CarwilBJ's avatarCarwilBJ's Twitter Archive—№ 30,610

                    1. An quick orientation kit on the Ukraine crisis: historical background & fact-filled takes from people in Ukraine and the region (including, but not limited to, leftists, anarchists)… 🧵
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                    If you want a detailed timeline/narrative, not trying to spin, this is the best I've seen… npr.org/2022/02/12/1080205477/history-ukraine-russia
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                  An historian's attempt to understand political actors' motives, especially Clinton in the 1990s, Putin since 2000. ft.com/content/742f15fc-675a-4622-b022-cbec444651cf
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                Senior American scholar @TimothyDSnyder's recent talk, "Ukraine: A Normal Country": a vivid, thousand-year history of a country on the brink of invasion.
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              Anthropologist and Ukraine expert Emily @channelljustice on the Soviet-era legacy for Ukrainians: Famine, subjugation and nuclear fallout: theconversation.com/famine-subjugation-and-nuclear-fallout-how-soviet-experience-helped-sow-resentment-among-ukrainians-toward-russia-175500
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            Ukraine: Between Two Fires / Anarchists in the Region on the Looming Threat of War (and also a pretty detailed history of recent events) crimethinc.com/2022/02/03/ukraine-between-two-fires-anarchists-in-the-region-on-the-looming-threat-of-war
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          Ukrainian leftist Taras Bilous expressing exasperation over Western left narratives that justify Russia, urging the UN as an alternative venue to NATO. opendemocracy.net/en/odr/a-letter-to-the-western-left-from-kyiv/
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        A history and position paper by Ukrainian anti-authoritarians. crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine
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      Antti Rautiainen has been networking anti-authoritarians across Eastern Europe for decades. Their perspective: avtonom.org/en/news/dusk-dawn-trends-order-and-chaos-episode-43-february-26
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    English-language newspaper, Kyiv Independent: Why did Putin’s regime engineer current military crisis over Ukraine? kyivindependent.com/national/explainer-why-did-putins-regime-engineer-current-military-crisis-over-ukraine/
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      Why I think anti-authoritarians, leftists, and people of good conscience should oppose the Russian invasion… woborders.blog/2022/02/25/compass-ukraine/