Eve is here. As you can see in Tom Neuberger’s excerpt below, the discussion with Richard Eskow went far beyond the Ukraine conflict.
I didn’t cross-post his underlying Putin, Ukraine, and war This post was aimed at a different audience, and I think the readers here were less sympathetic to what Neuburger was trying to do. He presented a very cautious and limited version of Russia, and increasingly the Global South, as the reason why Russia launched it and continues to do so. It looked defensive, as if he was expecting significant resistance from the orthodox left, especially those who still fervently believe in Russiagate.
Written by Thomas Neuberger. It was first published in god’s spy
Earlier this month, I printed a piece called “”.Putin, Ukraine, and war”, we talked about two ways to frame the Ukraine conflict from American eyes.
Putin, Ukraine, and war
September 11th
Richard Eskow, host zero hourrecently asked me to speak about these and related issues. That interview is below.
We touched on topics ranging from the Democratic Party’s acceptance of war to Benjamin Franklin’s concept of property. I hope you enjoy it.
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New nuclear policy proposed by Russia
A good read for anyone interested in recent proposed changes to Russia’s nuclear policy. This explanation. Karl Bijer describes this change as “Closing the proxy war loophole”
Previously, Russia considered using nuclear weapons only in direct conflict with another nuclear-weapon state, even if the supplier was a nuclear-weapon state. In the words of President Putin, the new policy states: “The invasion of Russia by a non-nuclear state is However, if nuclear-weapon states participate or supportconsidered a concerted attack against the Russian Federation” (emphasis mine).
That means us.
What is “property”?
About Ben Franklin wealth conceptConsider the following from the letter I mentioned to Robert Morse, written on Christmas Day, 1783:
Indeed, the temporary huts of the savages, their bows, match-coats, and all their possessions except the small acquisitions absolutely necessary for life, seem to me to be creatures of public custom. Therefore, the people have the right to regulate the transfer of their descendants and all other property, and even to limit its amount and use. All property necessary to man for the preservation of the individual and the propagation of the species is a natural right of man, and no one can justly deprive him of it (.)
“Savage” Franklin means American Indian. In other words, people from tribal, familial, hunter-gatherer cultures. In other words, prehistoric humans. A savage’s “temporary hut, bow, match coat, and other small acquisitions absolutely necessary for his subsistence” are what are called “personal property” in the narrowest sense: his clothes, My personal belongings, my tools.
All other property, such as land and territory, are “creatures of public treaty.” In other words, the product of an agreement, or, as his letter later states, “the property of the people, who created it according to its laws and who can therefore dispose of it by other laws. ”.
kurdistan
In the discussion related to the concepts of property and territory, we also talked about “Kurdistan.” There is an autonomous region within Iraq called Kurdistan, but the real Kurdistan, that is, the place where Kurds actually live, is like the picture below.
The same could be said of Poland and other modern nations.
As for today, Germany holds more than 1 million Polish speakersthere are quite a few German speakers living in Poland.
Tensions of war and tensions of peace in America
For those who want to explore this idea (which we explore in detail in our interview), David Hackett Fisher’s 1989 book is a good place to start. Albion Seed. Examines the four main British groups that settled in the American colonies and what each group brought with them.
These groups were Puritans who came from East Anglia and settled in New England. Cavaliers, monarchists, and wealthy landowners of southern England who settled in Virginia and other plantation areas. Quakers, pacifists from the British North Midlands who settled in the Delaware Valley. and the independent and warlike Scots-Irish peoples who settled in the southern states and Appalachia.
Puritans and Quakers were generally peaceful. others were not.
There are enough general descriptions about these groups here. Joe Klein discusses the differences between these groups well hereHowever, he does not mention their approach to peace and war. Those ideas are mine or from sources I cannot identify.
