issue 8 - Solidarity for Ukraine – deconstruction
Bénédicte Halba (ed)
- Publication : 2022
- iriv
This newsletter is the eighth issue since March 1, 2022. We will publish a new issue every first day of the month as long as this brutal, total and illegal war lasts. According to Pentagon figures (1), 70,000 to 80,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine (February – August 2022). Kiev authorities report at least 10,000 dead and 30,000 injured. Before embarking on an enterprise as extreme as war, the attacker must justify an imminent threat. For the Kremlin, it was characterized – the target was not so much Ukraine as the European Union, “the only object of my resentment” might say the Russian president plagiarizing Corneille (2). An original and unprecedented project, the construction of Europe has enabled the countries of Europe to rise patiently, in stages, from the greatest moral bankruptcy in their history. If the European Union is a construction project, that defended by the Russian president is its antithesis, a deconstruction