Category Archives: nationalism

Le Pen

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What a Le Pen Win Would Mean for Europe

Right-wing populist candidate Marine Le Pen has a chance of winning the presidential election in France this Sunday. If she prevails over Emmanuel Macron, France would become another country and Europe a different continent.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/marine-le-pen-and-the-french-vote-what-would-her-election-mean-for-france-and-europe-a-e7f83349-29fd-4b14-8fa0-f9595344f6fb#ref=rss

A President Le Pen has said she would let her compatriots vote in a referendum on how many immigrants should be allowed into the country as her first official act. She wants to severely restrict social benefits for foreigners. Under her leadership, there will be a “policy of national priority,” she has announced. The candidate wants to give preferential treatment to French women and men in the allocation of jobs and social housing. It would be a “France First” policy. But it would also violate the principle of equality enshrined in the French constitution.

Ukraine is about identity

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Ukraine is not about territory, it’s about identity

https://iai.tv/articles/ukraine-is-not-about-territory-its-about-identity-auid-2099

His talk of ‘unity’ was ideological code not for re-creating the Soviet Union out of nostalgia for the Marxist-Leninist state. It was code for legitimating his dream of an ethno-nationalist Orthodox Christian mega state, where the category ‘Ukrainian’ is reducible and subsumable all-the-way-down to the category ‘Russian’. Putin’s notion of unity – his ‘bad Hegelianism’ – is fascistic, insofar as it seeks the erasure of individuality and difference under the blanket of universality and identity.

Syrians in Belarus

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Syrians say Belarus deported them even though they’re wanted by Assad’s regime

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/24/1066806101/belarus-poland-border-deported-syria-migrants

After engineering a migrant crisis at the borders of the EU, Belarus is now seeking to send those who failed to cross into Poland or other EU countries back to where they came from — often with little regard for their safety, say migrants and human rights groups.

U.S. and European officials and refugee advocates accuse the regime of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as a “political weapon” in retaliation for sanctions.

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More on using refugees as a political weapon
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/refugeesandmigrants/2017/01/07/weapons-of-mass-migration/