Alex Volter, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBy Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPostThis article has been updated since the time of its publishing. But I don’t need no attorney to tell me Europe’s eastern flank is pushing a national character case against Russia. I have written at length about national character analyses elsewhere. The net effect of national character arguments is the obscuring of politics and history, which are the true determinants of a nation’s behavior. Patrick Lawrence Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a media critic, essayist, author and lecturer.

Source: The Guardian August 14, 2022 19:24 UTC