We must stop letting Russia define the terms of the Ukraine crisis | Slavoj Žižek

In recent weeks, the western public has been obsessed with the question “What goes on in Putin’s mind?” Western pundits wonder: do the people around him tell him the whole truth? Is he ill or going insane? Are we pushing him into a corner where he will see no other way out to save face than to accelerate the conflict into a total war? We should stop this obsession with the red line, this endless s

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Russia now presents its invasion as a new step in the fight for decolonization, against western globalization. ／Medvedev predicts that, because of the war in Ukraine, “in some states, hunger may occur due to the food crisis” – a statement of breathtaking cynicism