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Some people understand the Ukrainian war and war in Gaza to be Western Culture clashing with Slavic-Orthodox Culture and Islamic Culture. Perhaps this is true. War as an instrument of politics still makes more sense to me than war as an instrument of culture.

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Some would say politics is downstream of culture. I suppose Huntington’s thesis is something of a corrective to post-Cold-War (Western) globalist fantasies; it cannot, of course, explain everything. Thanks for the comment.

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