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Kyrillos Saplachidis ✚
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Personal Space for Personal takes.
#SlavaUkraini #CrimeaIsUkraine
Kind reminder:

Armed Forces of Ukraine 🇺🇦 is the only peace organisation that actually works.
September 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later"
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
The myths that made Putin’s war
The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder
www.ft.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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So many complaints about society falling apart amount to "the beach is too crowded." Like they're complaining about the noise and traffic and a lack of good spots but it's all downstream of the fact that more people are able to go out and enjoy a beach vs when it was just you
August 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"Martyring the dissidents is a risky enterprise"

Foundation
March 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Don’t ask Ukraine to stop defending. Ask Russia to stop attacking.
March 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“Dress Code Drama at the Oval Office”, by Zez Vaz: buff.ly/wcNWxuQ
March 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Emil Cioran
January 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM