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THE ROAD TO UKRAINE - FRANK FUREDI KARTONIERT (TB)

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their
origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during
this conflict still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars are not supposed to
happen in Europe or that we live in the era of the End of History  the experience of Ukraine
highlights the salience of the spell of the past. The failure of the West to take its past
seriously has left it confused and unprepared to deal with the current crisis. Unexpectedly
fashionable claims about the irrelevance of borders and of nation states have been exposed as
shallow myths. The author argues that the West's self-inflicted condition of historical amnesia
has encouraged it to disregard the salience of geo-political realities. Suddenly the once
fashionable claims that made up the virtues of globalisation appear threadbare. This problem 
which was already evident during the global Covid pandemic has reached a crisis point in the
battlefield of Ukraine. History has had its revenge on a culture that believes that what
happened in the past no longer matters. The Road To Ukraine: How the West Lost Its Way argues
that overcoming the state of historical amnesia is the precondition for the restoration of
global solidarity.

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