The deification of Zelensky is kind of horrifying to watch. He seems like a chill dude, doing well, under tremendous pressure. But the immense libidin...
Lmao the government in question is the American one but yes keep talking about media literacy when you can't even gets basics right lol Self-Appointed...
Ritual humiliation of singular individuals having always been a mover and shaker of world history of course. Whole libraries devoted to bad feelings a...
:up: "Putin must be punished" is indeed just about the most stupid, sociopath approach to international politics I can imagine. But this is to be expe...
This view, via Chomsky, is somewhat romantic - the idea that the Europeans would have ever tried to cultivate pan-European diplomacy at the expense of...
Indeed. Luckily, unlike magpies who get distracted by the latest shiny thing, most normal people can discuss context, wider significance, and long ter...
Via Mike Davis: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/thanatos-triumphant A fun exploration to look up the names he mentions. Regarding the bolded b...
Finished both! So, the Mielants was not bad. Its big draw is that it's comparative across very different societies - Europe, China, India, and North A...
Incredible how quickly cultural chauvinism immediately gets translated from geopolitical action: as if the actions of the American or European states ...
I wouldn't exactly call it Grandmaster chess insofar as people were shouting that this would happen from all corners, but I don't think Putin is under...
Did I? Because those who can follow a basic train of implication might note that none of this lets Putin off the hook. No judgement about those who ca...
Well yes, the ex-Soviet counterparts get the pleasure of being fucked over by the rentier capitalism of the Putin state, which is definitely a far shi...
Yeah so paranoid that they signposted and labeled exactly what to not do at every point, joined in by a chorus of Western notaries who similarly warne...
That's the difference between right-populism (to give a name to what you're describing) and socialism: it's not that everyone's out to exploit everyon...
Because they knew from the beginning how utterly stupid and economically insane the idea of monetary union was to begin with. Loooooooool. Make anothe...
No I literally rejected the very terms in which you framed the problem, so maybe before we get to 'logic' we can ask if you are capable of literacy fi...
No, this is about blaming NATO for what NATO has done. Again, if you feel the need to choose a team, that's your problem. You don't seem to understand...
A longer view of how we got here: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/1990s-shock-therapy-set-stage-for-russian-authoritarianism-by-katharina...
Anyone who doesn't think world politics is a video game. In real life, people need to act and react based on what others do and think and say, justifi...
Oh yeah poor poor NATO, total victims in this situation, maybe organize a cookie bake for them out of solidarity. Look, literally none of your moraliz...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine Interview with Mearsheimer - putting aside his fan...
It literally doesn't matter. Not one bit. Not one iota. Russia told NATO to fuck right off, and NATO did the exact opposite of that, in full cognizanc...
Yep. The West has been happy to hand out golden passports to Russian oil and gas tycoons while using their money to prop up housing markets in order t...
From one of my fav Euro commentators: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/fog-of-war i.e. imagine trusting the US, the most incompetently stupid, ...
Oh yes, I forgot that this thing called communication exists. Clearly, once a nation asks, NATO just has to let them right the fuck in if they fit the...
Yeah, and I bet they also hand out free rainbows and unicorns to those who write nice letters to them too. Poor poor NATO, clearly had no idea what th...
I'll tell you how it doesn't expand - it doesn't expand by countries asking "hey can you let me in?" and NATO going "mmmm, OK since you asked so nicel...
Neoliberalism is what you get when capitalism roams free. If you don't understand that the former is the ideological complement and product of the lat...
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