A chilling article in Sunday's New York Times, by a former Moscow correspondent named Megan K. Stack, noted that, while Americans thought the Cold War was over, for Russians, at least those working in the government, it had never ended.
On his show Real Time Friday night, Bill Maher was blasé about Putin's designs on Ukraine, noting that some of the country was historically part of Russia, with citizens who are ethnically Russian. But by those criteria, Mexico would have every right to invade Southern California.
The Republicans are out of step with the times and the Democrats are out of touch with the people.
Watching Novak Djokovic win Wimbledon on Sunday I thought of the Serbian waiter who served us on Las Olas a few weeks back. Hania had asked him about the situation in Serbia and he had launched into a tirade against president Aleksandar Vucic and his megalomania.
“After the French Open,” the waiter said, “the headline in the newspaper was not: ‘Djokovic Wins the French Open,’ it was ‘Vucic Congratulates Djokovic on Winning the French Open.’”