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All Wars Since 1990 Have One Thing in Common - And It’s the Same Thing Fueling the Global Conflict of Tomorrow
hree years, four months, three weeks, and five days – that’s how much time has passed since the war in Ukraine began. And that is exactly how long I’ve been working on a certain project. The global drift into conspiracy theories is often presented as the behavior of helpless fools who no longer know whom to trust, because the “respected” authorities have lied to them – and so they fall prey to mad charlatans. But I don’t believe people are that stupid. On the contrary: people are smart enough to accept only those conspiracy theories that lift the blame from them. What we are really witnessing is a kind of alibi, collectively created by the crowd. People trade their freedom for innocence. Populist leaders are eager to tell people that they are innocent – in exchange for power.
The only hole in that alibi is Ukraine. Of all the revolutions of the 2010s, only one succeeded: Euromaidan. Ukrainians took their fate into their own hands – and they won. That is why they must die. Because if they succeeded, then we might succeed, too. We could have succeeded. Which means: democracy is real. And it is possible. And yes – we all share responsibility for what goes wrong in our democracies. That’s why both supporters and opponents of the war instinctively feel that this war is a test of democracy – not only because it happens that Ukraine is a democracy and Russia a dictatorship, but because Russia and the world have turned this war into a trial: are ordinary people still capable of standing up to ossified structures of power – and winning?
And, surprisingly, many people don’t want that to be possible. Knowing this already three years ago, I decided to begin writing this article. Now I can proudly say: it is finished. Or at least finished enough – for this moment. After three years of research and over 150 different sources, 31 different books, I have created a document that – as I hope you’ll see while reading – is something much more than just an inventory of guilt, another “who did what?” or whether it was fair, or other distractions from reality. So what is this article really about?
The clue lies in the title.
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