Do US-Russia talks on Ukraine mark a reappearance of #colonial power?

Unexpected negotiations between #US & #Russia that began in Saudi Arabia in February were strange

Talks in Riyadh, included foreign ministers & presidential advisors from both countries, focused on fate of Ukraine & future of #Europe. Yet, neither Ukraine nor #EU were present or involved in these purely bilateral face-to-face meetings

https://kyivindependent.com/do-us-russia-talks-on-ukraine-mark-a-reappearance-of-colonial-power-play/

#dictators #Trump -Putin #DictatorTrump #traitors #colonialism

Ukraine Daily summary - Wednesday, March 12 2025

https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20%20Wednesday,%20March%2012%202025/

Ukraine Daily summary - Monday, February 17 2025

https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20Monday,%20February%2017%202025/

TIL that #Kenner, #Louisiana was originally called Cannes Brûlées, meaning burnt sugarcane. The French pronunciation is /kan bɾyle/ whereas Kenner is /kɛn əɹ/. It's hard to say what happened to the adjective as it was anglicized, but the sugarcane was preserved pretty well in there.

(Got this from the list of #colonial censuses in Zitomersky (1974) that has one for "Cannes Bruslees" in 1722.)

Here's some good news:

The looming death of a cruel #monopoly with a deep #history of #colonial #exploitation, #humanrights abuses, fueling #terrorism and #warlords

You see, when you can grow it in a lab, nobody cares anymore about your dirty price fixing games, #DeBeers

Welcome to oblivion

History books will not write "ooh! sparkly!"

They will write about the toll of human suffering you inflicted

"#Diamonds lose their sparkle as prices come crashing down"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/25/diamonds-lose-their-sparkle-as-prices-come-crashing-down

"African and South Asian Histories of the Holocaust"

Looking forward to this workshop in #Cambridge

February 27 - 28, 2025

I will present a paper on #Antisemitism among and against #refugees from #Poland in British #colonial #EastAfrica

Join in if you have time! Program and registration here:

https://www.ushmm.org/research/opportunities-for-academics/conferences-and-workshops/research-workshop-program/african-and-south-asian-histories-of-the-holocaust

#histodons #holocaust #africa #asia @histodons @africanstudies @holocaustmuseum

Historical Geospatial Dataset Of Cyprus From British Administration Maps Of The 19th Century
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.111084 <-- shared paper
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https://kitchener.hua.gr/en <-- storybook / historic maps
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[as a ‘colonial’ myself (New Zealand), I have a fascination with this sort of history – and throw in some early-ish survey and national cartography not long after Cyprus was ceded by the Ottomans…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Cyprus #hydrology #hydrography #landcover #population #demographics #survey #cartography #French #tradition #triangulation #national #colonial #British #administration #Kitchener #roads #infrastructure #cultural #history #historic #census #spatiotemporal #HistoricalGIS #takingstock

The war of Independence of #Palestine would not be won by sympathies of the people in "#West", it would be won by the #resistance itself, using tools they deem fit to defeat the most vile & powerful #colonial #empire in history.

The protesters in the West rallying for Palestine & #Lebanon won't win the freedom for the resistance. Their battle is to win freedom for themselves against #censorship, moral depravity, and death of #democracy in their own countries.

@palestine

Which roles did #colonial administration and #archives play in creating and maintaining physical and intellectual borders? Join us for the keynote by Hannah Ishmael, Wed. October 23 at 6:30 pm at the @dhiparis. She will analyse how Black communities (with a focus on #Britain) have contested and negotiated these borders already in the Analogue and continue to do so in the Digital. The keynote is part of "The history of digital history" https://www.dhi-paris.fr/de/veranstaltungsdetails/seminare/SeminarTime/detail/revolutionary-disruptive-or-just-repeating-itself4149.html #dhiha9 #DigitalHumanities #histodons

After carving off #Abkhazia and #SouthOssetia from #Georgia as a prelude to its brutalization of #Ukraine, #Russia corrupts the #politicians of its targets, bribed into subjugation

Never forget what Russia is: #colonial #imperialism that thinks it's the 1800s

After Ukraine, the #Baltics are next. Make no mistake about it

The #West must give Ukraine everything it wants, then more

"Georgian parliament speaker signs anti-#LGBTQ law after president refuses to sign it"

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-lgbtq-rights-crackdown-election-2cac5aea651c0380d6a2829aa28c4697

What is it like as a nonrussian country fully within #Russia's dominance, like #Belarus?

And this story of #colonial or #Imperialist control is familiar to any student of history:

"In Belarus, the native language is vanishing as Russian takes prominence

When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred to him as Nikolai, its Russian equivalent"

https://apnews.com/article/belarus-language-russia-lukashenko-russification-bcc4eb1881ca6c93f98ef9951068dde7

In 1858, as China was losing the Second Opium War, the Muscovite Empire forced it to conclude an unequal treaty, seizing over 600,000 km² of Outer Manchuria under the threat of invasion. This #colonial land grab was justified using the language of security concerns.

As the architect of the treaty, Count Nikolai Muraviev, stated: "Do not believe, gentlemen, that russia is greedy for the expansion of her frontiers... All russia cares for is the security of her boundaries."
russia assured this would be its last and only advance into China.

However, just 2 years later, right after the British and the French had burned the Summer Palace of the emperor in Beijing, russia took advantage of China's defeat to enforce a second unequal treaty, annexing yet another enormous portion of China's territory along the Pacific.

Throughout the 19th century, tsarist diplomacy consistently invoked security concerns to justify territorial expansion. This created an endless cycle: each new acquisition required further advances to "secure" the empire's boundaries, driving it to push forward repeatedly.

The significance of the notion of "security concerns" in the political vocabulary of #russianExpansionism has been completely ignored by realist IR scholars. This has led to misguided conclusions and wrong expectations.

Between the #colonial past and the economic engine of the future: #Africa is somewhere in between. An assessment by Chinwe Ifejika Speranza from the Institute of #Geography and Thomas Breu from the @CDEunibe: https://sohub.io/y6pn.
#sustainability