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ICYMI: My latest on why peace is elusive in the Russo-Ukrainian War and why many calling for peace need to realize what that means.

Oleksa Drachewych
Oleksa Drachewych @odrachewych.bsky.social

My latest in the Moscow Times: Calling for an End to War Is Not the Same as Calling for Peace www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/05/c...

Calling for an End to War Is Not the Same as Calling for Peace

Opinion | As 2023 drew to a close, a fresh round of columns calling for a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine appeared in Western news outlets.

www.themoscowtimes.com

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ICYMI: My piece in the Moscow Times on why peace is elusive in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Calling for an End to War Is Not the Same as Calling for Peace

Opinion | As 2023 drew to a close, a fresh round of columns calling for a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine appeared in Western news outlets.

www.themoscowtimes.com
Oleksa Drachewych
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Second is my twitter thread turned blog post on what any piece discussing peace in the Russo-Ukrainian War needs to deal with. I still have not seen many writing, calling for peace, who understand what really is at play: oleksadrachewych.com/2023/08/02/p... (2/3)

Peace and the Russo-Ukrainian War

So you want to talk about peace in Ukraine. Here’s a quick primer regarding the issues at play if you want your ideas to be taken seriously. First, full disclosure, I have been clear about my positi...

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Or read my primer on what a peace plan in the Russo-Ukrainian War needs to consider: oleksadrachewych.com/2023/08/02/p...

Peace and the Russo-Ukrainian War

So you want to talk about peace in Ukraine. Here’s a quick primer regarding the issues at play if you want your ideas to be taken seriously. First, full disclosure, I have been clear about my positi...

oleksadrachewych.com
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Grieving is the path the peace. That’s why many won’t choose peace, because it means giving up something that you must grieve.

Peace Hurts.

Oleksa Drachewych
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If interested in more from me on peace in the Russo-Ukrainian War, see my piece in the Conversation from February 2023: theconversation.com/calls-for-pe...

Calls for peace in Ukraine a year after Russia's full-scale invasion are unrealistic

Calls for peace that suggest Ukraine should give up territory simply to end the war will condemn some Ukrainians to unspeakable horrors and provide a precarious foundation for lasting peace.

theconversation.com
Oleksa Drachewych
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My latest in the Moscow Times: Calling for an End to War Is Not the Same as Calling for Peace www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/05/c...

Calling for an End to War Is Not the Same as Calling for Peace

Opinion | As 2023 drew to a close, a fresh round of columns calling for a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine appeared in Western news outlets.

www.themoscowtimes.com
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This is why I've never finished my sequel to War and Peace.

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500+ days into the war in #Ukraine and I'm still debating people who want to sacrifice Ukrainian independence, Ukrainian democracy, Ukrainian citizen's future in the name of 'peace'.

Whose peace is that?

Ben Buse
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Yes and why need ceasefire and peace talks, and why such a shame initial peace talks at beginning of war were scuppered

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Latest Inside-Out post. Why Netanyahu wants war not peace. philipstephens.substack.com/p/for-netany...

Sean Keeley
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My question is, why does the peace symbol invoke balloons? Why not...peace symbols??

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We kinda need this to happen every time Chris Russo is on now.

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My latest column explores what peace means and features humanitarian Hassan Valji.

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Is it time to talk? In the newest @crisisgroup.bsky.social War & Peace podcast, Sam Charap argues that negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian war should come sooner rather than later. I have some questions. Listen in.

Time to Talk? Assessing the Plausibility of Negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian War

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We need to live in a world without religion. If so many religions want to bring peace to the world, why is there still so much war?

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And that is, in my view, what that slogan is asking for. Peace is freedom. Freedom is peace.

Oleksa Drachewych
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Perhaps I need to offer to write a renewed piece somewhere discussing why, to start 2024, peace remains elusive despite what noise and chatter has been reported.

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ICYMI: In my latest for @wpr.bsky.social, I return to my "economics of war" roots to explain why US defense spending is coming up short.

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US defense spending is currently greater than the next 10 countries combined. Somewhat paradoxically, however, the massive level of US defense spending isn’t enough. How is that possible?

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Washington’s Deep Defense Pockets Somehow Aren’t Deep Enough

U.S defense spending is currently greater than the next 10 countries combined, and yet somehow isn’t enough. Why?

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Ben Buse
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Need ceasefire and peace talks - too many deaths too much destruction. Continued war is not a path to peace

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weird how the u.s. stopped Vietnamese peace talks, ukrainian peace talks, tried stopping peace talks for palestine and on and on..

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War is peace for Bibi and his hold on power.

He will stack the bodies to the sky to keep that peace.

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Several Israeli journalists have just reported that Netanyahu himself is the “diplomatic official” putting out statements that are seen as hindering a ceasefire and hostage release deal.

Journalists say Netanyahu is the ‘diplomatic official’ issuing statements on hostage talks

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This is why "no justice, no peace" is one of the most classic megaphone chants in the book.

Peace is a commodity that protesters withhold.

Peace (and its absence) is what a protest leverages.

Alternative Hydrocarbon Derivatives
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My latest poem:
The Unwaged War: A Journey to Peace

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The US economy is so reliant on endless war that it will attack anyone calling for peace.

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In our latest, Rasha Abdulhadi returns to discuss how refusing the genocide of Palestine remains as urgent today as when we last spoke on October 13th, what has—and mostly hasn’t—changed, and why simply calling for “peace” is not enough

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