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

The state of transcontinental fascism: Reichsbürger, power stations, and Trump calls to end the Constitution

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"

How the debate over the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 provides a helpful perspective on today's constricted debate on the Russia-Ukraine War

Emma Ashford on the "Foreign Affairs" website stresses the need for public discusion of peace diplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine War

The attack on Paul Pelosi and the continuing radicalization of the Republican Party and the far right

Putin and Putinist government in Russia

Refugees in Austria: Handling the real challenges and countering xenophobic politics

Who are the America Firsters like Tulsi Gabbard? "They say America First but they mean America Next" (Woody Guthrie)

The rightwingers are ready to demagogue about a new refugee "crisis" in Europe

Ukraine, Russia, and the new US National Security Strategy

Biden's hair-raising warning about imminent nuclear war actually contains a bit of hope on the Russia-Ukraine war

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

Gorbachev

China and Russia after the invasion of Ukraine

Spy stories and Trump stories

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

Ukraine-Russia Grain Deal

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 (2 of 2): From Cheney-Bush foreign policy to today's war in Ukraine

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

100 Days of the Ukraine war

Democrats for some reason want to cling to the 1990s

Reporting real life or romanticizing war? Or both? The Ukrainian wartime marriage of Yaryna Arieva und Sviatoslav Fursin

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"

Larry O'Donnell: Democratic voters should never expect their party to actually *deliver* on the issues they care about

Julia Ioffe on Russia at the moment

Ukrainian interests and American interests

Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 30: The "Dred Scott" decision and the politics of a radicalized Supreme Court

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 23: The "cornerstone" of the Confederacy (hint: it was slavery)

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

Bill Browder: Investment fund CEO who promoted the Magnitsky Act and his interesting family background

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?

Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 9: the white racist historical narrative behind the infamous Dred Scott decision

Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 8: The Dred Scott decision and radical-right judicial activism

What did Russia do in the Chechnyan wars?

Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 7: the Lost Cause narrative defined

"Genocide" in Ukraine?

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 4: Ugly historical echoes in the history of US segregation laws

Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 3: The importance of the history of lynching

Confederate "Heritage" Month 2002, April 2: A 1946 polemic against Southern segregation and Jim Crow laws

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

The (political) pushback against Ukrainian refugees is peeping its ugly head out of the political swamp

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

Biden's SOTU 2022

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