The most dangerous proposal around at the moment, apart from nosplyzone, is the second nuremberg. If put in and his cronies realize that they can be standing in the dock there, what does that do to give them any incentive to wind down, to descalate? It means it's an existential choice of life and death with them. I don't actually think that liberalism as an iteology in the political class is in much decline, as frank says. But then i don't think one can count. One can bet on a put in being removed, and even being replaced by any one a substantially betterIt would probably be someone from within the security apparatus,.
Following the fall of communism in 1989, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama shot to fame with his thesis about the ‘end of history’ – the idea that the entire world was set on a path towards universal liberalism. But 30 years on, liberalism is under attack from both the Right and the Left – and from Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Professor Fukuyama was joined in conversation by John Gray, the British political philosopher, who rejects the idea of a universal momentum towards liberal values and human progress. Despite the view of many that the Russian invasion of Ukraine marks the end of the post-Cold War era, Fukuyama believes that it is a wake-up call for the West to rekindle the spirit of 1989, while Gray holds that the idea that liberalism will ever triumph is a mirage. Chairing the discussion is the journalist, author and broadcaster, Helen Lewis.
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