Edward N Luttwak on Twitter: "Like Yemelyan Pugachev, whose revolt against Catherine the Great swept across what is now Ukraine, Prigozhin is both brave and a talented leader. Like Pugachev he is a patriot, and like Pugachev he will be captured and killed or just killed. He cannot win: no Moscow power base" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/ELuttwak/status/1672643676160311297?cxt=HHwWgoC2lfejtrYuAAAA

#EdwardLuttwak #CoupDEtat #Russia #WagnerGroup

Whenever there is a coup, attempted or otherwise, my first impulse is to check what #EdwardLuttwak , the man who wrote the book on coups d'état, has to say: https://twitter.com/ELuttwak

Unfortunately he hasn't yet posted about what's going on in #Russia .

"Larry Summers was embarrassed by this utterly irrelevant quarrel—it was political economy he wanted discussed. He had not realized that he was inviting two Hungarian speakers, ensuring a bitter argument in any case, but all the more so when one, Soros, was a second-generation Budapest assimilationist [...] while the other, myself, was born in Arad, a place so utterly provincial that it is not even in Hungary, but rather in Romania."

#EdwardLuttwak #GeorgeSoros #Hungary

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/meeting-with-george-soros

| "Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook"

Despite the title, not actually a how-to manual. (b w) #EdwardLuttwak

@TheGibson Not fair to #EdwardLuttwak . I don't know about the other people.

"The CIA’s assessments that Kabul would resist the Taliban for a long time and that Kyiv would fall in 24 hours are sufficient grounds for emptying out its buildings, fumigating them thoroughly, and restaffing with people who are actually interested in foreign countries and therefore know a language or two really well, and have traveled the world."

#EdwardLuttwak

He also explains what was Pres. Putin's plan in #Ukraine .

Three Blind Kings
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/three-blind-kings-edward-luttwak

#ForeignPolicy
#TableMagazine

#EdwardLuttwak is always worth listening to.

"The Ukrainian army did not run away, it did not surrender, it did not abandon its weapons to walk home, and neither was it quickly outmanoeuvred by the much better-funded Russian army [...] Day after day, Kharkov and Kyiv not only held out but were not even attacked, except by a few missiles, more terrifying than destructive. That is when Putin’s timetable and entire war plan fell apart."

#EdwardLuttwak
#Ukraine #VladimirPutin
#UnHerd

Praise for the grand lines of President Biden's foreign policy, now that's contrarian. But one should always take #EdwardLuttwak 's views seriously.

https://unherd.com/2021/09/joe-biden-was-right-all-along/

#uspol #Afghanistan #China
#unHerd

Speaking of #EdwardLuttwak ,

"Reassured by the Guantanamo graduates in the new Afghan government. They have had years of international experience & the benefit of US custodial culture, which is meant to rehabilitate our own criminals. Only worried by the Korans issued to them, w inflammatory calls to Jihad."

https://twitter.com/ELuttwak/status/1429970701759488002

#EdwardLuttwak , for what it's worth, favours the withdrawal of US forces from #Afghanistan . "The only alternative to abandonment was to convert US troops into an Afghan constabulary, forever."

#uspol