Nicholas Danforth

@NicholasDanfort

Senior Policy Analyst, Bipartisan Policy Center. Mideast Politics. Turkey. Maps. Historical Randomness. Retweets are not endorsements nor necessarily sarcastic.

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    An Appreciation, Part I: The Birds of Robert Jay Lifton

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    "The reticent patriot finds his foil in a manic swan-savager." Fantastic piece about the endurance of movie nationalism by

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    reminds me a bit of reading critiques of US foreign policy and then realizing the author is an Assad apologist.

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  5. 2 hours ago

    A damning indictment of British colonialism, only slightly compromised by being Nazi propaganda:

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    Small but spirited “Arrest MbS” demo outside here in DC this morning during the . The bone saw is a nice touch.

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    Nov 28

    If you haven't seen this sixteenth-century mural in Vienna of a cow in spectacles engaged in a game of backgammon by now, you probably should.

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  8. 4 hours ago

    "Suffragettes Should Say Sorry. Women will be heard when they stop acting like anarchists."

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    "Did Dreyfus Do It? Dividing ourselves up into Dreyfusards and anti-Dreyfusards brings us no closer to knowing the truth."

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    And of course Turkey is not Erdogan. Thats why all my policy recommendations involve Obama and Demirtas hashing out our bilateral issues over lunch. In between conversations about the role of poetry in minority rights struggles and how photogenic their families are.

    This. MBS is not Saudia Arabia…
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    "Over time, added, Russia will likely allow regime forces to retake territory in the demilitarized zone in a piecemeal fashion while herding jihadis into a pocket near the Turkish border. Turkey, in turn, will continue to play for more time."

    , , convene in Astana for talks
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    The only remaining criteria are ones that Turkey will never fulfil - but Hükümet Daily News won't tell you that:

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    ‘ABD, Türkiye'nin YPG'ye ilişkin tavrının değişmesini umuyor’ - Esra TUR ▪️Siyaset uzmanları Suriye savaşının Türkiye'nin ABD ve bölgedeki Kürtler ile ilişkilerine nasıl yansıdığını 'e değerlendirdi.

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  15. 16 hours ago

    "The end of Serfdom brought freedom, but also a loss of community."

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  16. 16 hours ago

    19th Century David Brooks: "Kids have always criticized Monarchy, but today's Republicans don't think anyone should be King."

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  17. 20 hours ago

    it turns out this would have actually stopped both hitler and the kennedy assassination

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  18. 21 hours ago

    Also from now on my response to any historical counterfactual will be “but what if that didn’t happen because first...

    After unifying Italy, Fatih joins forces with the Pope to form a Islamic-Christian dual kingdom which defeats the Spanish inquisition, preempts Protestantism and instead of conquering the new world finds a way to combine espresso and Turkish coffee
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  19. 22 hours ago

    After unifying Italy, Fatih joins forces with the Pope to form a Islamic-Christian dual kingdom which defeats the Spanish inquisition, preempts Protestantism and instead of conquering the new world finds a way to combine espresso and Turkish coffee

    Peter Sandham explores why, after conquering Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire didn't proceed to invade Italy…
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    Nov 28

    Say what you will about the accuracy of old maps, but they still managed to get people to places and they were drop dead gorgeous. This map from 1518

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    Nov 28

    Imagine a counterfactual scenario where the coup investigation is done transparently & without overt politicization. I expect Turkey could have gotten quite a few extraditions out of it, even if not of its top targets.

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