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Historian by training. Have been covering the Ukraine war since February of 2022. At times engage in climate change as well. I do this at both Medium and Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/nadinabbott?r=9kta6&utm_medium=ios

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · Jan 23

Authoritarians use manufactured crisis to consolidate power. This is exactly what we are watching take shape in the United States. Once you understand this, crashing the economy makes sense.

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The Closing of the United States

If there is a thing that is predictable in authoritarian spaces, it is that their leaders follow a well-trodden path.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 5h

Or just point and laugh.

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Not yet…we are close, but not there yet

And lets hope we can get away from that.

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Portland

Let me address something that is happening in Portland, Oregon.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 5h

This goes with this

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Portland

Let me address something that is happening in Portland, Oregon.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 7h

We may be heading to something major here as well. Watching MAGA fracture may be the prelims

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You welcome. I use the pen

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 7h

And the Substack is free

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 7h

Humor and political theater goes a long way into disarming authoritarians. Portland is offering a textbook example of this. Laugh, but this is a serious way to attack the state.

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Portland

Let me address something that is happening in Portland, Oregon.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 11h

The fuel situation is getting worse for Russia. But we also may have splinters forming in the top of the elite. Talking of war crimes during the Chechen wars is new at that level.

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The Fuel Situation, the Draft, and Other Stories

First, I would like to begin today’s piece with the fuel situation.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 12h

Is this even a question

nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Sadly I expect deaths before this is over.

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Putin’s Birthday

October 7 is the birthday of Vladimir Putin.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 1d

Watch and learn

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Phases of Successful Authoritarian Resistance

YouTube video by Walking Each Other Home

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 1d

These two are from the Portland frontlines. Apparently this is war. Speaking of badly done propaganda from the trump administration. Donuts…on cops, that surely is a violation of the Geneva convention.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 2d

This is good news

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Trump DOJ Hit with CRUSHING LEAK as INSIDERS DEFY Trump

YouTube video by Legal AF

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 2d

The Russian system is now eating its own. They are backed to the wall. However, I still don't discount Russia graduating from gray war to kinetic war.

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The System Eats Itself

The French Revolution ate itself, and the Terror claimed Robespierre.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 4d

I know.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 4d

It is now a new normal. It can't be a new nornal.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 4d

Poland scrambled its aviation due to missile attacks on Ukraine.Just scrambled, nothing more.

Meanwhile, the region neighboring Poland, Lviv region, is under a massive drone and missile attack.

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Реальна Війна | Україна | Новини

🇵🇱 Польща підняла авіацію через ракетний обстріл України. ⠊⡅⣀⡘⢌⠔ ⠑⡊⠒⣂⢠⢉⢔⠊ ⠃⠜⠩⠚⣄⢊ ⡑⢔⠥⠍⡄⢁⢘ Тим часом, сусідня з поляками Львівщина під масованою атакою дронів та ракет. 🇺🇦Реальна Війна | Підписатись

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 4d

🚨BREAKING - NATO scrambling over Poland.

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🦅 Aquila 🦅

🚨BREAKING - NATO scrambling over Poland.

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 5d

NPR did today

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Hubs thought publisher. My mind went to totenkopfs

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 5d

Oh my freacking god!

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nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 5d

Yup

nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. Reported on this myself.

nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 5d

We are in a gray war already. So in we will need to decide how to confront Russia. In the meantime, the US is in the process of entering a potential quagmire in Venezuela

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Gray War in Europe, and a Little on Venezuela

Today I want to spend some time in the place where we live at the moment.

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