Is the US Blameless for the War in Ukraine ?

 Russia and the United States tend to view Ukraine as a key battleground in a cosmic proxy war between East and West. Both have a bad habit of trying to pick winners in Ukrainian politics. These interventions, naive in their own ways, tend to backfire, often at Ukraine’s expense.” (“The Difficulty of Being Ukraine” IHT, 2009 )


https://florianpantazi.substack.com/p/is-the-us-blameless-for-the-war-in


NATIONALISM AND POST-NATIONALISM

 Since the June 9 elections in the EU, the enemies of nation-states and of their supporters, nationalist political parties, have been put on notice. Long under attack from EU officials, the nation-states are fighting back and are here to stay, irrespective of plans to undermine them, which originate in Brussels or in the minds of ideologues advocating the so-called “post-national formations”(Juergen Habermas).


https://florianpantazi.substack.com/p/nationalism-and-post-nationalism

IN TRANSIT THROUGH DUBAI AIRPORT

  In September  2022, I flew with my wife from Tbilisi to Bangkok via Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi. We flew to Abu Dhabi on a Dubai Air...