Virtuous "Democratic" Ukraine versus Tyrannical "Autocratic" Russia, and Other Utter Nonsense
ACURA ViewPoint: Branko Marcetic Talks with Olga Baysha, Author of Democracy, Populism and Neoliberalism in Ukraine
Baysha is one of the best expert sources on relations between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine’s “democracy” was never such, whether in war or before the war, and certaintly not since 2014. The polarized discourse betwee a virtuous “democratic” west and a tyrannical, “autocratic” east is nonsense through and through, and has never served for a nuanced understanding of the world and how it works.