How is the Ukrainian war wrecking Eastern Europe /w Arto Artinian

“On the Barricades” s05e43

In this first episode of this week’s release of “On the Barricades,” hosts Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski speak with Arto Artinian, a Bulgarian leftist and professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. Arto splits his time between Bulgaria and New York. His experience working in American academia and labour, as well as living in Bulgaria, makes him the perfect person to provide insight on both these parts of the world from a Marxist perspective.

We discuss several aspects related to the war’s impact on Eastern Europe, including: the significance of the election result in Bulgaria in which GERB wins the most votes; analysis of the ailing, Euro-Atlantic-aligned Bulgarian political system and party politics; general strategy of the world powers with the war in Ukraine and the position of the EU/ Europe; potential massive ramifications of energy supply cut-off to the German economy; the perspective on the war from the point of view of the American masses and political-economic elite; and a discussion on the EU’s mishandling of migration and the case of Poland absorbing some 5 million Ukrainian refugees.