Some more reading on the war
Mar. 20th, 2022 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rogin I read Timothy Snyder's "The Road to Unfreedom" and it helped me a lot to come to terms with what is going on in Ukraine.
It's kind of funny to read the reviews on amazon, where the people who rate it poorly complain about how much history Snyder unravels before he reaches Trump and his russia connection in the end of the book. Yeah figures that some people back then were frustrated reading a book that is 80% about Ukraine. Now it is pure gold.
The conclusions I draw from it are not hopeful though. This is not gonna end soon and it will probably dominate our lives here in Europe for the next decade at the very least if not the rest of our lives.
We need to stop funding Putin, not gradually but right now. He is counting on western decadence making that impossible but on this we have to proove him wrong. If we cannot manage that, we wil pay for oil in blood. What Synder calls the politics of inevitablity tells us that Putin will not butcher the cow he is milking but I am pretty certain we are very wrong applying that logic to him.
It's kind of funny to read the reviews on amazon, where the people who rate it poorly complain about how much history Snyder unravels before he reaches Trump and his russia connection in the end of the book. Yeah figures that some people back then were frustrated reading a book that is 80% about Ukraine. Now it is pure gold.
The conclusions I draw from it are not hopeful though. This is not gonna end soon and it will probably dominate our lives here in Europe for the next decade at the very least if not the rest of our lives.
We need to stop funding Putin, not gradually but right now. He is counting on western decadence making that impossible but on this we have to proove him wrong. If we cannot manage that, we wil pay for oil in blood. What Synder calls the politics of inevitablity tells us that Putin will not butcher the cow he is milking but I am pretty certain we are very wrong applying that logic to him.
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Date: 2022-03-20 10:08 pm (UTC)ETA: Strike that I Found it! It's released as an ebook on th 29th