Ukranians and the ukranian government fit into all this because, as you mentioned earlier, rather inconveniently, they are nowhere near as exercised about the prospect of a russian invasion as us. And it just really seems like the conflict is about ukrane, but it often doesn't seem to involve ukrane or ukranians as active ticipants. As its pen of aits its a very sad reality. Its the deterioration of ucranian sovereignty, especially after 20 14,. When when ukraine became more and more dependent, in military, economically, politically, on the united states, ampartially, on the european states as
An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko.
Read Volodymyr's work:
truthout.org/articles/ukrainians-are-far-from-unified-on-nato-let-them-decide-for-themselves/
ponarseurasia.org/how-maidan-revolutions-reproduce-and-intensify-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-political-representation/
lefteast.org/ukraine-in-the-vicious-circle-of-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-hegemony/
lefteast.org/contradictions-post-soviet-ukraine-failure-ukraine-new-left/
Tony Wood on Russia: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood/
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