here is what’s in store for you this week:
Every anti-Ukrainian trope out there, I tried it in my old reporting. What made me change my mind, and why speaking out against problematic coverage of former russian colonies by Western newsrooms is crucial.
russia is and has always been a settler-colonial empire.
How Moscovites became ‘russians’ by stealing Ukrainian identity.
The messianic ideology of russian colonialism.
Soviet global campaign against imperialism in the 1920s was another lie to excuse the russian plunder of indigenous people at home.
Russian Colonialism 101 is the first newsletter to shed light on Russian colonialism and is part of the Volya Hub network. What is happening to Ukraine has happened many times before, and the rest of the world has been conditioned to overlook or misdiagnose it. This isn’t history. It’s how you stop being shocked by what was always predictable.
