Dmitry Grozoubinski
Fmr Diplomat. Trade and negotiations trainer for hire. Forever D&D DM. πΊπ¦ Born. π¦πΊ Raised. π¨π Based. Co-Host Intrigue Explained Podcast (He/Him)
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1/ I like people and think they're overwhelmingly good and decent. My default assumption is that whatever the slogans, or extremist elements, the vast majority of the people on t...
1/ A review of the @dfat diplomatic network has just concluded and it's really interesting. Some reactions on key points if international relations is your thing... (This will...
1/ Elon Musk has too large an audience to simply ignore this, and others have eloquently told him to fuck off already (which I'm here for) but I'd like to go point by point and exp...
From the largely anecdotal evidence coming in so far about Russian mobilization: 1β£ They are not sticking to Putin's publicly stated target of 300k. Just vacuuming up men in the p...
The "Putin had no choice but to escalate" line assumes that mobilizing people's children into an increasingly hopeless meatgrinder in Ukraine is somehow less dangerous to his regim...
No doubt Chomsky, Hitchens and Mearsheimer are all penning pieces condemning North Korean aid shipments for not allowing Russia to offer all its territory southwest of Volgograd, a...
1/ Big update full of bad news (for Russia) on the Ukrainian advance on the telegram channel of one of the Russian propogandists / war reporters. I've translated it but it mentio...
Since people keep raising this: No, I don't think it's likely China is routing or plans to route significant quantities of munitions through North Korea as a smokescreen. I cou...
1/ Interesting point here about how the Russian military is paid. A system of low base pay supplementrd by a web of bonuses awarded through an impenetrable and capricious bureaucr...
1/ As Ukraine advances and Russian troops around Kherson soil their recently stolen underpants, it feels a good moment to unpack the Hitchens et al hypothesis that Ukrainian conces...
Wagner butchers continuing their slow journey of discovery that waging war in Ukraine ain't butchering civilians in Syria. Posted a photo of an oligarch handshake outside their "s...
1/ Quick thread on how sending diplomats, diplomatic immunity, and "persona non grata (PNG)" works. Source: Vague recollections from working in Protocol at the Aussie Dept. of Fo...