
The true Western motto is: “We are the masters and have the say”
- East And West
- 6 Dec 2022
This article originally appeared on Nachdenkseiten. Driven by the same stupidity with which we try to solve our global problems today and squander our creative potential, the powerful of the early days, inspired by the simple idea “I am the Lord and I am in charge”, began to very successfully consolidate their rule and expand. […]
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Are Finns and Hungarians Turks? The difference between Turanism and Pan-Turkism
- East And West
- 22 Nov 2022
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
- East And West
- 12 Nov 2022
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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With the East or with the West?
- East And West
- 19 Oct 2022
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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Will Europe break with the United States?
- East And West
- 26 Sep 2022
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?
- East And West
- 24 Sep 2022
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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Forget the tears. The West is happy that Russia has attacked Ukraine
- East And West
- 1 Aug 2022
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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Can Macron avert a war between Russia and NATO?
- East And West
- 21 Feb 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron succeeded in getting his colleagues from Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, to agree to a summit on security issues in the Ukrainian Donbass, where an armed escalation has continued for the fourth day since 18 February. Macron “proposed a summit between President Biden and President Putin […]
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Poland is not going to leave the EU, but the EU is at yet another crisis point
- East And West
- 19 Oct 2021
Relations between Poland and the EU have been tense since at least 2015, when the Polish conservative party “Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc” (“Law and Justice”) won the elections after a 8-year rule by the pro-European “Citizen platform”. These relations took another turn for the worse when a few weeks ago the Polish Constitutional Court deemed some […]
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Putin, Putin everywhere – Myśl Polska
- East And West
- 9 May 2021
- Russia
This article originally appeared on Myśl Polska. The German Office for the Protection of the Constitution has targeted German vaccine-skeptics who do not trust vaccination against COVID-19 with drugs that are not sufficiently tested for side effects, or for how long they last. Someone might ask: what does the Office for the Protection of the […]
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Europe must not succumb to the Soros network – Orban responds to Soros
- East And West
- 29 Nov 2020
Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán responded to an article by George Soros published in Project Syndicate on November 18, calling for pressure on Hungary and Poland. Many believe that the prime minister of a country should not enter into an argument with George Soros. Their reasoning is that Soros is an economic criminal, because he […]
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Long read: How the West subverts itself
- East And West
- 24 Jul 2020
In the last decade Western audiences have often been fed a narrative of Russian interference in our domestic affairs. The Western media abounds with horrifying stories of how the Russians are seeking to exploit social division and subvert us. What the precise outcome of such a malicious plan is, remains unclear. After all the great […]
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Eastern Europe beats West in Covid-19 fight, but West can’t acknowledge it because of Cold War SUPERIORITY complex
- East And West
- 6 Jul 2020
By Neil Clark This article was originally published on RT.com By any objective assessment, governments in the eastern half of Europe have dealt with the Covid-19 outbreak better than many in the west. Yet, because of deep-seated attitudes of superiority, few are giving credit where it’s due. Europe is divided again, but this time not […]
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Why Russians Don’t Want to Be Europeans
- East And West
- 5 Jul 2020
By Patrick Armstrong This article was originally published by the Strategic Culture Foundation. In a previous essay I argued that Russia was not a European country. It was its own thing – a civilisation-state. I used a Toynbeean argument that the history of Europe could be written without ever using the word “Russia” up until […]
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The Illusion Of The Polish Road To Sovereignty – One World
- East And West
- 16 May 2020
This article was written by Polish journalist Konrad Rękas in response to Andrew Korybko’s latest piece about how “Germany Wants To Replace The Patriotic Polish Government With Europhile Puppets”. It originally appeared on One World. I tried to understand the author’s writing that Poland is already on its road to independence because I know that […]
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Germany Wants To Replace The Patriotic Polish Government With Europhile Puppets – One World
- East And West
- 15 May 2020
This article originally appeared on OneWorld. The former Polish Minister of Defense accused Germany of conspiring with a few other foreign actors to replace the patriotic Polish government with Europhile puppets, arguing that the country’s latest political controversy over the date of its presidential elections is proof of an attempt being made to carry out […]
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We shall never forget
- East And West
- 8 May 2020
- History
- Russia
Tomorrow is May 9, Victory Day. 75 years from the day when we gained full confidence that we will live, we the future generations whose grandparents, great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers have all directly or indirectly participated in the war. In 2017, new data was declassified 41 million people – 41 MILLION – in the USSR fell […]
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Никогда не забудем
- East And West
- 8 May 2020
Завтра 9 мая, день великой победы. 75 лет с того дня, когда мы получили полную уверенность в том, что будем жить, мы – будущие поколения, чьи бабушки и дедушки, прабабушки и прадедушки – все до единого прямо или косвенно учавствовали в войне. В 2017 г были рассекречены новые данные – 41 МИЛЛИОН. 41 миллион жителей […]
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How do Ukrainians see Europe?
- East And West
- 7 May 2020
- Ukraine
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, for many Ukrainians, Europe became a kind of “promised land.” Not only for Ukrainians, however, but also for people from many other former Soviet republics. The media actively idealized and embellished Europe in order to turn people away from the nostalgia for Soviet times that existed in Ukrainian […]
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Как украинцы видят Европу?
- East And West
- 5 May 2020
После распада Советского Союза для многих украинцев Европа стала чем-то вроде «земли обетованной». Не только для ряда украинцев, впрочем, но и для жителей многих других республик. СМИ активно идеализировали и приукрашивали Европу, чтобы отвратить людей от ностальгии по советским временам, бытовавшей в украинском обществе в 1990х и начале 2000х. Такая ностальгия была вызвана резким ухудшением […]
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