The best I have read about it. Should be an immediate must-read for all students in international relations & politics and similar. This brilliant and article will presumely be suppressed in the West. Too close to the truth and it crashes with the long time narrative build up.
Thank you so much Thore - I share your appreciation and worries. At the same time, the re-evaluation of the NATO narrative is now rampants - as you also know - everywhere else but in the mainstream - research, politics and media. That's quite comforting - and more will come...also here :-)
Oh no. Objective science does not, and have never existed in international politics. In the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, criticism of capitalism was allowed and Marxism was even taught at universities. But even during this keynesian period, before neoliberalism took over later in the 1980s, articulation of Soviet views and teaching of alternative Marxism-Leninism was forbidden.
Amidst the deafening noise of both Western and Russian propaganda (clearly Western propaganda being more effective in the West and Russian propaganda more effective in Russia and it seems in much of the Global South), it is very difficult to establish the truth of the terrible proxy war raging in Ukraine. This article provides a more balanced and comprehensive analysis of the causes of the Ukraine war than anything else I have read on the subject.
Those who will jump to denounce this honest and mainly impartial analysis should try to provide some facts about what this article gets wrong, rather than engage in the usual name-calling. The fate of the millions of poor Ukrainians and ultimately Europe and the rest of the world depends on the honest and truthful understanding of the causes of the conflict and the ways to resolve it, rather than engaging in mindless Cold War rhetoric.
Thank you, dear Farhang Jahanour - you are SO right. And Freeman is a man with tremendous knowledge and one-the-ground experience. Btw. as a young diplomat, he was the one who translated the conversaton between Chou Enlai and Nixon because he had learned Chinese. And I suspect, like you, that he will only be categorised as pro-Russin, Putinist or whatever - while no one will take op what he actually says - which is factual -100% factual - which is why I published this brilliant analysis.
And the militarist emotionalist won't read him and, if they did, would hardly understand what he says. THAT is where the Western world is in the year 2023. They should invite him into every room of decision-making and say: So, Chas - what the hell do we do now when everything has gone so wrong for us...?
The best I have read about it. Should be an immediate must-read for all students in international relations & politics and similar. This brilliant and article will presumely be suppressed in the West. Too close to the truth and it crashes with the long time narrative build up.
Thank you so much Thore - I share your appreciation and worries. At the same time, the re-evaluation of the NATO narrative is now rampants - as you also know - everywhere else but in the mainstream - research, politics and media. That's quite comforting - and more will come...also here :-)
Oh no. Objective science does not, and have never existed in international politics. In the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, criticism of capitalism was allowed and Marxism was even taught at universities. But even during this keynesian period, before neoliberalism took over later in the 1980s, articulation of Soviet views and teaching of alternative Marxism-Leninism was forbidden.
Amidst the deafening noise of both Western and Russian propaganda (clearly Western propaganda being more effective in the West and Russian propaganda more effective in Russia and it seems in much of the Global South), it is very difficult to establish the truth of the terrible proxy war raging in Ukraine. This article provides a more balanced and comprehensive analysis of the causes of the Ukraine war than anything else I have read on the subject.
Those who will jump to denounce this honest and mainly impartial analysis should try to provide some facts about what this article gets wrong, rather than engage in the usual name-calling. The fate of the millions of poor Ukrainians and ultimately Europe and the rest of the world depends on the honest and truthful understanding of the causes of the conflict and the ways to resolve it, rather than engaging in mindless Cold War rhetoric.
Thank you, dear Farhang Jahanour - you are SO right. And Freeman is a man with tremendous knowledge and one-the-ground experience. Btw. as a young diplomat, he was the one who translated the conversaton between Chou Enlai and Nixon because he had learned Chinese. And I suspect, like you, that he will only be categorised as pro-Russin, Putinist or whatever - while no one will take op what he actually says - which is factual -100% factual - which is why I published this brilliant analysis.
And the militarist emotionalist won't read him and, if they did, would hardly understand what he says. THAT is where the Western world is in the year 2023. They should invite him into every room of decision-making and say: So, Chas - what the hell do we do now when everything has gone so wrong for us...?