War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict - Medea Benjamin
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Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies insist the picture is more complicated.
Yes, Russia’s aggression was reckless and, ultimately, indefensible. But the West’s reneging on promises to halt eastward expansion of NATO in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union played a major part in prompting Putin to act. So did the U.S. involvement in the 2014 Ukraine coup and Ukraine’s failure to implement the Minsk peace agreements. The result is a conflict that is increasingly difficult to resolve, one that could conceivably escalate into all-out war between the United States and Russia—the world’s two leading nuclear powers.
Skillfully bringing together the historical record and current analysis, War in Ukraine looks at the events leading up to the conflict, surveys the different parties involved, and weighs the risks of escalation and opportunities for peace. For anyone who wants to get beneath the heavily propagandized media coverage to an understanding of a war with consequences that could prove cataclysmic, this timely book will be an urgent necessity.
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| Comment: | Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies insist the picture is more complicated.
Yes, Russia’s aggression was reckless and, ultimately, indefensible. But the West’s reneging on promises to halt eastward expansion of NATO in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union played a major part in prompting Putin to act. So did the U.S. involvement in the 2014 Ukraine coup and Ukraine’s failure to implement the Minsk peace agreements. The result is a conflict that is increasingly difficult to resolve, one that could conceivably escalate into all-out war between the United States and Russia—the world’s two leading nuclear powers. Skillfully bringing together the historical record and current analysis, War in Ukraine looks at the events leading up to the conflict, surveys the different parties involved, and weighs the risks of escalation and opportunities for peace. For anyone who wants to get beneath the heavily propagandized media coverage to an understanding of a war with consequences that could prove cataclysmic, this timely book will be an urgent necessity. |
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This post has 20 comments with rating of 3.5/5
July 9th, 2023
The US has kept all the countries out on nato just appease the nut case in Moscow. The only reason they want to join is out of fear and rightfully so. To say the west has encouraged NATO expansion when it has been actively refusing these threatened countries entry casts serious doubt on anything the rest of this book has to offer in factual information.
July 10th, 2023
Analysis based on the HISTORICAL RECORD and those pesky FACTS, this is going to derange a few fact-resistant individuals… to the person above me; Poland is part of NATO it joined in 1999 when Russia could not threaten anyone…same with Hungary and Czechia.
Don’t know about you but I never let my preferences obfuscate the FACTS.
July 10th, 2023
**America’s empire is bankrupt**
*The dollar is finally being dethroned*
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BY John Michael Greer
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“Let’s start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, enjoyed about a third of the world’s energy resources and manufactured products and about a quarter of its raw materials. This didn’t happen because nobody else wanted these things, or because the US manufactured and sold something so enticing that the rest of the world eagerly handed over its wealth in exchange. It happened because, as the dominant nation, the US imposed unbalanced patterns of exchange on the rest of the world, and these funnelled a disproportionate share of the planet’s wealth to itself.”
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https://unherd.com/2023/04/americas-empire-is-bankrupt/
July 10th, 2023
I don’t need some lefist windbag to tell me what to think…
July 10th, 2023
Benjamin still clings to the idea that Minsk was a serious attempt at peace and not just an unserious initiative by Moscow designed to further Russia’s invasion. In fact, Russia maintained that they themselves were not bound by the terms anyway.
She’s just a shill for Putin, whether she sees herself that way or not.
July 10th, 2023
“Russia’s aggression was reckless and, ultimately, indefensible. But…”
Then goes ahead to defend and justify Putin’s invasion by painting Ukraine not as an independent nation of 43 million people, but as a tool of the US with no right to self determination.
Ukraine had nuclear weapons from the USSR which it relinquished on Russia’s promise it would respect its sovereignty. So much for that.
July 10th, 2023
I don’t like the ideological premise of the book and will probably not read it, but you commenters are unhinged.
Thank you for the upload.
July 10th, 2023
.opus? what is that?
July 10th, 2023
.opus is a modern, small, efficient and extremely high-fidelity codec designed for 2023, not 1991 like mp3.
And to those who think they can poke the bear without repercussions, this is a necessary lesson that not all of us are drones and group-think our way through life under bourgeois capitalism’s reactionary nonsense: yes to human rights, no to war crimes, and double-no to sanctimonious Western liberals masquerading as saints, I say…
July 10th, 2023
Gweilo: I’ve noticed this rhetorical pattern most with Chomsky. He makes a statement like “Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is indefensible” and then every following paragraph of his article is a defense of Putin’s invasion. They’re deliberately using cognitive dissonance to fend off what is the obvious conclusion if you start from paragraph 2 or 3 of the article: they are defending the invasion. Chomsky, Benjamin and the like have become apologists for imperialism.
July 10th, 2023
It’s quite clear that Russia’s invasion is not conducive to peace and stability in the region - conflict should always be avoided. However…it’s very clear that context is important and relevant Why push NATO to the border of Russia? Why defend a position deigned to generate conflict? Quite.
July 10th, 2023
@emtpeui - You very percipiently elucidate the pertinent rhetorical pattern, & you are then immediately followed by a comment which cluelessly offers an oblivious example of said rhetorical pattern. Brilliant.
July 10th, 2023
Great book. Unless youre a warpig.
July 10th, 2023
LOL :D
“Racism is bad, but …”
“Transphobia is bad, but …”
“Homophobia is bad, but …”
“Misogyny is bad, but …”
…
“Russia’s invasion is bad, but …”
To quote FreePalestine: “Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?! Stop hitting yourself!”
July 11th, 2023
Imagine being such a brainlet to not be able to understand that invasion is wrong but provocation that leads to invasion isn’t really good, either. But that’s algorithmically addicted winos for you.
July 11th, 2023
I wouldn’t say trespassing or home invasion a “conflict”.
July 11th, 2023
No doubt that kleptocratic President-for-life Putin has been provoking, terrorising & invading sovereign neighbours for yrs, but his tin-pot imperialism really blew up in his plastic face this time.
July 11th, 2023
Most of the comments are like “Why did the girl provoke the rapist by wearing short skirt? It’s not the rapists foult, he was provoked!” Sickos…
October 13th, 2023
eadwig, July 10th, 2023:
“.opus? what is that?”
It’s an audio codec that does extremely well with speech at very low bit rates and is for people smart enough not to use iphones/ios.
February 9th, 2025
The “writer” has never been to Ukraine
She is not a scholar or researcher on the history of the region.
She is no scholar at all.
She does not speak russian or Ukrainian.
This book will make you dumber and it’s a pure piece of russian propaganda
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