Either the ‘Thucydides’ Trap’ has now infiltrated France, or Bernard-Henri Lévy has been spending a lot of time in Washington lately; in either case, his latest discussion of the fate of the Kurds (French version in Le Point (£), English in Tablet) and denunciation of Trump’s USA for abandoning them invokes Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War extensively* – though not in the most illuminating manner. (more…)
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La Thèse de Thucydide
Posted in Musings, tagged Bernard-Henri Levy, Donald Trump, Kurdistan, Thucydides trap on November 1, 2017| Leave a Comment »
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