Are Finns and Hungarians Turks? The difference between Turanism and Pan-Turkism
Many confuse Pan-Turkism with Turanism, including sometimes the Hungarian Prime Minister Orban. However, one can forgive him for that. Many think that the Hungarians really consider themselves Turks in the literal linguistic sense. This is far from true. Since the 19th century, the Hungarians adhered to the ideology of Turanism, not pan-Turkism. They called one […]
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Does Italian media make us more free? – Alessandro Orsini
And now General Mark Milley, the chief of staff of the American armed forces, suggests dealing with Russia. The general explains that there has been a massacre in Ukraine: the massacre that I foreshadowed on February 24 in my first speeches on the war. General Milley says about 100,000 Russian soldiers and about 100,000 Ukrainian […]
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The Western fascination with the East – part I
Is Orientalism A Sign of Western Decadence? Relations between “the East” and “the West” have always been complex throughout history. At the beginning of time, at the dawn of history, everything was clear: the Orient was the birthplace of culture and civilisation. “Ex oriente lux”, like the Romans said, light comes from the East, the […]
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Zelensky has no interest in peace – Diego Fusaro
It is now clear and beyond any reasonable doubt: Ukraine, guided by the mummer Zelensky, a NATO actor, is looking for total war. He has no intention of trying to follow the diplomatic path and quickly achieve peace. This is what emerges from the most recent declarations by the G7 fool: no possibility of dialogue […]
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С Западом или с Востоком?
Должны ли страны и культуры обязательно делать выбор между Востоком и Западом? Разве нельзя просто иметь нормальные отношения и с Востоком, и с Западом, и при этом не становиться частью одного из них? Запад, продукт европейской цивилизации, кажется, имеет более четкую идентичность. В течение века Восток, Азия были всем, чем не был Запад. В этом […]
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With the East or with the West?
Do nations and cultures have to make a necessarily choice between East and West? Is it not possible to have normal relations with both the East and the West, without necessarily becoming part of one? The West, a product of European civilization, seems to have a more clear identity. For century the East, the Orient, […]
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Our problem is called USA – Nachdenkseiten
This text was originally published on Nachdenkseiten. It is not yet 100 percent certain that the USA is behind the sabotage of the two Baltic Sea pipelines. But the evidence and the interests speak for it. Our colleague Jens Berger explained this conclusively here two days ago: ““The attacks on Nord Stream and the elephant […]
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Will Europe break with the United States?
I received a great questions from a German reader who also happens to be a journalist. He asked, “What would be a way and what would be the practical implications if Europe in general and Germany in particular were to break with the US in order to find a European peace and economic framework including […]
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Is a global war on the way?
This article is based on a story published in the Polish weekly newspaper Mysl Polska. The Russian mobilization announced on Wednesday means the end of the “strange war” in Ukraine and its transformation into a full-scale conflict. In the context of the referenda planned for the next few days and the annexation of part of […]
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The myth about Ukrainian democracy
Intellectuals pride themselves immensely for supposedly being people (generally the only people) who can with unfailing ability distinguish what is true from what is not true; of course only what is true matters. The intellectuals are intellectuals because they can tell myth from reality. Yet, as experience suggests, there is hardly anyone in the world […]
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The 10 best books about the East and the West
Here a very subjective list of most interesting books on the East and the West that you can easily find today. For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies, by Prof. Robert Irwin: A story of Oriental studies The Silk Roads, by Prof. Peter Frankopan, “a new history of the world”, like the subtitle […]
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Germany acts as a vassal of the USA in the Ukraine war
For the vast majority of German politicians and journalists, the war in Ukraine began on February 24, 2022. With this view, which ignores the complete history of the Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany cannot make any contribution to peace. The sentence is attributed to the poet Aeschylus: In war, truth is the first casualty. […]
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Does the West really care about Afghanistan?
Its been a year since the US left Afghanistan. On the anniversary of that very event Western media outlets eagerly describe how the country is rapidly descending into chaos and how now Afghanistan is on the verge of turning into the biggest humanitarian crisis of 2022. Hospitals run out of medication and the country slowly […]
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Закат западной философии?
Чтобы понять конечное предназначение (Bestimmtheit) философии— не как университетской дисциплины, а как антропологической установки, как способа бытия в мире —, прежде чем спрашивать себя о ее судьбе (Geschick), нам, безусловно, следует обратиться к происхождению самой философии. Философия, как написал знаменитый итальянский философ Эмануэле Северино, «рождается великой», то есть содержит в своем восходе и рассвете весь […]
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Forget the tears. The West is happy that Russia has attacked Ukraine
At first it may seem of course a terrible thing even to just entertain such a thought. Yet there are a lot of elements to suggest that Europe and the United States may not entirely be disinterested in the prolongation of the Ukrainian crisis, since February taken to a new level by the open confrontation […]
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Ist die westliche Philosophie zum Untergang bestimmt?
You can read this text in English here. Um die letzte Bestimmung (auch „Bestimmtheit“) der Philosophie zu verstehen, bevor wir uns fragen, ob die Philosophie noch eine Ziel, ein Geschick haben kann – nicht als Universitätsdisziplin, sondern als anthropologische Haltung, als Weise des In-der-Welt-Seins –, müssen wir uns zunächst ihrem Ursprung zuwenden. Die Philosophie, schrieb […]
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Is Western philosophy destined for decline?
To understand the ultimate destination (what some German philosophers have called Bestimmtheit) of philosophy, before asking ourselves about its having or not having – not as a university discipline, but as an anthropological posture, as a way of being in the world – still a Destiny (Geschick), we must certainly first of all turn to […]
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Security Policy and the Western Demonization of Russia and its Citizens – NachDenkSeiten
This article originally appeared on NachDenkSeiten.de Unfortunately, how the war in Ukraine is to be ended and how peace and a stable security structure are to be designed afterwards is still not on the agenda of the warring parties and, above all, not on the current agenda of the western states that support Ukraine. How […]
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THE GREAT CONFLICT FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD
This article was originally published on L’Antidiplomatico. The associated forms of human life that we can call “society” if seen from the inside, or “states”, if from the outside, have always had three kinds of exchanges between them: short, medium and long term. Although the rhetoric of globalization gave a superficial impression that distances and […]
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The slandering of pacifism and the woke war in Ukraine
Discrediting the appeasers, those who seem to want to add an unnecessary element of complexity in the reading of the events in Ukraine, is not a new thing, something that has emerged only since the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Appeasers” have been attacked at least since 2014, after the Maidan revolution and the passage […]
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