To assess the changing balance of forces and situation in Ukraine following Russia’s withdrawal from Kharkov this week, “On the Barricades” has the pleasure of bringing repeat-guest Mark Sleboda onto the show for a two-part series this weekend. Mark is a former US Navy specialist, military expert, and academic who attended the London School of Economics before becoming a senior lecturer at Moscow State University.
After our first episode’s dissection and interpretation of events on the ground in Ukraine, in this second episode, hosts Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski and Mark take a dive into some broader philosophical and human-existential questions raised by the current reality in Ukraine and globally. We begin with the question of whether Mark thinks peace is possible – the chances that the conflict will freeze any time soon at a bargaining table. With war as with peace, the question is on whose terms? And what drives war and the mass support we see for it anyway– the system enslaving us to the profit motive or some more basic human condition and prone-ness to othering? Speaking on existential questions, civilization faces not only an unprecedented scale of violence and means of destruction through a potential World War 3, but moreover the looming threat of climate crisis, another area of Mark’s expertise. War and added impacts of climate change will make the current energy crisis and impending food crisis in Europe a drastically dire situation. But is it hopeless?
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Mark Sleboda’s outlook on the future of Ukraine and humanity: war or peace?