Historian and author of “Poland: The First Thousand Years” and “The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine”
Boston, MA
Joined October 2013
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Some nice news: my book was awarded 1st Distinction in the category of Best foreign-language publication promoting Poland’s history (Historical Competition of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2022).
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"It’s the same old playbook—appease Putin and then hope he will kindly end his invasion. It hasn’t worked before; it isn’t working now."
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Dr. Patrice Dabrowski retweeted
"It’s the same old playbook—appease Putin and then hope he will kindly end his invasion. It hasn’t worked before; it isn’t working now."
thedispatch.com/article/trum…
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When you praise a mass murderer as a 'humanitarian,' you become complicit in his crimes.
You insult the memory of the victims of the destruction of Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol. You gaslight the women raped in Bucha. You mock the families of stolen Ukrainian children. You show that you share the same nihilistic universe as the perpetrator of these atrocities.
Dr. Patrice Dabrowski retweeted
These are not transfers from the US, but from other countries. The US is now actively sabotaging Ukrainian defense of civilians.
Breaking news: The Trump administration has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian attacks, officials said, a delay that comes as President Trump has embraced Russia in recent weeks. wapo.st/4yCb7T7
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This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China.
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Dr. Patrice Dabrowski retweeted
This statement from the President of the United States of America, a position once also associated with the leader of the free world, is deeply disturbing.
No one wants to end this war more than Zelenskyy.
Putin does not.
And why should he when Trump is trying to help him win?
So disappointing. So embarrassing.
Just received my copy of this brand new handbook of Polish history, from medieval times to today. Proud to have my chapter “Phantom Poland and European Nationalism before 1914” in it! And I look forward to reading colleagues’ contributions.
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Trump only thinks that it's Zelenskyy who refuses to surrender, viewing him as the main obstacle standing between himself and a sweet dealmaking with Putin.
But in reality, it's not Zelenskyy, it's the Ukrainian people who refuse to surrender. If our president decided, for some reason, to go against the people's will and capitulate by accepting Putin's conditions, he wouldn't last 20 seconds in office.
And the notion that the Ukrainian people are "dying for Zelenskyy" is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. I've never met a single soldier who thinks that way.
They are fighting because foreign invaders would otherwise occupy their homes, kidnap their children, steal their property, and kill them. That's why, Zelenskyy or no Zelenskyy, they would still defend their country.
Egregious and traitorous:
Reuters: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
Defense Department leaders were told that SpaceX’s Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed, the officials said.
