Great read. I also wrote about CAR here. I think people forget or arent aware that CAR is in an over a decade long civil war and that it is basically a vassal of Russia. Even before colonialism that land was probably one of the most unfortunate places to be born to on earth.
Not Trump, if any thing he is too much substance, which is upsettingly for most people accustomed to stasis. It’s like it never occurred to them that the president to do something : strange.
He is retooling the international order and then stylistically he is the opposite of grandeur, he flouts convention as a tease to upset his detractors. After the feckless prevarication of Obama and the Obama third term of placeholder Joe, Trump is positively Napoleonic.
Great read. I also wrote about CAR here. I think people forget or arent aware that CAR is in an over a decade long civil war and that it is basically a vassal of Russia. Even before colonialism that land was probably one of the most unfortunate places to be born to on earth.
https://open.substack.com/pub/yawboadu/p/the-economic-history-of-central-african?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=garki
Very interesting. Great read. I was fascinated reading this piece. Thank you very much.
I haven't seen those throne photos in years! Great writing as well
Any lessons in this, do you think, for our recent aspirants to elective office?
Not Trump, if any thing he is too much substance, which is upsettingly for most people accustomed to stasis. It’s like it never occurred to them that the president to do something : strange.
He is retooling the international order and then stylistically he is the opposite of grandeur, he flouts convention as a tease to upset his detractors. After the feckless prevarication of Obama and the Obama third term of placeholder Joe, Trump is positively Napoleonic.
Good question though .
Ozymandias
… Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I really enjoyed that.
Thank you for this informative history lesson.