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welcome to apocalypse baroque. (opens the original)
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here is what's in store for you this week: (estimated reading time: 17 min)A talk with one of the most important anti-colonial voices of wartime Ukraine around her collection of essays, just published in English. Why some of the most insightful Ukrainian writing today isn’t about the battlefield at all — and how it can help the rest of us to survive what’s coming. Learn the origin story of russian imperialism that russia keeps setting on fire.How the world prefers victims who stay victims, and w
how to control a country without crossing its border. (opens the original)
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here is what's in store for you this week: (estimated reading time: 9 min)The anti-colonial legacy of a murdered Ukrainian reporter that shaped me who I am today and how his work from 25 years ago explains threats to our democracies beyond Ukraine more than you’d expect.Three days in Almaty in December 1986 that cracked the Soviet empire three years before the fall of the Berlin wall and their often underreported anti-colonial nature.Moscow switched the Qazaq script twice in a decade to make it
how tolstoy helped russia steal crimea. (opens the original)
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here is what's in store for you this week: (estimated reading time: 6 min)The Soviet Union was Hitler’s most useful partner before 1941, so the empire built a story where Ukrainians were the collaborators. This week’s featured book has the numbers and fact-checks the alleged war crimes of the 25,000 Ukrainians drafted into the Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division. Let Ukrainians account for themselves.The Holodomor genocide left no landscape to point at, so two artists found the evidence somewhere the e
stop being obsessed with putin’s brain. (opens the original)
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here is what's in store for you this week: (estimated reading time: 6 min)Every week I remind you what this brief is for: navigating our present and future. This week, a live demonstration — on the newest surge of alarmist Western coverage about a “cornered” Putin.The three times in history a cornered russia actually had to back down. Two of them ended with the Kremlin calling for peace talks.The lever that moves ordinary russians harder than sanctions do.How in 1993 and 1994 the Baltic states f
the empire of mass neurosis. (opens the original)
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here is what's in store for you this week: (estimated reading time: 6 min)Why russian warfare isn't a logical strategy. It's a 500-year messianic neurosis — and the interview that maps it out.The Ukrainian Marxist Lenin personally despised. Dead at 36, erased by the Kremlin, and still the sharpest takedown of russian communist imperialism ever written.The Qazaq anti-colonial novel the Kremlin buried for 60 years. It resurfaced from the personal archive of the man who killed its author.T
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