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If Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe leads to a total collapse, millions of desperate people might flee the country, enabling AQAP and other extremist organizations to profit from disorder and despair.
The lesson is that we should not dream of overnight breakthroughs, or allow ourselves to fall into despair in the absence of immediate progress.
Serious problems are not confined to the developing world: “deaths of despair,” for example, are raising mortality among white males in the United States.
Their hidden or even visible anguish is worthless, a cipher’s despair.
For a region that has suffered so long from frustration and despair over its failures, these are among the best of times.
Raqqa was in rapid decline by then, and the city’s despair would intensify over the next decade.
Will the spirit of hope that brought Obama to power triumph over the winds of economic and social despair, or will fear in the West of the looming global recession spread to Asia and destabilize its giants, China and India?
And, among the fragmented, distraught children of the Enlightenment, among the zombie heirs of Rousseau fibrillating between aggressiveness, blindness, and despair, equality is no longer a task but a taint, a sort of dark shroud, a halo of resentment and hatred to which our common tongue is tied as to a buoy in a tide.
And so the cycle of under-provision and despair continues.
It is only faith in the idea that our lives matter, and that our decisions must be judged by their moral content, that we in Ukraine, and elsewhere, will be able to find our way out of the misery, unhappiness, and despair that has consumed us over the last two years.
These pathologies are energized in societies that are bereft, where sheer despair leaves people in positions without hope and faith in their surrounding society or civilization.
As Trump moves from populism to policy, liberals should not turn away in disgust and despair, but rather engage with Trumpism’s positive potential.
Still, we need not despair.
The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.
Why make such a statement, when it can bring only chagrin and despair to the victims, and comfort and solace to a criminal regime?
The low-paid worker who makes his way up, from whatever low base and despite hardship, is less likely to suffer the despair of the long-term unemployed who finds himself rejected by society.
And, without such a future, the economic despair that gave rise to the revolution in Tunis is unlikely to disappear.
In the 1920s and 1930s, as in the late 1960s and 1970s, and again today, despair about politics was linked to disillusion with a failed economic system.
The leaden despair of lifelessness, impotence, and hopelessness is vastly less appealing than intensity – even if that intensity is found in violence, death, and destruction.
Feelings of hopelessness and despair at the center incite extremism at the fringes.
If such criminal activity is to be stopped, the despair found in poor countries must be reduced.
The difference between then and now is that those taking to the streets to protest against Macron’s proposed fuel-tax increase are animated not by utopia but by despair.
With German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own leadership slipping, France looked like an island of hope in a sea of Western despair.
The EU’s current lack of unanimity on many world issues, as well as continental issues such as Ukraine, is no reason for despair.
Watching all this close up could encourage despair.
At this stage, the journalist, showing signs of despair, asked me what I did know.
Many people, of course, now despair about the possibilities for constructive change.
Some even despair that the window for action is closing fast.
On the one hand, the European Union and the United States despair at the myriad economic and political failures of the post-Mobutu DRC.
People are in despair; they are angry at Russia for its aggression and at their own government for provoking this uneven conflict.
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