Eugene Finkel
Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Historian of WWIII. Study horrible things that happen to good people, write books, despair. Lviv-Haifa-Jerusalem-Madison-New Haven-Washington-Bologna. Intent to Destroy is out: tinyurl.com/ybfn7
- Of course Putin is very serious about negotiations and ending the war. Because why else would he send a delegation headed by an all-powerful ex-Minister of Culture with a policy portfolio limited mostly to writing crappy history textbooks
- How about this: next, Qataris bribe Trump into forcing Bibi to end the war, Republicans get behind Trump because they aren't trained to do anything else, Christian Zionists abandon Trump, he and GOP are toast, Trump flies away into the sunset and we all are left wandering what the hell just happened
- Israel 2025 in a nutshell: spending millions and risking lives to recover a body of a soldier killed 43 years ago while simultaneously doing everything it takes and killing thousands to effectively condemn live hostages to death
- I missed the old good days when the Swan Lake was the only music you needed to know to figure out what's going on in Moscow
- Ok, Kremlinologists, what does it mean that they are playing a piano, elevator music version of "Stairway to Heaven" while we wait for Putin's 12:30 a.m. press statement? smotrim.ru/live/b8e51bc...