Or: life in these Soviet States of America, under the bitch goddess Putinitsa. Please read the NYT opinion column by Masha Gessen from 2/28 (on-line), “Putin Is Ready to Carve Up the World. Tr**p Just Handed Him the Knife”, where MG writes:
I am reminded of reading about the lives of exiles in Paris in the 1930s. German Jews and Communists, who had run for their lives, watched as the world reshuffled itself. Political parties that used to be antifascist flipped overnight, assuming positions that ranged from appeasement to a full embrace. French and British leaders looked away as Hitler tested his strength outside Germany. As antifascism was marginalized, antisemitism became mainstream. Hitler’s victims were blamed for their own misfortune.
Most days now, I touch base with Russian or Belarusian friends in exile who are experiencing a terrifying sort of déjà vu. We are perhaps more shocked than our American friends are by the speed with which the very rich and powerful, like The Washington Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, have become enablers of Tr**pism, and how the air itself seems to change, until suddenly it’s Zelensky, with his cleareyed vision and firm principles, who seems like an anomaly.
Things have since gotten much worse for Zelenskyy.
MG is sounding an alarm, of a very clear and present danger. The red flags are waving, and they have hammers and sickles on them. Listen to what MG is saying.
Meanwhile, pay no attention to government claims that it is merely ferreting out waste, fraud, and abuse. This claim is an obvious smokescreen, a tissue of lies, an attempt to divert attention from the government program to destroy the civil service and institute a patrimonial regime in which whatever government employees remain have pledged loyalty to Putinitsa: She is the One who rules over all of us.
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