NATO summit in Bucharest: ritualistic threats to set the world on fire to preserve global hegemony

Launch of Season 6!

“On the Barricades” s06e01

On November 29 and 30 a NATO summit was held in Bucharest, Romania, to reassert the belief that Ukraine should join NATO and the usual expansionist rhetoric.

We are happy to introduce a new season of “On the Barricades,” the sixth, with this first installment of the weekend’s release. Hosts Boyan Stanislavsky and Maria Cernat discuss what happened at the NATO summit and the ongoing lack of critical response and empirically-based coverage of the war from Western academics and the international community. They break down some indications as to the status of the conflict, whether negotiations are near, and how there’s a key difference in how the Russian military operates, on the basis of state-owned weapons manufactured, compared to the NATO-US war machine in which it seems weapons manufacturers exploit the war for profit and for promotion, even ahead of military goals.