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In spite of Trump, and before any deal can be agreed, the UK and EU appear to be pressing ahead with their Russophobia.
I get the UK’s stubbornness, but I still don’t understand the EU’s, given that it, and Germany especially, was three years ago hesitant to go along with US (Biden) policy (scrapping Nordstream and buying US gas).
Why is the EU so gung-ho now?
This is the third time I’ve asked this here.
My last word:
“Books offer a tactile experience that screens simply cannot replicate.”
If you have never had a life with books as I have and only want text, then you might as well just print text from your computer and staple it.
Fair enough – for you.
Well, except for two, there are no more bookshops in the combined towns where I live, and the one near me has to mostly stock plushes, novelties and jigsaw puzzles in order to survive.
As for buying books online, one has to check and check again to ensure one is getting a real book, and not a print on demand non-book consisting of photocopied pages glued together.
So all this is serious, then? The US will take Greenland and wants Canada?
It isn’t just a bad joke?I wasn’t intimating any support on my part, just saying that the same framework, propaganda-wise, as Mao’s nationalistic displays was in place on the KMT side too. And the music catchier!
Chiang’s cult was under way as Mao’s was. He also had plans in place for the seizure of Tibet.But, even so, I don’t think the tyranny over everyday life would have approached Mao’s peasant tyranny.
I wish I still had the book of speeches to quote from, but we are talking about my childhood years. All I can tell you is that it was a blue paperback called Speeches of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
“Books offer a tactile experience that screens simply cannot replicate.”
When the hysteria of a month ago has died off a bit, why are tabloids like the Express bringing back the Putin bugbear?
Do they have an especial link to the military?
In earnest, or more money-grubbing through fear-mongering?
https://news.sky.com/story/nato-must-shift-to-wartime-mindset-secretary-general-warns-13272162
https://images.app.goo.gl/cLgwpWXrjAHUZgsH9
“In America we don’t kill people in cold blood.”
No, of course not.
I have three copies of a lovely KJV Bible with exquisite line drawings of places, people and other animals, of shepherds and Romans and maps, which I love because it was my school Bible.
I also have the Koran in Penguin Classics edition and a nice collection of Koranic quotes with lithographs. I have Buddhist classics and the Greek myths too.
