PUBLIC SERVICE: About the trap that the duo occupying the White House set for Zelensky

Five Failures in the Oval Office

Timothy Snyder is a historian specializing in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, from whom I published excerpts of his "On Tyranny" last year. In this video recorded on the same day it happened, he spoke about the trap that the duo occupying the White House set for Zelensky.

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You are not born brave. If you have to die, choose to die brave.

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Do not confuse patriotism, appreciation of your country, with nationalism, hostility to other countries.

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Avoid groupthink, dogmas, single-mindedness and thought cancellation.

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‎Add fascism to the list of names to use sparingly‎.

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If it is recommended for Americans, guess what it must be like in those corners, like Portugal dos Pequeninos.

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Put your money where you put your mouth.

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Not applicable, of course, to followers of tyrants who hope that the day will never come when tyrants will start hanging followers on the hook. Unfounded hope as history abundantly shows.

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 Get your ass off the chair and your eyes off the screen.

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 In short don't be a troll.

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I would also add reject the lies some call alternative facts and turn down conspiracy theories.

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I would say even more, read books, for example this one.

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Say what you really think, especially if what you think is not popular.

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 And by the way, don't justify your failures with negative examples of political leaders.

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Remove swastikas, red stars and all similar stuff.

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Of Timothy Snyder's «Twenty Lesson From the Twentieth Century», this is the one that seems to me the most important lesson. It should be understood that a one-party state does not mean a state that only has one party. Remember Órban's Fidesz in Hungary.

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