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How will history remember the ambitious Victoria Nuland? She is retiring from an unaccountable swamp post she used to relentlessly impose her will on the world.
She was a success in turning Ukraine into the world's most corrupt money laundering playground corrupt US power-brokers could want. She was a success in funding and driving the deadly Maidan coup. She was a success in setting up a presidential candidate named Zelensky, who lied about a peace platform and then enflamed his nation in war, poverty, displacement and ruin. The Ukrainian wasteland Nuland leaves behind will no longer be ruled by her, but soon by Russian interests which conclude the war with a peace agreement on their terms, not the terms of Victoria Nuland. Is this why she is disappearing from the scene?
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
