Mart Kuldkepp

@martkuldkepp
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Associate Professor of Scandinavian History and Politics at UCL. Estonian in the UK. Moral clarity enjoyer.
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A Baltic-Scandinavian-American Nexus: The Journey of Estonian Refugees of the 1905 Revolution

How Estonian refugees of the 1905 Revolution evaded Russian gendarmes, Swedish police, and American spies – and went on to join another revolution.

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The Ukrainian writer and war crimes chronicler Victoria Amelina has died because of the injuries she received in a Russian missile strike at a restaurant in Kramatorsk on June 27.

To me, her death feels personal, even though I never had a chance to meet her.

Hello to all the new followers on here
I'd also recommend this twitter thread by @martkuldkepp about Western Orientalism towards Eastern Europe, I found it to be very damn spot on
https://twitter.com/KuldkeppMart/status/1619806300917092353?lang=en
Mart Kuldkepp @[email protected] on Twitter

“A thread about Western Orientalism towards Eastern Europe 🧶 Centering of Western points of view and othering attitudes towards the East (Orientalism) have for a long time been commonplace in Western social and political thinking. (1/22)”

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NATO membership is the only credible security guarantee for Ukraine. Anything short of that will be invitation for further aggression.
The current stage of the war: Ukraine denying, then admitting to its Patriot battery intercepting a supposedly uninterceptable Russian missile, while Russia claims that Ukraine sent two drones to hit the Kremlin that were intercepted only when they were floating directly above it.

Mart Kuldkepp @martkuldkepp on Twitter: "Thomas Mann's radio address to Germans in March 1941: 'The resistance of England, the help it receives from America, are denounced by your leaders as “prolongation of the war”." / Twitter

https://twitter.com/KuldkeppMart/status/1639225138209083392

Tweet / Twitter

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The first known case of an Estonian volunteer having been killed in Ukraine.

#HeroyamSlava

https://www.postimees.ee/7729164/ukraina-sojas-hukkus-esimene-eestlane

Ukraina sõjas hukkus esimene eestlane

Donetski oblastis Bahmuti lähistel hukkus teisipäeval suurtükitules endine kaitseväe ohvitser Ivo Jurak.

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Although it is true that Russian kinetic aggression has this far targeted only non-NATO states (but this is not true about its hybrid warfare), we must remember that there is no guarantee that a kinetic attack against a NATO state would never happen.

Being in NATO is not some kind of a magic protective spell. And Russia has made plenty of other stupid moves that have blown up in its face, but have also hurt others around it.

A short #thread.

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