will host Kennedy School students in our classrooms (Trump has cancelled Harvard's right to enroll foreign students).

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