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Furious Slav's avatar

Great article. This trend to public intellectual started with the YU wars of 90s where western hacks lobbied for intervention against the Serbs

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Jeff Rich's avatar

Thank you Interestingly, Felipe Fernández-Armesto in Civilizations wrote this about NATO's war against Serbia in late 1990's

"Though NATO propaganda tried to justify if as a 'war for civilization', it was really undertaken to save face... When the Atlantic Alliance finally breaks down, and western civilization is split by political schism, this thoughtless warmongering may be seen as one of the acts which deservedly condemned it, exposing its flaws, undermining its 'civilized' credentials." (p. 536) Prophetic words from 2000?

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Furious Slav's avatar

Fascinating, never saw this quote before!

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Andre's avatar

It’s sad to know that any historian writer sell his intellectual capacity for political propaganda, disgrace really ✅

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Jeff Rich's avatar

Indeed. He is assessed that way by Richard Sakwa in The Culture of the Second Cold War. Do check out my interview with Richard that is now out on YouTube https://youtu.be/-YILk7RsVc8

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Nikolai Astanin's avatar

And Snyder was right about something - Ukraine was again between Hitler and Stalin....

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Jeff Rich's avatar

I hear he is bringing out a book on freedom soon. I am doing a video on Snyder on my YouTube channel soon and will post a link here in substack too.

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Nikolai Astanin's avatar

Thank you for your work. I too am trying to make sense of this mess.....

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Pablo's avatar

Was again when? Last time it was Poland in between, Ukraine was playing for the red shirts.

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Forte Shades's avatar

I read Bloodlands and thought it great. I considered myself pretty expert on the various famines and massacres as a result. And then people started talking about the Volhyna massacres of poles by Ukrainians in 1943 and 1944. I wondered why I did not know anything about this. I searched bloodlands on my kindle. The murder of 70k poles by Ukrainian nazis gets a line and a half.

I think Snyder was a Ukrainian apologist a long time ago.

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Michael's avatar

The guys is simply a shill. He is not a historian, as he is not doing his own work, just reprints others.

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Steve's avatar

Thankyou Jeff. Very thoughtful article. I do wonder how so many many people (fake historians included) can live with themselves, given the part they have played, in the scheme to destroy Ukraine, and it’s people. And they are still at it - even as Ukraine stands on the brink of disintegration. The entire future of a rump Ukraine is now in the hands of hard nosed realpolitik apparatchiks in the Kremlin, and it never had to be this way. Even in April 2022, Ukraine could have remained an intact state (minus Crimea); now look at it.

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