RE: What are you reading?
April 29, 2024 at 12:02 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2024 at 12:03 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped by Garry Kasparov
Great book that gives chronology of Western leaders failure to not only punish Putin but why they even tolerate him as if he was a normal leader and not someone who dismantled democracy in Russia and has committed countless crimes against humanity.
He equates Putin to the scorpion in the The Scorpion and the Frog animal fable, meaning that Putin will never be your friend no matter how much West tries to tolerate him and trade with Russia.
(The Scorpion and the Frog: A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't resist the urge. It's my character.")
Needless to say that the book is very prophetic and important today (it was written in 2015)
Also, Russia arrested Garry Kasparov in absentia just a few days ago on a charge of creating and leading a "terrorist" group.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-kasparov-...20221.html
Great book that gives chronology of Western leaders failure to not only punish Putin but why they even tolerate him as if he was a normal leader and not someone who dismantled democracy in Russia and has committed countless crimes against humanity.
He equates Putin to the scorpion in the The Scorpion and the Frog animal fable, meaning that Putin will never be your friend no matter how much West tries to tolerate him and trade with Russia.
(The Scorpion and the Frog: A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't resist the urge. It's my character.")
Needless to say that the book is very prophetic and important today (it was written in 2015)
Also, Russia arrested Garry Kasparov in absentia just a few days ago on a charge of creating and leading a "terrorist" group.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-kasparov-...20221.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
