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We Can Learn From The Past To Strike Back At Our Biggest Problems In The World
Remember when you were young and in school. Think about the lessons your teachers, instructors, and professors tried to teach you. Whether you were a studious youngster or the wildest of boys and girls, you probably remember someone that taught you much of what you learned in school. Perhaps you even had a favorite teacher, someone you look back on fondly and wish you’d listened to more when they spoke. What we’ve all grown up to learn is that our favorite teachers weren’t our best teachers at all.
By Jason Ray Morton 4 years ago in The Swamp
10 Lessons Learned from the Russian Attack on Ukraine
No one expected this to happen. Not the experts, not the pundits, and certainly not the average person on the street. But it did happen, and there are plenty of important lessons to be learned from it—for Ukraine, the United States, Europe, and the rest of the world. It’s in the best interest of all parties to learn those lessons now before they ever need to apply them again...if they ever do at all.
By Carl Brisko4 years ago in The Swamp
World War I Highlights
A Fresh Start: A war that left its impact on quadrillions of souls and the planet they inhabited. The stage on which this act of conflict was performed, got destroyed by its own act leaving the audience dazzled by their participation in the act of warfare.
By Syeda Ayesha Arshad4 years ago in The Swamp
War Shouldn’t Only Count When It’s White
When something like the Ukrainian Invasion happens (or Covid, or Trump, or anything really paradigm shifting happens), I’ve learnt I go quiet. I wait, I watch. I’ve learnt I’m the type of person who is suspicious when people who are normally apolitical suddenly have vocal opinions.
By Conor Matthews4 years ago in The Swamp
What's really happening in Ukraine? In the world?
As a writer, I could have written about the tragic events in Ukraine from day one. As a human, a woman, a mother and a neighbor of the Ukrainians, however, I feel so much fear and pain that I still can't find the right words.
By Maria Ostasevici 4 years ago in The Swamp
If You can’t Handle Statues of Washington, Jefferson or Columbus, You’re Going to Have a Hard Time Handling Life
Photo by daveynin So we got a group of determined people who want to tear down every statue or historical marker in their path. Worse yet, they probably would like to completely vilify every historical figure or event that doesn’t live up to the standards we hold today. Sorry but if you’re among this mindset, you need to do a little growing up.
By Rich Monetti4 years ago in The Swamp
A Friend in Need is A Friend Indeed
US policy towards the ongoing Ukraine crisis is undoubtedly unsatisfactory and inadequate so far. No suspicion that just debating whether Ukraine should get arms or not and delivering incessant imbecile lip service, rather than providing armors or taking grave measures to bring a halt to this war proves the US is reluctant to get engaged in this crisis. A rare instance can be found in international politics that defends imposing economic sanctions to stop a war. What the US is doing now regarding the crisis based on only sanctions intriguingly depicts that this erstwhile superpower is going to lose its credibility of playing a ‘major’ hegemonic role. The US playing an impactful role in NATO could take robust and effective measurements but its disinclination in this respect will bring about many negative consequences in the future. Scholars argue the US will have suffered from such type of pessimistic and despondent policy in these rainy days for Ukraine. While the US is still pendulous in providing arms to Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky is gravely concerned with NATO’s role to protect its nation. The US and NATO members should ponder; this is not just a question to their future role but also their ‘liberal, humanitarian, and democratic portrayals of ideological stances.’ It is well-palpable that the US, in this respect, will envisage mass agitation and criticism. The US et al were continuously babbling that Zelensky might not be skeptical about their support to Ukraine and imposing sanctions on Russia, by contrast, Bloomberg reported that the US is not going to impose sanctions on Russian crude oil. Imposing on ‘particular’ areas and giving room to ‘other goods and products’ proved that the US is just prejudiced with its self-interest not others’ miseries. Thus, this has been another negative value for its credibility. Still, no major military measurement, no impactful sanction, no major policy to bring peace and to stop the war has been taken by US and NATO. How bizarre the ‘interest” is in international politics! If ‘interest’ doesn’t ensure the credibility of acceptance then what would it be termed?
By Ihtisham Ulhaq4 years ago in The Swamp
Choices, Nearly Impossible, about Ukraine
Last night on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow asked the crucial question: is there any country willing to jump in and stand with the Ukrainians against the Russian aggression? General Barry McCaffrey (Ret), explained that anything the US and NATO did to directly confront and fight with the Russians could provoke Putin, already clearly unhinged, to bring nuclear weapons into an expanding worldwide fight.
By Paul Levinson4 years ago in The Swamp
Crying and Praying for Ukraine
I'm Russian. Russian American, to be exact, and I am conflicted and broken. I have not slept much this week because the megalomaniac paranoid president of Russia, my second home country, invaded the country my grandparents' ancestors came from - Ukraine.
By Lana V Lynx4 years ago in The Swamp
