Will the social necessity for the state "wither away"?
When Russian bombs are destroying Ukrainian cities, there's reason to focus on oligarchs supporting the Kremlin. But do American multi-billionaires and Saudi princes enjoy less political clout, stash less money abroad, and use influence any better?
Condemning Putin’s war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.
What started as an anti-authoritarian uprising became a brutal international proxy war. However many years pass, the solution remains the same.
We have an opportunity to use this moment to shift more aggressively to green energy and deny these authoritarian regimes, not just Putin but a broader set of petrostates, the revenues they require to rule.
The meaning and consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the West’s response
“We have found it almost impossible to imagine, 30 years after the end of the Cold War, that there could be a nuclear war between the United States and Russia, but the crisis in Ukraine is putting exactly that possibility on the table again"
Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense.
A US State Department official says waiver needed to allow for technical discussions key to talks on nuclear deal return.
Short of the emergence of a progressive people’s movement in Ukraine, there may be little that can be done to stabilize the country and prevent bloodshed. What is needed is a strategy the Bolsheviks called “revolutionary defeatism.”
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