With Trump, what dangers for European regimes? | EUROtoday

“CHe who lacks Western intellectuals is to have a good slap in the figure, ”said the great Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz. In the cultural supplement of the Polish daily weekend Gazeta Wybrczathe German essayist Marko Martin recalls this maxim which seems to shed light on the persistent lag between the Western intelligentsia and that of Central Europe as to the perception of the Russian threat.

“Many of the main Western progressives,” he wrote, remain inexcusably blind in the face of the challenges of war in Ukraine, in the same way that their predecessors were blind in the face of the dictatorships installed by the Communist USSR in Central Europe. In Germany, in particular, they will repeat that “violence just isn’t the solu …