[PDF file]: […] between the USA and China is becoming less and less as years go by, with Trump an open admirer of the top-down management skills of Xi and Putin. Which brings us to a discussion of managerialism. Martin Parker, a Reader in Social and Organizational Theory, in his 2002 book, Against Management,14 10 See . […]
[…] Russia is a model for the type of pure nation that White Christian Nationalists want. (p. 125) The enthusiasm with which the Christian Right came to regard Putin fed into their support for Trump. They wanted an autocratic strongman to restore white Christian America with democracy very much destined for the bin. Viktor Orban […]
[PDF file]: […] not the murderous, totalitarian ‘Russia-Ukraine war: How the US paved the way to Moscow’s invasion’ 44 15 kleptocracy that Russia is today.45 In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia, and its existence as an independent entity is an affront,46 what kind of […]
[…] Canada and Mexico doesn’t work because the USA, for all its faults, is not the murderous, totalitarian kleptocracy that Russia is today.27 In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia, and its existence as an independent entity is an affront,28 what kind of […]
[PDF file]: […] from reaching the border’. And he sat and listened on Air Force One while Trump ‘lavished praise on America’s adversaries and foreign dictators, waxing poetic about Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’. He longed for the same power that these dictators possessed and fantasised about invoking ‘the Insurrection Act, allowing him to impose a version […]
[PDF file]: […] the nomination, they became ‘the purest strain of Never Trumpism’. (p. 35) Saldin and Teles enumerate their objections to a Trump Presidency: ‘He praised dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. He expressed admiration for brutal authoritarian crackdowns in North Korea and Tiananmen Square. He accused George W Bush of the treasonous offense of […]
[…] Canada and Mexico doesn’t work because the USA, for all its faults, is not the murderous, totalitarian kleptocracy that Russia is today.24 In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia, and its existence as an independent entity is an affront,25 what kind of […]
[…] Canada and Mexico doesn’t work because the USA, for all its faults, is not the murderous, totalitarian kleptocracy that Russia is today.5 In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia whose existence as an independent entity is an affront,6 what kind of ‘accommodation’ […]
[…] Canada and Mexico doesn’t work because the USA, for all its faults, is not the murderous, totalitarian kleptocracy that Russia is today. In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia whose existence as an independent entity is an affront,5 what kind of ‘accommodation’ […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Ukraine and NATO The best writing on the background to the Ukraine conflict I have seen recently is two essays by Lord Robert Skidelsky in which he tries to unpack Russian actions and counter ‘the Russians are coming’ line now dominant in Western Europe defence circles. In the […]
