Add Xi Xinping to the list. All three are agents of the purest trail of geopolitical self-destruction since their four closest predecessors -- the four dictators who (mis)led the three Axis empires and the Soviet empire into co-starting World War 2.

Translation: Trumpism will betray and sell you into Muscovite slavery the same way the Trumpists plan to betray and sell 450 million citizens of the EU into slavery.

Yep. My own take on Ukania's suicide, written back in 2020: "...Brexit is the Anglo-fascism of Little Englanders, a provincial revanchism which masquerades as national salvation while accelerating Britain’s decline." Full text is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/86h4l...

The lobotomization began in 1984, when the US neocons abolished the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a small but hugely productive agency which advised Congress on science and technology. The OTA archive is here: www.princeton.edu/~ota/

The EU plus UK, Norway and Switzerland have a combined GDP of about $24 trillion. They can easily find the 0.4% of their GDP required to support Ukraine.

To paraphrase Theodor Adorno, in the soul of every neoliberal rages a neofascist.

The Orange Fascist is a horror, but China is an authoritarian disaster which doesn't lead the world in anything except busted real estate bubbles and jailing its own people. The age of hegemons is over, the age of the democracy of the 8 billion begins.

Can confirm. One of the best games of 2022, from Polish studio Flying Wild Hog. Top notch!

Pro tip for the culture vultures on this feed: check out one of Estonia's greatest writers, Jaan Kross, who wrote scathing and brilliant takedowns of the Soviet-era Muscovite empire disguised as realist novels and short stories.