My biggest quibble is that the thing that made the liberal laptop class scream for more censorship was the CoVid narrative and the vaccine narrative. That pre-dated the Ukraine “current thing” and even Chomsky was advocating that the dirty unvaxxed be literally removed from society.
One of the great things about listening to this article instead of reading it is that I learned that the name of the old Soviet newspaper Izvestia is pronounced IZ-vuh-STEE-uh and not, how I used to think, iz-VEST-ee-uh.
Russia is, and previously the Soviet Union was, not a threat. It was America's paranoia over communism that was. It was always required that Americans show enough contempt and toughness against the Soviets then and Russia now. Putin is a kleptocrat, but that is in large part due to our foreign policy to get the Russians to sell off their state owned companies, to move them along to a free market economy, with little concern for helping them develop a democratic culture.
Thanks. Really appreciate this. It's hard to read much in the American press about what is going on. Believe we are losing badly.
My biggest quibble is that the thing that made the liberal laptop class scream for more censorship was the CoVid narrative and the vaccine narrative. That pre-dated the Ukraine “current thing” and even Chomsky was advocating that the dirty unvaxxed be literally removed from society.
One of the great things about listening to this article instead of reading it is that I learned that the name of the old Soviet newspaper Izvestia is pronounced IZ-vuh-STEE-uh and not, how I used to think, iz-VEST-ee-uh.
I came across this link on youtube. Had Matt Taibbi tag on it. Friend of yours?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjHhwO7I4qg
Russia is, and previously the Soviet Union was, not a threat. It was America's paranoia over communism that was. It was always required that Americans show enough contempt and toughness against the Soviets then and Russia now. Putin is a kleptocrat, but that is in large part due to our foreign policy to get the Russians to sell off their state owned companies, to move them along to a free market economy, with little concern for helping them develop a democratic culture.
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