buerubner.bsky.social
Interest formation between ecology and class,
University of Copenhagen, CommonEcologies
uni-jena.academia.edu/BueRübnerHansen
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Trump demonstrates that patriarchal power can lash back and still exists, and he does so with an affect other men can mirror themselves in and identify with. They may even come to believe there is power in petulance itself (and there is, when it is organized and represented by figures such as Trump)
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Patriarchal power remains, but its pathetic nature has been revealed, easy authority replaced by whining and bullying. Patriarchal wrath is immensely dangerous, but never forget they're reacting to being weakened. This is a source of hope.
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No. Did he say he'd oppose the EU states defending them?
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Patriarchy's loss of assured authority is felt and infinitely angers a new generation of right wing men. Petulant figures like Trump are not betraying traditional masculinity, but revealing its underlying truth: pure infantile entitlement.
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Last I checked, the Baltics and Poland were a part of the EU and NATO. Do you think Putin believes the security guarantees that imply are a bluff? Wouldn't that be insanely stupid or do you yourself believe its a bluff?
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1) Russia haven't been strong enough to defeat Ukraine. But its force relative to Ukraine is growing.
2) Russia getting stronger vs Ukraine does not entail an equal leap of strength vis-a-vis EU.
3) Even gaining some force relative to EU, fighting EU is a lot harder & riskier than fighting Ukraine.
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Yeah, if you read my argument you'll see I give reasons for these assessments, which are not in contradiction
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Sacrifice part of U to stabilize the rest under a UN peace keeping force and buy time to solidify existing deterrents. Find a compromise, which wont be pretty. Or put boots on the ground and risk continental war btw nuclear powers at a time when Russia is more ready and the EU alone & uncoordinated
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I think there's a few misreadings and projections going on in your responses. I'msaying where moving towards a nasty choice:
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And the Vietkong defeated the US, and the FLN the French colonizers in Algeria. Yes. And the supporters of the FLN and Vietkong were wise not to make it into a direct conflict of world powers.
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As to the deployment of EU peacekeepers: Why would Russia accept enemy troops as "peace keepers", especially considering that one of their key strategic objectives is to keep Nato and the EU out of Ukraine? Why would Russia be willing to make peace just after Ukraine lost its most powerful ally?
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You're right, what I meant was that the logic of escalation implies the need to deploy EU troops to defend Ukraine also without Russian consent. Many demand that, but you are right it is not being considered by higher echelons of the EU at the moment, as far as we know...
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If we go with your (bad) comparison, I am a Soviet or Chinese citizen telling their states not to send troops to North Vietnam or otherwise risk a direct confrontation between nuclear powers.
I fully understand and support Ukrainians' desire to defend themselves and their country.
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There are many kinds of peace, and the only viable one is a peace with security guarantees and a Ukrainian capacity to defend itself. But driving Russia out of Ukraine, as many EU politicians maintain is the aim, is deluded and extremely dangerous.
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How long will it take the EU to build up capacity (likely years) vs how long will it take Russia to overwhelm Ukraine without US support (likely a year or less)?
This is the logic that drives the dangerous demand for the deployment of EU troops.
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Lol, exactly
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That was then, and bad allyship from US and EU if true. Now there are fewer troops to draw on and the EU cannot deliver the weaponry and logisticsl support (eg. Starlink) the US is withdrawing.
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Obviously if you disagree with any particular point i make rather than with my right to speak on matters that also concern me, I'm ready to discuss and learn.
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Jokes aside, i think we both appreciate the importance of thinking through one's position from where one is situated. I don't pretend to be able to explain anything to folks in Ukraine, but to stake out a left position from within the left in the EU
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My pleasure, mr. Eastern Guy.
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Finally, it's time to stop believing that US & EU support for Ukraine was a noble defence of international law. Principles are weak without an interest: Think of Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan. Even before Putin's brutal and illegal war the interest was there: to use Ukraine as a proxy to weaken Russia.
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War is always a losing proposition for anyone except those who profit from it and those who can afford to protect themselves from its consequences. War will also serve to repress social justice fights, delay climate action, and accelerate climate collapse.
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Do we argue for the EU to ally with democratic states that rest of the world, or do we try to shore up our own imperial claims? One contributes to the dynamics of imperial competition, the other works against it.
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And then there's the question of how the EU will relate to the experience - shared by most of the rest of the world - of not living under US protection as a "partner".
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The European warming is bound up with the idea that Putin may otherwise attack all of Europe. But do you think that Russia, which can't even win a war against Ukraine, has infinite appetite or capacity for war? Invading Nato and EU states is a completely different matter than invading Ukraine.
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What makes the situation even more dangerous is that the left, in many countries, has abandoned any demand for peace and deescalation to the far right. SUPPORTING THE DRIVE TOWARDS A WAR THAT WILL BE EXTREMELY UNPOPULAR IS SUPPORTING THE RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT IN EUROPE.
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Any party that supports an arms race without a peace drive will be obliterated when the austerity that will pay for it hits. Any party that gives force to the drift into war will be destroyed when the body bags start returning.
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This means that the only way Europe can avoid making a deal with Putin and avoid accepting Ukrainian territorial losses is by putting boots on the ground in Ukraine and risk a major continental war. CLEARLY THIS WOULD BE EXTREMELY IRRESPONSIBLE AND DANGEROUS.
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The US partly withdrew support for Ukraine because it saw that Ukraine cannot continue to throw enough soldiers into battle, that the country will eventually lose due to its much smaller population. Desertion rates are up, Zelensky is unpopular, the war expensive and Russia is only growing stronger.
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Yeah, that's what I tell myself, and what got me this far. But the market doesn't follow by itself and all books can get better with a serious investment of editorial energy. So what I'm juggling now is getting the right "in" with a publisher
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Yeah, it's a nice book
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Also, Marx's old mole, the crocodile that almost ate Val Plumwood, the wolf packs of Canetti, Deleuze and Gauttari, Haraway's dog, and the mule without which Jesus would've died in the desert (iirc)
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Do you know Oxana Timofeeva's book on animals and philosophy?
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The rise of Die Linke started with Heidi Reichinnek's powerful scolding of CDU leader Merz for his overtures to AfD on the floor of the Bundestag, which you can listen to here
www.tiktok.com/@heidireichi...
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I'm presuming you are not a part of the European elites I spoke about as being shocked, so I don't think we disagree on that point
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The AfD's projected vote of 20% is adjusted up from the 14% of polled voters who dare tell pollsters they plan to vote for the party. The effects of Vance's and Musk's meddling are hard to predict, and whatever they get it will be too high.
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To the hard-nosed elites of Europe, the real shock in this cannot be that imperialism is ruthless, but rather that the US is no longer willing to share the spoils of empire with Europe. The true shock is the rupture of the solidarity to "the white world", the collapse of the profits of whiteness.