History’s Insights for the West’s Russian Dilemma

Madrid.- One of the leading European humanists of our time, Rob Riemen, considers that “Donald Trump is a contemporary fascist,” and that the United States “is now our enemy,” twinned with Putin and North Korea. “The Western alliance is broken.” In an interview with El Financiero, the Dutch philosopher claims that the war in Europe has “in a way already begun: Russia will not stop in Ukraine.” Now “we realize that the period of peace we have had…

History’s Insights for the West’s Russian Dilemma

Through his rhetoric and actions, United States (US) President Donald Trump has created political space for a reversion of Western-Russian relations to their pre-2014 state, underpinned by the implicit assumption that strained relations since that year have resulted from flawed Western foreign policy. In this article, Simon Waring argues that Russian aggression against Ukraine since 2014 and hostility towards the West is consistent with centurie…