Notices by The Gentleman in Question (pairko@mastodon.cloud)

Maybe the Russians got too much credit.

Israeli Company Team Jorge Says It Manipulated 30+ Elections https://gizmodo.com/team-jorge-election-meddling-tal-hanan-misinformation-1850120328

@GreenFire
Bush campaign paid an English spy to support its 2016 race for the presidency.

@GreenFire
Don't get me wrong. A cold warrior—I WANT to see malice in every act of the former Soviet Union.
But, I remember seeing Congress invite that foreign head of state to give a SOTU as if he were the US president in 2015, and thinking "treason".
In the '80s, the FRG ?? said they would not be the world's battlefield. The world's battlefield seems to have moved here.

@GreenFire
On that occasion, perhaps we gave a foreign ideologue too much attention, didn't ignore him enough.
Seem to remember HS history teaching how the countries of Europe came to be ruled by folks more tightly connected to each other than to the people of the countries they ruled (something to do with hemophilia). Seems like a very bad pattern to follow, like it didn't turn out well, but I suppose similar patterns emerge for reasons.

@GreenFire
My main conclusion from reading "Prisoners of Geography", a worthwhile read, was that it was the author's view most of the world's great political problems are rooted in some act of hubris by an English aristocrat with a map, a grease pencil, an no real concern for consequences on anyone who was not an English aristocrat.

@Chrishallbeck
Applicant demonstrates frank honesty, a characteristic many employers claim to value, but few actually do.