The way that Putin is positing Russia today as anti-West is deeply flawed. Russia is not Asian, it’s not a civilisation of its own. It’s part of West, although traumatised by its past. Our common future is European. But it might take a while.
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Replying to @ABarbashin
This has never worked, when will you learn? To the extent that «Europe» even exists as a unified civilization, it has rejected these clumsy ingratiating attempts time and again. And the approach itself is, ironically, «Asiatic».
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Replying to @teortaxesTex @ABarbashin
Funny, isn't it - the effort to recreate imperial China painted as European and the quintessentially European arrangement of independent sovereigns painted as Asiatic.
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