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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич)

@polidemitolog.bsky.social
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Political analyst. Former assistant professor at RUDN Moscow. PhD in political science. Bylines in Euronews, Bloomberg, Novaya Gazeta and Radar. Views my own.

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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Gabagool
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
As I suspected, the US sanctioned the Serbian oil industry owned by Russia in a broad sanctions package against Russia and not targeting Serbia specifically. Russia is on track to lose its main hold on Serbia. home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
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Treasury Intensifies Sanctions Against Russia by Targeting Russia’s Oil Production and Exports
New energy sector determination targets Russia’s primary revenue source with sanctions against Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas, more than 180 vessels, and dozens of oil traders, oilfield service provi...
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The far left - far right axis is back! The person on the top is far left, the person on the bottom far right.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Bropinion peace im Weld
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Is Musk actually being criticized by JFK or is this fake information? No one knows, there's no moderation now.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
What's trending
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Meanwhile, on Twitter
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all the denizens of the blue space!
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I know I'm a foreign agent, because I receive Christmas greetings from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Vucic stated tonight that the US is getting ready to impose sanctions on the main oil company in Serbia, majority owned by Russian state corporations. Two days ago Bloomberg reported that the Biden administration is seriously considering imposing sanctions on the Russian oil sector.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I can understand the dismay of those Syrians reading tankie comments online about how Assad was a great anti-imperialist fighter, because they wrote the same thing about Milosevic, who absolutely wrecked Serbia.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Original vs. bad copy
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
When the right remembers the MENA Christians it's always a bad sign for the entire region, including the Christians. I think we missed the moment to help the MENA Christians, it was somewhere around the 7th century AD. Things went downhill from there.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
A monodrama starring Jake Sullivan, in which he lives cowering in the shadow of the big, great Chekhov's gun, but in the end, the gun turns out to be his whitebread grandad's tobacco pipe.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Russia collapsed in on itself two times during the 20th century, withdrawing in shame from many countries it had occupied, but we need Assadist Syria collapsing to remind us that Russia is not invincible.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Forgive me, if I don't base my opinion on Trump's Ukraine strategy on the color of his suit and tie.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Regime terror in Georgia.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
With Tulsi Gabbard, a person awfully close to a Russian agent of influence, appointed for director of national intelligence in the US and the European center in a state of flux, the West is doing remarkably well doing coups around Europe and the Middle East.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The Georgian regime is using Russian terror tactics against demonstrators. That's why they're protesting in the first place, they don't want to live in a Russian governorate where this kind of behavior is the norm.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Inshallah
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Is Turkey kicking out Russia and Iran from Syria, with the US just standing and watching from the sidelines, its jaw on the floor, the multipolarity we've been waiting for?
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Bloomberg: Russia doesn’t have a plan to save Assad and doesn’t see one emerging as long as the Syrian president’s army continues to abandon its positions, according to a person close to the Kremlin.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It was an alluring idea that Russia could be appeased, without changing the security structure of the European continent. Unfortunately, Russia wasn't after economic and societal development, it was after the status of a great power, dominating Europe, like it attempted after WWII.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Eastern European states which were occupied by Russia since 1945 did not need the US to push them into NATO after the Cold War ended. They gladly applied to join NATO to be protected from precisely this kind of Russian expansion we are witnessing now.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
President of South Korea:
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I did pass the Wargame: Red Dragon Korea campaign, which starts by South Korea issuing martial law, forcing mass student protests, enabling North Korea's ultimately unsuccessful invasion to unfold, so I feel pretty comfortable right now cause the good guys win in the end.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I know Donbas villages by heart, I'm not learning Hama villages now too.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The exit polls in Romania show that the moderate parties can form a coalition against the right populist wave. It also indicates a period of enhanced political instability moving ahead, as there is no clear winner and the party system has been shaken up quite a bit.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
What half of my Sunday looks like (the other half is writing articles)
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Quick recap: 1. Russian economy not collapsing. Stagflation scenario entered. Economy encumbered by war - 41% budget defense/security spending, 8% GDP, factory capacity above 80%, labor shortages in 73% of companies, inflation 8,5%, real rate of inflation much higher. Russia still war operational.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Don't say that memes didn't warn you
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Between Georgia losing its democracy, Romania fighting to protect its own, Russia threatening with elusive missiles, the Syrian war unfreezing, today I wished I studied literature instead of polisci.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Trump appoints former general Keith Kellogg as a special envoy for Ukraine. That makes correct the previous statements that the position will be given to a senior figure with experience, unlike Grenell.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Territory isn't the primary issue in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, it's whether Ukraine's security is guaranteed for the future. That's what Ukraine needs and Russia opposes. Focusing on territory is a smokescreen to cover up this main contradiction and shift the blame on Ukraine.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"Putin has already lost the war" is not a useful narrative in this stage of the war. While it's true that Russia has suffered significant loses, that its economy has been set on the wrong path and that it doesn't occupy major Ukrainian cities, the war can still be ended with an unfavorable peace.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
When my sarcastic comments on Twitter are massively being liked by profiles who obviously think I'm being serious, I feel like the anti-Trump Liam Nissan™️ account, which regularly gets mistaken for the actual actor.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As of now, there are four corroborated strikes on military targets inside Russia by Western-made missiles launched by Ukrainian Armed Forces:
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This is how it looks to be bombarded by missiles constantly. Russia may threaten the West, but all its threats it takes out on Ukraine.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A very important day is coming for Georgia tomorrow. The regime will try to constitute the undemocratically elected parliament. The opposition will try to stop this from happening. The way things go from there will be an indicator of the trajectory of the protest movement as a whole.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The war against Ukraine, on a strategic level, should end with the stabilization of relations between the West and Russia. The stabilization has not yet been achieved. Like during the Cold War, the West has to define and defend red lines, or Russia will keep pushing them back.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"He (Putin) pointed out that deployment of weapons or soldiers to Ukraine would cross a ‘red line’ for Russia and trigger a strong response, including potentially mobilizing Russian missiles targeting Europe." Written in December 2021
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
If you don't like saber-rattling, I'm going to have to disappoint you, because as Trump's presidency gets nearer, Putin will use escalatory rhetoric more often, in order to convince Trump that prolonging the war brings too high a cost and that he should cut the knot in Putin's favor.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The first thing I see when I open Steam. I love capitalism
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
And so life moved on, while the "I don't wanna die in a nuclear Holocaust" people learned nothing
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Read the whole thread. This is professionalism. Dismissing false Russian threats and keeping the focus of analysis on the actual impact.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I sometimes wonder what do the tankies think when they see that they have more in common on foreign policy with the MAGA crowd than with the center? Then I remember that tankies don't think, otherwise they wouldn't be tankies.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Karl Marx pick me up, I'm scared
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A new day, a new paranoia.
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin
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Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Biden's administration is not escalating the war, it is implementing necessary measures to slow down or bring to a halt the Russian scramble for Ukrainian territory before Trump is inaugurated. This will strengthen the Ukrainian position and Trump's leverage on Russia.
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