There’s been talk of a ‘new Iron Curtain’ in Europe
- but we shouldn’t use this metaphor as it has divisive potential of its own.
In @foreignpolicy @minna_alander & I explain why we shouldn’t lazily stoke East-West divisions that only help #Putin 1/4
foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/19/eur…
- but we shouldn’t use this metaphor as it has divisive potential of its own.
In @foreignpolicy @minna_alander & I explain why we shouldn’t lazily stoke East-West divisions that only help #Putin 1/4
foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/19/eur…
It’s wrong to describe the #visaban as creating a new Iron Curtain &, while history matters, it hasn’t determined which countries want to block to or allow Russian tourists into the Schengen zone (as eg 🇳🇱🇩🇰 show with their support & 🇭🇺 with its opposition). 2/4
Similarly, throwing around outdated East-West distinctions on attitudes to #Russia & war (contradicted by eg🇬🇧) doesn’t help anyone except #Putin- it makes history determinative, falsely divides us & questions CEE’s place in the ‘West’ 3/4
Time to drop these outdated distinctions - as Jean Paul Sartre said:
‘The Iron Curtain is only a Mirror … a each turn of the screw here corresponds to a twist there and so [we all end up, both here & there] as the screwers and the screwed.”
foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/19/eur…
‘The Iron Curtain is only a Mirror … a each turn of the screw here corresponds to a twist there and so [we all end up, both here & there] as the screwers and the screwed.”
foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/19/eur…
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