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1. Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 01:45:48 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote

   I need the help of #mastodon #philosophers.

   Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?

   It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).

   Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: #philosophy war.

   https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/german-chancellor-accuses-putin-of-misusing-philosopher-immanuel-kants-teachings/articleshow/109561696.cms

   • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 01:45:47 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     TL;DR
     Kant was born in what Ukraine and EU call Crimea but Russia now calls Kaliningrad; since Putin invaded in 2014 and illegally annexed that part of Ukraine.

     Putin has a real obsession with not being European enough. so his point of (mis)quoting Kant is about trying to prove that Kant wasn't really German, nor European; but Russian. that area + Poland were part of the historical German Prussia.

     Scholz sees it as Putin's threat to eventually claim Germany & Poland as Russian too.

     @benroyce

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 01:45:47 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @blogdiva @benroyce Kant was born in Königsberg, which is now known as Kaliningrad. It is a port city on the Baltic Sea situated north of Poland. It used to belong to Germany until it changed hands in World War 2. Crimea is somewhere else. Not to take away from anything else you've said.

   • Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 01:48:19 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @Gargron @blogdiva liar!

     it's czechia's 🤭

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1lovec_Region

   • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 01:53:38 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron @benroyce ugh, this is why am not an EU politics expert, LOL. thanks for the correction.

     FWIW i never took seriously when people described him like +20 years ago as being obsessed with wanting to re-write EU history as a RU history but, WOW, were they right about that.