Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ukraine
These lessons are popular, logical — even unquestionable truth in many minds — and catastrophically and demonstrably wrong.
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These lessons are popular, logical — even unquestionable truth in many minds — and catastrophically and demonstrably wrong.
This week on Talk World Radio we’re discussing the use of nonviolent activism in Western Sahara.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has horrified people around the world and has, quite rightly, been widely condemned. But in the inevitably polarized and propaganda-laden wartime media environment, it has been remarkably difficult to go beyond that.
Russian forces agreed to leave town of Slavutych if those with arms handed them over to the mayor.
The worst possible outcome of the war in Ukraine would probably be nuclear war. People’s desire for revenge as a result of this war is getting stronger by the day.
The war-or-nothing disease has a firm grip. People literally can’t imagine anything else — people on both sides of the same war.
The war in Ukraine is both a wake up call about the folly of war and rare opportunity to move toward a more peaceful world.
We hold in our hands vast power to both create and destroy, the likes of which have never been seen in history.
Western commentators who rush to condemn Putin’s nuclear madness would do well to remember Western nuclear madness of the past, argues Milan Rai.
In 2019, the RAND Corporation tentacle of the U.S. Military Industrial Congressional “Intelligence” Media Academic “Think” Tank Complex published a report claiming to have “conducted a qualitative assessment of ‘cost-imposing options’ that could unbalance and overextend Russia.”
