Is This Just a Propaganda Trick?

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U emawe, you are a specialist and propagandar. They have to at the very least convince russians that this is a matter of the world. That's an old propaganda trick, isn't it? If you look closely at is this just propaganda trick? Look what they already did in gosia, georgia. Even i'm very clear, who knows what's really happening in ukrain? There are many honest people fighting and so on. But we don't get any clear accountWhat's happening with all the billions that go there? What's happening with arms? Go some parts, some some. Some of thes ms are obviously disappearing somewhere else

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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