Another day, another coup in some random African country you and me both have barely ever heard of.

Why coup in Niger matters:
Uranium, France, & Russia using soft power+Wagner to build anti-West bloc

(Those of you who hate on Russia … I would just ask you to hate them for rational reasons like these, instead of running around with your hair on fire because MSNBC told you to.

Don’t hate them because they’re ‘expansionist’, because they’re not. Don’t hate them for ‘meddling in our elections’, because in essence they didn’t, and certainly not any more than we fuck with theirs.

Above all, don’t personalize your hate and call for the assassination of Putin, because that just makes you look like a drooling simpleton, and you’re not.

No, hate them because they do exactly what the beloved West does in the name of democracy, which is play geopolitical power games without any rules at the expense of ordinary people.

That is, should you feel compelled to hate at all.

I do, sometimes. Fuck rulers, whatever their names and stripes. Sure, fuck Vlad. Fuck Joe and fuck Donald and fuck your CEO, in the ass, with a stick.

Like I said: rationally.)

The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
–Commissioner Pravin Lal, “UN Declaration of Human Rights”