Welcome to the Voodoo West, a place where everybody wants the impossible and hopes for the unrealistic.
The West used to be the global middle class of politics. The ideals were great, the goals were moderate, and everyone was hard at work. Now the ideals are forgotten, the goals are grandiose, and laziness, especially lazy thinking, prevails.
This is the impression you can get of Western politics if you take one or two steps back, extract yourself from the daily fear and loathin...
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Jan Techau is a senior fellow and director of the Europe Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF).