American policy during the Maidan supported forming a new government under Yanukovych — something unacceptable to protesters, for whom the regime’s violence had already made it intolerable.
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Ilyin saw his own nation as righteous, and the purity of that vision was more important than anything Russians actually did. Like fascists of his day, Ilyin insisted that his nation was an animal in Eden without original sin.
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Fact:
Long established and well documented that Russia promoted Brexit at every turn possible. Just before they set their eye on US elections.
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The collapse of the politics of #inevitability ushers in another experience of time: the politics of #eternity. Whereas inevitability promises a better future for everyone, eternity places one nation at the center of a cyclical story of #victimhood.
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As European history shows, Russia must be defeated for the sake of Russia itself. If Russia is to reform, it must lose its imperial war. Russia can only win by losing. Anyone who cares about Russians should be working for Russia’s defeat in this war.
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Europeans were all too willing to accept Russian imperial stereotypes about #Ukraine: that it is not a real country; that it is corrupt by nature; that its people do not know who they are. The war has revealed these errors.
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European #integration was a substitute for #empire. It was chosen not because of wisdom about war in general, but because of #imperial exhaustion.
The standard myth of European integration was never innocent. It made the Russian war against Ukraine more likely.
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Those who lived through the Cold War (Boomers) and still support Trump, should be ashamed.
Those who don’t know the history, might want to brush up on it.
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That’s some scary shit - this is what “obeying in advance” looks like. #OnTyranny #TheRoadToUnfreedom
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“When inequality is too great, the truth is too much for the miserable, and too little for the privileged.”
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Dangerous cancel culture comes from the far right.
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