Debates over the proper approach to the Russo-Ukrainian War have dominated much of the year. Yet discussions within the western left have not always featured the perspectives of Ukrainians and Russians themselves. The Real News Network board member Bill Fletcher, in partnership with Haymarket Books, hosts a panel with Ukrainian and Russian academics.
Yuliya Yurchenko is a senior lecturer and researcher in political economy at the Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Institute and the Economics and International Business Department, the University of Greenwich (UK). She is the author of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict (London: Pluto Press, 2018) and many other publications, including in Capital and Class and New Political Economy. She is vice-chair of the Critical Political Economy Research Network Board (European Sociological Association), co-coordinator of the World Economy working group, IIPPE, and an editor for Capital and Class.
Alona Liasheva is a PhD candidate in Urban Studies (URBEUR) at University of Milan-Bicocca focusing on housing in Eastern Europe. She is a co-editor of Commons: Journal for Social Criticism.
Ilya Budraitskis writes regularly on politics, art, film and philosophy for e-flux journal, openDemocracy, LeftEast, Colta.ru and other outlets, and teaches at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and the Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow. The Russian edition of his essay collection Dissidents among Dissidents was awarded the prestigious Andrei Bely prize in 2017.
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Sorry, this is not a "debate", it's a cheer squad of like-minded people.
Murdering 44m people is genocide. We stopped that before after the initial appeasement of Hitler. People can go fcuk themselves if they think the world will let another atrocity like ww2 happen again
You a communist?
Opopop
Keci
This is hardly a two sided discussion. Seems you've gone the way of the woke, which is to say that you've willingly gone broke… in the terms of truth, that is. Who knew that the deep state had its fingers in your pudding? Russiagate not an aside at all as the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia exposes the lie machine to all Europeans in a more direct way. Once everybody has lost their feet I suppose its to the knees next? Capitalism is such a humane business… Cutthroat capitalism is the best, or else. All those Europeans are socialists with their national healthcare systems. Got to do something about that, eh?
Russian Agression? I guess..just because you call yourself " real news " doesn't really mean its real news .lol.
Ukraine is lucky that the Russian military turned out to be totally incompetent and corrupt. Ukraine is absolutely going to win this war, the Russian military is largely a joke at this point.
The boys and the Girls must see a good point of view from other credible sourches …
so they know what are really happens on Ukraine-Russia war.
1. Prof john mearsheimer
2. Prof. Jefrey Sachs
3. The Duran Channel
4. Alex Cristoforou
5. Redacted channel
6. Judging Freedom channel
7. Scott Ritter
8. Col. Douglas mc gregor
9. Patrick Lancaster.
and many more……
You will know exactly the roots & the objective war in ukraine…
Don't fooled and blinded by mainstream media….
PEACE….
Subscribed for Chris, unsubscribed because of Bill. This is a Dutch rudder, not a debate.
….glory to Ukraine, glory to hyperbole…
Your pro Ukraine properganda is so clear educate yourself real news who's news
I agree with Yuliya.
"…he need Donald Trump to be American leader to be honest…"
WHAT?
Trump is not the president.
Trump loves Putin.
Trump praised Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Trump is incapable of being honest.
Ukraine does not need Trump, a man who corrupted our government, who tried to overthrow our republic, and wants to be a dictator.
garbage propaganda by TRNN. I wasn't expecting these types of biased and hypocritical guests to be hosted on this channel shame!
What's the obsession with the "far right" ? How about the "far left" ? And any other "far" ?
Very weak debate. On their defense, they are Ukrainians – and they live far from the battlefront. Their biggest problems caused by the war are lack of electricity and internet.
Genocide requires the intent to exterminate a group.
Why do you talk to these in calm manor can't you see they are Russian haters through and through and are they relevant when the war is over all these Nazi lovers are immigrating to America to enjoy the thousands of dollars they are getting to destroy their nation as long as they get as many Russians killed in the process what a shame there is no god to punish these fanatical idiot scum
As I thought becoming another Democracy Now.
I'm Peter araneta Manalo must have a grate answer in a our goverment in a nato to have countinue a supply in a all kind community raise in a Ukraine must to survive in a war always
NATO does not care about Ukraine. Ukraine will be a wasteland when this ends. This has to stop, what is the U. N. there for? There is no need for any of this.
What a farce
When Ukraine turned to the west, with ousting the Russian friendly president Viktor Yanukovych 2014, that's when fragments within Ukraine started to fight each other violently. In the Donbas region many pro Russian clashed with west oriented. And 2022, 24 of February, Putin had an idea to put a definitive end to the sovereignty of Ukraine. The west oriented people in Ukraine did not like that, so there you are. Now when so many countries in the west are supporting Ukraine it's obvious that any way the war turns out, weather Ukraine can free themselves or if Russia takes over Ukraine, Russia will not be popular with the west, anyway not with the regime under Putin. I think that most people understands that this is not the total will of the Russian people, just as it is not the total will of the people in US when the US government goes to war, like the Vietnam war, Iraq war and so on; it's the leaders "protection" of their countries interests and power balance. Who is right and who is wrong then? Both sides think they are right…Putin thinks he is right and Ukraine does not, they want to be free and rule themselves. And so the fight has to go on…..nuclear war then?…..well the US has declared that if Putin tries that and passes that "red line", they will go in and respond accordingly…that could not be a win for Putin as I see it…if Putin does not care what happens to Russia or the world , that's another thing….looks like the option then is to keep the war going for ever…or 30 years? so that none reaches the mode to loose ? nobody can claim that they won and nobody can claim that they lost…but then one day the climate change will cause everybody on earth so much trouble that there will be no time for anything els then to save one's skin…probably..
Thanks for having this discussion. I wouldn't pay attention to the comments below of the "America always wrong/ bad" ideologues. They're clearly ignorant about Ukrainian history and so fn boring.
After hearing the introductory statements from all the guests, I needn't listen any further. No real debate, different views, just another classic MSM biased babble. Well-deserved criticism in the comments.
Hummz. Only one opinion.
Thanks for showing book.
Well I just unsubscribed from this channel. It's too bad I used to really enjoy their work. I can't believe they're actually posting this kind of crap.
"… precisely, the Russian aggression against Ukraine" suggested where this would go. Totally one-sided. Not worth my time.
The chick with the glasses is obviously a hater of Russia. What a weak host.
BS of NATO sympathizers
These guests are either idiots or CIA plants. Either way its nearly compete nonsense.
What a one-sided perspective. So many details left out about Minsk and the Maidan coup and the threat that Ukraine in NATO presented. The continuing references to the 1991 border are meaningless. All that changed with the Maidan coup. This is Bandera propaganda.
Yes, and end to this war can no longer be negotiated. It is quite sad.
I can't deal with these guests lying. No fascist/fasc adjacent parties were elected in 2014? Really? Right Sector isn't fascist? People's Front isn't fascist? ALL UKRANIANIAN FATHERLAND isn't fascist? Check your "experts" WTH.
Ukraine won’t exist if it keeps fighting..
Propaganda…so much for real news