![]() ![]() ![]() The mood in the room was dark, full of foreboding one of the world’s largest and most fearsome military powers appeared on the verge of gobbling up a smaller and weaker neighbor. A peaceful democratic world is, in his mind, a fantasy ultimately, politics would always return to brutality.Īs we were wrapping up, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared on television to announce a “special military operation” in Ukraine. The fundamental political distinction, in Schmitt’s view, is between “friend and enemy” the fundamental political act is killing one’s enemies. We had convened to discuss the work of Carl Schmitt, an interwar German political theorist who believed - among other things - that politics is, at base, about violence. On the night of February 23, the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I attended a reading group with a number of prominent Washington foreign policy experts and journalists. ![]()
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