The polycrisis Brian is detailing (the end of peace, neoliberalism, human
history) in my view makes a shared ideological understanding necessary for
all those forces that are critical of capitalism and have long abandoned
the marxist-leninist redux (which can justify repression of hong kong and
One more war nested in the Donbas/Ukraine war: Putin wants to believe this is a
civil war.
Despite everything the West threw at revolutionary Russia, despite its own
errors and catastrophes, despite the devastation of the Great Patriotic war,
Russia emerged in 1945 with a greater landmass than
Dear Brian, weapons, munition and tools are coming from NATO states _and_ non
NATO states.
Since you shared this weird opinion piece of D’Eramo just for the list of
equipment which the US alone has sent, I would think it makes sense to keep in
mind that this amount is just a fraction of what
- proxy vs. direct. this is most likely not a war in a series of
others, but probably a new type of war that has the potential to
recalibrate the world order by risking to lead to another world war.
it has elements of colonial wars but implicitly sets the engagement
of geopolitics (geographic
it makes a difference though if it's proxy war or not:
- if it's a struggle for a nation's survival, one should probably follow
the advice of RAND and go for negotiations asap (as the war looks
increasingly unwinable, according to their recent report).
- if it's a proxy war, the West may
Felix, I understand what you're reacting to, and to be clear, I support the
Ukrainians in their war against Russian aggression. I think it's a
necessary war for NATO to engage in, as I've said before. I also agree the
term "liberal fascism" is meaningless, btw.
But this is also a great power war,
> - the defeat of NATO could lead to a "decolonization" of Western
> Europe (not that this by itself leads to positive results. Repressive
> "liberal" fascism remains as likely an outcome as some sort of
> independence.)
I also wondered what you mean, given that Russia has its own awful colonial
surely not mutually exclusive, most wars of independence were both
struggles for self determination and proxy wars between the great powers,
there are always many wars within each war...
Oh my, what this is supposed to mean, only chatGPT can explain
fies aber lustig
x Ana
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023
Zen and the Art of CBDC Analysis (Part 1): 5 ways to focus the mind
before leaping to conclusions on an overheated topic (Original here
https://brettscott.substack.com/p/cbdc-analysis)
Brett Scott
Our economies are held together by three layers of money, with the
government issuing the
- the defeat of NATO could lead to a "decolonization" of Western
Europe (not that this by itself leads to positive results. Repressive
"liberal" fascism remains as likely an outcome as some sort of
independence.)
Oh my, what this is supposed to mean, only chatGPT can explain.
well, people
On 12.02.23 20:50, Brian Holmes wrote:
-- There's a war on in Europe, which is a proxy war that pits NATO
against Russia, via the fighting force of Ukraine. Definitely check
out the list of equipment which the US alone has sent:
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/sleepwalking-elites
Hi friends, ciao Felix!
we were in Frankfurt for the Transnational Social Strike Assembly (the
great transcontinental network working essential labor, gender equality and
climate justice) to peddle WCCJ aka the World Congress for Climate Justice,
to be held in Milano on October 12-15, 2023 - here
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