Kendzior: "Did the US win the Cold War?"
Snyder: "Oligarchy won the Cold War. Americans did not win the Cold War. The post-Soviet oligarchy won the break-up of the USSR, and that oligarchy went on to disproportionately influence a complacent US." https://www.patreon.com/posts/oligarchy-won-38542447
Snyder: "Oligarchy won the Cold War. Americans did not win the Cold War. The post-Soviet oligarchy won the break-up of the USSR, and that oligarchy went on to disproportionately influence a complacent US." https://www.patreon.com/posts/oligarchy-won-38542447
"Complacency leads to inequality which makes democracy harder. If you say 'History is on our side', you're saying 'We don't have to do the right thing, we don't have to have values, capitalism will just take care of everything." -- Snyder on @gaslitnation https://www.patreon.com/posts/oligarchy-won-38542447
"Democracy means having to be an unpredictable individual actor in history. It means being aware of unpredictable things that could happen, good and bad outcomes, and being able to react to them. That's an art that we lost." -- Snyder on @gaslitnation https://www.patreon.com/posts/oligarchy-won-38542447