Archive - progressum@substack

A breakup letter to the Left

It's time to stop wasting my time with an movement infatuated with performative politics and which has lost all semblance of empathy and…

Jan 17, 2023 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

November 2022

Debunking tankies on Ukraine (Part II)

As it turns out, Ukraine is not in fact run by Nazis contrary to what the apologists for Russian fascism would like you to think.

Nov 30, 2022 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

Debunking tankies on Ukraine (Part I)

The 'anti-war' left (and populist right) have been grossly distorting history in order to whitewash Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Time to set the record…

Nov 9, 2022 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

October 2022

Douma and its conspiracists

How the "anti-war" left created a conspiracy theory out of a Syrian Civil War tragedy, and how the UN unwillingly helped

Oct 26, 2022 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

April 2022

Why Russia is losing: a primer on the war in Ukraine

The second strongest military on the planet is getting humiliated. This is why the outcome should not be a surprise.

Apr 2, 2022 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

March 2022

Ukraine-Russia: The risks and rewards of Western escalation

The West can certainly do more to help Ukraine win its war against Russia. But escalation against a nuclear power carries immense risks.

Mar 6, 2022 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

February 2022

How Ukraine can win the war (or Russia lose it)

Ukraine's military survived the initial Russian onslaught. There is now reason to believe it can pull off a victory.

Feb 25, 2022 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

The left is getting the Russia-Ukraine conflict horribly wrong

Its knee-jerk support of Russia violates the normative arguments that we need for an international system based on non-intervention

Feb 14, 2022 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

December 2021

Covid is over 500 times deadlier than the flu

Debunking the notorious talking point that claims Covid is nothing more than a bad flu

Dec 9, 2021 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

September 2021

The Media Bias Chart's liberal bias

It's time we started realizing that the centrist-leaning liberal media is not nearly as unbiased and reliable as they've made themselves to be

Sep 12, 2021 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

How the left went anti-vax

Paranoid anti-establishment ideation became a fertile breeding ground for a growing segment of the left to distrust science as much as the right

Sep 7, 2021 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

August 2021

Manufactured division: how the fringe left is hijacking Medicare for All

It was a day that should have marked a small step forward for one of the most important rallying cries of the progressive left in the US. On July 24th…

Aug 25, 2021 •

Rodrigo Aguilera

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