Branislav Slantchev
@slantchev
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Professor of Political Science at the University of California San Diego IR theory and conflict, formal modeling. All views expressed here are strictly personal
Del Mar, CA
Joined January 2022
Friends: Hein Goemans and I have a piece in Foreign Affairs explaining why negotiated peace is very unlikely because of Russia.
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Russia: We want to rebuild our Empire that the Communists squandered! Mearsheimer:
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This photo is spreading on Russian TG channels. I looked up their camel reserves: around 3,500 (2022) in Astrakhan, Kalmykia. The weather averages 20 Fahrenheit (-7 Celsius), so some cold hardiness. Concerning development that NATO with its silly lasers has yet to counter.
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It all started with Gamergate. And if you play video games, you will have known all of this for years.
It was a lot of fun to watch young men vote for Trump, because I got to see it unfold firsthand. I know a lot of male Zoomers, just by virtue of the fact that I happen to be one myself. People in our line of work spend a lot of time dissecting and debating voting trends, but it's often abstract — just another set of numbers on an exit poll. Here, though, I saw it happen on the ground; I knew it was happening before it ever started showing up in the polls. You can tell a lot about the political mood of a demographic by the way its apolitical members think and talk. The hyper-political types — on both sides of the aisle — are going to have strong opinions on any number of issues. It's the guys who don't pay attention to politics that can tell you about the general prevailing attitudes. Since they're not interested in politics themselves, they've just absorbed their demographic's broader political culture. When I started meeting those guys everywhere — guys who didn't know the first thing about politics, but still knew that they loved Trump and hated liberals — was when I knew there was a fundamental shift happening. Anyone who regularly interacts with Gen Z boys — the normal, not-especially-political ones — can tell you what I mean: It's not just that their specific political views are more right-wing. (Although they are). It's that they are more right-wing, at the most core level. It's in the jokes they tell, the podcasts they listen to, the things they praise or consider "cool" versus the things they mock or deride — it's a very fundamental shift that goes beyond any one specific issue. And it's not going to go away anytime soon.
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Is the White House now floating in the “Gulf of America”? Or is this just to remind everyone where the stupid with a Sharpie is coming from?
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Who needs liberty when you have traitors?
🚨Report: The Army is considering changing the name of Fort Liberty in North Carolina back to its original name Fort Bragg Via: NBC News
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@renierduplessis The Russians here, like the Bulgarians teaching at American universities, are effeminate degenerates who left their homes to wallow in Western decadence. They are all weak.
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@astraiaintel The only reason Biden provided even these tanks was to give Scholz political cover to send Leopards. We have thousands of Abrams tanks collecting dust in the California desert.
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RT @Msdesignerlady: Musk is specifically, targeting those government agencies that are investigating him for safety violations and ties to…
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@TrentTelenko If you base your Ukraine war commentary on as much knowledge as you do your comments on this, you should be laughed out of any conversation.
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@renierduplessis It’s a well-known fact that I am personally operating the sluices that increase river levels at our border.
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A great moment.
The historic and epic moment Estonia uncoupled its power grid from russia forever. This has Berlin wall vibes. The only way this video could be better is if it was decoupled via Neptune missile to the russian side of the grid. But that’s just me.
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RT @rshereme: Representative Mark Pocan introduced the bill to ban special government employees from obtaining federal contracts. The best…
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What?
What? “Law enforcement officials warned Trump last year that Tehran had placed operatives in the U.S. with access to surface-to-air missiles.”
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Tell me this moron isn’t THAT stupid.
Wait, so this whole time while the Balts were yapping about Russia invading Ukraine they were importing electricity from Russia?
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