The Russians must be dumbstruck they their opponents have managed to find perhaps the most gullible man on the planet. Putin “told me a story, Tucker, about how when the president was shot, he went to his local church and met with his priest and prayed.” www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Don't speak too soon.

Another problem is that subscriptions limit the audience. 30-50,000 subscribers may make a writer very rich, but it is a tiny silo compared to the reach of podcasters or Twitter/X accounts with hundreds of thousands or millions of followers.

This what makes Vance so pernicious. He would have Europe fall into the hands of nationalist, anti-EU parties that are more likely to start fighting each other than cooperate to defend Europe.

I imagine in your darkest dreams a rearmed Germany falling into the hands of the AfD, which thinks the country should no longer feel guilty for WWII, facing a rearmed Poland under the PIS arguing for reparations.