Ukraine

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• 6/19/2022
  

  Russia's Justifications for Invasion Don't Hold Up Any Better Now than in February

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The alleged threat of Ukraine's NATO membership, supposed "denazification" and claims of cultural unity all fall flat; none excuse Russia's violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/13/2022
  

  Ukraine's Struggle for Independence is a Century Old, Despite Putin's Claims

  by Joshua D. Zimmerman

  Ukrainian nationalists have worked for independence since the upheaval of the first world war. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/11/2022
  

  Biden Needs to Frame Ukraine Goal as Securing Sovereignty, not Democracy

  by Stephen Wertheim

  An American pledge to the defend principle of sovereignty will attract more allies into a coalition than a promise to defend democracy, especially since, prior to the Russian invasion, Ukraine's standing as a democratic state was tenuous. 

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• SOURCE: National Interest
  6/4/2022
  

  Security Studies Scholar: NATO Must Push Ukraine to Negotiate End of Hostilities with Russia

  by Hugh DeSantis

  The US and NATO must use the leverage of arms supplies to push Ukraine to negotiate with Russia or risk an interminable – and wider – conflict. 

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• 6/5/2022
  

  Can Ukraine Harness the Power of the Small to Survive Russia's Attack?

  by Paul J. Croce

  While Ukraine’s fate hangs in the balance, its greatest strengths, like those of lowly insects and microscopic pathogens, rests with its readiness to use the strengths of the small.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/22/2022
  

  Will the War in Ukraine Doom International Climate Action?

  by Michael Klare

  The international tension provoked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine couldn't come at a worse moment for efforts to advance action to fight climate change.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/23/2022
  

  The War Won't End Until Putin Loses

  by Anne Applebaum

  It's premature and wishful thinking to believe that Putin will consider any of the "off ramps" offered as solutions to the war. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/19/2022
  

  Ukraine's Eurovision Victory Not the First Time Politics Has Been on Stage

  by Tess Megginson

  Since its beginnings in 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest has been a stage for statements about the politics of the continent, from the Cold War to the growth of the EU to the invasion of Ukraine. 

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• 5/8/2022
  

  The Dangerous Trend of Imperial Nostalgia – It's not Just Russia

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The embrace of the belief that nations are entitled to reclaim their past dominance underlies Russia's invasion of Ukraine but also is influencing the politics of Britain, France, China, and the United States. A renewed commitment to international cooperation is needed to thwart this dangerous turn. 

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• 5/8/2022
  

  Reigniting a Nuclear Arms Race is the Wrong Take-Home from Ukraine

  by David P. Barash

  A simplistic assumption of nuclear deterrence – that having nuclear weapons protects a nation against aggression – has frequently failed in practice. The Ukraine invasion should be a call to rethink deterrence and move toward abolishing nuclear weapons. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/3/2022
  

  The Losers of the Ukraine War? The Global Poor

  by Rajan Menon

  Refugee crises, inflation in the developed world, and constricted access to both credit and grain exports in the developing world are all likely consequences of the Ukraine invasion that will fall on the world's poor. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  4/29/2022
  

  Tim Snyder Discusses Putin's "Big Lie" about Ukraine on Maddow

  Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale University and author of "Bloodlands," talks with Rachel Maddow about the manipulative power of a "Big Lie" and why it's so difficult to untangle a person from a Big Lie once they've bought into it.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/28/2022
  

  Race and Religion Have Always Helped Determine Who Gets Refuge in the US

  by Laura E. Alexander, Jane Hong, Karen Hooge Michalka and Luis E. Romero

  While Ukrainians fleeing war are deserving of aid from the United States, the treatment of both Haitian and Syrian refugees shows that the asylum process is far from equitable. 

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• 5/1/2022
  

  Democracy's Enemies are Abroad, but Also at Home

  by Jim Sleeper

  If neoconservative warnings of a coming global struggle between Russia and "the West" are right, the west must consider what changes it is willing to make to allow for a victory without planetery catastrophe. 

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• 5/1/2022
  

  Ukraine Evokes Past "Eve of Destruction"

  by Richard Aquila

  In 1960s America, popular songs gradually roused the conscience of many Americans against the war in Vietnam. What forces might make Russia (as well as Ukraine and the west) push away from the brink of unthinkable acts mass destruction? 

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• SOURCE: World Socialist Website
  4/25/2022
  

  World Socialist Website: Tim Snyder Changes Conclusions on Ukrainian Fascism

  Have influential historians of Eastern European nationalism and antisemitism softened their assessment of Ukrainian nationalism because of the Russian invasion? 

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  4/21/2022
  

  Ukrainian Historian: Russian Attack an Imperialist Move Akin to US Invasion of Iraq

  Denis Pilash contends that the brutality of some actions against Ukraine compares to US-supported massacres by the Indonesian government in East Timor. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/22/2022
  

  Sergey Radchenko: War Will Continue Until Russia "Cannibalizes" Ukraine

  NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Sergey Radchenko, a Russian history professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, on what's behind Putin's shift in the focus in the war on Ukraine.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/20/2022
  

  Ukraine's Nuclear Flash Point

  by Michael Klare

  With Russia's invasion of Ukraine backstopped by a nuclear arsenal, the days when nuclear war was unthinkable have clearly passed. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  4/21/2022
  

  The Russo-Ukrainian War At Sea: Retrospect and Prospect

  by B.J. Armstrong

  "The fact that our Twitter feeds and Instagram scrolls are not filled with naval or maritime news does not mean that nothing is happening."