Putin did not create Trumpism, but Putin got there first. For some reason, Trump has not shown any trace of an anxiety of influence, nor did Putin claim his intellectual rights. This is, in fact, the only mystery that still remains to be solved. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Ivan Krastev: “the greatest achievement of May 8th was that Europeans collectively found the courage to imagine a future different from the present — and different from the past” Excellent speech: iwm.at/news/all-europ….

My article in the New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

How it started, how it's going. Screw these unrealistic realists.

“That once seemed unthinkable.” Talk for yourself guys, and apologize —you the so called Russia experts deemed it unthinkable. Many others, including me (here and elsewhere), predicted that since 2022

For my Dutch friends www.groene.nl/artikel/de-r...

Written about a year ago

The Old Oil Order is collapsing. Strait of Ormus, Baltic Sea, Red Sea are its geographical knots, and they are bursting. Hyper-concentration, petro-aggression, and transit-obsession are the structural festures. Climate and wars will make survival of this oil-based order plainly unsustainable

Amazing clip — all this arrogance and stupidity in few seconds

you cannot threaten the free world and lead it at the same time. No nation can match American might, but for the first time in my adult life, the moral and strategic heart of the defense of liberal democracy doesn’t beat in Washington. It beats in Kyiv www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

Anita Orban (no relation to Viktor the loser) — she is said to be the new foreign minister of Hungary — wrote back in 2008: the Kremlin since 1991 has systematically used Russian energy companies as players in a neo-mercantilist foreign policy designed to further Russia's neo-imperial ambitions

And for the world. What has happened in Budapest will soon occur in Washington. They have no guts anymore, these clones-clowns. It is domino, stupid

Now based in Vienna, Etkind described the war in Ukraine as a ‘special operation’ against modernity itself. The war was not only about territory or identity. It was against an emerging world shaped by climate awareness, justice and energy transition. weeklyword.eu/en/reflectio...

My congratulations to @radchenko.bsky.social, who has added this symbolic act to his many real achievements. A wonderful confession, a historic monument to our pathetic time www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Well done, thanks!

At least he understands it

Europe is having energy crisis because it failed to decarbonize fast enough to avoid it. And Europe has failed because its enemies — Putin, Orban, Trump, and oil lobbies — flood the continent with deception and violence. Dikes are too low and flimsy, which makes the catastrophe imminent

Book launch today in Amsterdam, Spui25, 17.00

How does our analysis of geopolitics change when we employ the Anthropocene as our lens? Looking forward to discussing the Dutch translation of Russia Against Modernity with @sashaetkind.bsky.social and Simone Peek tomorrow at Spui25 in Amsterdam. Come join us! spui25.nl/programma/ru...

Ivan Krastev noted that the Cold War didn't go hot because both sides believed strongly that the future was on their side. In the conflict today, he said, major players do not possess the conviction that the power of the future is on their side. www.ceu.edu/news/2026-03...

“Reading is so sexy,” popstars say in this article. “Clever is the new cool” www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

"That’s an admission of enormous weakness," Krugman said. "The Administration is not willing to accept pain as part of this war. They’re willing to drop bombs and all of that, but they’re not willing to shut off the revenue flow to the Iranian government."

Zelenskyy in London: The regimes in Russia and Iran are brothers in hatred – and that is why they are brothers in weapons. And we want regimes built on hatred to never win – in anything.

An interesting chart. It looks like any business decline, but most professions recovered after 2008 and 2019. Will this one recover after 2024?

This 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Very long interview about war, culture and hope, in Italian. PDF will open if you wish so esamizdat.it/ojs/index.php/…

In honor of Jürgen Habermas, who has died at 96, enjoy free access to this Current History virtual issue on public spheres around the world, a series originally published in 2015–16. Contributors include @sashaetkind.bsky.social, ‪@abuaardvark.bsky.social‬ and @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social.

Whom does he mean by “we”?

Tomorrow in Vienna or online: events.ceu.edu/2026-03-13/o...

While politicians will be dealing with the consequences, memoirists and historians will be trying to argue their diverse positions on “why”. Gradually they will reach a consensus. Textbooks will have it, and mems will emerge, and “never again” will be making circles

CNN: Kuwait, Iraq, and the UAE are shutting off wells as storage tanks overflow. Once these wells go dark, they cannot simply be flipped back on, creating a looming supply crater that would create a cascading effect on the global economy. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

In the meantime, Dutch and Czech versions of my book have been published

Not great when the only people in the free world who believe and trust Vladimir Putin’s word on critical things despite all evidence to the contrary are currently running the government of the United States.

Good morning and happy Wednesday to everyone. The problem with Trump jokes: Republicans don’t think they’re funny, and Democrats don’t think they’re jokes. 🤷‍♂️ To wit: "No other president can do the kind of shit I'm doing." ~Fat Satan

Have you seen Vladimir on Netflix? A dynamic and sensual show, I love the first episodes. An aging American lady develops a crushing dependence on a random guy called Vladimir. Thanks for reading— now you have a better sense of the politics of the decade

Will there be anything more stupid than Donald Trump wanting credit for stopping wars he started?

Few reflections, including mine www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...

Fedor Lukyanov is a mastermind of Russia’s self-justifications. In a recent interview, he said that Russia’s “position” has not changed. “We” want a transformation of Ukrainian statehood. Trump is a model but he should do more for “us”. The host is Peter Slezkine, whose father

A global criminal enterprise that carried out crimes against humanity. Inquiries should also be launched into how it was possible for such crimes to be committed for so long www.reuters.com/world/allega...

Argentina’s economy is crashing after Trump gave Melei $20 billion. People are taking out loans for food. So he must mean He wants Orban to do well, not Hungary. This is some sort of payoff. America 2nd 🥈

Rubio to Orban in Budapest: "We want this country to do well. It's in our national interest -- especially as long as you're the prime minister and the leader of this country." Indecent and self-damaging policy that defeats any rational explanation, confirming the wildest of conspiracy theories

Revenge of humanities? www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-pr...

The Guardian: In 2024, Trump urged 20 fossil fuel tycoons to stump up $1bn for his presidential campaign – while vowing to remove controls on the industry.

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin