Day 775
Trueborn post-Cold War babies
Our more highminded (hochnaesig, the Germans call it) readers will most certainly regard Ukrainian leaders as being, next to their American colleagues (if they make even that exception), the most feckless people in the universe.
Let me therefore break it gently by expatiating for a while on the subject of idiotarianism and militarism generally, and on the history of the propaganda of war between Russia and Ukraine which has been going on openly for, er, at least one millenium, or about as long as the monastery pictured below has been standing.
I beg the patience of my readers during this painful operation. If it becomes unbearable, they can always switch to TikTok and relieve themselves by calling their political leaders traitors twenty times or so. Then they will feel, I hope, refreshed enough to resume. For, after all, abusing the masters of the universe based in Washington and Kyiv will not hurt the Russians, whereas a clearer view of history in this p…



