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And they have no illusions about the potential for effective global policy coordination.
The US may be cautious about overextending itself in the Middle East, but that reflects its experience with the costly invasion of Iraq and the general turmoil of the Arab Spring revolutions, rather than illusions that shale produces political “energy independence.”
I am under no illusions that this will be easy.
For example, speaking recently in New Delhi, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the key to stabilizing Afghanistan is to build a “new silk road” connecting it with central Asia – a cynical contrivance apparently aimed at cloaking America’s failure in illusions of future commerce.
But others in Europe need to abandon their illusions as well.
But not only Evo Morales’ movement is trapped by the illusions of dirigisme.
I have no illusions about Meles’ commitment to democracy – or lack thereof.
Sometimes Georgian officials talk as if they are already members of OPEC!Azerbaijan's illusions of grandeur are easier to understand but just as debilitating.
No one should have illusions about that.
It is even more absurd today, with Angela Merkel – someone who is without illusions about Russia – as German Chancellor.
But no one should have any illusions that Trump will be the arbiter of fairness, much less a peacemaker, in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Illusions of a special relationship with the US replacing the influence of Europe are mistaken.
The art of debate collapses into catch phrases; people’s dreams become bombastic illusions; the economy takes the form of the grotesquely physical contortions of verbally deficient Scrooges who despise anyone who thinks; and striving for self-fulfillment deteriorates into the petty swindles taught in the now-defunct Trump University.
There is no room for illusions.
Now, as then, the real conflict in Catalonia is between those who make their living selling goods and those who make their living selling illusions.
But Iran, too, harbors illusions, including the notion that it can count on support from non-Western countries, or at least from some sort of Islamic caucus.
Without them, Germany could return to a strategic no man’s land, which would endanger Europe, stoke dangerous illusions in Russia, and force Germany itself to deal with unmanageable challenges confronting the continent.
Since the onset of reform (1989-1991) two powerful illusions influenced attitudes on both sides of Europe.
Western illusions were largely a product of western political thought: liberal democracy was deemed the obvious and only solution to the problems of restructuring political order in the new democracies.
Blackmail that is based on mutual illusions is bound to fail.
I said that America and Europe had too many illusions about democracy in Russia in the 1990’s, and were now going through a stage of disillusionment.
The just-collapsed credit bubble, fueled by so-called special investment vehicles, derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and phony triple-A ratings, was built on the illusions of mathematical modeling.
But they should not harbor any illusions, either: there can be no such thing as a happy Grexit.
A country that traditionally grinds to a halt during an exciting cricket match has now been ground into submission by its antithesis – the slow unraveling of illusions about a game that seizes Indians’ imagination like no other.
And what perspective would Turkey have outside the EU?Pan-Turkish illusions?
The solitude of the individual facing his faith alone, without collective illusions, and forced to do something with himself in the arid, noisy world tells us something important about the exiled world of modernity and its complex and contradictory problems.
The West must not succumb to illusions about redrawing borders or shaping new countries; such efforts will yield only disaster.
But no one should have any illusions about US policy.
It is questionable, though, how credible European heads of government are who promote such pan-European multiculturalism and at the same time emphatically denounce alleged “multiculturalist” illusions at home – as has by now become standard political rhetoric in almost all countries.
Europe should have no illusions about this and should begin to prepare itself.
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