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Syria, Ukraine, and parallels between autocrats - with Jean-Pierre Filiu - Thinking in Dark Times #8

Explaining Ukraine

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The Legacy of the Legacy of Freedom of Expression

I think this is a drama of Belarus, because in Belarus you have a situation of this conflict between legality and legitimacy. And I may gain a personal anecdote on the very evening of the full-scale invasion in Paris. We have a plus de la Rapublique, it's our Maidan, Rapublique Square, and spontaneously crowds of people gathered with Ukrainian flags. And I recall that the legitimate president of Belarus was present that night, to give a full support to the Ukrainian resistance. So now, the general picture is very depressing. Honestly, the last wave of popular protest in Lebanon, in Iraq, in Algeria, in Sudan, starting in 2019, was fought and repressed everywhere

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