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Newsletter Nr. 1.013
Amsterdam, October 12th, 2022


‘BLIND LOYALTY, DISGUISED AS DEFIANCE’ - Yet Another Response to Dillard - FRANK VISSER

In eleven essays Joseph Dillard has presented the Russian perspective on the Ukraine crisis from several angles, to correct the one-sided Western "groupthink" and propaganda he sees as the biggest obstacle to prevent a global war. Yet, as I mentioned in one of my replies, "I fully agree that we should transcend our black-and-white views of the current Ukraine crisis, but this includes Putin's own black-and-white analysis." And there's the rub. 
However much I appreciate his claim that every conflict has two sides and we should try to objectively assess the concerns of our opponents, this should not lead us to make the opposite mistake of identifying wholesale with Putin's rationalizations for the invasion. Yes, Dillard seems to be acutely aware that his presentation is equallly one-sided, but more often than not, he seems to quote his pro-Russian sources uncritically, if not with hardly veiled relish.

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