{"id":18204,"date":"2025-06-16T18:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18204"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:37:51","slug":"understanding-russian-imperialism-donnacha-o-beachain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18204","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Russian Imperialism | Donnacha \u00d3 Beach\u00e1in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the eve of the Russian attack, Ukraine was no closer to joining NATO than it had been in decades.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine and Israel were the only countries with a Jewish President and Prime Minister at the same time, and Ukraine doesn&#8217;t have far right party members in their legislature&nbsp;(unlike Western European countries!).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russians from Moscow are much less likely to die in Russia&#8217;s invasion than Russians from the periphery. Russia is still like an imperial power throwing away the lives of its colonies while preserving their imperial core.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Understanding Russian Imperialism | Donnacha \u00d3 Beach\u00e1in\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pEmQmUTaEqw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the Russian attack, Ukraine was no closer to joining NATO than it had been in decades. <\/p>\n<p>Ukraine and Israel were the only countries with a Jewish President and Prime Minister at the same time, and Ukraine doesn&#8217;t have far right party members in their legislature (unlike Western European countries!). <\/p>\n<p>Russians from Moscow are much less likely to die in Russia&#8217;s invasion than Russians from the periphery. Russia is still like an imperial power throwing away the lives of its colonies while preserving their imperial core. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pEmQmUTaEqw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[924,1908,728,770,1347,314,315],"class_list":["post-18204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-eastern-europe","tag-empire","tag-europe","tag-history","tag-imperialism","tag-international-relations","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18205,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18204\/revisions\/18205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}