Tag: Ukraine
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In the past, I rarely watched YouTube, but the bird site’s corruption has seen me on YouTube much more often, as I search for content about Ukraine. Recently I found a good Ukrainian-made series about how Ukrainians in various kinds of media have adapted to Russia’s full-scale invasion. There are…
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Articles related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. No paywalls – all links lead to freely available texts.
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The press conference this afternoon reminds me of what a disaster we averted by showing the orange blob the door after one term. I get frustrated by the slow pace of our response to the invasion (and the horrible laissez-faire federal response to the pandemic nowadays), but oh how much…
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Quotation: Three lines that I can’t shake from Ukrainian singer-soldier Stasik’s song “Lullaby for the Enemy”.
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Photograph from 1959: harvesting potatoes on a collective farm near Kyiv.
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Perhaps Putin’s phrase “special military operation” should be seen as something more insidious than a euphemism for war. At the very least, it is consistent with Russia’s genocidal aims and practices in Ukraine. If we take the Clausewitzian metaphor of war as a duel somewhat literally, the Russian invasion of…
