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@SevaUT
oh no, really?
individual.utoronto.ca/seva Katılım Ağustos 2012
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I wrote a paper on how fruitjuice obsession in Russia is a symptom of deep psychosocial trauma. Obviously desk-rejected.
Марк Буллен (Mark Bullen)@SpaceAgeMark
Doing the Saturday big shop at Lenta. Russian supermarkets are more or less the same as most countries, except when it comes to fruit juice, there's loads of different brands and types on offer, far more than I remember in the UK. Cherry & pineapple are my favourites 🍍🍒🧃
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I personally don't use citations. If you don't recognise the allusion, that's on you
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re-upping this in light of the very amusing Granta fiasco
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-easy-pro…
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The many ways the "Thucydides Trap" gets misinterpreted and abused by scientists, experts and politicians alike.
The essay also demonstrates how China uses this narrative to present itself in a way it wants to be percieved: As rising power.
Seva@SevaUT
I'm not a fan of the Thucydides Trap. but China loves it for a reason. new post.
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thinking about this tweet today. generative AI has done a wonderful thing; now everyone can have their own horse kicking them in the head even if they aren't a billionaire. and now billionaires can have two horses kicking them in the head at all times. a very valuable service
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A noticeble lack of men aged 30-50
Sasha Meets Russia@sashameetsrus
A Spring day in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Compare this to other European cities…what do you notice?
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Every pundit, editor and armchair geopolitics expert who has hopped on the Thucydides train needs to read this as a matter of urgency, from @SevaUT
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/p/…
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this is how moscow zoomers speak in 2026
Catagélastos@catagelastos
Some phrases in Solombala English, a 19th c. English-Russian trade pidgin written in Cyrillic
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@SevaUT This piece of yours that I just read was one of the finest works of theoretical reflection in IR I've come across in a long time. Brilliant. Thank you! I'm sorry to say I'm not a paid subscriber to your Substack :(
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I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.
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pretty sure there's a documentary - or book? - about / interviews with the last of those three, the last gen of soviet academics, reflecting on the collapse and their lives since, trying to recall to what it was. @SevaUT might you know what it is? wracking my brain
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thinking about tainter on diminishing returns of knowledge production under conditions of civilizational complexity, evans on third reich disinvestment in basic science, and the bitterness of former dialectics professors after the fall of communism. what if all that but this
Luca Dellanna@DellAnnaLuca
The reactions of many researchers on finally being held responsible for having read the very paper they submitted are... something.
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@SevaUT a few "American" theories have gained truth status in China:
"the Thucydides trap"
"clash of civilizations"
Mearsheimer
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China's Favorite American Idea: the "Thucydides Trap" shows how bad social science can succeed if it serves a purpose.
hegemon.substack.com/p/chinas-favor…
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