[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

In response to a Peeper request, I’ll put in my 2 cents. Snyder is great for historical facts. He goes into archives, pulls out numbers, memos, correspondence, et al, in the source languages so his readers don’t have to. But outside his specialty, he’s just not that knowledgeable.

And he’s got his home team biases like many other people do. His home team is the Democrat party, so he’ll say anything necessary to give his team a leg up. You know how some Freepers said Obama would never leave office? Same idea.

That some of these supposed elites are as clued into (i.e. not very) human motivation and the difficulty of mounting an actual coup in the American context as the average Freeper is eye-opening. These academics are supposed to be professionals - this stuff is supposed to be their bread and butter, whereas the average Freeper is just using a keyboard to issue an extended belch.

[logi_cal869]

You know how some Freepers said Obama would never leave office?

Tomato, tomahto. They weren't wrong.

[blitz128]

Not sure your point
Some would argue Obama never left control of the office.
If Freepers belch, what do you call what this academic did?

[ohioman]

Not surprising that a lightweight troll such as yourself would stand up for this lightweight Yale propagandist.

[Dr. Franklin]

Ukraine ping
In response to a Peeper request, I'll put in my 2 cents. Snyder is great for historical facts. He goes into archives, pulls out numbers, memos, correspondence, et al, in the source languages so his readers don't have to. But outside his specialty, he's just not that knowledgeable.
And he's got his home team biases like many other people do. His home team is the Democrat party, so he'll say anything necessary to give his team a leg up. You know how some Freepers said Obama would never leave office? Same idea.
That some of these supposed elites are as clued into (i.e. not very) human motivation and the difficulty of mounting an actual coup in the American context as the average Freeper is eye-opening. These academics are supposed to be professionals - this stuff is supposed to be their bread and butter, whereas the average Freeper is just using a keyboard to issue an extended belch.

Snyder did some good work after the collapse of the Soviet Union finding things in archives that were previously unavailable to Western historians. In order to do that, he tread lightly on the toes of local historians, particularly in Ukraine ignoring and covering for how the old Ruthenians of Habsburg Galicia and the Second Polish Republic became forcibly assigned into the Ukrainian ethnicity by the Soviet Union. It's just like leftist actors. We can appreciate their acting but reject their political pronouncements as pure leftist excrement. The same goes for leftist academics, which most in academia are, despite claiming to be all about having an open discussion.