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Luke Reeshus's avatar

Excellent.

I mean it as a complement when I say I didn't need to read it; your past essays inoculated me against the vicarious thrill of cheering for civil war on the other side of the world. Still, fun to read, and it inspired me to text this to my "Supporting the Current Thing" family members:

"Apparently hoping for a swift conclusion to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and a return to the pre-2014 status quo makes me a tyrant-loving asshole. But everyone hoping for a protracted guerilla war and seeing Eastern Ukraine turned to rubble are freedom-loving humanitarians.

"We live in truly strange times."

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P.Carey's avatar

As a fan, I’ll just say this piece is you at your best- the pace, it’s like within every line I did not know where you were taking me and the connections, analogies, metaphors, there is something poetic about the writing - I know it’s not poetry, but it has a cadence, tone, sharpness, clarity and emotion that can move you and take you on a roller coaster, where by the end, when you hear the air escaping the cylinders, and you roll to a stop, you feel a mental shift. Masterpiece- thank you

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