Summary - SH

1) “We stand for our values” used to pass as an argument. Today, it sounds more like an evasion. When Western governments justify sanctions, military interventions, or tech restrictions in the name of democracy and human rights, they often leave the hard part unsaid: which values take precedence, what trade-offs are acceptable, and why their interpretation should apply to societies with different histories and priorities. In a genuinely plural world, values can no longer function as moral shorthand. Values that can’t be examined shouldn’t be used to govern others. 2) By the end of 1918, the Ottoman Empire chose surrender to avoid total destruction, but it only hastened the collapse. The Armistice of Mudros left the country defenseless as Allied forces occupied key cities, including Constantinople, and the government quietly complied. What was meant to preserve the empire instead stripped it of legitimacy, fueling anger and resistance across Anatolia. Out of defeat and occupation came rebellion—and the beginnings of a fight to build something new from the ruins. 3) “Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘beastly’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no beast could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov "I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.” ― Voltaire

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https://intpolicydigest.org/trump-and-bibi-s-dangerous-dream-of-regime-change/