{"id":942,"date":"2022-02-21T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=942"},"modified":"2022-03-11T17:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:36:24","slug":"snyder-tooze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2022\/02\/21\/snyder-tooze\/","title":{"rendered":"Snyder, Tooze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yale historian and political commentator Timothy Snyder writes: “Repeatedly asking ‘What is Putin thinking?’ leaves us mesmerized by shadows.\u00a0 Remembering how a tyrant must think breaks the spell.” Many in the media have been asking the first question. (Fiona Hill’s response<\/a>, from a couple of days ago, was quite lucid.) Snyder answers that a tyrant must<\/em> think with two companions: death and fear. Death relates to the “odd essay” (that’s an understatement) Putin wrote last year, in which he imagines a millennial reunification of Russia and Ukraine; fear, to his vulnerabilities. The implications are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snyder’s Substack blog has been alternating between writing about American politics (alongside the Olympics and other things) and about Ukraine. His recent posts “How to think about war in Ukraine<\/a>“, “Putin has an exit from the conflict<\/a>“, and “Ukraine and Russia: is there a simple solution?<\/a>” are well worth reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, elsewhere on Substack, Columbia historian Adam Tooze provides some economically and geopolitically astute analyses of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict in “Putin’s challenge to western hegemony<\/a>” (Jan. 12), “War in sight? Russia-Ukraine scenarios<\/a>” (Jan. 14), “Strategy of tension – Updated on the economic fallout of Russia-Ukraine crisis<\/a>” (Jan. 31), and “Permanent crisis or black earth agro-giant: Alternative futures for Ukraine<\/a>” (Feb. 12). The latter, with its note of optimism on Ukraine’s agricultural potential, will seem especially poignant if the invasion proceeds as planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two historians come at things from entirely different directions. That’s a good thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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