I was waiting for a "putin puppet" accusation. And for the record, I respect and agree with a lot of your political takes.

I just find it wild how liberals can see that Chinese state media is propagandistic and Russian state media is propagandistic, but then they chug CNN or even the NY Times like they're the whole truth and transcribe freaking Chuck Todd onto blogs. Then if "Moscow" says the sky is blue, somehow that discredits the fact that the sky I'm staring at is blue? MSNBC Americans live in a world almost as detached from reality as Trumpers. Living outside the states and having some critical thinking one should be imbued with an ability to see through state department narratives, not swallow them whole.

No, Europe shouldn't shoot itself in the face and give itself 15% inflation and bend over for America's war games and cut off its most important energy supply. Polish pensioner grandmothers shouldn't have to choose between paying 10X for heating or freezing to death because American liberals are drinking military industrial complex cool-aid.

but yeah, foreign policy is deep and complex and I'm often wrong and usually respect your work and would love the chance to hash it out in person and pop some homemade slivovice shots, Brian.