Look what just arrived. Jerusalem. Updated and revised. A moment every writer relishes. A box arrives fr the publisher and … here goes

For the past two years, it often seemed like sanctions could not hurt Russia. The Russian economy was on a massive sugar high, fueled by booming energy markets. But now things are changing. Russia's struggling coal industry is the best example.

It might be too bold a prediction, but here it is: remembered, celebrated, awed as the new incarnation of George Kennan, Zbigniew Brzezinski or Herny Kissinger, Jake Sullivan will be not. This inane team of grand strategic paralysis cannot go away soon enough

One day I will stop writing books with macabre covers, but alas, it is not this day. The design teams at Basic Books and Basic Books UK are absolute pros, however, and I don't know which cover better conveys the story I tell.

Intent to Destroy is out 21 Nov in the UK 'A masterpiece' Peter Pomerantsev 'A must-read' Ben Ansell 'Powerful' Serhii Plokhy Pre-order your copy here: bit.ly/3AFKWCN

The "Assault on the State" is now available on Audible. Read by the same guy who narrated Piketty's Capital and Diamond's Why is Sex Fun?! Listen to The Assault on the State by Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein on Audible. audible.com/pd/B0DCCZ5MKD?…

The Kremlin took a kid from the provinces, taught him Portuguese and English, paid for his fake documents, multi-year upkeep and tuition at Trinity and Johns Hopkins, made him suffer through my classes just so that he could infiltrate the mighty ICC. What a waste of public funds

Judging by architecture, this house survived two world wars and multiple, mostly Russian and Soviet, occupations. But tonight Russia finally liberated it. Liberated from its neo-Nazi roof, nationalist windows, Satanic furniture, pro-NATO dishes, and most dangerously, free humans

This, on the loop, and donating to Повернись живим plus writing all my representatives is better than just raging and going crazy. Even if just a bit youtube.com/watch?v=pmoYP_…

And apparently another hit was literally across the street from where I grew up. Luckily, people are fine but the nearbly strategic targets: a barber shop and a grocery store will have to think twice before they once again threaten Russia and its legitimate security concerns

It's heartening to see that the Russian security services' understanding of Jews is now pretty much as comprehensive as it was when they published the Protocols

And this is my another strategic object, my school. Because NATO.

‘Cultural imperialism lives on, even if its carriers often proclaim anti-colonial slogans.’ My new piece for Atlantic Council with some suggestions to editors, publishers, and curators from us, the 'perpetually frustrated Ukraine specialists'. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea… 🧵 1/4

Two Nations Two Republics. My essay in Jerusalem and Middle East history & peace and huge changes both sides need to make now. My book Jerusalem is relaunched today ⁦W&N⁩ ⁦Alfred A. Knopf⁩ The conflict built on centuries of myth-making thetimes.com/article/4ee217…

💥This is a picture of about 1/2 the Tel Aviv protest. If police estimates are accurate and there are 500,000 just on the streets of Tel Aviv, that's the equivalent of 15 million Americans.

Just finished No Country for Love by Yaroslav Trofimov. Read it if you want to understand what the 20th century did to Ukraine and the traumas almost every family that lived there carries. The phrase "we are up against history" I am going to quote often hachette.co.uk/titles/yarosla…

Evergreen

Just a friendly reminder that Johns Hopkins SAIS is hiring a senior (Associate/Full) Europeanist (broadly defined) for our Bologna campus. The position comes with tenure and an endowed chair. The application deadline is Oct. 1 apply.interfolio.com/147045