Joseph Wyckoff on LinkedIn: Quick STEM quiz: What is 2x365? 730. Two years of needless bloodshed -… (2024)

A clear lesson in how the outcome of Ukraine is linked to China.

Curious observation by Ekaterina Schulman, Russian political scientist, The top goal of any government is to keep the power and here is how it is done in Russia. 1. The rating shows the authority becomes less popular. 2. Some protest moods appear, pointing to all the broken promises. 3. They are followed by anti-protest activities that usually cause more problems. 4. The authority makes a bright performance, for ex. special and military, to get back to the top of glory and people's love.Some more observations from me ⬇️ 1. Often the majority of individuals (MI) is waiting and seeking for such a performance to make sure everything is OK, they are doing well, right and enough. 2. Often the dominant group (DG) could try another way, but the MI rejects healthy communication, believing it is about weakness and inferiority. 3. It comes to be a symbiotic system with positive feedback where both parties reinforce the most destructive and toxic attitude to each other.#PoliticalCodependency

Just published a new Geopolitics Decanted episode: New Secrets From the Cold War and Lessons for Cold War II With ChinaMy conversation with the preeminent Cold War historian Sergey Radchenko about the fascinating and previously unknown history of China's role in causing Khrushchev to initiate the Cuban Missile Crisis, a huge Soviet intelligence failure that caused the Korean War, and Brezhnev's attempts to prevent Nixon's downfall in Watergate.https://lnkd.in/d7gNmuWCAnd we discussed our upcoming books about:Cold War II (mine: "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century" publishes on April 30th https://lnkd.in/dMBpDMda) and Cold War I (Sergey's: "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" publishes on May 30th https://lnkd.in/dbZhGBJ4)

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Jeffrey Sachs are probably the one who really knows what’s going on in Ukraine and what USA are up to. But the western world USA EU NATO have only one truth and that is that Russia and every other countries who disagree with them are war criminals. Why won’t MSM arrange and open and free debate about the situation and why won’t local EU governments not negotiate for peace and stop the war. Instead they escalate the war with more weapons planes bombs and billion of $ and killing 1000 of innocent people and complete destroy Ukraine.

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Defund institutions that encourage or turn a blind eye to antisemitic and antiAmerican propaganda. Equally important, fire the profs who have created and encouraged this fiasco: the dumbing down of America.Suspend classes for instigators. Detain and Deport foreign students engaged in anti American activities.These are NOT educated students: they are indoctrinated. They are clearly not intelligent enough to separate fact from fiction. If America is to succeed, it must refrain from recruiting these activists for decision-making roles in government or the private sector.

Fantastic article that clearly lays out the stakes of a strategic failure of US policy and engagement across a series of brewing crises. While I understand the isolationist impulse of many of my fellow Americans, I believe firmly that the world has changed to such a degree that US interests must be defined and defended globally. The Chinese are putting on a master class in exactly how this works. They are playing the long game, and we are refusing to play at all. The Russians are not only calling our repeated bluffs, they are in fact attempting to completely rewrite the rules of the international order in their favor. The Iranians (and to a lesser degree Venezuela and NK) are also taking advantage of the gaps in US attention caused by all of the chaos. Absent clear, forceful and strategically effective US leadership on the world stage now, it is easy to see exactly the scenario contemplated in this article playing out in some form. This can be changed with a Russian defeat in Ukraine, together with other strategic moves elsewhere. We have nothing to lose and potentially a lot to gain by giving Ukraine what they need to win now.

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I really tried to explain in simple terms here why frozen Russian assets simply have to be used for Ukraine reconstruction and that it should be a scandal if Western taxpayer dollars are used.

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There is a special category of books in my library – the ones that I order in multiple copies to gift to friends as soon as I finish reading the book. Dima #Adamsky’s "The Russian Way of Deterrence" is that kind of a book. It is absolutely a must for everyone who wants to understand the past, present, and future of Russian decision-making and strategic culture, written by one of the most authoritative experts in the field. Mirror imagining and confirmation bias often cloud western analysts’ judgement of Russia’s motivations and risk calculus. As Dima shows, ideational-cultural factors play a much bigger role in regulating the Russian strategy than any formal doctrine. The Russians also don’t have the same differentiation between peacetime, the period of threat, and wartime as many western military doctrines do. Nor do they draw the same lines between intelligence gathering, coercive influence, and actual fighting. The Russians are engaged in political warfare against their adversaries 24/7 – “uninterrupted influence on the adversary” – ranging from intimidation, fear-inducement, information warfare, and economic warfare to the actual use of military force. Adamsky convincingly shows that the Russian way of deterrence and war fighting are a product of “intellectual-conceptual” culture centered on cunningness and brutality dating as far back as the Tsarist times, and it persists to this day. In short, people should not expect Russia’s militarism to change with Putin’s departure. (But it would be a good start, of course.)

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https://lnkd.in/dgBeueApIf You wonder how it feels to kick the ass to the biggest country in the world. Or how Ukraine soldiers fight the biggest imperial power in history. Listen to this.

What will you hear if you visit Harvard yard?A call for an intifada (which for any Israeli means suicidal terrorism and the opposite of peace)A call for erasing Israel (with pictures of the map of Israel as Palestine)Lots of curses against zionists.What will you not hear? A call for peace for all Israelis and Palestinians.Crazy world.BringThemHomeBringthemhome Now

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