Ukraine and Beyond
Ukraine and Beyond is a series of conversations with me and various guests with the aim of improving our understanding of the war in Ukraine and with the ambition of improving our ability to understand and fight the global struggle for freedom. My name is Emil Juhler-Nøttrup, I am 27 years old and I am from Copenhagen, Denmark. I have always been politically active, and I am currently doing a Master’s degree in Political Science. My personal motivation for doing and publishing the conversations stems from a sense of responsibility and indignation that I have felt ever since Russia’s large scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The responsibility and indignation arose because what took place crystallised for me what happens when free democratic countries meet autocratic threats with apathy, conveniency and appeasement. The free democratic world failed Ukraine by giving them NOTHING substantial to defend themselves with prior to the large-scale invasion because we thought the President and the people would surrender without a fight. Why were we so blatantly wrong? I think it comes down to two factors. One is our own inability to defend and understand freedom, and the other is our lack of understanding of the countries that have suffered under Soviet and Russian influence in the past, and I think the two things are intrinsically linked. The ambition is therefore also that by understanding Ukraine better, we can improve our overall ability to defend and understand freedom. And after all, if we ourselves DO NOT defend freedom, which we DIDN´T do before the large-scale invasion, both on a practical level and in the global struggle for narratives, then why should other people follow our example? Right now Ukraine is the example we all have to follow and understand. It´s as simple as that. The conversations take place in Danish and English, as I also speak with Danes. I do my best to talk to as many Ukrainians as possible, because their stories are the most important and greatly inspire me, but many of the conversations are also with Danish or foreign politicians or experts whose voices are important in the debate. If you got this far, i suppose you will read this as well, but let me be honest. I once had a more USA, NATO and EU critic view, but what corrected my path, was seeing the documentary ”Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom”. This documentary shows what Ukrainians went through during the ”Revolution of Dignity” in the winter of 2013-14, and it is just staggering how close you see the events. Nothing is left for doubt. This was a democratic revolution in which many Ukrainians willingly sacrificed their lifes to the struggle for freedom and dignity. We have to keep honoring, understanding and think of the meaning such actions! Enjoy and get smarter. Slava Ukraini! Follow the work here: https://www.instagram.com/ukrainefluencing/ https://www.facebook.com/EmilJuhlerN https://www.linkedin.com/in/emil-juhler-n%C3%B8ttrup-564684132/
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Episodes
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
Lørdag den 16. december talte jeg igen med Nicolai Toxværd, der tidligere har været EU-, forsvars- og udenrigsordfører i Konservativ Ungdom. I dag er han Sergentelev på Løjtnantsuddannelsen ved HSGS. Vi taler mest om det historiske topmøde i Det Europæiske Råd tidligere i december. Derudover taler vi om udviklingen i krigen mellem Israel og Hamas fra oktober og frem til i dag. Afslutningsvis berører vi den konflikt, der spirrer mellem Venezuela og Guyana.
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Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Fredag den 8. december talte jeg med Christian Egander Skov. Christian er forfatter til bogen "Borgerlig Krise" fra 2022, redaktør ved Årsskriftet Critique og samtidig konsulent og programleder for Medborgerskab og samfundspolitik i Tænketanken Prospekt for blot at nævne nogle få af hans titler. Jeg har glædet mig ekstraordinært meget til at udgive netop denne samtale, fordi Christian, som jeg ser det, er en af de skarpeste stemmer i kampen for fortsat og øget dansk opbakning til Ukraine.
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I kan følge Tænketanken Prospekts arbejde her: https://www.taenketankenprospekt.dk/
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Friday Dec 08, 2023
On December 7 I spoke with Serhii Kostrikov from Ukraine who lives in Copenhagen. I met Serhii through his wife Anastasia, whom I spoke with back in September. Serhii and Anastasia are both active in the Copenhaged based organisation "Ukrainian Dialogues". I encourage everyone to follow their work in Facebook, Instagram and X. At a resent event in memory of the atrocitiy that was Holodomor (a genocide comitted against Ukraine by the Soviet regime in 1932-33) Serhii gave a presentation on the subject. We talk about the war as of now and about Holodomor.
Listen along and widen your perspective.
Link to Ukrainian Dialogues FB: https://www.facebook.com/UAdialogues
Link to Ukrainian Dialogues IG: https://www.instagram.com/uadialogues/
Link to Ukrainian Dialogues X: https://twitter.com/UAdialogues
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
On Sunday the 26th of November I spoke with Olena Dudko. We talk about why history in general is important and about why Ukrainian history is, particularly, important as Ukraine is fighting an existential war for the survival of Ukraine as an independent free and sovereign nation. The conversation works as a kind of prologue to a longer “Ukrainian history series” I have been wanting to do for a long time, because history and especially Ukrainian history really captivates me. Besides that, I sincerely think historical knowledge is key to understand the Ukrainian will to self-defense against a brutal Russian aggressor. Because of that I am very happy to announce with this conversation, that I, over the next couple of months, together with three Ukrainians, Olena, Yevheniia and Diana, will be doing a “Ukraine history series” as a part of the Ukraine and Beyond conversation series.
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Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Mandag den 13. november talte jeg for anden gang med Niels Jespersen, chefredaktør for Netavisen Pio. Vi taler om krigen i Ukraine og om Ukraines politiske krig med fokus på udsigten til fortsat og øget militær støtte. Det taler vi om i lyset af krigen mellem Hamas og Israel, der siden 7. oktober har betydet, at mindre fokus har været til overs for Ukraine. Derudover taler vi om alt mellem himmel og jord, herunder KU's groteske retningslinjer for politisk aktivisme på skolens matriktler.
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Slava Ukraini, i går, i dag, i morgen, for altid!
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
This week is a special episode about our change of name from "Conversations about Eastern Europe" to "Ukraine and Beyond". We´re changing the name because "Ukraine and Beyond" is more fitting than the current to describe the conversation series. In the episode i outline the reasons for the change, talk about the connection between the Israel-Palestine war and the war Ukraine and make a sort of status as to where we are now with the war in Ukraine.
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Slava Ukraini!
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
On Wednesday 18 October, I spoke with Anna, who is the Head of the Law Department at the Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine.
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Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
On Wednesday 11 October I spoke with Oleksandr Kraiev. Oleksandr is the director of the North American Programme at the Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism" and a future PhD fellow at Visegrad Insight. We talk about the latest news in Ukraine, the tragedies that have struck Ukrainian civilians, about our assessments concerning development in US support for Ukraine and about the relationship between Hamas and Russia.
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Link to Oleksandr Kraievs FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009469088340
Link to IG: https://www.instagram.com/oleksandr_kraiev/
Link to X: https://twitter.com/OKraiev
Link to LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oleksandr-kraiev-283890290/
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Tirsdag den 10. oktober, tre dage efter terrorangrebet på Israel, talte jeg med Katrine Evelyn Jensen, forbundsformand i Danmark Socialdemokratiske Ungdom. Vi taler om, hvorfor vi bakker Israel op, om hvordan vores verdenssyn med tiden har ændret sig, og så taler vi om, hvor tragisk det er, at der i Danmark er steder, hvor det at være jøde eller udtrykke sympati med Israel og jøder medfører en sikkerhedsrisiko.
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Link til klip fra DR: https://www.facebook.com/drp1/videos/1046072283094547/
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Tirsdag den 10. oktober talte jeg med Nicolai Toxværd, der tidligere har været EU-, forsvars- og udenrigsordfører i Konservativ Ungdom. I dag er han Sergentelev på Løjtnantsuddannelsen ved HSGS. Vi taler om den aktuelle situation i Israel og Palæstina, om situationen i Mellemøsten bredere set og om, hvad der skal til fra de "vestlige" befolkningers side, hvis den nedadgående kurve for frihed og demokrati på globalt plan skal vendes. Derudover blev der også tid til en gedigen kritik af venstrefløjen herhjemme.
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