The goal of this chorus, conducted by Seegel, is to provide real-time information on the war for the purpose of open-source service and archiving, and to counter the mis- and disinformation coming from the Russian government, in particular the Putin-authored narrative that Ukraine is merely a sub-unit of Russia, and that the invasion is therefore a war or liberation or reconciliation. The effect of all this tweeting, RT’ing and QT’ing is a kind of chorus of voices, mostly international scholars and writers, many of them from Ukraine, who are providing in-the-moment interpretation and contextualization of the war and the politics surrounding it. “Horrifying,” appends Seegel.īy the end of the day, he’ll likely tweet another 50-500 times. Seegel’s next three tweets were recorded re-tweets of other Eastern Europe experts discussing the recent headline that the Russian government has ordered its pedagogical universities to cease teaching all courses in sociology, cultural studies, and political science. and other Western allies decide to more directly involve themselves in the fight. The war, therefore, is likely to drag on for years, and will end, he predicts, only when the U.S. Mylovanov’s 16-part thread is a grim but also defiant argument that both sides in the Ukraine-Russia war are structurally unable to win but also emotionally unwilling to lose. The first was a retweet of a thread from Tymofiy Mylovanov, the president of the Kyiv School of Economics and an advisor to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
In the hour before I sat down to start writing this piece, Steven Seegel tweeted four times.
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