Avainsana: dictatorship
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The Phantom menance – Fear creates the populist far right and stupidity sustains it
I previously wrote a blog post ”Political extremism arises from incompetence”. Now I return to the same theme. Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, who fled Nazi persecution to the United States, presented in her 1951 work The Birth of Totalitarianism that political extremism and totalitarianism arise from people being separated and not having power over things. […]
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The use of nuclear weapons is an absolute limit that Putin cannot cross – the world’s biggest colonialist and 6375 nuclear missiles
The war in Ukraine is about Putin’s Russia’s desire for expansion, aggression and imperialism. In its propaganda, Russia falsely blames the united democratic ”West” and ”globalists” for the conflict. Putin believes that he represents a pluralistic conservative world and that he is fighting against the ”degenerate American West”, whose hallmarks are e.g. liberalism, which is […]