At the end of February, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his army to put its nuclear arsenal on high alert, the Russian newscaster Dmitry Kiselyov wondered aloud: “Why do we need a world if Russia is not in it?” This is a troubling question, but it s reasonable, at least for Russians. To bastardize Slavoj Zizek’s remarks on capitalism (or Fredric Jameson’s, depending on whom you ask): It is easier to imagine the end of the world than of a country. This is true even for old Russians like Kiselyov, who’ve already lived through the destruction of one civilization. Especially for old Russians, perhaps.
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Watch for the “citizen sleuths” to become heroes of the new woke order. Maybe we’ll see statues of them replacing the statues of Washington and Jefferson.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has motivated Germany to respond to three decades of complaints that it was not fulfilling its military obligations as a NATO member In early 2022 Germany decided to increase defense spending in each of the next five yea