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We have a class of immensely rich business oligarchs that exercises great political and economic power with minimum accountability or responsibility. Some of them control information platforms whose purpose is to set Americans at one another’s throats and make us unfit to judge truth from lies. Others back legislation keeping America stuck in a hydrocarbon economy that entrenches dictators while the planet melts. We have a population that’s deeply divided by generation and region, between outward-looking cosmopolitans and backward-looking traditionalists, mutually fearful and contemptuous. Our stagnant, money-driven politics exercises a constant pull away from civic participation into passivity. | |||
But the most immediate threat to Ukraine’s support in the U.S. is an American political party with a strong attraction to autocracy—even to Putin’s Russia. Because of the war, some Republican leaders might now hope, like Charles Lindbergh after Pearl Harbor, that the country will forget their recent romance with authoritarianism—their acquiescence in Trump’s Putinist dreams, including his campaign of blackmail to corrupt Ukrainian democracy for his own dirty ends. But the attraction remains. The U.S. will never be a worthy friend to Ukraine unless the Republican Party purges itself of the poisonous influence of its Tucker Carlsons and Marjorie Taylor Greenes, and above all of Trump. This work might be assisted by Democrats and independents who force the issue with voters, but only Republicans can do it. | |||
In early 1939, a few months before the start of World War II, Auden moved to America, where he published an essay on Voltaire titled “A Great Democrat.” “It is only by removing the obvious causes of misery, poverty, and social injustice,” Auden wrote, “that a democracy like the United States can protect itself against the specious appeals of the enemies of freedom.” Today, reversing America’s Russification will mean defeating our own authoritarians, reducing the power of our oligarchs, ridding our politics of its endemic corruption, and giving Americans on the losing end of 40 years of globalization a sense of security and identity that binds them to our democracy. If we’re true to our own ideals, then we might be worthy of Ukraine. | |||
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Revision as of 04:47, 16 April 2022
Fri Apr 15, 2022
From https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/ukraine-america-democracy-russification/629521/
We have a class of immensely rich business oligarchs that exercises great political and economic power with minimum accountability or responsibility. Some of them control information platforms whose purpose is to set Americans at one another’s throats and make us unfit to judge truth from lies. Others back legislation keeping America stuck in a hydrocarbon economy that entrenches dictators while the planet melts. We have a population that’s deeply divided by generation and region, between outward-looking cosmopolitans and backward-looking traditionalists, mutually fearful and contemptuous. Our stagnant, money-driven politics exercises a constant pull away from civic participation into passivity.
But the most immediate threat to Ukraine’s support in the U.S. is an American political party with a strong attraction to autocracy—even to Putin’s Russia. Because of the war, some Republican leaders might now hope, like Charles Lindbergh after Pearl Harbor, that the country will forget their recent romance with authoritarianism—their acquiescence in Trump’s Putinist dreams, including his campaign of blackmail to corrupt Ukrainian democracy for his own dirty ends. But the attraction remains. The U.S. will never be a worthy friend to Ukraine unless the Republican Party purges itself of the poisonous influence of its Tucker Carlsons and Marjorie Taylor Greenes, and above all of Trump. This work might be assisted by Democrats and independents who force the issue with voters, but only Republicans can do it.
In early 1939, a few months before the start of World War II, Auden moved to America, where he published an essay on Voltaire titled “A Great Democrat.” “It is only by removing the obvious causes of misery, poverty, and social injustice,” Auden wrote, “that a democracy like the United States can protect itself against the specious appeals of the enemies of freedom.” Today, reversing America’s Russification will mean defeating our own authoritarians, reducing the power of our oligarchs, ridding our politics of its endemic corruption, and giving Americans on the losing end of 40 years of globalization a sense of security and identity that binds them to our democracy. If we’re true to our own ideals, then we might be worthy of Ukraine.
Mon Apr 11, 2022
Sun Apr 10, 2022
Fri Apr 8, 2022
Present-day Russia is a Bonapartist regime, very similar to the French regime of 1848–1870 famously described by Marx, but also to the inter war Germany. It relies on plebiscites by benefiting from a sudden introduction of universal suffrage and aggressively boosts resentment and revanchism in society after a major defeat (in Russia’s case, after the Cold War). Ruled by a leader with almost unlimited power, such regimes tend to degenerate into electoral monarchies that repress all internal divisions and are hostile to their neighbors. They are economically stable, which helps them depoliticise the masses, trading absolute civic disengagement for relative well-being and supporting escapism into private life. All this leads them to become militarily aggressive, externalising internal conflicts, overestimating threats from the outside and ending up bolstering strong military alliances against them. They are driven by suicidal tendencies and are heading inevitably towards defeat – but that comes at a high price for everyone, especially now, in the nuclear age. - from [1]
And - At the same time, Putin has built a trickle-down system similar to the one Ronald Reagan created in his time. While the elites became insanely rich and bought endless luxurious yachts and palaces, the general population was able to raise its standard of living through mortgages and consumer credit.
Sat Apr 2, 2022
$70k per hour cost to fly an F22 Raptor. [2].
US needs a ball check - otherwise we allow for offensive nuclear threat - [3]
Sanctions as a weapon - [4]
Sun Mar 27, 2022
The Making of Putin - [5]
Thu Mar 24, 2022
Good explanation of Putin's thinking - makes sense that he thought that Jan 6, 2021 made fun of democracy and thus he thought he could get away with murder. [6]
Mar 23, 2022
Comparison of Putin and Hitler over their 10 year rise - [7] from texty.org. Really good insights.
Also - Eurasianism - [8]
And Eukraine Jewish Encounter - [9]
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 14, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/ukraine-united-states-nato/627052/ suggests a proper response - treating Russia like the gangsta it is
Mar 11, 2022
- Analysts appear to state that escalation is likely to lead to a nuclear weapon being used, based on war game scenarios back from 2014. No visible offramp exists for Putin, as he controls Russia's information flows. [10]
Analysis Mar 8, 2022
- First, understand nuclear strategy - [11]
- One possibility is that the Rubicon has been crossed - [12]
- Then, read about an analysis interpreted on Mar 5, 2022 regarding a possible fall of Russia according to a leaked document from Russian intelligence known as FSB - - is this document verified or fake? - [13]. Case made is not impossible. It may be likely - logic there appears to be sound. Unless this is pure psyops.
Communications
Mar 8, 2022
To Catarina -
Read my retweet from Igor Sushko based on a leaked report, translated, mentioned in The Times (UK) article recently
https://twitter.com/marcin_ose
A 2000 word doc from FSB that discusses that Russia is in deep shit and that the west should enter the war before too many more innocent lives are lost.
I also posted this on the wiki with some more supporting info on nuclear strategy at
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Ukraine_War#Analysis_Mar_8.2C_2022
Truth Wins
- Here's a possitive outlook - [14]
Military Analysis
- Air Force Magazine - [15]
Losses
Military Aid Needs
- Mar 1 - in Defense News - [18]
Intro
Recents on Twitter - https://twitter.com/search?q=ukraine%20news&src=typed_query&f=live
Check out this contrarian viewpoint - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vdiEABLFoo from the feed. at about 4 AM Sunday CST USA. From Coach Red Pill on Telegram. How fascinating.
It is interesting to see the arguments promoted by each side. From the assumptions that the good or evil side takes, their respective conclusions appear sound. Their conclusions depend on the assumptions that they are making. And assumptions depend on admissible information - which information the viewpoint includes and which it omits in its considerations. And what values it holds. Thus, one could gain reconciliation or admit to differences based on admissible information and therefore the assumptions made.