Slavoj Žižek: It makes me proud when a Ukrainian combatant reads my book – but I’m worried

2023-08-14 11:53:39

Those of us who are firmly behind Ukraine often worry about war-weariness in the West: aren’t the countries that support Ukraine getting fed up with the permanent state of emergency and the material sacrifices being demanded of them as the war is now in its second year? One should keep in mind that this fatigue is not only due to objective exhaustion and a refusal to continue making sacrifices: it is also clearly a result of systematic propaganda spread by an unholy alliance of the extreme right and the extreme left.