An American tourist in Russia
Russia’s ongoing missile strikes this week seem to have clear goals, both on the operational and strategic level. The operational goal is most likely to cripple Ukraine’s power grid, and keep it crippled. It’s possible to guess at the bigger strategic goal: to make the continuing the war unacceptably expensive for the USA. As usual, … Read more
Recently Maria and I watched the 1934 Soviet film Chapaev, a biopic of Vasily Chapaev, a Russian folk hero from the Civil War. 88 years later, this movie aged well and is still as relevant as ever. Movies tend to grow stale over time and become unwatchable (who wants to watch a typical film from the 1930s, for the love of God), but this isn’t one of them. Chapaev is just as watchable and exciting as any contemporary war movie, and the lessons are just as important now as they were when it first hit the silver screen.
