Geopolitics for 2024

From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos

I’m in bed today, chemosick, too foggy to work on my book, and too achy to take a hike on this beautiful sunny day after Imbolc [okay, after editing it’s half a week later]. But maybe I can put together a newsletter, a more composed contemplation of the topic I took up in the tongue-in-cheek “The Year Ahead in 2024”

Misconceptions about imperialism, and anarchist collective traumas

from avtonom Submitted by Антти Раутиайнен on 26 May, 2022 - 14:33

Ever since the beginning of the Russian invasion against Ukraine, we have seen statements by anarchists, communists and leftists not from Ukraine, on how Ukrainian anarchists, communists and leftists should not defend themselves against attack of Putin, but lay down their arms and flee instead.

A-ryhmä opposes Finland joining NATO

by A-ryhmä submitted to Anarchist News by anon

The majority of the Finnish elite have supported the idea of Finland joining NATO for a long time already. After Russia's attack to Ukraine, support of the prospect has risen throughout the entire population due to fear of war. The elite wants to use this situation as an opportunity to submit a membership application to NATO. It is understandable that Putin's hostile policies cause fear and a counter reaction, but Putin is not going to attack Finland. Putin already imagines himself to be surrounded by enemies. Therefore, a military alliance opposing him expanding to the Russian border is not necessarily a punishment, but rather a validation of his deluded worldview. Applying for a NATO membership is about highly theoretical long-term threats, but on a long time span, anything can happen. For example, the US could turn into a dictatorship.

The Invasion of Ukraine

from It's Going Down by Peter Gelderloos

Anarchist Interventions and Geopolitical Changes

The current war in Ukraine is difficult to grapple with and not only for those of us with friends and comrades who are over there, fighting or surviving, or who have already fled and now find themselves homeless, many of them for a second time, in the case of the many refugees who had taken shelter there over these last several years.

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