The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday May 12th, 2022 – International Nurses Day
International Nurses Day (IND) is an international day observed around the world on 12 May (the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth) each year, to mark the contributions that nurses make to society.
The Only Way #Ukraine Can Win the #War by Bohdan Yuri
One must wonder what President Zelensky must be thinking when he hears Western representatives tell him how much The West supports his efforts. And Zelesnky’s reply is always the same, “Yes, thank you, but we need more supplies: arms, planes, firepower…”
The West is desperately trying to keep up with the supply logistic which have become increasingly slower and subject to supply line logistics towards the eastern front.
In reality, though, Zelensky probably would have liked to say, “But we also needed it yesterday, all of our yesterdays. Why not sooner?”
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Trapped in the Net, Wanting to Breach #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“Built to withstand
pressure that
would crush a
Volkswagen”
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Kenneth Waltz: The Passing of the Second Generation of the Realists by Rene Wadlow
Waltz was often referred to as a “neorealist” to distinguish him from the writers of the first generation, especially from Hans Morgenthau , but the difference was more a question of age and formative experience than a real difference of approach, although Waltz was critical of Morgenthau’s ‘Germanic’ emphasis on ‘the will to power’ which motivates everyone but especially those in control of state policy.
Waltz called himself a “structural realist” — a better term for his emphasis on the behaviour of states as determined by the structures of the world society rather than by domestic motivations or the personality of state leaders. Waltz attacks “reductionist theories” which explain the foreign policy behaviour of states exclusively in terms of causes at the national level of analysis, for example, Lenin’s theory of imperialism because it explains expansionist behaviour in terms of the accumulation dynamics of national capitalism.
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Sceptic feathers #035 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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