Ukraine: a current headsup on the situation of its Christians.
Update on this: It turns out that Snyder is the worst kind of Trump/Russia nutter: An educated, serious one, with an enormously influential platform for teaching the next generation of elites in this country.
I got through about 20 of Snyder’s lectures with only the faintest hints of this coming through. (Snyder gave the Yale Head Girls a highly unserious argument against Constitutional originalism that is guaranteed to make them think themselves very clever for the rest of their lives.) But then he turned over the lecture on 2014’s Euro Maidan coup to his wife, who couldn’t restrain herself.
I wound up looking them up on Wikipedia and the entries along with her lecture made me so angry that I have been unable to listen to any more of it.
The people who perpetrated the Trump/Russia hoax on America have a lot of accounting to do. And serious scholars at Ivy League schools who compare Trump to Hitler just don’t deserve the time of day.
… And serious scholars at Ivy League schools who compare Trump to Hitler just don’t deserve the time of day.
Agreed; although while I I think that Trump rather admires Putin and Xi, he doesn’t have anywhere near their level of self-discipline.
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This strikes me as unlikely in the extreme. Trump is an American patriot who loves America and her freedoms.
What many people don’t understand about Trump is that whereas politicians trade in words, businessmen trade in deeds.
To a politician (and their media enablers), talk is everything. It’s their stock in trade. But to a businessman, talk is cheap. If you can say some nice words about someone and it helps close a deal or get you favorable terms, what’s not to love about that? That’s why Trump will change positions at the drop of a hat. It’s also why he alternately says nice things and mean things about other world leaders. The well-publicized bromance/feud with Kim Jong Un is the case-in-point here.
Whether this makes him an effective President or not is an open question. But it’s something about him that the media fundamentally does not understand, and that misunderstanding gets propagated widely by them.
And the other aspect of things we haven’t talked about - there are some ‘long games’ being played here.
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