Russia attacks on february the 24th and on March the 4th, so 8 days later, you have Stephen Kotkin inventing the entire western narrative on the russian invasion of Ukraine, and have it presented at the Hoover Institution
- where coincidentally in the same week you hold your “7 people argue against John Mearsheimers version of realism [school of thought in international relations theory] panel” - in a format you newly founded in the same week. With a complete freshmen at the helm, selling a/her book for the first time ever - with the argumentative hook, that Mearsheimers argument is monocausal, and there were many reasons for the war, none of which were NATO enlargement.
Stephen Kotkin (here at the IWMVienna, btw: click) and here speaking out publically against russias argument to NATO expansion:
who by then was a senior fellow at Stanford for two years, consequently gets moved to the REDS Seminar series at the Europe Center at Stanford, on “Rethinking European Development and Security (REDS)”, where to his credit, he doesnt conform with the public narrative on whats was happening in Ukraine at the time twice (see: click), now finally - after years of waiting in Princeton, as he himself insists (see following video), gets to talk to the new Hoover folks at the Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot camp (HISPBC).
🙂
Check for yourself when you start to diverge from his world view, and start to classify what he says as Propaganda. 🙂
For me it was the “the global south doesnt exist, but it only has so few people, because China and India are in the north, so we dont use that term, but the global west is real, because its a club, based on common values and institutions, which we took over from the british, and you will always insist in using your definitions, not the ones of others in a debate, and you will make sure that yours are empirical, which is why I have to talk to you about land powers and sea powers where the land powers are often autocratic and aggressive, and military based, and great that Mexico as well as south america doesnt threaten the US militarily, btw - I wonder how that happened, oh and the sea powers are about spreading democracy, and free societies and trade, and prosperity, in the expansion phase, which has now turned into a contraction phase - oh and we brought values to the world, never mind IMF debt “dependency” countries could never get out of, as a developmental model for the third world, which china replaced as a model, with gifting those countries infrastructure (your companies build) in return for time limited rights to run their harbors and airports, the model that nowadays the EU Global Gateway initiative is also based on, oh - and lets not mention that China lifted 800 million people out of poverty - which really isnt worth talking about, when imprinting on our new summer school attendees, that and I quote “its important not to become the others” (ingroup vs outgroup is established) because, and I quote “you are intelligent, capable, openminded cosmopolites here, talking to your kind and the others are not”, which is why the western values based order is so important, of which japan is also a part of course, because its more like a Club - and so is Saudi Arabia, because there is OPEC, which is the only “freely formed organisation that ever existed” - so our club of course includes also Saudi Arabia and…” part.
Just do me a favor, watch it, and then make a note when you recognized what he is doing here…
Which brings me to my most important point.
Isn’t it great that those are the people that invented the western narrative on whats happening in Ukraine eight days after the war started?
Which then consequently was copied and used without any (!) additions or modifications for - about a year, throughout the entire west.
That club he spoke of, must also be about shared narratives I think.
And exclusive summer schools.
Grüße an Alpbach, bitte.
Propaganda hat aber natürlich wieder niemand entdeckt.
It’s a pity really, that you have these folks that are used to produce major narratives around with you for the long run… So people can judge them on their subsequent appearances as well.
Like Timothy Snider:
and Fiona Hill
Its a curse, really. And this one started in march of 2022.
