Ukraine

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• 1/29/2023
  

  On Ukraine, International Law is Against Russia—But to What Consequence?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  If the United Nations can define the rules of international relations, but sufficiently powerful nations can flout them without consequence, it's time for a change in global governance. 

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• 1/22/2023
  

  Do Sanctions on Russia Portend a Return to the Interwar Order of Trade Blocs?

  by Carl J. Strikwerda

  The economic response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine has raised the specter of a new Cold War. But a better—and scarier—analogy might be the drastic contraction of global trade and the rise of colonial and imperial trade blocs between the World Wars. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/17/2023
  

  Training Ukrainian Troops in the US Part of a Long History of Military Advising as Foreign Policy

  by Syrus Jin

  Training foreign military officers in the US has, since the 1950s, aimed at more than military success. It's been a vehicle for developing foreign political leadership and expanding US influence. 

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• 1/15/2023
  

  Resisting Nationalism in Education

  by Jacob Goodwin

  "Countering the pull toward nationalistic authoritarianism requires intellectual openness and curiosity.  This is a challenge in the time of recovery from the global pandemic, environmental catastrophe and jagged economic turbulence."

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• SOURCE: Noema
  1/10/2023
  

  Why the Kremlin Made "Z" its Symbol of the Ukraine Invasion

  by Alexander Etkind

  Can Russia's aggression against Ukraine be explained by its leaders fetishizing the small differences in national life, and the divergent fortunes of the post-Soviet generation, in the two countries? Are those gaps so small that only an invented symbol could express them? 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/11/2023
  

  Will Ukraine Be the Death of German Pacifism?

  by Stephen Milder

  The real transformation wrought in Europe by the Russian invasion isn't the return of war (which was certainly present in the 1990s) but the turn of Germany away from a post-fascist pacifist posture to a potential remilitarization. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/3/2023
  

  Zelensky's Attire in Congress Wasn't Slovenly, it was Strategic

  by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

  Zelensky, without military experience, has thread the needle between evoking patriotic fighting spirit and appropriating unearned military credibility with his much-discussed attire in Congress. His outfit is part of a long tradition of dress choices by world leaders. 

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  12/20/2022
  

  Ukrainesplaining, or, Why the West Underestimated Ukraine

  by Olesya Khromeychuk

  The credibility of Ukraine's claims and commitment to national self-determination have always been dismissed and diminished by the influence of Russian perspectives, even among academic observers. A woman historian finds the phenomenon familiar. 

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• 12/11/2022
  

  Will the Republican's Tilt Toward Isolationism End?

  by Waller R. Newell

  The Republican Party's fracturing between the remaining neocons and a younger group of isolationists comes at a critical moment when Russia is testing the possible limits on its expansive ambitions. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  12/2/2022
  

  In Ukraine, "General Frost" Will Fight on Both Sides

  Military commanders in Eastern Europe have long tried to deal with the effects of bitter winter on morale and logistics. How is it likely to affect the Ukrainian counterattack against Russia? 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/28/2022
  

  The Anniversary of Ukrainian Famine Shows the Past isn't Past

  A famine 90 years ago killed four million Ukrainians—and possibly more, deaths survivors blamed on Soviet Russia. The commemoration is a rallying point of resistance to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  11/17/2022
  

  Putin's Invasion of Ukraine Won't Set Off a Nuclear Scramble

  by Eric Brewer, Nicholas L. Miller, and Tristan Volpe

  It seems that Russia's invasion of Ukraine may eventually help the cause of nuclear nonproliferation, if the United States approaches its allies with the right mix of defense assurances and aid to civilian nuclear power that may serve as a "hedge" to reassure other governments that they could develop weapons, even if they don't. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/7/2022
  

  Putin's Nuclear Threats are Warping the West's Ukraine Strategy

  by Anne Applebaum

  Nuclear bluster is a purposeful strategy to leverage fear to make NATO nations less willing to defend Ukraine and other nations neighboring Russia. How can they have a better response? 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/27/2022
  

  Small Nations, Big Feelings: America's Favored European Nations Before Ukraine

  by Madelyn Lugli

  "Feeling patriotism for a foreign country is, when you think about it, odd."

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• 11/6/2022
  

  Russian Soldiers' Calls Home Echo Moral Injury Testimony of Vietnam Vets

  by Elise Lemire

  Translations of intercepted calls from Russian soliders in Ukraine reveal guilt, shame, anger, and loss of faith in national institutions and leadership that echo the testimony of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Will these veterans help launch resistance to Russian militarism? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/1/2022
  

  Putin, Contending Ukraine Doesn't Exist, Seeks its Destruction

  by Olesya Khromeychuk

  Unfortunately for the Russian leader, despite widespread global ignorance of the substance of Ukrainian nationhood, repeated attempts to destroy it testify to its reality. 

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• 10/30/2022
  

  Between January 6 and Ukraine, Macho Men Threaten Democracy

  by Walter G. Moss

  "It would be simplistic to blame the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Putin’s misguided machismo, but it certainly is a factor."

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• SOURCE: National Interest
  10/26/2022
  

  Perspective: Using a Nuclear Weapon Would be Disastrous for Russia

  by Steve Cimbala and Lawrence J. Korb

  Russia has retained much of the Soviet-era's top-down command structure, which removes decisionmakers from both the real-world context and consequences of big decisions. This presents a danger that those leaders will misundersand the catastrophic result of a nuclear bomb. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/26/2022
  

  Putin Loyalists Steal Remains of Potemkin from Kherson

  The theft reflects contemporary Russian nationalists' view of Potemkin as the intellectual progenitor of a Greater Russia. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/24/2022
  

  Tim Snyder: Why Putin Wants the Republicans in Power

  Although the Republicans are split, it seems clear that Putin is working to boost the isolationist elements of the MAGA movement at a moment when Ukrainian forces are close to defeating Russia's invasion with international and American support.