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Newsletter Nr. 999
Amsterdam, July 12th, 2022


THE 'CATCH-22' OF UKRAINE - A Response to Dillard - FRANK VISSER

As much as I can agree with Dillard's analysis of Western hypocricy in the global political arena, I have argued early on that this isn't a Western privilege. What is more, this very analysis can be applied to Russia's behavior with regards to Ukraine. For this country exists within a catch-22 situation with regards to its neighbour Russia, which doesn't even accepts Ukraine as an independent nation. It is Russia that "creates arbitrary rules in order to justify and conceal its own abuse of power" or that is "detached from relational exchanges" in this conflict, to use Dillard's own phrases. He uses the example of a student government in high school or college, which can play democracy while at the same time being placed within a rigid school hierarchy. Well, Ukraine is in the same predicament: it can imagine itself to be an independent country but has to deal with an enemy that denies its cultural identity.

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