I guess i should have prefaced this post by saying that I don’t much like the article either, for a number of reasons one of which being that it muddies the waters of an otherwise interesting argument with some trite conservative whinging about liberal identity politics. But i did think it was worth sharing because it has a unique geopolitical perspective on Europe’s relationship to this conflict. It’s not a Marxist perspective and the analysis is certainly not properly dialectical materialist but it does imo contain an interesting kernel of truth to think about. It is not too far from how a certain segment of the European political elite think about the European project.

The question is whether this European perspective really even matters anymore considering that they have all but given up their autonomy to be subordinated to US imperial interests. And unlike their European counterparts the US ruling class certainly does not view the conflict in the terms that this article puts them.

So yeah i just thought this article was interesting more as food for thought, and maybe a coherent dialectical argument can be salvaged from it, maybe not…