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Trust the London Review of Books blog to find humor in the international scene.

annejjacobson2 Comments

Of course, it is a gallows humor.

An abstract of one article:

GLEN NEWEY
It’s wartime again
The political strategy almost makes the military one look as if it lacks stupidity. It calls for making allies of regional unfriends like Assad, Putin and maybe Iran, and for the reconciliation of unfriends of unfriends such as Erdoğan with Putin. Out of this it’s expected that a political solution will crystallise, in which Assad will play a key role while also standing down. This is not realism, but surrealism. It can be made sense of only expressively. After Paris, civilisation demands futile acts of symbolic violence.

 

2 thoughts on “Trust the London Review of Books blog to find humor in the international scene.”

  2. Usually that’s true. But I don’t get the point of saying what you’ve said. The fact that it is often easy to criticize says nothing about whether the criticism is right or not.

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