Die Einschätzungen gingen tatsächlich sehr weit auseinander. Im Nachhinein ärgert man sich, nicht noch deutlicher gegen die zum Teil menschenverachtenden, Afghanistan zur Karikatur verzerrenden Allgemeinplätze angegangen zu sein….
Elections in a divided society and fragmenting state?
There are strong signs that Ukraine today is a divided society and a fragmented state. These divisions have not been invented or imposed by the enlargement policy of the EU or the forceful and decisive Russian reaction to this, however divisive those have been and still are.
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What the “useful idiots” have in common
The motive behind Schmidts and Schröders support of Russia’s actions may be different in normative as well as political terms (given his age the former may be forgiven to argue as if the Soviet Union was still intact as a predictable adversary embedded in a stable bipolar international order and the latter may not be forgiven for his venal opportunism).