3-15-2024: Ilya Somin | Putin's Western Supporters

Putin’s Western Supporters

Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University (Virginia). He is the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom (rev. ed., 2022), Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter (rev. ed. 2016), and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain (2015). Somin has also published articles in a variety of popular press outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Atlantic, and USA Today. He is a regular contributor to the popular Volokh Conspiracy law and politics blog, now affiliated with Reason magazine. His previous talk on MUkraine (April 2023) on the Western response to the refugee crisis, can be seen here: https://youtu.be/qa_WtY36GI0

"What is the politics of this war in the West, and how does it contrast with the Cold War? In the past, Western sympathizers with the Soviet Union and anti-anti-Communists were mostly on the left. Today, strikingly, Putin’s Western sympathizers and 'anti-anti-Putinists' are mostly on the right. How and why has that happened, and what are implications for the future?"
Additional reading:
1. “The Case Against Nationalism” (with Alex Nowrasteh):
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-case-against-nationalism
2. “The GOP's Bogus Linkage Between Aiding Ukraine and "Border Security": https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/12/the-gops-bogus-linkage-between-aiding-ukraine-and-border-security/
3. Yulia Navalnya’s article in the Washington Post, calling on Western nations to support Ukraine (among other things): https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/13/alexei-navalny-yulia-navalnaya-putin-russia-election/
4. Ilya Somin’s “Why I Don't Buy the Idea that You Can't Kill an Idea” (where he highlights the vulnerability of nationalist ideologies and regimes to defeat on the battlefield): https://reason.com/volokh/2024/02/24/why-i-dont-buy-the-idea-that-you-cant-kill-an-idea/

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