Jared Yates Sexton: Time is running out to build a new world

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Jared Yates Sexton
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Western leaders are busy congratulating themselves on coming together and decrying Putin's invasion of Ukraine, all the while the violence is growing and the crisis worsening.

We're running out of time to change the world before it collapses.

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TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO BUILD A NEW WORLD
As Putin's war on Ukraine intensifies and the establishment tries to pretend everything is under control, precious time is slipping away
9:06 AM · Mar 2, 2022

President Joe Biden’s address on Tuesday night was a typical State of the Union. There were scores of policy proposals, centrist appeals, a few individuals mentioned as humanizing examples of larger issues, and an expected claim that the union, despite all obvious appearances, is strong. Compared to Donald Trump’s rambling and disturbing performances, it’s being graded on a curve, but it’s undeniable that something was missing.

The affair began predictably with a mention of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Biden praised the Ukrainian people for their courage and described a growing international alliance to counter dictator Vladimir Putin’s aggression. Russia, Biden said, is “more isolated from the world now than it has ever been.” Which, to be frank, is utter nonsense. Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, America, Britain, France, Italy, and virtually every other member of the Allies swarmed into Russia to intervene in the growing civil war and crush the growth of communism. That, and the resulting tensions, is pretty damn isolated.

But nonetheless. Of course he said it. Biden is helming a coordinated effort by the Western powers to squeeze Putin, his oligarchs, and Russian society with a swarm of sanctions meant to make the invasion of Ukraine an untenable quagmire. Predictably, the moment these sanctions were announced and landmarks around the world began displaying the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag, institutionalists flooded the nation’s publications and airwaves with claims that Putin had already failed and the neoliberal world order had proven itself resilient and impervious. Just the simple act of agreeing on these measures was proof positive the system worked and that it would, eventually, win out. It was, in a word, performative.

What was missing from Biden’s speech, and what these near-sighted pundits and politicians continue to ignore, is that the world has already changed. The neoliberal order, by virtue of one of its members carrying out this attack, has been proven faulty, vulnerable, and, ultimately, doomed. By allowing Putin and his oligarch’s poisonous blood money and corruption into the system, the damage was done. Authoritarianism has spread throughout the world, infecting the United States and all of its allies. And, as we watch the cruelty in Ukraine grow by the hour, and the powers stand by, terrified to set off a war as defined by their own rules and their own systems, the status quo which has been built and promised as guaranteeing peace and stability has been exposed in irrevocable ways.

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[Budi]

1. To genius Jared Yates Sexton,..the world powers already saw this coming long before you did.

The meeting in Munich just 10 days before the world squeezed everything they could legally & at the moment from Putin's power, the global onboarding that came at rapid pace from businesses to athletics to banks, the Sanctions, the military support, the billion$ aid to refugees & the global assistance organizations, the support from cities to individual people horrified by Putin's movement upon an innocent nation, the closing of airspace & waterways, stoppage of shipment of goods, & YOU HAVE THE FKING AUDACITY TO PISS & MOAN FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR KEYBOARD ABOUT THE DO NOTHING STATUS QUO?

You may be self impressed with the hair on fire words you write but you seriously sound like you need to broaden your understanding of what that "status quo" you chose to blame this on has actually been doing.

You are simply a political hack, Mr Jared Yates Sexton.
There's a reason why you sit behind a keyboard lobbing shallow blame bombs, as in your quip, "establishment tries to pretend everything is under control", while it is others of a far higher calling in the war rooms around the world.
You are a million steps behind them & clueless.

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Shut up.