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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."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/25/2022
Once More in Ukraine, Dehumanization Precursor to Mass Murder
by Anne Applebaum
Suppressing knowledge of the horrors of starvation inflicted on Ukrainians in the 1930s is a key to Russia's ability to use similar dehumanizing rhetoric to justify attacks on civilians today.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/25/2022
Once More in Ukraine, Dehumanization Precursor to Mass Murder
by Anne Applebaum
Suppressing knowledge of the horrors of starvation inflicted on Ukrainians in the 1930s is a key to Russia's ability to use similar dehumanizing rhetoric to justify attacks on civilians today.
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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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4/24/2022
Understanding How Counterfactuals Shape Putin's Worldview and Historical Rhetoric
by Gavriel Rosenfeld
While historians have noted the instrumental use of history in Putin's speeches about Ukraine, more attention should be paid to his use of broad counterfactuals that, however they oversimplify historical contingency, successfully evoke politically potent emotions like regret, relief and fear.
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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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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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