Sara Koopman
spaceforpeace.bsky.social
Sara Koopman
@spaceforpeace.bsky.social
Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
to your point here, really I think machine translation probably would have done a better job!
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"The text also contains other Russianisms, such as ‘ambiguities’ (неоднозначности/neodnoznachnosti) and ‘to enshrine’ (закрепить/zakrepit’)." - the counteroffensive newsletter
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"For example, the third point: “It is expected that Russia will not invade and NATO will not expand” - the passive construction ‘It is expected’ mirrors the Russian ‘ожидается’ (ozhidaetsya)."
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I bet the Russian plan sounds like Russian because they just machine translated it! One would hope that a human translator would have cleaned up this mess.
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM