#thewest — Public Fediverse posts

"... Both Europe and the US are caught in a conceptual trap of their own making, attempting to respond to hybrid aggression with conventional diplomacy and bureaucratic measures. For the Kremlin, this restraint signals that the West’s negotiating position is weak. ..."

#Europe #USA #Russia #Ukraine #EU #theWest #negotiations
https://nestcentre.org/the-language-of-force-why-putin-sees-western-diplomacy-as-weakness/

"... Both Europe and the US are caught in a conceptual trap of their own making, attempting to respond to hybrid aggression with conventional diplomacy and bureaucratic measures. For the Kremlin, this restraint signals that the West’s negotiating position is weak. ..."

#Europe #USA #Russia #Ukraine #EU #theWest #negotiations
https://nestcentre.org/the-language-of-force-why-putin-sees-western-diplomacy-as-weakness/

"... Both Europe and the US are caught in a conceptual trap of their own making, attempting to respond to hybrid aggression with conventional diplomacy and bureaucratic measures. For the Kremlin, this restraint signals that the West’s negotiating position is weak. ..."

#Europe #USA #Russia #Ukraine #EU #theWest #negotiations
https://nestcentre.org/the-language-of-force-why-putin-sees-western-diplomacy-as-weakness/

"... Both Europe and the US are caught in a conceptual trap of their own making, attempting to respond to hybrid aggression with conventional diplomacy and bureaucratic measures. For the Kremlin, this restraint signals that the West’s negotiating position is weak. ..."

#Europe #USA #Russia #Ukraine #EU #theWest #negotiations
https://nestcentre.org/the-language-of-force-why-putin-sees-western-diplomacy-as-weakness/

"... For two decades, successive Western leaders have embraced policies of appeasement in a bid to avoid provoking Putin. It should now be abundantly clear that nothing is more likely to provoke Putin than Western weakness."

#Putin #Russia #NATO #USA #Europe #theWest #RussianAggression #Appeasement
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/western-weakness-is-encouraging-putin-to-test-nato/

"According to Kremlin sources, the number of officially reported repatriates from Europe to Kaliningrad has almost doubled in three years.

In official rhetoric, these arrivals are framed as proof that Russia remains ‘safer’ and people are ‘returning home from an increasingly hostile West’.

Rather than simply reporting migration, the narrative turns it into proof of the Kremlin’s preferred worldview."
- EUvsDisinfo

#Russia #Europe #Kaliningrad #theWest #EUvsDisinfo
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/why-the-information-space-has-become-a-minefield-for-eu-csdp-missions-and-operations/

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/tuesday-march-31-2026/

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/wednesday-february-11-2026/

* The White Nationalist Agenda, the "missing white voter" and hate mongering
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/stephen-miller-donald-trumps-immigration-policy-architect/106272938

* "Jean Guerrero, Hate Monger, a book that investigated the making of Miller. Miller has been seen as a link between the white nationalist agenda and the Trump White House."
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/905403716/hatemonger-paints-trump-advisor-stephen-miller-as-a-case-study-in-radicalization

* The Apparatus of Whiteness, Linda Martín Alcoff »Cultural Racism« (2/3) Adorno Lecture >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhUu9nCzxvs
#hate #immigration #WhiteRage #Whiteness #settlersociety #EthnoNationalism #TheWest #modernity #whitesupremacists #CulturalRacism #EthnoEssentialism #SocialCohesion #SocialFabric

The West is not a geography but an ideal worth defending. Donald Trump doesn’t understand that. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/02/27/world/the-west-needs-america/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #europe #euusrelations #nato #thewest #germany

The West is not a geography but an ideal worth defending. Donald Trump doesn’t understand that. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/02/27/world/the-west-needs-america/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #europe #euusrelations #nato #thewest #germany

The West is not a geography but an ideal worth defending. Donald Trump doesn’t understand that. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/02/27/world/the-west-needs-america/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #europe #euusrelations #nato #thewest #germany

The West is not a geography but an ideal worth defending. Donald Trump doesn’t understand that. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/02/27/world/the-west-needs-america/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #europe #euusrelations #nato #thewest #germany

The West is not a geography but an ideal worth defending. Donald Trump doesn’t understand that. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/02/27/world/the-west-needs-america/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #europe #euusrelations #nato #thewest #germany

SEVEN MORE PALESTINIANS killed.

Do we think the oppressive (to put it mildly) lessons of #apartied learned by Israel (and other murderous regimes) against the #Palestinians cannot be used to oppress #cityDwellers in other places, including #theWest.

What's good for the goose is be good for the gander?

Boycott, divest and sanction — its a tough decision for all involved but this continual theft and murder, idiocy connot continue.

#bds