Norms should allow users to flag harmful speech, but also to provide clear remedies that ensure a balance of power between citizens, platforms, and states — regardless of the regime.
Forcing Ukraine to implement the Minsk Agreements will only cause harm. The US should recognize the danger of any such policy.
The crisis at the Belarus-Poland border may be easing as the Belarusian government empties camps of migrants. Still, the standoff has the potential to spiral into a full-blown conflict.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is engaged in a multi-pronged escalation of threats within Europe. His schemes can be defeated.
Appeasement of Russia would deliver exactly the same outcome as the betrayal of Czechoslovakia at Munich — dishonor and disaster.
The best way to respond to bullies is to call their bluff
🇷🇺 “Citizens can come and go as they please in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Unless they’re disobedient or have the wrong ethnic background, in which case they may suffer a different fate.” @KirkseniyaSF https://cepa.org/putins-paradoxical-population-programs/
🇷🇺🇺🇦“Russia will not lose its appetite to swallow the whole of Ukraine, but the West can at least make sure it grows sufficiently large to become indigestible.” @dszeligowski https://cepa.org/minsk-deals-will-never-bring-peace-to-ukraine/
🇲🇰“It will not take a lot of effort to stoke the VMRO-DPMNE’s nationalist, pro-Russian, and anti-Western fires.” @LeonHartwell @JanelleClausen https://cepa.org/north-macedonia-on-the-edge/
