The governor of the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, Anton Alikhanov, has identified an unexpected contributor to the war in Ukraine: the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). According to local media reports from Monday, Alikhanov spoke at a conference of Russian political scientists about the greatest son of the former German city of Königsberg, which was renamed Kaliningrad after World War II. The philosopher of the Enlightenment, most famous for his work “Critique of Pure Reason,” was “one of the intellectual creators of the modern West,” said the governor. Alikhanov call…