Syria, Ukraine, and parallels between autocrats - with Jean-Pierre Filiu - Thinking in Dark Times #8
Explaining Ukraine
Putin and the Arab Spring
I am fully, deeply convinced that we are talking about basically the same kind of popular processes of defending and struggling for collective self-determination against autocracy or tyranny. When on Tahrir Square in Cairo, that has been the center of peaceful revolution against the Mubarak dictatorship, everything had been erased. And really for me, it's not only parallel, it's the same dynamics. I noticed that people who didn't take into consideration those popular dynamics in the Arab world were also many not to take into consideration the same popular dynamics in Ukraine. But when it comes to Vladimir Assad and Bashar Putin, for them, it's very clear. Color revolution, our conspiracies, people are foreign agents,
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