Clive Thompson on Nostr: A powerful and unsettling post by Timothy Snyder, the historian of tyranny ... ... ...

A powerful and unsettling post by Timothy Snyder, the historian of tyranny ...

... about Trump's horrific stance towards Ukraine -- i.e. demanding half the profits of Ukraine's mineral rights, *in perpetuity* (among other things) ...

there's too much to quote in here, but the tl;dr is

- it's effectively colonialism
- it rewards Russia
- it massively overstates the aid the US gave to Ukraine ...
- ... and understates the huge benefits the US got

Read the whole thing: https://snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the-costs