Day 881
New security agreements
News about Ukraine is so inexpensive these days that trying to save money by cancelling your free subscription is foolish at best.
The question of how experts can manage to undercut the price of everyone else’s news and still throw in access to bullshit from the President’s Office is a little goofy, no?
I think media have come upon a problem similar to that apparent with The Onion when it hit its stride: in order to stay relevant, they had to turn protagonists into complete goofballs. Eventually the goofdom bar was raised at the cost of everything else.
A lot of copy from foreign correspondents bumbling around Kyiv is goof sublime.
And, of course, there is goof galore. Maybe NPR should do a follow-up story?
I want to join the vast liberal conspiracy. But here in Ukraine there is no place to sign up. Even Sarah Ashton-Cirrilo has stopped posting.
For all the indoctrination going on — you know, gay recruitment, media makeovers and liberal professor brainwashing — it's awfully hard to find the east European central headquarters for the side that supposedly won the culture war.
I know that the right has recruitment centers and even training programs for people interested in joining — and possibly leading — the conservative movement. I know this because I read Project 2025.
If you don’t trust political foundations, there’s always the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which funds dozens of conservative college papers, scholarships, conferences, etc. And Clairemont, where scholars opine on tensions between Straussians and fusionists.
After Trump picked James David for VP, I started listening to Peter Thiel, who has made it his life mission to fight political correctness. Next came influential Ukrainian YouTubers, including Oleksiy Arestovych, whose understanding of Russia and America is limited to hotel room service.
Meanwhile, CNN news presenters are painfully unhip.
This morning, I listened to Bohdan Butkevych wonder about the 2024 US presidential election. There is no reason for you to.
Looking on the bright side, Russian invaders are stuck and dying in droves, 1,200 KIA just yesterday.
Whatever happens next, the frame seems be shifting, ever so slightly, thanks, in part, to a new esthetic, which could undermine would-be tyrants who sound and look old, misogynistic and ridiculous.