Ghost of Soviet Past - Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: What Did We Miss? (Timestamps/Subtitles)

ABSTRACT: This forum focuses on the overlooked areas of the moment surrounding the nature and progression of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It brings together scholars of different disciplines, backgrounds, and locations to provide analyses of the Russian aggression from varying perspectives such as history, law, military studies, politics, and media and communications, to name a few, encouraging the authors to focus on intricacies to deliver a deeper analysis of the invasion. Each author offers a unique take on the analyses of the past and present. The forum has two aims. First, the collection raises the question “What did we miss?” and it aims to highlight the lack of attention by Western scholars to Russian perceptions of Western threats and the concerns of former Soviet countries regarding Russia's aggressive foreign policy. Second, the forum intends to start a conversation on different non-Western perspectives of thinking about the Russian invasion. The forum covers the events of the period from the beginning of the invasion up to July 2022, with some post-revision comments in the introduction and conclusion mentioning the events up to February 2023.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Forum
00:00:27 - Introduction to the Forum
00:12:08 - The Shared History: ..Russia and Ukraine
00:20:22 - The Human Cost of the War in Ukraine:..Migration Dimension
00:21:08 - The #Refugee Situation
00:26:56 - The Consequences of the Refugee Crisis
00:32:17 - Conclusion
00:33:47 - The Kremlin's Propaganda.. Fake News
00:43:17 - Countering Russian Disinformation..Case of #Odnoklassniki
00:46:38 - Thematic Social Media Groups as Opinion Influencers
00:47:48 - Method
00:48:47 - Findings
00:50:08 - Dehumanizing/Demonizing Ukrainians
00:51:56 - Discrediting Volodymyr #Zelenskyy
00:54:25 - Discrediting the #German Leaders
00:55:47 - Conclusion
00:57:03 - The War in Ukraine as a New Disinformation..Georgia
00:58:12 - Domesticating the Regional Issue
01:00:05 - Reinforcing the Politics of Fear
01:05:58 - Rethinking #Geopolitics
01:07:59 - Consequences.. for the Republic of Moldova
01:10:41 - State of Emergency .. Conditions of Regional Insecurity
01:13:02 - Growing Tensions in #Transnistria
01:15:10 - Economic and Energy Crises in..Geopolitical Dynamic
01:16:13 - Conclusion
01:17:04 - Was Eastern #Europe Surprised? Some Romanian Answers
01:18:13 - After 1991: Eastern Europe and the World
01:23:24 - Geopolitical Surprises, #Geography, and #History
01:28:40 - Conclusion to the Forum

#Policyrelevant, #Russia, #Ukraine, #war, #threatperception, #propaganda, #sharedpast #Moldova #Kremlin #Putin #zelensky #openaccess #homosexuality #georgia #NATO #refugees #authoritarianism #europeanunion #eu #NGOs #belarus #crimea #sovietrussia
#romania #EasternBloc #balticstudies #China #Putin's2007MunichSpeech #FIFA
#BlackSea #KerchCrimeaBridge #DataPoints #WesternThreats #stateidentity #LeonidKuchma #RussiaCentric #autocracy #GhostofSovietPast #internet #SilovikiElites #openaccess

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[joeblogs-vxep]

Ukraine didn't exist until its creation in the 1920s it was Lenin that created Ukraine which historically was always part of the Russian empire

[EraphaseContemplation]

What was missed??? the outreach visit of former Pres of Rus Medvedeev to USA Pres Obama in NYC eating together at a local restaurant and the words of the speech 2007 of Putin at Munich Global Sec meeting. Too many attending were sleeping or throwing spit balls in class or scoffing in front row bowing heads in disgust and snickering and winking eyes at each other with skepticism and cynical attitudes to pay any attention to the arms reduction changes mentioned of friendship outreach to west By Russia. Hence the old stereotype drove us to the point with childlike fear of a self mental created Frankenstein today. Like Lazarus in the bible Russia had a resurrection but did not heed the advice about the old Soviet past applying it to the risen Russia. "Loose him and let him go". So here we are today in a mess: all emotional anger and no scientific facts about the situation to get true understanding of the crisis to solve it peacefully.