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They did military drills on the border every year:

https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+military+drill+ukrai...

One reason to incentive warmongering I assume is domestic politics in the Western countries: Biden's and Boris Johnson approval ratings are pretty low, and nothing better than war to give it a boost. Take Johnson for instance: some days ago the news was his parties during the pandemic, but, alas, not anymore.

I think one problem you and the author are ignoring is the fact that Hegel's (un-)popularity varied at different times from country to country.

In Germany, for instance, Hegel was immensely popular just in the 1830s and 1840s, but soon became old-fashioned. This is visible in Marx's works: in his writings from the 1840s he's very critical of Hegel, while in his later texts became much more reverential, as to oppose the prevailing bourgeois mentality (in the preface of Capital, he complains it was fashionable to treat Hegel as a "dead dog" [1]).

But this is just Germany. In US & UK Hegel became popular only during the end of the XIX century (with the British Idealists and the St. Louis Hegelians). In Italy, his popularity dates to the early XX century (with Croce and Gentile). And in France I think he was never really popular.

[1]: https://www.marxists.org/subject/dialectics/marx-engels/capi...

I'm not sure if prototype is the correct word, but it certainly had a major influence upon Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, who designed the Brazilian pavilion at that fair:

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

Perhaps instead of any actual programming language you could use the pseudocode[1] used in scientific (comp-sci) papers. It should be understandable for longer than any current language.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocode

Take a look at Frederick Beiser's works on Hegel & German Idealism overall, as he's very clear and competent about this whole period of German philosophy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_C._Beiser#Works

Also, it's much easier to start with Hegel's lectures (on aesthetics, history, religion etc.) and just go read the Phenomenology & Science of Logic after one has a sense of his style and general philosophy. It's foolish to start by the most difficult texts.

And don't take Schopenhauer's criticisms of Hegel too seriously, as they are mostly due to personal misgivings and envy (Sch. couldn't stand Hegel's popularity, while Sch. barely managed to get any students for his classes).

I don't see anything wrong in characterizing Cardoso as "neoliberal," albeit of a "third-way" strand, like other politicians from the 1990s such as Tony Blair or Bill Clinton.

And about Lula & Haddad, well... I would say your characterization of them is as biased and wrong as you claim the author to be; it's equally ideologically charged, but in the opposite direction.

So the result is that you didn't really show anything wrong with the author, but simply expressed your ideological distaste with his leftism; while we, the readers of both the article and your comment, are left to choose based on nothing more than purely our own ideological inclinations.