Mark Copelovitch
@mcopelov.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Performative public lying is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes
Japan threatening us militarily, China tells German foreign minister reut.rs/4rGgqid
Japan threatening us militarily, China tells German foreign minister
Japan is threatening China militarily which is "completely unacceptable", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his German counterpart, after Japan said that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar at Japanese military aircraft.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Performative public lying is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes
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All of that is worth a shot except benching Hurts
do you give McKee a shot?
do you sit Dickerson to see if he can get healthy? Also Jurgens?
do you have passing coordinator or qb coach call plays?
do you weep?
do you curse the gods and break things?
do you sit Dickerson to see if he can get healthy? Also Jurgens?
do you have passing coordinator or qb coach call plays?
do you weep?
do you curse the gods and break things?
December 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
All of that is worth a shot except benching Hurts
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
You will be visited by 3 spirits (in the material world)
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
You will be visited by 3 spirits (in the material world)
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LEAVE Twitter already, folks. Get the fuck off there.
The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
LEAVE Twitter already, folks. Get the fuck off there.
You all know that Dennis (z"l) was really talking about American politics & the far right authoritarian party. But, of course, he was also talking about football.
December 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
You all know that Dennis (z"l) was really talking about American politics & the far right authoritarian party. But, of course, he was also talking about football.
Jalen Hurts made a bunch of bad plays. And also, the game should have been over multiple times & the people you’re really angry at are AJ Brown, Jake Elliott, Nick Patullo, & Nick Sirianni.
That Jalen Hurts pass to A.J. Brown in the end zone was perfect:
December 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Jalen Hurts made a bunch of bad plays. And also, the game should have been over multiple times & the people you’re really angry at are AJ Brown, Jake Elliott, Nick Patullo, & Nick Sirianni.
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
👇🎯 Just incredible how awful the coaching and playcalling is.
Apparently it is against the rules to go under center in OT
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
👇🎯 Just incredible how awful the coaching and playcalling is.
The penalties. The penalties. The penalties.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The penalties. The penalties. The penalties.
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I wish there was a way to get Sirianni to admit how absolutely ridiculous this all is.
December 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I wish there was a way to get Sirianni to admit how absolutely ridiculous this all is.
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Drop No. 3 for A.J. Brown tonight. All high leverage.
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Drop No. 3 for A.J. Brown tonight. All high leverage.
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In terms of relative power & hegemony, it matters ~not at all that 🇨🇳’s military has 📈 in power, if 🇺🇸 has 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇮🇹, 🇨🇦, 🇯🇵, 🇰🇷, the rest of NATO, 🇦🇺, etc. on its side. Ditto in terms of continued control/governance of every international organization. Trump/Vance views on this are 100% wrong/backwards.
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
In terms of relative power & hegemony, it matters ~not at all that 🇨🇳’s military has 📈 in power, if 🇺🇸 has 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇮🇹, 🇨🇦, 🇯🇵, 🇰🇷, the rest of NATO, 🇦🇺, etc. on its side. Ditto in terms of continued control/governance of every international organization. Trump/Vance views on this are 100% wrong/backwards.
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It’s also difficult — I wouldn’t say impossible — to have this discussion if people don’t understand that “U.S. hegemony“ was actually an informal confederation centered on the G7, the US-Japanese alliance, and NATO.
👇🎯 It is all but impossible to have sensible discussions about 🇺🇸 power & hegemony, whether we’re talking here about military things or elsewhere about money/finance, because any change in the world as it was c.1991-2001, no matter how incremental, instantly is treated as the End Of All Things.
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Political reforms which would set us on a path towards a new system which don’t require a constitutional amendment:
- Proportional representation in the House with RCV in the Senate
- Expanding the Supreme Court and limiting its power
- Abolishing the filibuster
- Adding DC and PR as states
- Proportional representation in the House with RCV in the Senate
- Expanding the Supreme Court and limiting its power
- Abolishing the filibuster
- Adding DC and PR as states
December 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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The level of threat to 🇺🇸 power & hegemony posed by relative military decline to 🇨🇳 is asymptomatically approaching zero relative to the rise of far right authoritarianism & the near-total failure of our democratic political institutions at home. The problem & the fix is 99+% about domestic politics.
December 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The level of threat to 🇺🇸 power & hegemony posed by relative military decline to 🇨🇳 is asymptomatically approaching zero relative to the rise of far right authoritarianism & the near-total failure of our democratic political institutions at home. The problem & the fix is 99+% about domestic politics.
The penalties & the playcalling are the difference this year. Just awful coaching all around.
Two terrible play calls sandwiched around a really unfortunate, iffy penalty since the pass to Goedert
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The penalties & the playcalling are the difference this year. Just awful coaching all around.
Should not be taking weeks to figure this out
Stay under center
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Should not be taking weeks to figure this out
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👇🎯 It is all but impossible to have sensible discussions about 🇺🇸 power & hegemony, whether we’re talking here about military things or elsewhere about money/finance, because any change in the world as it was c.1991-2001, no matter how incremental, instantly is treated as the End Of All Things.
This is a wild framing.
The US can dominate everywhere in the world except 7000 miles away at an island 100 miles off another superpower’s coast.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The US can dominate everywhere in the world except 7000 miles away at an island 100 miles off another superpower’s coast.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
👇🎯 It is all but impossible to have sensible discussions about 🇺🇸 power & hegemony, whether we’re talking here about military things or elsewhere about money/finance, because any change in the world as it was c.1991-2001, no matter how incremental, instantly is treated as the End Of All Things.
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Today in LARGE NOMINAL NUMBERS and “things about trade are really things about money & finance in the global economy”
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Today in LARGE NOMINAL NUMBERS and “things about trade are really things about money & finance in the global economy”
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EUROPE IS IN CIVILIZATI... oh wait... maybe its fine.
One of those beautiful #Cologne traditions, the Christmas concert to play along to on your instrument. Of course in the Cathedral of Cologne.
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
EUROPE IS IN CIVILIZATI... oh wait... maybe its fine.
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(can't help but notice who gets to be "young" and full of talent and who doesn't.)
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
(can't help but notice who gets to be "young" and full of talent and who doesn't.)