7/23 Russia's Foreign Policy Modus Operandi: 1) Russia creates problem 2) Russia pretends to seek diplomatic solution for problem 3) Russia's signs agreement 4) Russia immediately violates agreement 5) Russia blames everyone else for its own actions 6) Rinse and Repeat./
7/12 2/6 I show how the modern usage of Russophobia dates to a bigoted 1982 samizdat essay by Igor Shafarevich, who blamed Jewish intellectuals for the spread of Russophobic stereotypes that treated Russian history as a continuum of despotism from Ivan the Terrible to Stalin & beyond.
Greetings from Kyiv, where people have been using a new verb Шольцить, (loosely translated as, to make a Scholz-like vow): To make a major promise you don't plan to fulfill; to appear to be concerned about a situation and pay lip service to those in need but give them little.
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K・HIRAYAMAさんはTwitterを使っています: 「このことについては、以前にもコメントしたことがあったと思うし、俗説だということはかなり広まりつつあると思っていましたが。「たわけ」は、「戯ける」という動詞の連用形の名詞化した言葉で、「ばか、あほう、愚か者」など相手を罵る時に使用される言葉。室町中期の『節用集』（文明本）を始め、」 / Twitter
https://twitter.com/IIMA_Hiroaki/status/1631438692077424641
Oz Katerji on Twitter: "Russia's Foreign Policy Modus Operandi: 1) Russia creates problem 2) Russia pretends to seek diplomatic solution fo… https://t.co/h7Kpixd3w9"
https://twitter.com/rg_horvath/status/1546738009374019584?s=12&t=oDt7ErRQ_Q7ni5M-rhQAyA
Christopher Miller on Twitter: "Greetings from Kyiv, where people have been using a new verb Шольцить, (loosely translated as, to make a Scholz-lik… https://t.co/Bf4vfma8eC"
