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Your questions, answered: Part III

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Welcome, those of you just now tuning in! This week, we’ve been running an extended AMA with the editor of the Cosmopolitan Globalist. The editor would be me—Claire Berlinski.

See:

  • Ask me Anything

  • Answers, Part I

  • Answers, Part II


Today’s topics and questions:

  • Why do smart people believe stupid things?

  • Is the US experiencing a political realignment?

  • Why is the party of the reset button with Russia, circa 2009, suddenly so hawkish?

  • When do the Ukraine war crimes trials begin?

  • Eastern authoritarianism


But first …

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Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM
Zelensky: “Today is a historic day. We are returning Kherson. As of now, our defenders are approaching the city. But special forces are already in the city. The people of Kherson were waiting. They never gave up on Ukraine… and Ukraine always regains its own.”
7:35 PM ∙ Nov 11, 2022
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Hromadske Int. @Hromadske
💔 This is what Kherson and Kherson Oblast looks like now: delighted locals hang Ukrainian flags and shout patriotic slogans
4:02 PM ∙ Nov 11, 2022
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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof
Liberated Kherson singing Chervona Kalyna, a song that was banned for nine months. No electricity — Russia destroyed the power lines before leaving.
4:06 PM ∙ Nov 11, 2022
12,380Likes3,068Retweets
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Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel
This is how I can see my aunt from Kherson region for the first time in 9 months - in a video hugging a Ukrainian soldier. She even doesn’t know to have become an internet star 💙💛
1:37 PM ∙ Nov 11, 2022
27,967Likes4,158Retweets
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Guillaume Ptak @guillaume_ptak
Incredible scenes of joy in liberated Kherson. Those people have been through hell.
2:05 PM ∙ Nov 11, 2022
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Saint Javelin @saintjavelin
russia: the people of Kherson voted in totally legitimate and legal referendum to join russian federation The People of Kherson:
3:45 PM ∙ Nov 11, 2022
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Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love
Kherson Babushka found out that in the neighboring village there is one unhugged Ukrainian soldier:
7:03 PM ∙ Nov 11, 2022
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Twitter avatar for @bayraktar_1love
Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love
🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers are ambushed by Special Kherson Hugging Forces 🌺💐🌷🌺💐🌷🌺💐🌷
6:18 PM ∙ Nov 11, 2022
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Robert Zubrin @robert_zubrin
My cousin Eliot was a photographer. He was with the army when we liberated Paris from the Nazis, and took a photo of two French girls standing on a bridge with smiles a mile wide, filled with sheer joy. I'm seeing that same smile in some photos coming in from Kherson now.
12:10 AM ∙ Nov 11, 2022
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Why are Democrats supporting Ukraine?

A reader: Why does support for Ukraine suddenly equate with social justice? How is it that the two are aligned? Why is the party of the reset button with Russia, circa 2009, suddenly so hawkish?

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