IT'S TIME FOR AN AMERICAN GORBACHEV ?

 This at least is the opinion shared by the foreign news editor of Cotidianul daily from Romania

I think however that a much more appropriate analogy for the current situation the US finds itself in is not with the USSR in its last decade, but with Yeltsin's Russia.

Consider  this . By 1999, Boris Yeltsin was to ill to fulfill his duties as president, same as Biden is now. Both Yeltsin and  Biden  worked for decades as high-ranking officials in their parties, Yeltsin for the CPSU, Biden for the Democratic party. They were both elected presidents at the end of their careers, when they proved unable to adapt to a rapidly changing international environment. 

Moreover, the two were accused of allowing their children to profit from their positions in the state by taking bribes from foreign business people. And finally, given their medical condition , they were both unable in the end  to work for more than a few hours daily and we're eased out of their positions by their political allies and / or family.

Women as Political Leaders

 

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What are the reasons for putting a woman in charge at the very top ?

More often than not, the choice of a women as heads of government in the West is a clear indication of the dysfunctional political system or of a party, one that is experiencing great difficulty in managing the state’s affairs or its internal dynamics.   This  political innovation was imported by Western democracies from the Third World :

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https://substack.com/@florianpantazi?utm_source=about-page

What's at stake for the EU in Ukraine ?

 

The recent NATO summit failed to address the crucial problem of the European Union’s eastern borders.

https://florianpantazi.substack.com/p/whats-at-stake-for-the-eu-in-ukraine

A Recipe for Losing Elections

 

To be sure, nationalist parties have constantly increased their share of the votes Europe-wide, from Austria, Hungary and Slovakia in Central Europe, to Germany and Italy, Spain , France and the UK in the West. 

https://florianpantazi.substack.com/p/a-recipe-for-losing-elections

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

A TALE OF TWO PRESIDENTS

 

“I didn’t want mothers to lose their children and wives [ to lose] their husbands. I didn’t want their bodies to flow down the Dnipro from Kiev. I didn’t want to assume power through bloodshed.” ( Ianukovici in the aftermath of the Orange Revolution from 2004 )

https://florianpantazi.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-presidents