An American tourist in Russia
I’ve seen a lot of chatter online from people who are surprised by JD Vance’s big role in the Trump presidency, but it shouldn’t be surprising. The vice president is a powerful and public-facing figure in American politics. We’ve just had a string of weak VPs for so long many people have forgotten what a … Read more
Many people don’t understand or are just in denial about the US-Russia talks that just took place in Saudi Arabia, and why they’re significant. This isn’t so much about the war in Ukraine, but about what things will look like after the war in Ukraine. We are witnessing the death of the New World Order … Read more
All discussions about Ukraine, particularly the tentative Istanbul peace talks, remind me of the 1939 film adaption of Gone With the Wind. Early in the movie, the southern gentry learn that President Lincoln is building an army to attack them and are enraged. The shrewd and self-serving scallywag Rhett Butler tries to persuade the other men … Read more
A Russian prostitute, a German terrorist, a Texan lawyer, and a failed children’s book author walk into a bar. It sounds like the setup to a joke because none of those people seem to have anything in common, but they do. They’re all sponsored by the US government, and at least partially owe their success to American tax dollars.
I understood the Holodomor better, strangely enough, when I visited Armenia. In Yerevan, their capital city, there is a memorial and museum to the Armenian Genocide. The memorial built by the Soviets, and the museum built after the Cold War and partly funded by American money. My first impression of this place was how strange … Read more