“Your future,” he whispered, “is my memory.”
“You never appreciate what a compost your memory is until you start trying to smooth past events into a rational sequence.”
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
Why the tension in Ukraine may feel deceptively regressive There is a peculiar modern tendency to describe things we don’t like as belonging to the past. The Taliban are medieval, Donald Trump supporters backward, Brexiteers nostalgic for empire. Under this rubric, Vladimir Putin is a Soviet throwback and the war he may soon start in Ukraine, as John Kerry once remarked, is like some 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
Secretary of State John Kerry said Russia is behaving “in a 19th century fashion” by invading Ukrainian territory in what he called “an incredible act of aggression” by President Vladimir Putin.
“It’s an incredible act of aggression, it is really a stunning willful choice by president Putin to invade another country,” Kerry said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
While stressing that the situation is not another “Cold War,” Kerry told host Bob Schieffer that Putin is trapped in a centuries-old mindset.
“You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text,” Kerry said. “It is serious in terms of sort of the modern manner with which nations are going to resolve problems. There are all kinds of other options still available to Russia. There still are. President Obama wants to emphasize to the Russians that there are a right set of choices that can still be made to address any concerns they have about Crimea, about their citizens, but you don’t choose to invade a country in order to do that.”
Kerry called the 90-minute phone call Obama held with Putin Saturday “a very important conversation” and he hopes Russia “will turn this around.”
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While the world has changed significantly in the last 15 years, Russia’s fears and goals have remained largely the same.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2007 speech to the Munich Security Conference, which was delivered 15 years ago on Thursday, was the first moment when Western leaders were forced to reckon with Russian anxieties head-on. These same anxieties have motivated Russian violation of Georgian and Ukrainian sovereignty in 2008 and 2014 and continue to drive Russia’s buildup and pressure on its border with Ukraine today.
Fifteen years after Munich, Putin is driven by the same fears
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How to stop Twitter revealing your account through your email or phone number
Mashable: “Here’s how to stop people finding your Twitter account through your email or phone number:
- Open Twitter.
- If you’re on desktop, click on “More…” in the navigation bar on the left to reveal more options. If you’re on mobile, open the navigation bar by tapping on your profile picture in the top left corner.
- Click or tap on “Settings and privacy” in the navigation bar.
- Click or tap on “Privacy and safety.”
- Click or tap on “Discoverability and contacts.”
- You will be taken to a menu that allows you to control how others can find your account. Select or toggle whether people can find you via your email or phone number.
You can change these settings at any time, so you can re-enable your discoverability if you suddenly decide to come clean about your online activities.”