HAS listen to Western politicians who claim to be peacemakers, the conflicts ravaging Ukraine and the Middle East are easy to resolve. In both cases, their recipe is identical: land for peace. Ukraine should give up Crimea and Donbass, annexed by Russia; Israel should evacuate the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, where a Palestinian state would be proclaimed; the guns would fall silent, peace would settle in, the world would be better off.
The miracle prescription, however, is not one. The French, more than others, should know this. When in 1871, after losing the Franco-Prussian War, they ceded Alsace-Moselle to the Bismarckian Reich, German imperialism did not die out. From 1914, it came back in force. That…
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