On Feb. 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School became
synonymous with tragedy when a former student entered the school armed and began firing.
The
tragedy of Ukraine is that there is a fundamental vacuousness in its dominant political discourse about «joining Europe», and a mismatch between the aspirations of its society, especially its younger generations, for a better life (which is seen as
synonymous with a «European choice») and the capacity of the Ukrainian state and the EU to deliver.