From f371d8c7a016918ff136e2d79a1ad67b882f8f5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kai Stevenson Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 13:18:49 -0800 Subject: ukraine invasion notes + paper --- hstr122/.ukranine_invasion.md.swp | Bin 0 -> 12288 bytes hstr122/ukraine_invasion.md | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ hstr122/ukraine_invasion_paper.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ hstr122/ukranine_invasion.md | 38 -------------------------------------- 4 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) create mode 100644 hstr122/.ukranine_invasion.md.swp create mode 100644 hstr122/ukraine_invasion.md create mode 100644 hstr122/ukraine_invasion_paper.md delete mode 100644 hstr122/ukranine_invasion.md diff --git a/hstr122/.ukranine_invasion.md.swp b/hstr122/.ukranine_invasion.md.swp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1137f09 Binary files /dev/null and b/hstr122/.ukranine_invasion.md.swp differ diff --git a/hstr122/ukraine_invasion.md b/hstr122/ukraine_invasion.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e897d56 --- /dev/null +++ b/hstr122/ukraine_invasion.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Serhy Yekelchik (sp?) +World expert on Russia Ukraine relations! + + +War started April 2014. +Western media treated war as though it only started 2022. +War largely ignored until full-scale invasion. + +Azerbaijan Armenia conflict first with drones, but millitary intelligence made it impossible for Russia to hide preparation for invasion. +The West and Ukraine knew that Russia would invade. Faint hope otherwise. +Remembering Hitler appeasement, few asked Ukraine to surrender. The difficulty to making concessions is that Putin insisted that Ukraine was an illegitimate state, that it was created from parts of Russia. +He also published an article, Summer 2022, on "historical unity between russia and ukraine" same ethnic group, nation people. +If you deny the specificity of the group in the country you are to invade, that sends a clear signal of genocidal intent. + +For Hitler, Mussolini, and many Americans at the time, racism was fine. Back then, one could make assumptions about the loyalties of the population based on what you know about their ethnic and cultural background. +It seems that Putin walked into a trap, he denied the separate of Ukranians, and assumed that the Russian speaking Ukranians would welcome his invasion. +He also thinks that those who are ethnically ukranian but culturally russian would have their loyalties with Russia. + +-Compatriot + +Russians trying to mobilize nationalistic support, arguing that USSR collapse was a huge mistake. So a compatriot is a citizen of a former soviet republic who is either Russian by ethnicity or Russian culturally. +This construct led him to trouble. The United States and Great Britain share a language--but there was the trouble with the tea, establishing the fact that political community is consensus based. +It's not enough to have the same language or ethnicity. Hitler would be the last politician to make this assumption. +Irony--USSR victory of nazism. Putin not looking to history. + +December-February, Western communities assumed his army would not be enough to conquer nor control Ukraine. The only explanation is that Putin had poor intelligence. + +The war started not as usual. Truly stunning was the attempt to take the capital with a small number of paratroopers, on the assumption that if you dropped a few hundred paratroopers they would be able to take over the presidential admin building and ministry of defense. +Russian propaganda that Ukraine is a nazi state, yet Jewish president. Russia employed similar rhetoric to Hitler's anti-semitism. +"Ukraine fundamentally a neo-nazi regime" +Most of Ukraine cities Russian speaking. High Russian population in cities vs country. So when the cities are mobilizing to fight Putin, proves that Russian ethnicity does not mean Russian allegiance. Plan to quickly take over high Russian population areas failed. Kharkiv. + +Some Western leftists assume that the Russia being the opposite of the US means it is good. Putin himself claims that Russia is a conservative Christian nation. + +Banning LGBTQ+ propaganda a "major victory" +If you really like Western democracy, the West would force you to enter into gay marriage! + +Kyiv Euromaidan Revolution 2013. diff --git a/hstr122/ukraine_invasion_paper.md b/hstr122/ukraine_invasion_paper.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2bc6e5c --- /dev/null +++ b/hstr122/ukraine_invasion_paper.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Russian Invasion of Ukraine +Dr. Yekelchyk +November 28 + +Kai Stevenson + + In April of 2014, Russia iniated war with Ukraine; in Western media, the date was eight years later: 2022, when a full scale invasion of the country began. +The motivations behind what appear to be a futile war effort are the topic of a great deal of speculation. In his lecture, Serhy argues namely that Putin had poor millitary intelligence, and fell victim to an historical error--the conflation of allegience with nationality and culture. +Furthermore, he makes and substantiates the claim that Putin employs anti-semitism towards his goal of delegitimizing Ukraine. + Ukraine borders Russia on the east, and multiple Eastern European countries to the west. Formerly a state of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has had a troubled history. The infamous holodomor planned famine resulted in widespread stavations across the country, and set the stage for a resentment towards Russia. +Despite the two countries' close ties, they are culturally and linguistically distinct, and critically, Ukraine has been a sovreign state since 1991. +President Vladimir Putin, however, has other ideas. Publically arguing that the fall of the Soviet Union was a great error, he has pursued a certain course of action aiming to integrate Ukraine into Russia. In his rhetoric, he employs a technique perhaps used in Europe by Hitler. The term "compatriot" as used by Putin refers to a citizen of a former Soviet state who is Russian either by ethnicity or by culture. +Putin believes that these compatiots in Ukraine make up much of the population. In a sense, he is correct--many of the major population centres of Ukraine are highly ethnically Russian. His mistake, however, is in the assumption that these citizens would have loyalty in their ethnicity rather than their nationality. +Serhy here observes the American Revolution. Despite the shared language and culture of the United States and Great Britain, the consensus based model of political governance was clearly established here. + In many ways, the 2022 invasion of Ukraine was a first for the world. Though it was not the first conflict fought with drones, it was perhaps the first conflict where distributed millitary intelligence played such a major role. Russia's inability to hide its war preparations (the relocation of blood supplies and troops) meant that Ukraine and the West were far more prepared for an invasion than would have otherwise been possible. Putin's speeches made clear his intent; where he denies the specificity of the Ukranian people, he signals genocide. As a result, the invasion was hardly surprising to those who were paying close attention. +Putin's rhetoric borders on the absurd in many cases; to Western audiences, the approach towards LGBT issues may be especially so. The line from the government is that Western democracies would force one into a gay marriage against their will. This type of reactionary argument is in clear opposition to the progressive values of the West, and yet some Western leftists take the side of Russia. Serhy argues that this is due to a faulty assumption that anything opposing the US must be good, and points to Putin's own claims that Russia is a conservative, Christian nation. + Russia claims that Ukraine is a neo-nazi regime. And yet despite Russia's idealization of their victory of Nazi Germany, Putin, in much the same way that Hitler criticized the USSR, appeared to believe that Ukraine would fall swiftly, seemingly operating under the assumption that the country was barely held together. This is one of the many ironies of the invasion. A paradoxical appraoch to identity that seemingly fails to make any useful predictions is the core of Putin's argument. +Despite the proclivity of Putin to extol the virtues of the past, he fails to look to that very past, and repeats the mistakes of European leaders long since abandoned. +The concept of blood and soil--that of traditional homelands and racial superiority--has been left behind by the rest of Europe, yet Putin seems to cling to it. In doing so, he is setting his country and the world down a dangerous path. + +[667 words] diff --git a/hstr122/ukranine_invasion.md b/hstr122/ukranine_invasion.md deleted file mode 100644 index e897d56..0000000 --- a/hstr122/ukranine_invasion.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,38 +0,0 @@ -Serhy Yekelchik (sp?) -World expert on Russia Ukraine relations! - - -War started April 2014. -Western media treated war as though it only started 2022. -War largely ignored until full-scale invasion. - -Azerbaijan Armenia conflict first with drones, but millitary intelligence made it impossible for Russia to hide preparation for invasion. -The West and Ukraine knew that Russia would invade. Faint hope otherwise. -Remembering Hitler appeasement, few asked Ukraine to surrender. The difficulty to making concessions is that Putin insisted that Ukraine was an illegitimate state, that it was created from parts of Russia. -He also published an article, Summer 2022, on "historical unity between russia and ukraine" same ethnic group, nation people. -If you deny the specificity of the group in the country you are to invade, that sends a clear signal of genocidal intent. - -For Hitler, Mussolini, and many Americans at the time, racism was fine. Back then, one could make assumptions about the loyalties of the population based on what you know about their ethnic and cultural background. -It seems that Putin walked into a trap, he denied the separate of Ukranians, and assumed that the Russian speaking Ukranians would welcome his invasion. -He also thinks that those who are ethnically ukranian but culturally russian would have their loyalties with Russia. - --Compatriot - -Russians trying to mobilize nationalistic support, arguing that USSR collapse was a huge mistake. So a compatriot is a citizen of a former soviet republic who is either Russian by ethnicity or Russian culturally. -This construct led him to trouble. The United States and Great Britain share a language--but there was the trouble with the tea, establishing the fact that political community is consensus based. -It's not enough to have the same language or ethnicity. Hitler would be the last politician to make this assumption. -Irony--USSR victory of nazism. Putin not looking to history. - -December-February, Western communities assumed his army would not be enough to conquer nor control Ukraine. The only explanation is that Putin had poor intelligence. - -The war started not as usual. Truly stunning was the attempt to take the capital with a small number of paratroopers, on the assumption that if you dropped a few hundred paratroopers they would be able to take over the presidential admin building and ministry of defense. -Russian propaganda that Ukraine is a nazi state, yet Jewish president. Russia employed similar rhetoric to Hitler's anti-semitism. -"Ukraine fundamentally a neo-nazi regime" -Most of Ukraine cities Russian speaking. High Russian population in cities vs country. So when the cities are mobilizing to fight Putin, proves that Russian ethnicity does not mean Russian allegiance. Plan to quickly take over high Russian population areas failed. Kharkiv. - -Some Western leftists assume that the Russia being the opposite of the US means it is good. Putin himself claims that Russia is a conservative Christian nation. - -Banning LGBTQ+ propaganda a "major victory" -If you really like Western democracy, the West would force you to enter into gay marriage! - -Kyiv Euromaidan Revolution 2013. -- cgit v1.3.1