“The Great Illusion”
“The Great Illusion”
The British author Norman Angell published his famous tract “The Great Illusion” in 1909, arguing that war had become obsolete.
His book was widely misinterpreted as saying that war could no longer happen, a proposition proved horribly wrong over the next two generations.
What Angell actually said was that even the victors in war could no longer derive any profit from their success.
We now live in a world of passionate nationalism. Ancient and medieval peasants probably didn’t care who was exploiting them; modern workers do.
Putin’s attempt to seize Ukraine appears to be predicated not just on his belief that there is no such thing as a Ukrainian nation, but also on the assumption that the Ukrainians themselves can be persuaded to consider themselves Russians.
That seems very unlikely to happen
Paul Krugman New York Times 1 March 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/opinion/ukraine-russia-war-economy.html
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