Day 1280
Reliably unreliable
It is unsettling at best to see someone once considered a hero descend into madness, yet curiously satisfying to see the product of this madness cleanly and elegantly blown to smithereens.
Yesterday I promised myself I wouldn't write about Ukraine this week. That lasted exactly 24 hours. But the connections between yesterday's post about military careerists and war profiteers and what I'm seeing in today's Ukraine discourse are too obvious to ignore1.
I had great hopes for becoming a reliable source of comment and information, freed from the sentimental histrionics and pre-emptive ridicule of opposing views that characterize war bloggers, who have evolved predictably: first licking their wounds after arguing all-out invasion was unlikely, then taking grim pleasure in cataloguing every mistake made by those resisting occupation, and finally coalescing—with shuddering inevitability—into a lockstep neoauthoritarian echo chamber. The most cynical observations we made last y…
