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Pascal Bruckner: “A new November 9, 1989 is possible”

2023-01-12T18:50:26.374Z


INTERVIEW – As kyiv resurrects, according to the French philosopher, “the spirit of Stalingrad and Verdun”, he condemns a French exception which sees President Macron persisting in “wooing Putin, while supporting Zelensky”.


Ukraine is not only fighting for its independence, it is also fighting for freedom from Europe and the United States and for the salvation of democracy in general.

For this war, Europeans and Americans are partly responsible, not because they would have "humiliated" Russia, as the diplomatic doxa would have it, but because they forgot this myriad of Eastern European countries mentally in the bosom of Moscow.

We will remember the sentence of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in December 2017:

“I do not feel anything in common with the Baltic countries.

It's the end of the world, even the Romans didn't go there.

The great womb of Europe are the borders of the Roman Empire (…) And one would treat distant Lithuanians as brothers on the pretext that they are Christians!

It's not my story."

But our blindness comes above all from the euphoria following the fall of the Wall, from the naive belief in the conjunction of the market and democracy to pacify the whole earth...

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Source: lefigaro

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