You keep surprising me with your knowledge about different categories of things. Can you speak to that? Who would you be compared to who's on the world stage, where I think you belong? That's on top of writing that has me dubbing you the poet laureate of Substack!
Our approaches to the ME may differ, yours more studious…mine more satirical…but I believe we are seeing the same painting…or at least are in the same museum.
I wrote this more than a year ago before our recent “elections”.
Warning: Contains dark humor and colorful candid language.
https://a.co/d/6qmOGmW
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And the columnists from the New York Times, the Atlantic and Foreign Affairs. And of course Robert Kaplan
Thank you.
And of course I forgot to mention the best book of all, "A Peace to End All Peace" by David Fromkin
Fromkin, Kaplan…great resources!!
Thanks for this detailed and very readable walk through regional history!
You keep surprising me with your knowledge about different categories of things. Can you speak to that? Who would you be compared to who's on the world stage, where I think you belong? That's on top of writing that has me dubbing you the poet laureate of Substack!
Terrific writing style--makes everything better.
Our approaches to the ME may differ, yours more studious…mine more satirical…but I believe we are seeing the same painting…or at least are in the same museum.
I wrote this more than a year ago before our recent “elections”.
Warning: Contains dark humor and colorful candid language.
https://open.substack.com/pub/darryllamarkwright/p/westernized-narcissism-in-middle?r=wpdsx&utm_medium=ios
Another well done EXSUM with contextual detail as to inform but not induce sensory overload.
Would you mind sharing some of the sources you are using to write these essays?
I am just curious as we may have read some of the same literature…
https://www.dia.mil/News-Features/Articles/Article-View/Article/566917/they-came-in-peace/
My response to you is right above. You can take a look at it