Whom does he mean by “we”?

Tomorrow in Vienna or online: events.ceu.edu/2026-03-13/o...

While politicians will be dealing with the consequences, memoirists and historians will be trying to argue their diverse positions on “why”. Gradually they will reach a consensus. Textbooks will have it, and mems will emerge, and “never again” will be making circles

CNN: Kuwait, Iraq, and the UAE are shutting off wells as storage tanks overflow. Once these wells go dark, they cannot simply be flipped back on, creating a looming supply crater that would create a cascading effect on the global economy. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

In the meantime, Dutch and Czech versions of my book have been published

Not great when the only people in the free world who believe and trust Vladimir Putin’s word on critical things despite all evidence to the contrary are currently running the government of the United States.

Good morning and happy Wednesday to everyone. The problem with Trump jokes: Republicans don’t think they’re funny, and Democrats don’t think they’re jokes. 🤷‍♂️ To wit: "No other president can do the kind of shit I'm doing." ~Fat Satan

Have you seen Vladimir on Netflix? A dynamic and sensual show, I love the first episodes. An aging American lady develops a crushing dependence on a random guy called Vladimir. Thanks for reading— now you have a better sense of the politics of the decade

Will there be anything more stupid than Donald Trump wanting credit for stopping wars he started?

Few reflections, including mine www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...

Fedor Lukyanov is a mastermind of Russia’s self-justifications. In a recent interview, he said that Russia’s “position” has not changed. “We” want a transformation of Ukrainian statehood. Trump is a model but he should do more for “us”. The host is Peter Slezkine, whose father

A global criminal enterprise that carried out crimes against humanity. Inquiries should also be launched into how it was possible for such crimes to be committed for so long www.reuters.com/world/allega...

Argentina’s economy is crashing after Trump gave Melei $20 billion. People are taking out loans for food. So he must mean He wants Orban to do well, not Hungary. This is some sort of payoff. America 2nd 🥈

Rubio to Orban in Budapest: "We want this country to do well. It's in our national interest -- especially as long as you're the prime minister and the leader of this country." Indecent and self-damaging policy that defeats any rational explanation, confirming the wildest of conspiracy theories

Revenge of humanities? www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-pr...

The Guardian: In 2024, Trump urged 20 fossil fuel tycoons to stump up $1bn for his presidential campaign – while vowing to remove controls on the industry.

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin

I’m not a conspiracy theorist. But when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, there are a lot of things that remain objectively strange. A DOJ draft press release dated the day before his death, with the final version adding the phrase “of an apparent suicide.” 1/3

“Twentieth-century fascism found a welcome base in the security forces. Millions participate in widespread protests, but few believe that they lead to change. Evennwithout political parties, hyperpolitics will retain its power. True disorder may be just beginning.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

So many senseless choices are making sense in the light of the Epstein drama. But there is a limit to explaining politics this way. Epstein was a charmer but, for one, I am not enchanted. What’s primary, gerontocracy or pedophilia? Capital or desire? Or, to formulate it personally, Trump or Epstein?

a thread that I wrote about Epstein some time ago on X — I’d update with a comparison with Rasputin: similarly, psychological manipulations, instrumentalized sex, working for foreign powers, both get killed by former friends. A difference: R was a medic disguised as monk, E a political animal

Fascination of Epstein’s clients with the Russian girls was overdetermined by several factors: 1. Girls were white; 2. They were cheap and available, probably subsidized; 2. Epstein and his clients were racists

Are you not surprised that the only official who has resigned because of the Epstein files is the Slovak?

Putin appears in the Epstein files 1,000 times. Masha Drokova (here) and Jagland, former prime minister of Norway, coordinated their financial plans. These alliances—between oil and sex, pedofiles and crypto-utopians, corrupt and ‘clean’ governments—paved the way to the current ordeal

Karl Marx tells this story in his Eastern question

reads like the list of countries attending Russia's May 9 parades

A fascinating conversation, with deep fears masked by techno-optimism and high-finance pietism. Griffin: the world needs a savior, and this savior will be AI. But we don’t know, etc Lagarde in the end: as Hamilton asked King George, what’s next? www.youtube.com/live/Vi6Apqy...

While other humans whose job is peace and security, enjoy themselves in Davos

Shostakovich and his interviewer, Solomon Volkov, evoked a long debate among American scholars — some could not believe that Shostakovich was as dissenting, plainly anti-Soviet, as Volkov presented him. Pls watch this amazing piece and judge (you need to understand Russian) youtu.be/eubEQ664rcs

A new CBS poll shows that 86% of Americans oppose Trump taking Greenland by force. Great results but fully predictable. Homo sapiens is rational by definition and weakling by instinct. If CBS ran a pool in Russia or China they would get similar numbers. Why CBS doesn’t? Exactly for the same reason

Join us in Vienna or online today: events.ceu.edu/2026-01-19/l... The zoom in the 1st comment

Great motto

The sooner the Global Left will develop its independence from the Soviet legacy with its terror, spies, and wars, the better. This emancipation is a condition for its relevance. Amazing this still has not happened

Dr Adam Galinsky has developed a concept he calls “the little tyrant, someone who has power but lacks status — who controls resources but feels disrespected. It leads people to mistreat others in a domineering fashion.” Addiction to power amplifies with failutres www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...

Did Adam Tooze ever write about his grandfather Arthur Wynn (identified in archives as a Soviet agent)? I know the dedication in The Wages of Destruction, but I can’t find any substantive commentary by Tooze. Links welcome.

You're willing to drag the world into deadly turmoil when your only reason for being in power it to avoid jail.

Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions.

The Ukrainian is the 10th language for this book, Russia against Modernity —and, for me, extremely important one. Thank you Folio publishing house in Kharkiv — you are doing the work of enlightenment under shells of the barbarians

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.