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Jean-François Colosimo: “The war in Ukraine, a globalized conflict that has only just begun”

2023-02-22T18:43:53.116Z


BIG INTERVIEW – For the historian and theologian, the conflict is part of a context of the return of empires, not only in Russia, but also in China, India, Iran and Turkey. The battle of Ukraine is all the more decisive as it could be the prelude to a conflict...


On February 24, 2022 by order of Vladimir Putin, Russian troops entered

Ukraine

.

Since then, the military resistance of kyiv has defeated the imperial aims of Russia.

A year after the beginning of the conflict, we gave the floor to philosophers, historians, writers, to shed light, each in their own way, on this war which changed the world.

LE FIGARO.

- Why did the return of war to European soil a year ago stun us?

Jean-Francois COLOSIMO.

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Return of war, return of religion, return of tragedy… All these presumed resurgences are illusory.

They result from our propensity to forget.

Until 1989, the bipolar glaciation prohibited any open conflict in Europe.

In 1991, the USSR sank without bloodshed.

We want to believe in “happy globalization”.

However, this same year 1991, resumes the peripheral war of the Balkans, frozen under Tito.

It bursts in this buffer zone that is the Krajina of Croatia populated…

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Source: lefigaro

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