Russia

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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: 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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• 5/1/2022
  

  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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• 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."

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• 4/24/2022
  

  Why I Can't Wave a Ukrainian Flag – A Dissenting Teach-In on Russia's Invasion

  by Daniel Herman

  "If Americans who fly Ukrainian flags actually want to help Ukrainians, they would be well advised to support diplomatic negotiations rather than limitless flows of weaponry."

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/18/2022
  

  Is this the End of the Russian Empire?

  by Walter Russell Mead

  Historic empires have all ultimately faced a moment of reckoning when the reality of their fading power overcomes triumphal myths. The next phase of fighting in Ukraine will determine if that moment has come for Putin's Russia. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/19/2022
  

  Moving Beyond Sanctions to End the War in Ukraine

  by Alfred McCoy

  "While the world waits for the other combat boot to drop hard, it’s already worth considering where the West went wrong in its efforts to end this war, while exploring whether anything potentially effective is still available to slow the carnage."

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• 4/17/2022
  

  We Need to Talk About Cuba

  by Joseph J. González

  U.S. policymakers should understand that Putin may observe the sixtieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis by provoking another one. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/12/2022
  

  The Ukraine Temptation – Can Biden Resist a New Cold War?

  by Stephen Wertheim

  A bid to restore global military primacy is no more merited today than it was before the invasion. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/10/2022
  

  Russian Students are Turning In Insufficiently Patriotic Teachers

  At least four teachers have recently been turned in by parents or students for opposition to the invasion of Ukraine, part of a campaign of identifying and targeting alleged traitors for retaliation. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/7/2022
  

  Bill Clinton Defends Handling of Post-Soviet Russia

  "The failure of Russian democracy, and its turn to revanchism, was not catalyzed in Brussels at NATO headquarters. It was decided in Moscow by Putin."