"I think that it is incredibly important for all of us to understand -- you know, that Putin is not hiding what he's up to, he's been very clear including most recently in the FT. He thinks that the liberal idea, the whole way that we live, the whole notion of how we've built our society that's what he's opposed. He's opposed to rules based international order and multilateralism and he is doing a lot of things around the world. When it comes to the geopolitics of Canada's support for Ukraine and of Canada's firm position towards Russia, frankly it has nothing to do with our model on them, the reason that Canada takes the positions we do is, because we do not agree that the liberal idea is dead, we do not accept that the rules based international order should just be thrown away." -- Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime Minister of Canada...
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Victory Day and the “German Instrument of Surrender”
"In the meantime, the fields smell of bitterness... Not only bitterness. I smelled those fields. They also smell of blood." Am I a pro Russian writer? A communist as if that would count here? Part of some Russian disinformation fifth column that aims to defeat the west from within by posting 'opinions and unchecked facts and disinformation about a thing'? Will I dump my vodka? No I won't and I am not that! I don't like propaganda and I don't like not being able to see both sides and make my own mind up about the information supplied. I don't like being censored or having someone tell me that RT is cancelled till further notice and now violates local law. Which for the life of me, I can't find anywhere in local law.
WHAT NEXT…
Eight-carbon molecules in rivers of waste, and the sun in a sack cloth hauls itself up again into the sky. And looks down in disgust at what was…a good idea. These mayfly lives, passing through and piling up, one upon the other as sediments on the basement of this world. Built up in that wake of seconds upon seconds. Relent. Red cushion for a place to sit, amidst rancor. Nihilism for a heart, and reluctance. And crazed mystics still keep pushing shopping carts up hills of abuse...
Propaganda and the “Great Narrative” or, “How the future doesn’t need us”
Do you have the time. Are you patient enough to read and take this all in; are you focused enough? Your attention span how far will it go here without ditching what is being said to you for another idea that is crowding your consciousness for your immediate attention. Some ephemeral bullshit of what's important today. The Dutch farmers, or Ukraine and the Nazis. Biden asking what shoes he is supposed to wear today...
don't worry you can change this later 
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