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General Discussion / Communist Party immediately condemned
« on: August 29, 2023, 11:53:24 pm »
But it can also be read from the postcolonial tensions derived from the implosion of the Soviet Union. <p>The invasion of Ukraine from a post-colonial perspective</p> These days, one of the central issues in the discussion about the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has been the question of how the "expansion" of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) towards the east has possibly represented the trigger of the military operation ordered by Vladimir Putin.

Several commentators have pointed out that the supposed threat to Russia's security represented by this process would have made the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army Telegram Number Data almost inevitable, determined by this action to prevent its entry into the Atlantic alliance. This is a crucial question, because if this story is considered valid, it would be highlighting the legitimacy of the Russian position and, basically, generating a context that would justify the invasion.



I myself considered until the moment of the invasion that this way of posing the question maintained a certain validity. In other words, there could be issues related to the security of Russia that NATO, and its "expansion" had not considered with sufficient political sensitivity. However, as often happens when we ask ourselves about the processes of the past, it is the present that leads us to reformulate our hypotheses about it. The brutality of the Russian military action cannot help but push us to revise our previous appreciations of the nature of the historical process that has led to the present crisis.

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General Discussion / World War II to increase its military
« on: August 29, 2023, 11:53:12 pm »
And, in the specific case of Ukraine, it seems to me that the way in which events have unfolded raises the possibility that we are facing a crisis produced by the long and traumatic process of decolonization rather than a security crisis. of the post-Soviet space. The first element with which this process of reassessing the historical context in which the invasion of Ukraine occurs is that this country is not part of NATO and, although in 2008 it was decided to consider its admission, it has not occurred. and at the time of the invasion there were no signs that this process could take place in the near future.

In addition, it is important to remember, Ukraine renounced possessing nuclear weapons in exchange for the guarantee of respecting its sovereign borders, agreed in the Budapest Memorandum signed in December 1994 by Russia, the United States, Great Britain and Ukraine. It should also be noted that after 1991 relations Telegram Number Data between NATO and Russia have not been conflictive, but have been characterized by growing cooperation, culminated in 1997 with the approval of the NATO-Russia Founding Act which, in turn, created the NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council (PJC), a forum for consultation and cooperation between the two actors.



Finally, one last point in chronological order, but of great importance for our analysis. During the Republican administration of Donald Trump, Atlanticism reached its lowest point since the founding of NATO in 1949 and it was precisely in the Ukrainian scenario that the degradation of the importance that the Atlantic alliance had for Washington became most evident. As will be remembered, Trump made his hostility towards NATO, systematically declared as a useless and costly alliance, one of his foreign policy banners.

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