Hollowed-Out Shells

On Michael McFaul

Jan 27, 2026

∙ Paid

A popular post on Reddit celebrating the so-called “Balkan Spring”, a cyclical event promised by pundits every half decade or so

Last year around this time, an old idea was percolating through the op-ed sections of various foreign publications: another “Balkan Spring” was underway in Europe’s restive southeast. From Serbia to Turkey to Slovakia to Georgi…

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