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Matt Duss fails to make the case for intervention
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Matt Duss fails to make the case for intervention

As in, he never actually gets around to it.

Jun 3, 2022
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A piano in the ruins of an abandoned school in Pripyat, Ukraine. Personal photo.

Reading Why Ukraine Matters for the Left in the New Republic, written by Bernie Sanders foreign policy advisor Matt Duss, I can’t help but recall an old essay by Barthes called Operation Margarine. Ads for margarine, he writes, often follow a simple formula. The protagonist …

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