Isn't This What They Are Doing, Is It a Form of Neopacism?

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Trevans: I fully support ukran with all the critical points about it. We don't give time. Look putin, when he announced the war on 20 third of february, did you notice that he mentioned just one name, critically, lenin? And he said explicitly, ukrain was lenin's invention. It was a very obscene statement. Even in slovina, not to mention countries like bulgaria and so on, baltic countries are scared like sheep. They are terribly afraid. When people oppose nato, i say, ok, but russia is a threat, not an implicit treat. Offer them another, another option for

Florence Read meets Slavoj Žižek.

In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Western decadence has reached a point of no return. When it comes to the simultaneous crises of climate change, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, he asserts, only a cooperative global effort will steer us away from catastrophe. But have the culture wars weakened the West too much to regain order in disordered times? Slavoj Žižek joined UnHerd's Florence Read, live from his home in Slovenia, to discuss the cure for chaos.

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