Oh, my. It looks Noah Smith, a Stony Brook assistant professor of finance and Bloomberg View columnist, needs to go back to school:
I just don't understand why Russia, the world's biggest country, cares about conquering additional tiny bits of land. http://t.co/VCaIaHZLQZ
— Noah Smith ? (@Noahpinion) February 5, 2015
Tiny? Let’s see if Twitter can help a professor out:
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/563405341871079424
@Noahpinion @seanmdav so because the whole of Russia is bigger than Ukraine, it's tiny? It has no strategic importance whatsoever?
— Jimmy Maple (@hotdogjimmy) February 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/OhioCoastie/status/563407733140246529
And here’s a list of the countries of Europe by size. “Tiny” Ukraine is No. 2:
@Noahpinion @seanmdav
Oh, hey, look at number TWO on the list.http://t.co/LwoRccex52— Jim (@Ifitsthisname) February 5, 2015
Smith’s tweet also doesn’t reflect the historic significance of Ukraine and Crimea to the region:
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/563406868559982592
https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/563407737502314496
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/563407955039891456
Smith later backpedaled a little, claiming that Crimea and Donbass are small:
@Ifitsthisname @OhioCoastie But Crimea and Donbass are a small percentage of Ukraine.
— Noah Smith ? (@Noahpinion) February 5, 2015
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Crimea, if it were its own European country, would be just below Belgium on the list. Small, but bigger than about a dozen other European nations.
And will end it with this:
@seanmdav And you just know he's laughed many, many times at "Sarah Palin" saying she can see Russia from her house. @NoahCRothman
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) February 5, 2015
Do you think? Let’s search his Twitter feed and find out:
@KevinWGlass @bryan_caplan If we buy Mars, can we send Sarah Palin there to run it? I mean, she can already see it from her house.
— Noah Smith ? (@Noahpinion) January 3, 2013
You betcha!
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