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Paul Thibaud: “The Ukrainian moment for Europeans”

2022-03-13T19:17:37.358Z


TRIBUNE - As in Poland in 1981, during the repression of Solidarnosc by the communist power, the aggression of Ukraine by Russia strengthens what it would like to deny, yesterday Polish society, today the Ukrainian nation, argues the philosopher, former director of the magazine Esprit.


For a whole period, which was brought to an end by the invasion of Ukraine, the threats addressed by the "master of the Kremlin" to the southern neighbor and to those who would have liked to support him gave rise to an essentially psychological analysis revolving around of the need for international consideration which Putin, and therefore Russia, had been deprived of.

The participation in NATO of neighboring countries that had previously been satellites was like an insult to him, a sign of a downgrading.

That now Ukraine, a country that shares religion and a lot of history with Russia, should in turn escape from what remains of the empire, that was intolerable to him.

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This allergy to the freedom of the neighbor has been, if not approved, at least recognized as understandable by good minds.

After the Cold War and its dichotomous order, with globalization producing no meaningful order, no criteria for judgment, we have experienced a sort of mumbling of history, an uncertainty not just about the foreseeable course…

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Source: lefigaro

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