US Exits Ukraine Talks; Starmer Crashes In Polls, Elensky Curse Strikes; Russia Enters Pokrovsk
The US government, and Mr Trump in particular, seem to think of themselves as analogous to the Gods of Olympus. They look down at human affairs with glorious detachment, and occasionally deign to adjudicate disagreements. Nevertheless, they sometimes take sides – as, for example, Hera took against the Trojans, and persuaded Zeus to bring about their downfall. On one occasion in “The Iliad”, Aphrodite even takes the field and is wounded by a hero before disappearing back to Olympus. The mistake that is bound to cause misunderstanding is to think of the denizens of Washington as mere human beings, rather… Read more »
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