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Last week, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, speaking at the inauguration of the new European Diplomatic Academy in Bruges, Belgium, referred to Europe as a garden and the rest of the world as a jungle. He went on to say that the garden needs protection from the jungle. While such abhorrent statements, thanks to the revival of "us vs them" narratives and polarization are not out of the norm in popular media in 2022, those words from the chief of foreign policy for the EU are a whole different phenomenon. His words cannot be taken at face value,…
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