I had a phenomenal conversation with Faisal Al Yafai on the New Lines Magazine podcast about my new book and changing attitudes to the idea of Central Europe. If I were to give it an apt title, it would be ‘Central Europe from Mitteleuropa to the Pax Americana’. Go give it a listen!

These structural changes to the Israeli priorities are also creating a dependency and profiteering on the forever war among different constituencies within Israeli society - permanent reservists, private contractors hired to destroy Gaza, and the arms and cyber industries. >

This wealthy society is sacrificing itself for military aggression and war crimes. People are leaving or seeking an exit. Alongside the horror in Gaza - this is all very sad as well.

Sapienti sat.

I dont know what's more depressing: the fact that reading for pleasure has fallen by 40% in the US in the last 20 years - or that 2% of adults seem read with children

Jaw-dropping in the Financial Times ft.com/content/5dcf01…

Mala bava, sense treva. Apreneu del mestre, així és com es fa. Yes we can.

Pete The Best Bradley These incidents occurred during the 2014-2015 Donbas conflict: - Pentecostals in Slovyansk: In June 2014, four Pentecostal church members were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by pro-Russian separatists in Sloviansk (sources: Wikipedia, CS Monitor). - Rybak and Chubenko:

Key takeaways so far: The Spanish left was a goofy trainwreck even before the 1930s The Comintern's insistence that almost everyone who wasn't a Stalinist was a fascist might have been counterproductive

Če parafraziramo Brechtovo domislico, "kaj je bančni rop v primerjavi z ustanovitvijo banke!", smemo reči: "Kaj je razstrelitev Severnega toka v primerjavi z njegovo postavitvijo!" delo.si/novice/svet/ar…

21. 8. 1968 Tak vás tu máme, bratři z krve Kainovy youtu.be/Y2WI9XsXu2M?si…

Every year, we in the eastern half of Europe try to remind others that WWII really started on August 23rd, 1939, with a "peace deal" signed by our neighbours on both sides, agreeing which bits of our land they could de facto steal, occupy and exploit. Never again?

Obstaja posebna podzvrst ljudi, za katere je "Smrt janšizmu" poziv k likvidaciji, "ti in tvoja konkubita bosta končala kot Mussolini" pa razumna opozicijska kritika. delo.si/novice/sloveni…

The way everyone wears sports gear now all the time and is in constant training (unless they are obese discards) is worse paganism than the classical kind.

Volodymyr Mykolaienko, Kherson’s mayor from 2014 to 2020, was released from Russian captivity in the latest prisoner exchange. He spent more than three years imprisoned by Russia. 🧵 1/2

Russia making it clearer that they consider Zelensky illegitimate - and that any meeting with Putin is only for a Ukrainian leader to sign a surrender, not to negotiate.

Prav ima. delo.si/novice/svet/ma…