Writers gotta write.

Cuba too

The past IS a foreign country.

Trump didn't even need dementia to regress to the mental state of a 3 year old.

But it was Norwegians who sailed there with there little boats to claim it, despite Donald desperately needing it 1000 years later!

Standard excuse of German high level bureaucrats why they didn't resign after Nazis came to power: "To prevent even worse"

Most of these serious and important people have probably never met anyone even remotely as primitive as DJT in their lives, so it's beyond the scope of their imagination.

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Americans have a distorted political self-image.
They believe they have strong checks-and-balances - they don't.
They think they're prone to rebel against authority - obedience is the norm.
Domestic politics is played as if harmful foreign actors had no vote - by hook and by crook, they do.

Bestimmt dank German efficiency.

But are you really aware of that, or did your generals tell you otherwise?

How about: When president orders military strikes without previous consultation, make it compulsory to be followed ASAP by majority confirmation of both houses, with immediate impeachment if unsuccessful.

The alliance with America can only be considered reliable again if Europeans manage to rebalance it through self-reliance that removes dependence on the US and see a critical reassessment US strategic culture by American partners.

One of many reasons America is turning away from corporate media is because of its normopathy— a pathological insistence on trying to crowbar events into a recognizable narrative that conforms to things that have happened before. But the playbook has been fucking BLOWN UP, media.

Say what you will about him, but he seems quite the realist

Wenn schon, dann "von wegen dem Notfall"!

Wegen der 17% ist er ja an die Macht gekommen.

I've been told that Canadians use the same strategy even more aggressively in Cuban beach hotels. Now someone only has to connect the dots with the new situation in Venezuela.

Hoping that the street map at the back of the phone book in the next public phone booth wasn't ripped out when arriving in an unknown city, trying to find out how to get somewhere (e.g. to the hostel you had just phoned to check for vacancies without any idea how good or bad the place might be)

Perhaps the greatest irony of Putin's strategy of disrupting the rules-based global order to restore Russian greatness is that his successors are likely to discover that the disappearance of those rules leaves Russia more exposed to the opportunistic ambitions of stronger powers