Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 21hWhile any victory of the far right is horrible, it shows poverty of the old left. Gerontocracy doesn’t work. The world is desperate for fresh ideas. Bolsonaro will help Trump and Putin. Israel, Spain and Germany are the next battles. But the biggest one will be the US 0142
Reposted by Alexander EtkindChris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026💥 A Russian strike against the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 9/28/26 19141112
Reposted by Alexander EtkindSouth Carolina Department of Propaganda @southcarolinadop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Release the #EpsteinFiles! 10236411231
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 17/09/2026An interesting review. I spent years stepping on the grass at Kings Cambridge — and, like the author, failed to understand the reason for asymmetry between sociology, anthropology and history at Oxbridge www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukSusan Pedersen · Keep off the grass: Oxbridge AttitudesAcademic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down... 081
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A wonderful guidebook, highly recommended. Thank you from all of us, Andrea Peto 0104
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My new column for NS: www.newstatesman.com/internationa...newstatesman.comUkraine is surrounded by false friendsMaga hasn't started supporting Zelensky, it just worships power 0133
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I see that the debate between the New Left and neoliberals has triangulated without notice. The new part is the Latourian crowd, and the colors are red, black (like oil) and green. Two older parts hate the novice almost equally, but the reds criticize the greens more passionately 030
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“to make things even worse, the far-right parties that capitalise on migration turn deportation into a political show that promises to eradicate it – a promise they can never keep, for the migrant is their resource.” — My new column in NS www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...newstatesman.comHow Europe fell for FaragismThe deportations and offshoring that Nigel Farage advocates are becoming facts of European politics 082
Reposted by Alexander EtkindRick Green @bcbrews.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"It is amazing to see #Denmark and #Poland blessing the passage of #Russian tankers – enormous, rusty, full of flammables – along their well-groomed coasts. You cannot take part in the profits of the #petrostate and not, in some way, share its political interests." 0148
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 07/08/2026My fresh: "When people breached the wall in Berlin, we called it freedom. When they breach the wall in Ceuta, we call it a catastrophe. The difference is not in the people climbing. It is in what waits for them on the other side." www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...newstatesman.comSpain gets migration rightThe Ceuta crisis brought shame on the rest of Europe, not Pedro Sánchez's Spain 14220
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 03/08/2026My fresh column: “It is insane that tankers are regulated more lightly than motorcycles. If Europe has learned to break its addiction to the profits from burning Russian molecules, it has not yet confronted its addiction to the fees for moving them” www.newstatesman.com/internationa...newstatesman.comThe EU cannot break free of Russian oilThe membership now treats sanctions as auctions 1115
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 21/07/2026www.newstatesman.com/internationa...newstatesman.comThis is the end of RussiaEurope will never be the same, and the world's powers must build a new order 13412
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 15/07/2026“Historians should be in the business of defending the past from the totalizers: the people, factions and ideologies — the ones we despise and the ones we agree with — that want to take the dead, too, into their empires.” — a brilliant essay by Charles King www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...nytimes.comOpinion | “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” Isn’t Saying What You Think It IsIn the same year as America’s founding, Edward Gibbon wrote “Decline and Fall.” 250 years later, it still holds lessons for us. 0102
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Amazing and fateful stupidity www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMost UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisisExclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating 0112
Reposted by Alexander EtkindNBC News @nbcnews.com · 14/07/2026New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers.nbcnews.comNew York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centersThe order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the g... 259108082790
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 07/07/2026liquidation of MCC is a bold and important decision. But what will happen to its assets? Will they be confiscated or (partially) re-directed for new educational and research purposes? Hungary and Europe needs its universities and think tanks more than ever 081
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014 triggered the global crisis of trust and security. It led to Trump’s presidency in 2016, Brexit in 2020, new invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Gaza war in 2023, and Iran war in 2026. The retreat from Crimea will start the unwinding of the crisis 1165
Reposted by Alexander EtkindLongtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Feed: "New Statesman" By: Alexander Etkind on Thursday, May 7, 2026newstatesman.comVladimir Putin’s nightmares have come trueRussia's leader has created the world he always feared 052
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The 14 points signed in Versailles? — Wrong historical analogy. Woodrow Wilson was incomparably smarter, and his advisers too. And this why the next war started decades later 181
Reposted by Alexander EtkindJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Trump has offered us a profound insight into conflict resolution: All you have to do to get your enemy to stop fighting is to give him everything he wants and ask for nothing in exchange. 98017
Reposted by Alexander EtkindSarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Wednesday Friends #2 @sunniedayye.bsky.social @neverstopthefight.bsky.social @wicked-lizzie.bsky.social @eddsmitty.bsky.social @pauhawk.bsky.social @barskin.bsky.social @frozenborderline.bsky.social @spotonthesun.bsky.social @thecaffeinator.bsky.social @jbertuglia.bsky.social 1111926
Reposted by Alexander Etkindmartindvz.bsky.social @martindvz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Russia is trying to bribe European politicians 19152101995
Reposted by Alexander EtkindI finally put something in my bio #SmokeFleet #NAFO @snarky-op.bsky.social · 12/06/2026 1228
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Among all the components of national and regional military-industrial systems, refineries are the most vulnerable. The states subjected to petroaggression can always count on this vulnerability – the Achilles heel of the petrostate. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 073
Reposted by Alexander EtkindUNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/06/2026🤭 The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is opening to a surreal backdrop as a massive fire rages at a nearby oil terminal. 414929
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Our new article about refineries, the global crisis, and the Critical Theory of Oil: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.meScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books. 041
Reposted by Alexander EtkindPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The Ukrainian decision to double down on drone warfare, from the battlefield, to mid range and long range strike, and not to draft all of its young men to make infantry, will be seen by historians as one of the most important decisions in 19th-21st century warfare. 693163792
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 25/05/2026they are clearly experimenting www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...nytimes.comBluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda 13312
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The UN General Assembly voted to adopt a landmark resolution which will advance implementation of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on climate change and state responsibility, today. The resolution passed with 141 votes in favour, 8 against and 28 abstentions. 0180
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I’m the Foreign Minister of Sweden. Don’t Overestimate Russia. Russia has claimed that its economy grew by around 13 percent between 2020 and 2024, but by measuring nighttime luminosity we estimate that the economy contracted by around 8 percent during this period. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m the Foreign Minister of Sweden. Don’t Overestimate Russia. 03111
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 20/05/2026amazing historical text of 1939 about Nazism, Stalinism, homosexuality and “degeneracy” — we published it from the archive, with my extended introduction and Mecacci’s annotations. We have it now in Italian and Russian — we need publishers for English, German, etc 163
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Theodore Roosevelt: The one thing I won't do is to bluff when I cannot make good; to bluster and threaten and then fail to take the action if my words need to be backed up. 031
Reposted by Alexander EtkindRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Another “temporary extension” to allow Putin to profit from Trump’s war. 811010351
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 17/05/2026FFF: Fossil Fuel Fascism. A great article about the central issue of our time. Do not miss a great joke about America, in the middle www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comThe American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan WattsChina is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock 0177
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 15/05/2026In a period of general upheaval, a country that maintains domestic authority is in a position to exploit chaos in neighboring states for larger international objectives. Henry Kissinger 1123
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 15/05/2026No, there is no ‘straight Kissinger’ — not even a hint at an attempt to make China stop supporting Russia. Xi will not save Trump from his suicidal war, and Trump will not save Putin from his. Let them go, and the rest is memory — curses and pain of future generations 0134
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Any hope that this huge American group in Beijing will do a straight Kissinger rather than reverse one, which some had been talking about a lot, and then chose to forget? This would be so nice indeed 040
Reposted by Alexander EtkindIan Ford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ianford.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Excellent article. 👇 By undermining the international rules based order in pursuit of a neo-Russian Empire, Putin has unleashed forces he cannot control which will end up both destroying him and his imperial delusions. Russia is living on adrenalin and anger... but it has no future. 0156
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Putin did not create Trumpism, but Putin got there first. For some reason, Trump has not shown any trace of an anxiety of influence, nor did Putin claim his intellectual rights. This is, in fact, the only mystery that still remains to be solved. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...newstatesman.comVladimir Putin's nightmares have come trueRussia's leader has created the world he always feared 1168
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Ivan Krastev: “the greatest achievement of May 8th was that Europeans collectively found the courage to imagine a future different from the present — and different from the past” Excellent speech: iwm.at/news/all-europ….iwm.at 1131
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 07/05/2026My article in the New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/internationa...newstatesman.comVladimir Putin's nightmares have come trueRussia's leader has created the world he always feared 0185
Reposted by Alexander EtkindR Phelps @greygosling.bsky.social · 06/05/2026How it started, how it's going. Screw these unrealistic realists. 411922
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 06/05/2026“That once seemed unthinkable.” Talk for yourself guys, and apologize —you the so called Russia experts deemed it unthinkable. Many others, including me (here and elsewhere), predicted that since 2022 311519
Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 02/05/2026For my Dutch friends www.groene.nl/artikel/de-r...groene.nlWe zitten midden in een clash tussen twee vormen van moderniteit, ziet de Russische historicus Alexander EtkindDe wereld bevindt zich in een overgang van de fossiel gedreven paleomoderniteit naar een nieuwe ‘groene’ moderniteit, zegt de Russische historicus Alexander Etkind. En die transitie gaat gepaard met e... 060