INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 987 Amsterdam, May 29th, 2022 WHY WE ARE LOSING THE WAR WITH RUSSIA - JOSEPH DILLARD Russia is winning the military, economic, and even the informational wars waged against it by the West. I'll explain how and why this is happening, how the West is creating massive blowback on itself, and why a multi-perspectival and interdependent approach is essential to understanding how so many intelligent and compassionate people could so misunderstand a major historical event that is recreating our world. Read more: https://www.integralworld.net/dillard69.html UKRAINE/RUSSIA: REALIST VS. IDEALIST - ELLIOT BENJAMIN Continuing in my attempt at a Ukraine/Russia balanced perspective [2], I wonder if the realist and idealist perspectives need to be mutually exclusive. Visser described a point by point rebuttal of acclaimed political philosopher Noam Chomsky's promotion of the realist perspective, the rebuttal given by several Ukrainian academics. What I want to focus on in this essay is how real the threat of nuclear war and World War III is, and if it is possible to resolve the realist and idealist perspectives. Read more: https://www.integralworld.net/benjamin135.html