Steven Seegel 🇺🇦 @stevenseegel.bsky.social Profile picture
@UTCREEES maphead, historian of Ukraine/Russia, professor and associate dept chair of Slavic and Eurasian Studies 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 - find me now over at Bluesky
Sep 21, 2018 16 tweets 5 min read
THREAD #Russia 14 POINTS #Maps+ critical #Geography #Geopolitics. Here is my hot take on “Understanding Russia,” a new book by Marlene Laruelle (@PONARS) and Jean Radvanyi (2018). I hardly agree w/ all "French Eurasia" & "anti-Russophobe" arguments; it IS worth a CLOSE read. 1/16 1. (1814/5-2014) Talleyrand 1814-5 & Keynes 1919 argument, & vs. Obama’s “regional” neo-containment (2008-14): Defeated Russia’s greatpowerness (derzhavnost’) is NOT avoidable. Sidelining a mil-nuclear & gas-rich power is dangerous. (Merkel: re: Putin in “another world.”) 2/16