Russophobia & the Politics of Fear
Lord Robert Skidelsky & Prof. Glenn Diesen
Lord Robert Skidelsky is a member of the British House of Lords, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, and the author of a prize-winning three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes. He began his political career in the Labour Party, was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party, and served as the Conservative Party’s spokesman for Treasury affairs in the House of Lords until he was sacked for his opposition to NATO’s 1999 bombing of Kosovo. Since 2001, he has sat in the House of Lords as an independent.
It was in 1648 closing two chains of long and exhausting Wars (the 80 Year War and the 30 year War) in the Westphalian Peace Treaties, when it was agreed to no longer kill each other because of Ideological divergences. Then it was agreed that “CUIUS REGIO, EIUS RELIGIO”. We have not only forgotten this principle, but some “Righteous” State Institutions (some even claiming “Biblical Rights”) relentlessly act in contradiction against this Westphalian Principle. … Very sad.
One can argue that the Principle in discussion is talking only about Religion.
But it is clear that the intent of the Principle was to declare that a Sovereign is entitled to freely establish their own Ideology (belief Systems, Religion, etc.).