Returning home after 7 weeks abroad feels like Frodo returning home to a devastated Shire.
Tag Archives: Vladimir Putin
Returning to a Desecrated Shire
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Does Clockwork Orange Describe Us?
The novella Clockwork Orange captures the process of fascist conditioning, such as we are seeing carried out by Putin on swatches of the GOP.
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The House Speaker’s Théoden Moment
House Speaker Mike Johnson had a Théoden moment when it came to Ukraine aid. I explore the parallels.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Congress, Donald Trump, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Michael Johnson, Ukraine, Ukraine aid Comments closed
Moscow’s Terror Attack and Big Brother
Like Big Brother, Putin is attempting to change the facts of the Moscow terrorist attack to justify his political goals.
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Alexei Navalny as Harry Potter?
Some Russians saw Navalny, recently killed by Putin, as a Harry Potter “boy who lived.” That dream is gone but others live on.
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Russia’s “Expendable” Invaders
Russia’s invading army regards certain men as expendable. I am reminded of the shrews in the “Redwall” books by Jacques.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Brian Jacques, casualties of war, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Redwall, Ukraine invasion, war Comments closed
The Light Brigade’s Charge & Wagner’s
Does “Charge of the Light Brigade” glamorize senseless sacrifice. What would Russian soldiers in Ukraine think?
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Prigozhin Didn’t Take the Tide at the Flood
Did Prigozhin disregard Brutus’s advice, failing to take the tide when it was at its flood? If so, he might come to regret it.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Hamlet, Insurrection, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, unsuccessful coup, William Shakespeare, Yevgeny Prigozhin Comments closed
Ukraine: What Would Leo and Fyodor Do?
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy’s novels work as indictments of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov, Child Abuse, Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hadji Murat, Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, sadism, War and Peace Comments closed
