”Four votes in the Senate. Three votes in the House. That’s all it takes. Find the weakest links. Go after them, democratically.”
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”The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous ”
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"I was born under Soviet occupation ... I was democratically elected to my country’s government. I am living testimony that with enough willpower, freedom can be dragged out of the blackest of black holes."
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Apt.

”(Trump) … is patrimonialism’s perfect organism. He recognizes no distinction between what is public and private, legal and illegal, formal and informal, national and personal. “
…
Weber called this system “patrimonialism”

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”In crypto-speak, the ethos of the industry is: “Number go up.” In plain English, that means pushing the price of crypto assets higher and higher. The way to do that is to find buyers who will pay more, a phenomenon sometimes called the “greater-fool theory.””

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.

"Today, on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, stop and remember what happened on the night it began. ... everyone expected Russia to overrun its much smaller neighbor. But that capitulation never came."

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How did Putin become a dictator? Mikhail Zygar lists ten steps

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”The key to vibrant communities, it turns out, is the exercise of choice.”

That habit of mobility has now been lost

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...