#Venezuela: The Precedents

And #America: The Future

Timothy #Snyder Jan 04, 2026

Each of these examples ... provides a useful perspective: that American #imperialism is a tradition; that removing ... someone does not lead to predictable results; that dispensing with international law is not only wrong but undesirable; that foreign military actions can be about domestic regime change.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-the-precedents

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#StandWithUkraine
#usa #Russia #Ukraine #peace #war

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.0 strikes 16 mi E of #Snyder (#Texas) 4 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1919910

Can the Russo-Ukrainian war end?

Part 2 of a conversation with Phillips O'Brien

Timothy #Snyder and Phillips P. OBrien Dec 21, 2025

https://snyder.substack.com/p/can-the-russo-ukrainian-war-end

In this second part of the conversation, we turn to the current state of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and discuss American diplomatic antics as well as European shortcomings.

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#StandWithUkraine
#usa #Russia #Ukraine #peace #war
#europe #diplomacy
#History #victory #defeat

How wars are won

Part one of a conversation with Prof Phillips O'Brien

Timothy #Snyder and Phillips P. OBrien Dec 20, 2025

I had a wide-ranging conversation with the distinguished historian of war Philipps O’Brien, who has been an important voice on the Russo-Ukrainian war. ... Please watch and share! Part two coming tomorrow.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/how-wars-are-won

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#StandWithUkraine
#Russia #Ukraine #peace #war
#History #victory #defeat

#Ambulances for #Ukraine

Finishing the Job, 1/3

Timothy #Snyder Dec 18, 2025

This fall we have been working together to deliver automobiles with drone-jamming equipment to the second corps of the Ukrainian National Guard, known as #Khartiia.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ambulances-for-ukraine

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#nafo
#StandWithUkraine
#Russia #Ukraine #peace #war

Enemy Aliens and (Freudian) Displacement

One way to think about billionaires and borders

Timothy #Snyder Dec 16, 2025

A short piece today about a big subject: how should we interpret the utterances of tech #billionaires (and their allies and clients) regarding the threat of #migrants to Western civilization?

https://snyder.substack.com/p/enemy-aliens-and-freudian-displacement

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#Musk #socialmedia #Twitter
#usa #migrants #fascism

What a terrible thing it is

Mass shootings as regime change

Timothy #Snyder Dec 15, 2025

Mass shootings serve as advertisements for the gun industry. The #NRA, the gun industry lobby, portrays mass killing as a reason why more people should own guns.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/what-a-terrible-thing-it-is

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#trump #ICE #CIA #FBI
#Massshooting #masskilling #violence
#weapons #guncontrol
#Constitution #SecondAmendment #SupremeCourt
#ruleofblood #ruleoflaw
#anarchy #tyranny #democracy

O Generous One!

Christmas Carols, 2/2

Timothy #Snyder Dec 14, 2025

During and after the First World War, Ukraine was one of the most violent places in the world. Its rich land was contested by multiple armies.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous-one

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#Christmas #CarolOfTheBells
#UkrainianSong #WWI
#Shchedryk #Щедрик #Leontovych
#StandWithUkraine
#Russia #Ukraine #peace #war

The inhuman #assault on #Christmas

On Christmas Carols, 1/2

Timothy #Snyder Dec 13, 2025

The art lives until it is killed. What, in this case, is killing the song? Killing Christmas? Killing civilization? It is a set of algorithms that we flatteringly call #AI, or artificial intelligence.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-inhuman-assault-on-christmas

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#winterwonderland

#Zelenskyy besøker fronten der de ukrainske soldatene har tatt tilbake 40 kvkm.

Putin sitter I Kreml og skryter av at de har kontroll på området.

Timothy #Snyder sier det godt:
Det finnes feige tyranner og det finnes modige, folkevalgte ledere, og det er godt å vite forskjellen

https://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/langer-ut-mot-putin-feig-tyrann/s/5-95-2778427
#Kupjansk #Ukraina

Land War or Self-Terrorism?

Trump's Likely Next Step

Timothy #Snyder Dec 07, 2025

In certain ways, the autumn of 2025 in the United States has recalled the autumn of #1938 in #Nazi #Germany.
...
#Hitler allowed Goebbels to plan a nationwide #pogrom: #Kristallnacht.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/self-terrorism

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#History #massdeportation #ww2
#Grynszpan #SA #SS
#concentrationcamps
#trump #Hegseth #ICE #CIA
#USA #NationalGuard #Washington #Afghanistan #Venezuela #Maduro

Ukrainian History Global Initiative

The Creative Humanities During a War of Destruction

Timothy #Snyder Dec 06, 2025

This endeavor recalls some of the great encyclopedic ambitions of past centuries -- while bringing to bear the technological advances of our own.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ukrainian-history-global-initiative

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#Ukraine #History
#StandWithUkraine #peace #war

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M3.2 strikes 15 mi E of #Snyder (#Texas) 5 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1907896

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.3 strikes 16 mi E of #Snyder (#Texas) 4 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1907390

What If #Trump Wants Goliath to Win?

A guest essay on #Ukraine from Nataliya Gumenyuk

Timothy #Snyder Nov 29, 2025

Nataliya Gumenyuk is a leading reporter on war and politics, known for her work in the Middle East and in Ukraine. Here she reflects on how we think about the Russo-Ukrainian war.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/what-if-trump-wants-goliath-to-win

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America
#Trump #Putin #diplomacy
#StandWithUkraine
#Russia #Ukraine #peace #war

Michael Weiss does investigative journalism at The insider. Enlightening chat of him & #Snyder about #ukraine, war insights, Putler's wishlist, influence of competing fractions in US govt Rubio vs Vance vying for succession 2028.
Weiss is a compelling oral narrator.
My critique: 1 hour was too short. 🖖🏽
https://snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-and-diplomats-video-with

#Oligarchs and #Diplomats (video with Michael Weiss)

Thinking Live episode 2

Timothy #Snyder and Foreign Office Nov 25, 2025

Greetings all! These past few days were some of the weirdest in American diplomatic history, and I was lucky to have a special guest to help explain what happened and why it matters.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-and-diplomats-video-with

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America
#Trump #Putin #diplomacy
#StandWithUkraine
#Russia #Ukraine #peace #war
#sovereignty #NATO #security

Russian Unreality and American Weakness

Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history

Timothy #Snyder Nov 24, 2025

... the American #diplomacy of the past few days, I believe, will stand out as something peculiarly gruesome -- not simply incompetent, but openly courting national and global #catastrophe.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/russian-unreality-and-american-weakness

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America
#Trump #Putin
#StandWithUkraine
#Russia #Ukraine #peace #war
#sovereignty #NATO #security

The People's House

And the Oligarch Pit

Timothy #Snyder Nov 22, 2025

The destruction of the East Wing is the vanity project of someone who regards the White House as a permanent private residence.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-peoples-house

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America
#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing
#TrumpAdministration #oligarchs #corruption

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.4 strikes 16 mi E of #Snyder (#Texas) 3 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1903039