Kelly Ross
@kellybruys.bsky.social
Retired former AFL-CIO Policy Director. "Colonization dehumanizes the colonizer" (Aime Cesaire). He/him. Visca el Barça.
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"US strategists describe this as "strategic sequencing" — staggered global confrontation designed to isolate and exhaust centers of resistance one-by-one, preventing their consolidation into a unified anti-hegemonic bloc. It's a world war in slow motion." progressive.international/wire/2025-10...
"This is world war in slow motion."
Popular forces around the world oppose the escalating war on Venezuela — part of a renewed Global Monroe Doctrine that seeks to dismantle sovereignty and self-determination around the world.
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Progressive International claims that US aggression against Venezuela fits within a larger strategy of “strategic sequencing” — meaning the staggering of a series of conflicts to isolate and exhaust centers of resistance to US global primacy. 🧵1/20
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… while the US pivots to the Eastern front. In other words, a two-front war for Russia and China, but not for the US. The US would surely not assign such a role to Europe without assuring its own control over the operation on the Western front, for which it needs NATO. 9/9
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
… while the US pivots to the Eastern front. In other words, a two-front war for Russia and China, but not for the US. The US would surely not assign such a role to Europe without assuring its own control over the operation on the Western front, for which it needs NATO. 9/9
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FWIW, I’m not persuaded by Mearsheimer’s main argument here that defeat in Ukraine could lead to the end of NATO. That's certainly not the US plan, which is to avoid a two-front war through a division of labor: using NATO to marshal European resources on the Western front ... 8/9
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
FWIW, I’m not persuaded by Mearsheimer’s main argument here that defeat in Ukraine could lead to the end of NATO. That's certainly not the US plan, which is to avoid a two-front war through a division of labor: using NATO to marshal European resources on the Western front ... 8/9
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Ukraine “has suffered roughly 1 million casualties, a staggering number for any country, but certainly for one that is said to be in a ‘demographic death spiral.’ Russia has paid a significant price as well, but it has suffered nowhere near as much as Ukraine.” 7/9
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Ukraine “has suffered roughly 1 million casualties, a staggering number for any country, but certainly for one that is said to be in a ‘demographic death spiral.’ Russia has paid a significant price as well, but it has suffered nowhere near as much as Ukraine.” 7/9
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“The likely outcome of the Ukraine war is a frozen conflict between a greater Russia and a rump Ukraine backed by Europe.” Russia will “end up occupying somewhere between 20 to 40 percent of pre-2014 Ukraine.” 6/9
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“The likely outcome of the Ukraine war is a frozen conflict between a greater Russia and a rump Ukraine backed by Europe.” Russia will “end up occupying somewhere between 20 to 40 percent of pre-2014 Ukraine.” 6/9
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“Russia is clearly winning the war and is likely to prevail. The reason is simple: In a war of attrition, each side tries to bleed the other white, which means that the side that has more soldiers and more firepower is likely to emerge victorious.” 5/9
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“Russia is clearly winning the war and is likely to prevail. The reason is simple: In a war of attrition, each side tries to bleed the other white, which means that the side that has more soldiers and more firepower is likely to emerge victorious.” 5/9
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“While it is widely believed in Europe that Putin is an imperialist who has long been determined to conquer all of Ukraine, and then conquer additional countries west of Ukraine, virtually all the available evidence is at odds with this perspective.” 4/9
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“While it is widely believed in Europe that Putin is an imperialist who has long been determined to conquer all of Ukraine, and then conquer additional countries west of Ukraine, virtually all the available evidence is at odds with this perspective.” 4/9
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“The April 2008 decision to bring Ukraine into NATO, which the West has relentlessly pursued since then, doubling down on that commitment time after time, is the main driving force behind the Ukraine war.” 3/9
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“The April 2008 decision to bring Ukraine into NATO, which the West has relentlessly pursued since then, doubling down on that commitment time after time, is the main driving force behind the Ukraine war.” 3/9
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“The United States and its European allies," Mearsheimer said, "provoked the war. … The underlying cause of the conflict was the NATO decision to bring Ukraine into the alliance, which virtually all Russian leaders saw as an existential threat that must be eliminated.” 2/9
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“The United States and its European allies," Mearsheimer said, "provoked the war. … The underlying cause of the conflict was the NATO decision to bring Ukraine into the alliance, which virtually all Russian leaders saw as an existential threat that must be eliminated.” 2/9
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In a November 11 speech to the European Parliament, Prof. John Mearsheimer provides a very useful rundown of essential factual background to the Ukraine war — information that very few Americans have ever been exposed to. 1/9 mearsheimer.substack.com/p/my-talk-at...
My Talk at the European Parliament
On 11 November 2025, I spoke in Brussels at the European Parliament on “Europe’s Bleak Future.”
mearsheimer.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In a November 11 speech to the European Parliament, Prof. John Mearsheimer provides a very useful rundown of essential factual background to the Ukraine war — information that very few Americans have ever been exposed to. 1/9 mearsheimer.substack.com/p/my-talk-at...
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De Gaulle is spinning in his grave. Everything he warned against is now coming to pass, thanks in no small part to the decisions and behavior over the years of his own political heirs. 5/5
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
De Gaulle is spinning in his grave. Everything he warned against is now coming to pass, thanks in no small part to the decisions and behavior over the years of his own political heirs. 5/5
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This is a leading reason why the French political and media establishment absolutely *hate* Melenchon (and spend much of their time beating up on him). They don’t trust him to follow orders from imperial HQ, especially when it comes to waging a world war. 4/5
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is a leading reason why the French political and media establishment absolutely *hate* Melenchon (and spend much of their time beating up on him). They don’t trust him to follow orders from imperial HQ, especially when it comes to waging a world war. 4/5
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Raphael Glucksman, darling of the US/NATO-aligned political and media establishment who says he wants to transition to a “war economy,” counters that the army chief was “right to alert the nation” and denounces the “spirit of capitulation” of the “ostriches” criticizing him. 3/5
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Raphael Glucksman, darling of the US/NATO-aligned political and media establishment who says he wants to transition to a “war economy,” counters that the army chief was “right to alert the nation” and denounces the “spirit of capitulation” of the “ostriches” criticizing him. 3/5
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Jean-Luc Melenchon, eco-socialist leader of the French Left, says that in a democracy it’s not the role of an army chief of staff to make such pronouncements or decisions, calls on Macron to bring the army chief in line, and declares, “We do not want war!” 2/5
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Jean-Luc Melenchon, eco-socialist leader of the French Left, says that in a democracy it’s not the role of an army chief of staff to make such pronouncements or decisions, calls on Macron to bring the army chief in line, and declares, “We do not want war!” 2/5
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Meanwhile in France, President Macron sends out his army chief of staff to announce that the French must accept “losing their children” and “suffering economically” to fight a war against Russia. 🧵1/5
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Meanwhile in France, President Macron sends out his army chief of staff to announce that the French must accept “losing their children” and “suffering economically” to fight a war against Russia. 🧵1/5
JFK's Peace Speech at American University, the best presidential speech in history, which JFK withheld from routine advance review by the national security bureaucracy because he knew they would kill it. www.jfklibrary.org/archives/oth...
Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
Listen to the speech. View related documents. President John F. Kennedy Washington, D.C. June 10, 1963
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November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
JFK's Peace Speech at American University, the best presidential speech in history, which JFK withheld from routine advance review by the national security bureaucracy because he knew they would kill it. www.jfklibrary.org/archives/oth...
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Increasing temperatures are already killing huge numbers of people.
A ProPublica and @us.theguardian.com analysis found that Trump’s “America First” agenda is expected to add substantially to the toll, with the vast majority of deaths occurring outside the U.S.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
A ProPublica and @us.theguardian.com analysis found that Trump’s “America First” agenda is expected to add substantially to the toll, with the vast majority of deaths occurring outside the U.S.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Increasing temperatures are already killing huge numbers of people.
A ProPublica and @us.theguardian.com analysis found that Trump’s “America First” agenda is expected to add substantially to the toll, with the vast majority of deaths occurring outside the U.S.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
A ProPublica and @us.theguardian.com analysis found that Trump’s “America First” agenda is expected to add substantially to the toll, with the vast majority of deaths occurring outside the U.S.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Meanwhile in France, President Macron sends out his army chief of staff to announce that the French must accept “losing their children” and “suffering economically” to fight a war against Russia. 🧵1/5
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Meanwhile in France, President Macron sends out his army chief of staff to announce that the French must accept “losing their children” and “suffering economically” to fight a war against Russia. 🧵1/5
In a November 11 speech to the European Parliament, Prof. John Mearsheimer provides a very useful rundown of essential factual background to the Ukraine war — information that very few Americans have ever been exposed to. 1/9 mearsheimer.substack.com/p/my-talk-at...
My Talk at the European Parliament
On 11 November 2025, I spoke in Brussels at the European Parliament on “Europe’s Bleak Future.”
mearsheimer.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In a November 11 speech to the European Parliament, Prof. John Mearsheimer provides a very useful rundown of essential factual background to the Ukraine war — information that very few Americans have ever been exposed to. 1/9 mearsheimer.substack.com/p/my-talk-at...
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"The genocide in Gaza and the looming conflict in Venezuela (and elsewhere) are statements of intent, early examples of this nascent new order. An overriding moral imperative demands both must be stopped, but prudential self-protective reasons militate toward action as well." 6/6
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"The genocide in Gaza and the looming conflict in Venezuela (and elsewhere) are statements of intent, early examples of this nascent new order. An overriding moral imperative demands both must be stopped, but prudential self-protective reasons militate toward action as well." 6/6
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"As far as the United States is concerned, the aspirations of the UN Charter—a world without aggression, and ultimately, without war—have been declared dead and, in any event, undesirable. The world-system as we know it is over." 5/6
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"As far as the United States is concerned, the aspirations of the UN Charter—a world without aggression, and ultimately, without war—have been declared dead and, in any event, undesirable. The world-system as we know it is over." 5/6
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"America, along with Israel, has apparently chosen what kind of system it intends to build in its wake: a new era of slaughter against the world’s political and economic surplus populations, a world untethered from even the pursuit of equality and peace." 4/6
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"America, along with Israel, has apparently chosen what kind of system it intends to build in its wake: a new era of slaughter against the world’s political and economic surplus populations, a world untethered from even the pursuit of equality and peace." 4/6
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"What we are now witnessing is an opening salvo in the long struggle to resolve this crisis in which ‘the demise of the existing historical system is certain and which therefore presents those found within it with a real historical choice: what kind of new historical system to build or create.’” 3/6
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"What we are now witnessing is an opening salvo in the long struggle to resolve this crisis in which ‘the demise of the existing historical system is certain and which therefore presents those found within it with a real historical choice: what kind of new historical system to build or create.’” 3/6
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"Rather than adapt to the changing world-system, the US has decided it no longer needs legitimacy as it gears up for a new round of conquest and diplomacy-by-bomb to combat and contain China and rewind the structural crisis in which it finds itself.” 2/6
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Rather than adapt to the changing world-system, the US has decided it no longer needs legitimacy as it gears up for a new round of conquest and diplomacy-by-bomb to combat and contain China and rewind the structural crisis in which it finds itself.” 2/6
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“What we are seeing now from the Trump administration is a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on.” 1/6 www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Why Trump’s Venezuela Attacks Matter So Much
They signal a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on.
www.thenation.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“What we are seeing now from the Trump administration is a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on.” 1/6 www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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The obscenely high number of Ukrainians casualties clearly does not enter into their calculations. And I doubt they regret provoking a global confrontation, since at least some of them had concluded by 2020 that this was inevitable to perpetuate the "US-led global order." 23/23
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The obscenely high number of Ukrainians casualties clearly does not enter into their calculations. And I doubt they regret provoking a global confrontation, since at least some of them had concluded by 2020 that this was inevitable to perpetuate the "US-led global order." 23/23