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Aaron Maté
Personal blog · mate.substack.compoliticshistory
Aaron Maté writes Aaron Mate, a personal blog at mate.substack.com about politics and history. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Aaron Maté's Substack as a source on the Ukraine war, NATO and EU expansion, and the 2016 DNC hack and CrowdStrike. Commenters cite its posts to support their own points.
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Most-linked posts?
- /p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia?s=r2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-03-06
- /p/indicted-clinton-lawyer-hired-crowdstrike2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-23
What Hacker News says?
No that's not what he's saying. They were led with the promise of NATO/EU membership with no intention to back it up. https://mate.substack.com/p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia...
Comment linking /p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia?s=r
on “Appeal to Ruby Community from Kharkiv Rubyist”Submitted New evidence of fabrications behind the Trump-Russia theory as a story · 87 points
HN discussionI think he's referring to the Maidan revolution pushed in the region back in 2014. They led them with promises of NATO/EU membership, and then left them hanging when war finally broke out. You can reasonably conclude they had no intention to actually fight it out. https://mate.substack.com/p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia...
Comment linking /p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia?s=r
on “Appeal to Ruby Community from Kharkiv Rubyist”Submitted 'Al Qaeda is on our side': How Obama-Biden team empowered terrorists in Syria as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> a forensics company https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ... That's just a front for a think-tank: https://web.archive.org/web/20200930134745/https://www.atlan... And CrowdStrike is so deeply involved with the DNC that they ended up lying for them: https://mate.substack.com/p/indicted-clinton-lawyer-hired-cr...
Comment linking /p/indicted-clinton-lawyer-hired-crowdstrike
on “A CIA hacker’s revenge”Submitted In Nord Stream attack, US officials use proxy media to blame proxy Ukraine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://mate.substack.com/p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia...
Comment linking /p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia?s=r
on “Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine”Submitted FBI helps Ukrainian intelligence censor Twitter users and obtain their info as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://mate.substack.com/p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia...
Comment linking /p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia?s=r
on “Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine”Submitted Syria's My Lai? US massacred 70 civilians and covered it up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://mate.substack.com/p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia...
Comment linking /p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia?s=r
on “Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine”Submitted To keep troops in Syria, US leaders are lying like in Afghanistan as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDo you realize just how fundamentally undemocratic and disenfranchising the 2014 putsch was in the short and long term? https://mate.substack.com/p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia...
Comment linking /p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia?s=r
on “Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine”LOL. OMG. Please look more closely into it. It was undemocratic by a long shot. https://mate.substack.com/p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia...
Comment linking /p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia?s=r
on “Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine”You might think Johnstone's assertions are wrong, but you too are lying when you say they are unsupported; in the sentence you are referring to, she linked to her own previous article which explains the history https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/experts-warned-for-y... as well as some guy named "Aaron I Killed" on Substack https://mate.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-crisis-sponsored-by-... and, more credibly, a FAI…
Comment linking /p/the-ukraine-crisis-sponsored-by-us?s=r
on “Defending Freedom and Democracy Sure Requires an Awful Lot of Censorship”While I agree with most of your comment, one sentence triggered me. > I doubt he'd put their name in jeopardy with misinformation. His company's top officers lied to the public during the campaign in 2016 (and ever since) that the DNC servers was hacked by the Russian Government [1], but then, when asked about it in a court of law in 2017, retractied themselves that any data trace even existed [2]. However the testi…
Comment linking /p/indicted-clinton-lawyer-hired-crowdstrike
on “Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is ‘Almost Certain,' Cyber Expert Says”
