Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 17: What W.E.B. Du Bois Would Say About the Ukraine War

Imagine Du Bois looking at Ukraine: he’d call Russia’s invasion imperial violence and honor Ukrainian suffering, but he wouldn’t let Western powers off the hook either.

He’d make you notice which refugees we welcome, which wars get headlines, and how arms, profit, and power shape the stories we tell about ‘civilization’ and ‘barbarism.’

So yeah, stand with the people hurting—but don’t mistake weapons shipments for moral clarity. Du Bois would urge us to choose reason over force, and to dismantle the systems that make war profitable.