Re: Rebecca Solnit: It’s time to confront the Trump-Putin network (Guardian)

2022-03-02 Thread Keith Sanborn
Again, it’s the Lansing Institute, but… https://lansinginstitute.org/2021/01/08/russian-involvement-in-the-capitol-building-attack/ The Southern Poverty Law Center identified a "Russian Insider” Charles Bausman, linked to various hate groups, among those invading the Capitol wearing a Trump

Re: Anatomy of information warfare in the social media age

2022-03-02 Thread Brian Holmes
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022, Balazs Bodo wrote: "I believe that western audiences are increasingly locked into a media environment that is rapidly re-structured under the conditions of a total information warfare. Information that circulates in this environment is at best incomplete, at worst is the

Rebecca Solnit: It’s time to confront the Trump-Putin network (Guardian)

2022-03-02 Thread patrice riemens
Molly had already send the url, but I think it's worthwhile to have the text in full on the list (& Molly agrees ;-) Cheers, & even more: peace, to all Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/time-to-confront-trump-putin-network It’s time to confront the Trump-Putin

Re: Almost zero

2022-03-02 Thread Keith Sanborn
More to your point: Avoiding world war 3, or the threat of it, is taken from the same playbook Putin used in priming the West for his invasion. The West and Ukraine supposedly thought: don’t do anything to antagonize Putin, he’ll use it as a pretext for invasion. The invasion was already

Re: Almost zero

2022-03-02 Thread Keith Sanborn
And body bags are body bags. The Nationalism card depends on Putin’s ability to invoke “The Great Patriotic War,” known in the West as WWII. This is the reason Putin invoked “denatzification.” But turning an aggression on foreign soil into defending the Father/motherland is a stretch even with

Re: Russia lost the war already

2022-03-02 Thread David Herzog
rs, and how we hardly dare to bear them at night: https://igel-muc.de/video/20220302-war5min-michelle_gurevich.mp4 from (patience): https://igel-muc.de/musicvideolist.php all the best david herzog # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net c

Re: Russia lost the war already

2022-03-02 Thread Felix Stalder
I agree, it's really unclear what "winning" or "loosing" might be here. Both extreme scenarios (winning = turning Ukraine into a Belarus-like client-state with little violence; loosing = restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and collapse of Putin-regime) seem very unlikely, but

Russia lost the war already

2022-03-02 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
Russia's war against Ukraine was lost from day one. The people in Russia must now decide how they want to get out of the mess their leadership created. Russia can never win this war. It will not be able to suppress the resistance of the Ukrainian people who, even if Russian troops were to