"Waiting for the missiles to pass"

The living book in wartime Ukraine

Timothy #Snyder Jun 02, 2026

#Resistance can also be about reading, wherever you are, bomb shelter or not, because good books liberate us from the obvious and prepare us for the real.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/waiting-for-the-missiles-to-pass

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#MarciShore #Kyiv
#MaksymButkevych #AndriyLyubka
#SkyDefense #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini #usa #Russia #Ukraine #peace #war

The Man in the High Castle

An Occasional Book Review

Timothy #Snyder May 24, 2026

Once in a while I will review a book that I happen to come across. Today that is Philip K. Dick’s 1962 classic novel of #oppression and #liberation, The Man in the High Castle.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-man-in-the-high-castle

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#PhilipKDick
#WW2 #USA #America #California
#Japan #Germany #nazi #Hitler #MartinBormann #Heydrich #Goebbels
#occupation #imperialism

The Era of the Superlosers

#Trump, #Putin, and the World

Timothy #Snyder May 21, 2026

The United States and #Russia are both losing wars.

And they are losing wars that make no sense, in an uncanny folie à deux, to the benefit of #China.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-era-of-the-superlosers

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#USA #America #corruption #Xi #war #Iran #IranWar #superpower
#StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #SupportUkraine #FreeUkraine

Copycat Tyranny

Why Trump imports foreign authoritarians

Timothy #Snyder May 12, 2026

If you are American, there is no particular reason you would have heard of Zbigniew #Ziobro. He was one of the authors of the attempt to transform #Poland into an authoritarian regime. When this was halted by the Polish elections of 2023, he fled to #Hungary.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/copycat-tyranny
#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#ZbigniewZiobro #Orban
#Trump #America #USA
#Justice #Democracy

Timothy Snyder: "Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity.

To see where we are, we must understand that people such as Tulsi #Gabbard, Kash #Patel, and Pete #Hegseth, had no business accepting their nominations, since they lack any qualifications. The fact that such people could be considered, let alone appointed, is a marker of superpower suicide."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpower-suicide

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On #Superpower Suicide

And the recovery of justice

Timothy #Snyder May 09, 2026

The United States has just spent billions of dollars to lose a war that enriches its #oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. As justification for the self-destructive mindlessness, the White House gestures towards Jesus and #genocide.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpower-suicide

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#Trump #America #USA #war #Justice #Peace #Democracy