This reads like a Pentagon press release, mythological generic “Ukrainians this” and “The Ukrainians that.” 1/3 of Ukrainians are in the larger eastern Donbas region. They have been besieged by western, government Ukrainians since 2014. Credible reports say 14,000 have been murdered since then. Besides being a proxy war, this is in some …
This reads like a Pentagon press release, mythological generic “Ukrainians this” and “The Ukrainians that.” 1/3 of Ukrainians are in the larger eastern Donbas region. They have been besieged by western, government Ukrainians since 2014. Credible reports say 14,000 have been murdered since then. Besides being a proxy war, this is in some ways a civil war. Pretending there is a unified Ukrainian point of view is shallow, American-centric, and even obscures the extreme poverty America is about to enter thanks to $50 BILLION DOLLARS, so far, moving from helping Americans to enriching the 1% who profit from war (and the media that enables them). Want to read a more informed article? See https://consortiumnews.com/2022/06/02/us-state-affiliated-newsguard-targets-consortium-news/
Eeeehhhh, I'm also inclined to give deference to someone who:
a) writes for a Marxist worker-owned collective blog
b) has been to Ukraine a WHOLE LOT MORE than I have (i.e., more than none), and
c) has written about this country and topic for some reputable and high-visibility publications (Cros has also written about Ukraine for Rolling Stone, I think?).
No one, including anyone who writes for Discourse, is unaware of either the complexity of this topic or the money trail associated with it. But there's a human and boots-on-the-ground element that deserves some storytelling as well.
This reads like a Pentagon press release, mythological generic “Ukrainians this” and “The Ukrainians that.” 1/3 of Ukrainians are in the larger eastern Donbas region. They have been besieged by western, government Ukrainians since 2014. Credible reports say 14,000 have been murdered since then. Besides being a proxy war, this is in some ways a civil war. Pretending there is a unified Ukrainian point of view is shallow, American-centric, and even obscures the extreme poverty America is about to enter thanks to $50 BILLION DOLLARS, so far, moving from helping Americans to enriching the 1% who profit from war (and the media that enables them). Want to read a more informed article? See https://consortiumnews.com/2022/06/02/us-state-affiliated-newsguard-targets-consortium-news/
Eeeehhhh, I'm also inclined to give deference to someone who:
a) writes for a Marxist worker-owned collective blog
b) has been to Ukraine a WHOLE LOT MORE than I have (i.e., more than none), and
c) has written about this country and topic for some reputable and high-visibility publications (Cros has also written about Ukraine for Rolling Stone, I think?).
No one, including anyone who writes for Discourse, is unaware of either the complexity of this topic or the money trail associated with it. But there's a human and boots-on-the-ground element that deserves some storytelling as well.
Maybe you’d like Cros to get some hot takes from Russian soldiers too-right before they shoot him-while attempting to canvas the separatists opinions?