Havel is one of the heroes of The White Pill so I was excited to read this, since he was a writer. It is almost offensively bad and frankly disrespectful to the reader. The book alternates between the transcript of an interview between Havel and a journalist and Havel's diary--the entirety of which is totally banal and isnt even in chronological order. We hear him stressing about having to write a speech but not about why or what its contents are--or whether it ended up working out. Worse, a few one-paragraph entries are repeated verbatim throughout, though to what point I have no idea. Absolutely awful book.
I like that this idea that red states need the GDP of blue states to survive has been abandoned entirely. By all means, shut down the federal entitlement pipeline and make the states pay for their own welfare and let's see who collapses first.
While everyone was supporting the current thing with #SupportUkraine, slobbing the knob of the NeoCon/NeoLiberal hegemon, cheering on the money printer to make the MIC's wheels churn, sanctioning Russia and painting the newer brighter shades of Russophobia, Russia has quietly benefited.
Today the Ruble is just as strong as it was before the start of the SMO in February 2022, Russia's economy is steadily improving and they developing more global relationships with energy and trade partners.
The west (especially the US's) attitude/position towards Russia has been the wrong one since day one and it has been propped up by Cold War era Boomer takes on the nation and it's people. We've forced their hands towards China and strengthened that relationship. That was the wrong move and the west will pay for it over the long run. My hope is we drop our Boomer Cold War Era attitude towards Russia and start to partner with them economically and even Geo-Politically.
The more we don't do this, the...
