"Israeli Protesters, 24 July 2023," by Eran Neuman. Used with permission. This is a guest post by Daniel J. Levine and Daniel Bertrand Monk (yes, that meant emails among three.
Denmark is a real country. In comparison even to most other European states, it is a robust social democracy – albeit one with features that the American left would consider.
Scott already posted about Viktor Orbán's opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's not hard to understand the backlash among reactionary populists in former Warsaw Pact countries. The revolutions.
It wasn't that long ago – maybe five or six years – that I last heard someone claim that Russia would never posses real soft power. After all, who could.
