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We knew since September 11 that the end of history was an illusion.
The war in Ukraine teaches us that history can also take its revenge.
As Bruno Tertrais rightly observes in our columns, through this conflict, it is the past that resurfaces and takes revenge.
For the historian, Sabine Dullin, thirty years after the end of the Cold War and the USSR, "
it is first of all a desire for revenge on the West and the United States
".
But also of a desire for Putin to take over "
the vision of the tsars of the end of the 19th century
" and to "
restore at least in part the disappeared Soviet Union
".
Russia is far from being an isolated case: in Turkey, Erdogan dreams of being a neo-Ottoman sultan and Xi Jinping as an emperor of China.
For the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hubert Védrine, by his mixture of arrogance and naivety undoubtedly has a share of responsibility in this situation.
But "
it's not because we helped create...
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