What You Should Know
07/09/2023
We’re in the process of moving again…this time to the country. Not much to say this week.
—Yasha Levine
PS: See previous WYSKs here.
A writer for Jacobin tried to figure out what post-left Compact and its founder are all about with their mix of anti-neoliberalism, trad Christian community values, and economic populism. Not as illuminating I hoped.
…we talked about Compact on The Russians a few weeks ago.
The start of a series that attempts to analyze the domestic Ukrainian politics of the Minsk Agreements — why they failed, who stood to benefit or to lose from their implementation. “The ‘trap’ is that while the Minsk agreements would have reintegrated the separatist enclaves, this reintegration would in the longer term prevent the realization of the post-2014 Ukrainian elite’s strategic interests in euro-atlantic integration, and even challenge its continuation of economic liberalization and maintenance of state power.”
Destroying Eastern Ukraine to Save It — Makes some of the same points Evgenia and I have been making since the start of this war: Putin didn’t have to do the invasion. He did it because he wanted it, not because his hand was forced.
The rest is for subscribers only…