One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan. The theorist’s best idea—according to this well-known publication that is a virtual arm of the U.S. State Department—is that “the big revolution the left is waiting for will never come.”
“we must stop letting Russia define the terms of the Ukraine crisis”
Isn’t the west defining the terms when it backed a coup that lead to the rise of fascism, the glorification of Bandera, and the murder of civilians in eastern ukraine.
It’s also acting as if Russia (or China or Cuba, etc.) has a voice in western media whatsoever. I don’t think the average westerner can describe their perspective on anything.
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“we must stop letting Russia define the terms of the Ukraine crisis”
Isn’t the west defining the terms when it backed a coup that lead to the rise of fascism, the glorification of Bandera, and the murder of civilians in eastern ukraine.
It’s also acting as if Russia (or China or Cuba, etc.) has a voice in western media whatsoever. I don’t think the average westerner can describe their perspective on anything.
He dare compare Dr. Che Guevara to the traitor Trotsky? HAS HE NO SHAME