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How Domestic Repression Predicted International Belligerence

'You know, you can smell a poor concept even before it's created.'

Today's journalists are not speaking truth to power by covertly advocating for direct military intervention in Ukraine.

The 24th of February, 2022, was a jolt to the European mentality. The invasion of Ukraine, which lacked any credible justification, the massive use of military force against civilians, and the attempted assassination of a lawfully elected government were all completely unexpected. But so did August 1st, 1914, or September 1st, 1939: they were all shocks that shook the world. However, they should not have been as surprising as they were.

Saturn the alligator was given to the Soviet Union in 1946 and the myth was born that he was in the collection of the Nazi leader. The zoo said the reptile, called Saturn, was around 84-years-old when he died on Friday. Saturn was born in Mississippi in the US and was later gifted to Berlin …