Madi Kapparov

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🇰🇿 PhD candidate @LBS. @Wharton and @NYUStern alum. RTs and likes are not endorsements. Opinions are my own. http://savelife.in.ua/en/don

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Tweet Jan 3, 2023

The collapse of 🇷🇺 should not be impeded. Some pundits and politicians currently engage in fascinating thought exercises raising concerns over the hypothetical suffering of the 🇷🇺 people. However, 🇷🇺 cannot become a democratic peaceful country overnight

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Tweet Dec 1, 2022

There are no separatists in the Donbas. The War in Donbas was an elaborate russian ploy. Some global media sources keep referencing the so-called DPR and LPR patched russian troops as "pro-russian separatists." In this thread, I aim to explain why it

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Tweet Nov 16, 2022

russian propaganda is characteristic of a fascist state. Outside observers are still dumbstruck by the contradictory, grandiose, fatalistic, conspiratorial, primeval, irrational, and elitist narratives that russia keeps producing for domestic and fo

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Tweet Nov 3, 2022

Why is it critical to push back on the seemingly innocuous narratives by some Western journalists, politicians, and other media personalities? A cursory look at some of them might indicate that they are pro-Ukraine. 1/

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Tweet Oct 25, 2022

A total victory by Ukraine is critical. The russian invasion of Ukraine has global implications. It is not a "local conflict." The outcome of the war might not change the world order but it will set the tone for international relations and domestic

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Tweet Oct 18, 2022

russia's imperial ambitions do not stop at Ukraine. Some Western media and politicians acknowledge the strong sense of irredentism and imperial revanchism in russia. However, few point out how it is expressed outside of the context of the full-scale

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Tweet Oct 10, 2022

A personal (colonial) story. I generally loathe disclosing anything about myself. And there isn't much to know. But my personal experiences interacting with the russians should provide some color for some people in the West. This is my personal stor

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Tweet Oct 7, 2022

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Or why now the West needs to make it abundantly clear to russia that using nuclear weapons would be met with an overwhelming response. Here's a game-theoretic explanation with hypothetical payoffs f

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Tweet Jun 20, 2022

On the fate of Russia and a way out of the war(s), Part 3 Part 1 & 2 recap: - The Russian Federation is a colonial empire as expressed in its internal political and economic structure. - In its foreign policy the empire uses intimidation for economi

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Tweet May 31, 2022

On Russophobia, a healthy response to aggressive colonialism Russia has been accusing the world of Russophobia for years now. Some useful idiots abroad have picked up the message and actively assist the Kremlin by parroting the rhetoric. twitter.co

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Tweet May 29, 2022

Second Chechen War – a cautionary tale on why Russia should not be trusted, especially Putin’s Russia. Don't ask Ukraine to settle In August of 1996, the Chechens achieved the unthinkable. They won a war against the Russians securing their independe

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Tweet May 28, 2022

On genocide and why Ukraine is fighting for more countries than you might think I've been recently told that Ukraine's claims of genocide by the Russians are emotional and unfounded. I beg to differ. 1/

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