Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦🇪🇺
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Balkan historian. Associate Professor, SSST. Author of five books on modern Bosnian and Serbian history. Tweet mostly about current affairs. Anti-fascist conservative. Low tolerance for pro-Putin or woke politics.
Marko Attila Hoare is a British historian of the former Yugoslavia who also writes about current affairs, especially Southeast Europe, including Turkey and the Caucasus. Hoare is Associate Professor of History at the University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, in Sarajevo. .. more
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My book 'Serbia: A Modern History', is now out ! The product of 17.5 years of research and writing. Explains in just under 600 pages Serbia's path from Karađorđe's First Serbian Uprising, though independence, the Balkan Wars, World War I and Yugoslav unification up to conquest by Nazi Germany.
Yes, which is a fact that disgraces NATO. Kallas would have been so much better. Can't imagine her crawling on her belly before Trump, the way Rutte does.
NATO chief wishes 'good luck' to those who think Europe can defend itself without US help
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte insisted Monday that Europe is incapable of defending itself without U.S. military support and would have to more than double current military spending targets to be ...
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Trump sycophant Mark Rutte is wholly unfit to be NATO secretary-general. Time to remove him. Democratic Europe, with its wealth, population and technology, is more than capable of defending itself, if the will is there.
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It's all well and good to have King Joffrey on the Board of Peace, but I won't take it seriously as an institution unless the Night King also joins.
Even by the standards of former-Yugoslavia genocide deniers, Michael Parenti, who has just died, was shallow and vulgar. His arguments echoed those of the Holocaust deniers. As I wrote twenty-odd years ago:
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National figure Juraj Dobrila laid to rest in Croatia after 140 years
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National figure Juraj Dobrila laid to rest in Croatia after 140 years www.croatiaweek.com/croatia-rebu...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Activates National Guard After Armed Man is Fatally Shot by Federal Agent
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I fear the US is headed toward either civil war or fascist dictatorship. Anti-fascist Americans may need to fight and win the first if they want to avoid the second.
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..., in sometimes openly anti-Semitic terms, as an evil Jewish puppet-master seeking to prevent a legal precedent that could apply to Israeli commanders. Today, he and his colleagues are smeared the other way, by apologists for Israel's genocide, as engaged in some sort of anti-Semitic blood libel.
The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant
Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC
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Theodor Meron is a Holocaust survivor and part of the ICC panel that issued Netanyahu's arrest warrant. When his ICTY Appeals Panel acquitted Croatia's Storm generals in 2012, he was systematically smeared by some of the worst members of the Balkan commentariat...
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Europe's leaders could end the war in Ukraine victoriously in weeks if they had a fraction of Ukraine's bravery. Zelensky should rub the European leaders' cowardice in their faces at every opportunity he gets.
Zelensky was absolutely right to bash Europe in his Davos speech. For four years, his country's young men have been dying alone on the battlefields to defend Europe from our common mortal enemy, and Europe won't fight alongside him or even confiscate Russia's assets or seize its ships.
..., Islamophobic one-party tyranny running one of the world's two most populous countries, that is becoming the world's leading economy. It is patiently pursuing a strategy to replace the US as the global hegemon. It is ultimately much more dangerous than the buffoon Trump or the paper tiger Putin.
China holds scary puppets in its right hand to drive us to embrace its left hand.
2) China threatens its democratic neighbours - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. The democratic world must absolutely stand with them as they defend their freedom and independence.
3) China's regime is a genocidal...
2) China threatens its democratic neighbours - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. The democratic world must absolutely stand with them as they defend their freedom and independence.
3) China's regime is a genocidal...
It's all very well Macron and Carney pivoting to China to counterbalance the demented Trump regime; there has to be some realpolitik. But:
1) Trump is Putin's useful idiot. And behind Putin stands China, which sustains him and his tinpot imperialism.
1) Trump is Putin's useful idiot. And behind Putin stands China, which sustains him and his tinpot imperialism.
Trump and Vance threaten and insult Denmark, whose losses in Afghanistan were among the highest. They never said thank you to Ukraine for its 18 soldiers killed in Iraq. Trump and Vance are moral degenerates.
JD Vance complained Zelensky didn't say thank you for US military aid, which was a roundabout subsidy for the US's own arms industry. Trump denigrates the NATO soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan to defend the US after 9/11.
UK PM Keir Starmer calls Donald Trump's remarks about Nato troops 'insulting' | BBC News
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The $58 Billion They Don't Want You to Know About: How MAGA Republicans Voted Against Your Paycheck
Ukraine aid isn't foreign charity—it's the biggest domestic manufacturing investment in a generation. And your representative probably voted to kill it.
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The $58 Billion They Don't Want You to Know About: How MAGA Republicans Voted Against Your Paycheck
Ukraine aid isn't foreign charity—it's the biggest domestic manufacturing investment in a generation. And your representative probably voted to kill it. open.substack.com/pub/thechris...
Ukraine aid isn't foreign charity—it's the biggest domestic manufacturing investment in a generation. And your representative probably voted to kill it. open.substack.com/pub/thechris...
FULL SPEECH: Zelenskyy Goes Brutal on Europe, Exposes Putin Fear, Says EU Can’t Act Without US| AC1G
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President Zelensky really told Europe off 🙂 The headline below is misleading; he called for Europe to be strong and united and to stand up for itself, instead of being weak, indecisive and rudderless as it currently is.
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ht Andy Wilson, Facebook
Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)
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Tearing Apart NATO, over a Trinket | National Review
Trump’s diatribe in a text message to the Norwegian prime minister is unhinged, false, or bonkers in at least ten ways.
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'By the way, the U.S. ally that suffered the fourth-most casualties in Iraq? Ukraine.'
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UK to hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius despite Trump’s taunts, No 10 says
PM’s spokesperson insists government’s position is unchanged and that the US still supports the deal
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Trump is right about this, at least. Handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is indeed an act of great British stupidity.
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Opinion | What Restrains Trump Now?
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What Restrains Trump Now? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
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How Liberal Historians Imagined a Different Path for the Balkans
A circle of dissident thinkers sought to understand the story of nationalism in Serbia and Croatia to help their countries forge a better future
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From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social archives:
Dissident Serbian and Croatian historians once pushed back against ultranationalism, arguing for pluralistic futures. History, @markoah.bsky.social writes, has largely vindicated their vision.
Dissident Serbian and Croatian historians once pushed back against ultranationalism, arguing for pluralistic futures. History, @markoah.bsky.social writes, has largely vindicated their vision.