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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."
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SOURCE: CNN
4/2/2022
Historians: Putin's Strategy Echoes Hitler's Mistakes on Eastern Front
Peter DeSimone, Timothy Snyder and Ian Ona Johnson discuss the errors of logistics, diplomacy, and treatment of civilians that have hindered the achievement of Russia's goals in Ukraine.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/31/2022
How So Many Were Wrong Assessing Russia's Military
by Phillips Payson O’Brien
As Mike Tyson so eloquently put it, “Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth.” What we are seeing today in Ukraine is the result of a purportedly great military being punched in the mouth.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/5/2022
Confident that Ukraine is Winning the Info War? Think Again
by Carl Miller
Westerners are likely to shun Russian propaganda and mock its falsehoods; social media network research suggests that Russia isn't interested in convincing Westerners, and it may be reaching its intended audience quite effectively.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
4/3/2022
7 Worst-Case Scenarios in Ukraine
by Niall Ferguson
The invasion of Ukraine is testing the arguments made by social psychologist Stephen Pinker that the world is getting more peaceful and less supportive of war.
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4/3/2022
More War Crimes Will Follow in Ukraine
by Fred Zilian
To those who believed that war and war crimes in Europe in the 21st century had become unthinkable, Thucydides offers us a simple yet powerful statement: “War is a violent teacher.”
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
3/31/2022
Over a River Strangely Rosy: Reading Poetry in Wartime
by Joan Neuberger
"It’s my job to explain things about Russia and its various incarnations of empire. I know how to do that — I’ve been doing it for a long time. But, in this moment, analysis seems to me to be somehow incomprehensible and profoundly unsatisfying."
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