Thank you for very moving reporting. My question is how do we, in Canada, financially support the Ukrainian people and assist the social programs available to Ukrainians (children in schools, mothers, LGBTQ+). We have been donating to a number of groups targeting various groups but want your on-the-ground experience to guide us. Stay safe, Justin.
As I started this article I asked my partner, who has a biology degree, if jellyfish are animals or plants. she looked visibly upset as she explained which kingdom and phylum there are in, that they have nerves and local motion. then she roasted me for a while longer while continuing to clean up dinner…
anyway, thanks for the analysis. interesting as always.
That was excellent, Justin, and also enjoyed the video! Thanks also for the Globe and Mail article. (The paper's Comment section sure attracts few good-quality contributions -- embarrassing.)
Thought of you when reports came in of the bombs raining down on Kyiv.
Trust you'll signal in this space when your other contributions from this trip become available.
To get into the mindset of Putin and much of Russian society, I found an article by Gary Saul Morson in the February 22 issue of the New York Review of Books very helpful. Eurasianism holds that Russia does not belong to Western civilization. It belongs to an entirely separate civilization -- a synthesis of Slavic and Mongolian. Ukraine is part of "us." Its currently most prominent adherent is Aleksandr Dugin. "Dugin’s ideas—cited, recycled, adapted, and plagiarized—fill bookstores and saturate mass media." (More in my substack compilation post of Feb 2024.) Know thy enemy.
...you can jump to the main index from there, that's the page where she writes down "all the boys I know from Lethbridge who volunteered", which goes on through the next page.
That was Vol III; I'm now on Volume VI, and those Lethbridge boys are dying, one after another. Two cousins; the intended of a close friend, two weeks before the wedding; two school friends; a 23-year-old dashing Major (!) , she clearly had eyes for - who'd just won a medal....that last guy at the 2-year mark in WW1. Two years in, and England was getting weary of that crap, heartily.
So we know what that's like. Ukraine can continue, as Britain did; but, damn, it would be helpful if they had more support.
In Canada, all the major parties must simply be pounded on the litmus test of their unstinting Ukraine support. Every politician should be litmus-tested on that one, though I normally hate the practice.
Thank you for very moving reporting. My question is how do we, in Canada, financially support the Ukrainian people and assist the social programs available to Ukrainians (children in schools, mothers, LGBTQ+). We have been donating to a number of groups targeting various groups but want your on-the-ground experience to guide us. Stay safe, Justin.
As I started this article I asked my partner, who has a biology degree, if jellyfish are animals or plants. she looked visibly upset as she explained which kingdom and phylum there are in, that they have nerves and local motion. then she roasted me for a while longer while continuing to clean up dinner…
anyway, thanks for the analysis. interesting as always.
I'd like to be a jellyfish
'Cause jellyfish don't pay rent
They don't walk and they don't talk
With some Euro-trash accent
They're just simple protoplasm
Clear as cellophane
They ride the winds of fortune
Life without a brain- Jimmy Buffet.
That was excellent, Justin, and also enjoyed the video! Thanks also for the Globe and Mail article. (The paper's Comment section sure attracts few good-quality contributions -- embarrassing.)
Thought of you when reports came in of the bombs raining down on Kyiv.
Trust you'll signal in this space when your other contributions from this trip become available.
Just wanted to say good work,Justin. Smart analysis.
Yes, those “armchair experts”. Some of them appear to be influenced by russian bots, or at least have no knowledge of history.
To get into the mindset of Putin and much of Russian society, I found an article by Gary Saul Morson in the February 22 issue of the New York Review of Books very helpful. Eurasianism holds that Russia does not belong to Western civilization. It belongs to an entirely separate civilization -- a synthesis of Slavic and Mongolian. Ukraine is part of "us." Its currently most prominent adherent is Aleksandr Dugin. "Dugin’s ideas—cited, recycled, adapted, and plagiarized—fill bookstores and saturate mass media." (More in my substack compilation post of Feb 2024.) Know thy enemy.
Got the story; a trip well worthwhile.
I'm currently scanning the WW1 diaries of my grandmother:
http://brander.ca/EEC/V3/0115.html
...you can jump to the main index from there, that's the page where she writes down "all the boys I know from Lethbridge who volunteered", which goes on through the next page.
That was Vol III; I'm now on Volume VI, and those Lethbridge boys are dying, one after another. Two cousins; the intended of a close friend, two weeks before the wedding; two school friends; a 23-year-old dashing Major (!) , she clearly had eyes for - who'd just won a medal....that last guy at the 2-year mark in WW1. Two years in, and England was getting weary of that crap, heartily.
So we know what that's like. Ukraine can continue, as Britain did; but, damn, it would be helpful if they had more support.
In Canada, all the major parties must simply be pounded on the litmus test of their unstinting Ukraine support. Every politician should be litmus-tested on that one, though I normally hate the practice.
Thanks Justin for your work! 🤓