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Premium: Moscow’s $20bn a day blunder and why it will never subjugate Ukraine
Robert Service, a leading historian of Russia, says Moscow will win the war but will lose the peace and fail to subjugate Ukraine.
On a line through his subsequent books, author Ryan Holiday appears to have been a lost soul who discovered purpose and turned his life around. His first book, however, is the most valuable – an insider's expose' of media manipulation. Called Trust Me, I'm Lying, it provides a fast track to healthy scepticism for all media consumers. Something many need right now.
Judged by its abstention at the United Nations and shameful reversal of DIRCO's laudable original position on the Ukrainian invasion, Pretoria's eyes need to be opened. Hopefully the video above goes viral in the Union Buildings – and the man who occupies its corner office reads the WSJ piece below. Doing may nudge him towards more credible media choices.
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