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0·2 days agoI don’t really disagree with anything you’re saying except whether we are morally compelled to assist in what amounts to Ukraine’s suicide/self-genocide.
The reality is that the war has reached a stalemate (at best). Changing the facts will require additional forces and despite all the nice words nobody is seriously considering committing forces to aid Ukraine. That’s facts. Sorry. Escalation leads to WW3 and that’s why everyone has been on egg shells.
The US specifically as security guarantor is an explicit no-go for Russia. If we insist on making this existential for Russia, it becomes WW3. There is no reason Europeans can’t be guarantor. And frankly putting US economic interests in Ukraine with these minerals is a pretty genius idea. The US is ruthless about protecting it’s economic interests.
I like Zelenskyy, he’s plucky and charismatic and has good instincts. But he is not particularly realistic in his demands. For example his repeated assertions that Putin hates Russia just… it’s not workable. Ukraine’s hand is as strong as it’s going to get right now. Hopefully this has rattled him enough that the Europeans talks some sense into him. And frankly I prefer European leadership on this for a number of reasons. It’s far better for Europe if they get their act together and stop groveling to the US for leadership in their own backyard. This is the EU’s turf for Christ sake.
I think it’s more nuanced than that but it’s difficult to have a nuanced conversation because everyone is so absolutist in their stance. Ukraine wants to be negotiating from a position of having the US military in it’s pocket and demands defeat of Russia. That was never going to happen even under Biden. It’s easy to punt all that bluster to the endgame… until the endgame arrives. And that’s where we are.
This is the raw reality of this war and frankly Zelinsky has been overplaying his hand. Ukraine can either negotiate or continue fighting and Zelinsky keeps choosing fighting. Anyone suggesting Ukraine is actually trying to negotiate at this point seems pretty far off from reality.
I don’t think Trump’s revisionist history helps at all but I do think this reality check does help. Nothing is getting through Zelinsky’s thick skull.
We can keep dumping old US weapons onto Ukraine hands (which is all we are willing to do) but that doesn’t end this war. It just shovels money at our defence contractors.
Anything beyond will involve direct US and Russia hostility (which would actually be WW3).
Stylistically I really do lothe the Trump, Vance, Rubio showdown that happened, but at the same time it also feels like one of the most honest things to happen. We cannot help Zelinsky until he accepts that Russia will not be defeated.
0·11 days agoHow do you go on strike against a government if you are not a government employee? And what would it even mean to boycott your own government?
What sorts of direct action do you think could be viable?
So what do you expect anyone to do about it? Sure, journalists can write and write.
All we have is voting and that is off the table until 2026. If it still exists.
I don’t mean to be rude but the call to action of this article is nothing more than “be afraid”. Being afraid doesn’t stop this.
Doist is very much remote work and there were a lot of stories about them and how they operate during the pandemic because they had been doing it for so long. Global headquarters are in Portugal and CEO lives/works from Italy from what I can tell. They have offices/legal presence in many countries.
Founder/CEO was born in Bosnia, grew up in Denmark, started todoist during college, used a startup incubator in Chile, later moved headquarters to Portugal, now gives lots of talks about internet entrepreneurship in EU.