Ukraine Russia conflict

Started by patentlymn, May 26, 2025, 01:47:48 PM

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This guy is a prof in Norway. Direct attempts to fire him for views on Ukraine failed. Here he goes into censorship as he has before. Now he says they have obtained every bit of his word and notes so they can fire him for alleged errors or plagiarism. German profs have been fired this way.

https://youtu.be/L0eXB38qAPo
Ulrike Guérot: Censorship, Cancellation & Death of Democracy in Europe
 
 
Jun 11, 2025
Ulrike Guérot is one of the leading German political scientists and experts on Europe. Guérot outlines how European academia began to change after the global financial crisis (2008-09) as the crisis resulted in reduced acceptance for criticism and the narrowing of acceptable debate. Following her criticism of the Covid policies, Guérot discovered that she was increasingly met with personal attacks rather than counter-arguments. When she questioned the narrative of an "unprovoked" Russian invasion of Ukraine she was suddenly accused of taking the side of Russia, a vicious smear campaign began, colleagues and friends turned against her, and a search to discover anything that could be interpreted as "academic dishonesty" eventually led to being fired from the university. The story about how one of Germany's leading academics could be cancelled tells a wider story about the decline of academic freedom, the efforts to crush all dissent, and the revival of European authoritarianism. 


https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/how-peace-oriented-norway-learned
How Peace-Oriented Norway Learned to Stop Worrying and Love War
Prof. Glenn Diesen
Glenn Diesen
May 26, 2025
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Almost every media outlet in the country framed the issue on the premise that I am "pro-Russian" and "anti-Ukrainian". People began tearing down the posters, and some compared their political vandalism with liberating the country from Hitler during the Second World War. People were intoxicated with self-righteousness and moral superiority as the tribe united in virtue and the fight for freedom. Their hatred of the evil "other" was celebrated as evidence of their righteousness as they formed a resistance against us, fascist agents of Russia who support the destruction of Ukraine and would like to see Russia conquer Europe.
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The Norwegian is taught to express empathy for Afghans when it justifies occupation, Syrians when it justifies regime change, Libyans when it justifies military intervention, etc. However, once the strategic objective is achieved, there is no attention or empathy expressed. As we leave behind death and destruction, there is no remorse, as our alleged intentions were good. In Ukraine, the Norwegian is taught to have great empathy when it comes to advancing the war efforts. In contrast, the Norwegian will react with suspicion and anger if anyone mentions the suffering of the people in Donbas over the past decade, "military recruiters" dragging people off the streets and out of their homes, the attacks on the media, the denial of political rights, language rights, cultural rights or religious rights. The empathy for Ukrainians is instrumental, it is evoked or suppressed based on the purpose it serves.
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