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why Putin saw himself as the true victim in the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 disaster and.

how the European Union is being destroyed from within with help from Russia.

In these blinks, we’ll shed light on Snyder’s view that the politics of eternity has been driven in one country – Russia – and by one man – Vladimir Putin. It’s a fearful and paranoid state, where we expect little else from our government than to protects us from our enemies. As Snyder argues, instead of looking forward to the brighter tomorrow guaranteed by political progress, the politics of eternity fix us into a state of mind in which we believe that we are perpetually threatened by enemies both real and imagined. It used to be taken for granted that the future would necessarily be a slowly progressing continuation of the present an assumption known as the politics of inevitability.īut in today’s uncertain times, a move to the politics of eternity lies on the horizon.

The last few years have seen the likes of Brexit and Donald Trump’s election as US president come to pass, while extreme political groups on the right seem to gain more clout every day. According to the author and academic, Timothy Snyder, we live in an age of economic and political uncertainty.