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Jean-François Colosimo: "Putin is all the more dangerous because he has nothing left to lose"

2022-09-28T19:53:55.166Z


BIG INTERVIEW - In a dense and scholarly work, which appears these days, the historian and theologian, specialist in the world of Orthodoxy, goes back to the distant source of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.


The war started by Vladimir Putin is part of a thousand-year-old cultural and religious confrontation: Ukraine, a strategic crossroads between the West and the Slavic world, has never ceased to be a challenge for the powers of the moment, but also for the three Christian denominations, analyzes Jean-François Colosimo.

The intellectual believes that if Vladimir Putin is currently in a situation of failure, there is no guarantee that other Russian leaders will soon succeed him, nor that they will necessarily be better disposed towards Westerners.

LE FIGARO.

- Your book is subtitled: “A thousand years of religious wars in Europe”.

How would the war in Ukraine be religious?

Why speak of a millennial conflict?

Jean-Francois COLOSIMO.

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We suffer from historical amnesia and civilizational hemiplegia.

It is from the dislocation of the Roman Empire that, from the ninth century, the two Europes, Western and Eastern, are born.

Rome and Constantinople argue...

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Source: lefigaro

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