Sitemap - 2022 - Bruce’s Contradicciones Newsletter
Russia-Ukraine War at year's end
The 2022 "turning point" and European Union collective defense
Remembering the Christmas Truce of 1914 once again
Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to Congress
The new "Kremlinology" and the fate of Vladimir Putin
Hungary's Foreign Minister on Europe and the Russia-Ukraine War
Reality vs. Rhetoric in the EU Refugee debate
The grim international context of Türkiye’s (Turkey's) attacks on the Kurdish Rojava region in Syria
Türkiye's (Turkey's) foreign policy mischief
Is Russia signaling a new and more restrained posture on nuclear weapons use?
Biden-Macron Summit and US-EU relations
Richard Wright's proto-"postcolonial" book on the Bandung Conference of 1955
Democratic priorities for the Democrats the next two years
Putin and "sovereign democracy"
Putin and Putinist government in Russia
Refugees in Austria: Handling the real challenges and countering xenophobic politics
The rightwingers are ready to demagogue about a new refugee "crisis" in Europe
Ukraine, Russia, and the new US National Security Strategy
Two intriguing intelligence stories about Ukraine
What can we take from two recent Putin speeches?
A Cassandra warning on the world after the Russia-Ukraine war
New Russian mobilization for the war with Ukraine
Russia-Ukraine war and the WWII-Vietnam frameworks of the US foreign policy establishment
Premature victory laps over the current Ukrainian counteroffensive?
US-European politics of the Ukraine-Russia war for the coming year
Positivism, Freudian theory, and (conservative) skeptical debunking
China and Russia after the invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine-Russia war: a look back at possible alternatives now closed out
Is a ceasefire in Ukraine coming in the winter? And what might that mean?
Two silos of attitudes toward immigrants, with Austrian and American examples
Ukraine-Russia war, six months in
New WaPo story on the runup to the Ukraine-Russia war
Weird Newsweek story about Belarus and the Russia-Ukraine war
Paleocons we have with us always? America First isolationism from right to "left"
More on the controversy over Amnesty International's recent criticism of the Ukrainian government
Lockdown in the Ukrainian port city Mykolaiv
Ukraine's removal of suspected security risks from their government
War crimes and war propaganda: Amnesty International and Ukraine
Three phases of Vladimir Putin's own form of "Putinism"
Realist-minded observers trying to sort through the Russia-Ukraine war
What is the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine?
European "Peace" and "Justice" Alignments on the Russia-Ukraine War
Looking forward from back to 2016 with Richard Haass on Russia and Ukraine
Sanctions: will they drive the Russian economy into "oblivion"? Dowsing for answers
Russia-Ukraine war: What do we know about the actual war aims of the US and NATO?
Russia-Ukraine war: What do we know about Russia's actual war aims?
The Democratic establishment and "accelerationism"
Heinrich August Winkler on Russia, NATO, and Ukraine (1 of 2): From 1989 to Kosovo
The Lithuanian front in the Russia-Ukraine war
Jane's Revenge: Using violence against property to counter anti-abortion extremists?
An awful policy and an awful Prime Minister
Democrats and that deer-in-the-headlights feeling
Two conservative takes on Ukraine policy and one left analysis
Democrats for some reason want to cling to the 1990s
New report on sexual abuse problems in the Southern Baptist Convention
Treatment of POWs in the Russia-Ukraine war
"Time" report: "Ukraine Is in Worse Shape than You Think"
Julia Ioffe on Russia at the moment
Ukrainian interests and American interests
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 29: Neo-Confederate organizations in the US
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 28: More on L.Q.C. Lamar
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 27: L.Q.C. Lamar
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 26: The recalcitrant Southern establishment in 1865
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 25: Slavery and the founding principles of the US
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 24: Felony disenfranchisement in Mississippi
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 22: Compromise of 1850
The growing Ukrainian refugee crisis in Europe
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 21: Democracy vs. white supremacy
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 20: Prejudice, "natural" and manufactured
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 19: The social function of white racism
Ukraine war: Is the US goal in Ukraine to degrade Russian capabilities more broadly?
Chomsky on the Russia-Ukraine war
Sunday's pro-democracy election outcomes in France and Slovenia
Adapting to the new environment for Russian petroleum exports
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 18: Sherman marching through Georgia - oh, hell, yeah!
Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 17: Slavery and the American national narrative
A (reserved) plug for (part of) the foreign policy Blob on Ukraine
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 16: The Texas "1836 Project"
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 15: John Calhoun as a twisted prophet
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 14: John Calhoun as one of his first biographers saw him
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 13: More about Roger Taney
Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 12: Understand current politics in their historical context
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 11: The Crittenden Compromise ploy by the Slave Power
This is (part of) what European xenophobia looks like
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 10: Were alternatives to civil war possible by 1860?
What did Russia do in the Chechnyan wars?
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 7: the Lost Cause narrative defined
Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 6: The neo-Confederate/Lost Cause historical fraud
Confederate "Heritage" Month, April 5: Voter suppression under Jim Crow
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 3: The importance of the history of lynching
Bashing the "left" over the Ukraine war: old habits die hard
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 1: Real history and partisan history
A look back at the previous worst European refugee crisis since the Second Woirld War
What does the war in Ukraine tell us about how well the US "unipolar moment" worked out?
Ukrainian refugees: 3.3 million as of March 18
European refugee crisis 2022 and the war in Ukraine
Ukrainian war and Ukrainian refugees
"Old enough to remember" some earlier wars
An immediate pre-Ukraine-war perspective
The first week of the Ukraine war
Philosopher Giorgio Agamben's COVID-denier turn
Russia launches fulll attack on Ukraine, new war in Europe
The new situation with Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday
Twitter in the morning - Ukraine crisis edition
The suspense continues over Ukraine - but what does Biden's current position mean?
A pause in the Ukraine crisis?
Flashbacks to historical analogies over the Ukraine crisis
Ukraine, NATO enlargement, and the realism to not "do stupid stuff"
The Ukraine crisis and Russia-China relations
Michael McFaul's enigmatic tweets on the current Ukraine crisis
Recent developments in the Ukraine crisis
Foreign policy “realism,“ liberal internationalism, and the Ukraine crisis
What does the current Republicans' preferred view of American history look like?
John Maynard Keynes on the Ruhr occupation and German hyperinflation in 1923-4