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August 1, 2019 - August 31, 2023
A group of Ukrainian lawyers waited on the Maidan, day after day, holding a sign reading LAWYERS OF THE MAIDAN.38 People who had been beaten or otherwise abused by the state could report the wrongdoing and begin a legal case. Lawyers and others on the Maidan were not thinking of the enduring problem of Russian political philosophy: how to generate a spirit of law in an autocratic system. And yet, by their actions on behalf of a vision of law, they were addressing the very problem that had haunted Ilyin.
Rule of law and Ukraine
Moscow, Russian leaders applied the same tactics to Kyiv: the homosexualization of protest to evoke a sense of eternal civilization, and then the application of violence to make change seem impossible.
Sexualisation of democratic protest
Like Ilyin before him, Surkov treated Christianity as a gateway to his own superior creation.
Surkov's God
That Polish government was then brought down.95 Tapes emerged of private conversations between Civic Platform politicians at restaurants. The problem was not that the tapes revealed scandals, although they did, but that they allowed Poles to hear how politicians speak in private. It is a rare politician who can survive his constituents knowing how he orders food or tells jokes. Sikorski was recorded issuing
Poland descends into totalitarianism.
The rise of Donald Trump was the attack by “these most deadly adversaries of republican government” that Alexander Hamilton had feared.
"Donald Trump - successful businessman".
America was crushed by Russia in the cyberwar of 2016 because the relationship between technology and life had changed in a way that gave an advantage to the Russian practitioners of active measures.
2016 - crushing America in the cyberwar.
In a cyberwar, an “attack surface”22 is the set of points in a computer program that allow hackers access.
Cyberwar - the platforms and interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.
Even as Kasich and Rubio took a stand on Russian foreign policy, the crucial Republican legislators surrendered in advance to Russian cyberattack. It was more important to humiliate a black president than it was to defend the independence of the United States of America. That is how wars are lost.
It was more important to humiliate a black president than it was to defend the independence of the United States of America.
During the presidential campaign, Trump asked Americans to remember when America was great: what his supporters had in mind were the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, decades when the gap between the wealthiest and the rest was shrinking. Between 1940 and 1980, the bottom 90% of American earners gained more wealth than the top 1% did. This condition of growing equality was what Americans remember with warmth as the time of American greatness. Unions were strong until the 1980s. The welfare state was expanding in the 1950s and the 1960s. Wealth was more evenly distributed, thanks in large part to
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Real American greatness.
The politics of eternity triumphs when fiction comes to life.103 A leader from the realm of fiction tells lies without remorse or apology, because for him untruth is existence. The fictional creation “Donald Trump, successful businessman” filled the public space with untruth and never apologized for lies, since doing so would be to recognize that such a thing as truth existed.
Trump's Presidency - the politics of eternity in power.
EPILOGUE (20—)
EPILOGUE (20—) Equality, truth, democracy, a future.
