An American Irishman Spins Ukrainian Fantasies In Scotland
European racism and revanchism is alive and well and toxic as ever. The latest manifestation of this toxicity comes courtesy of the Atlantic Magazine publishing a piece by Phillips Payson O’Brien with the catchy title, The U.S. and Europe Are Splitting Over Ukraine. Ah, divorce is on the horizon? I pray that O’Brien is right on this point.
O’Brien, an ethnic Irish man born in Boston but working in Scotland as a professor at the University of St. Andrews, accomplishes the amazing feat with his article by coming up with the right conclusion while getting the underlying predicates staggeringly wrong.
He starts by praising NATO as the most successful military alliance EVER, without acknowledging that the raison d’être for NATO was the existence of the Soviet Union.
