Are a disproportionate number of senior executives in "corporate America," especially in "big tech," of Indian descent or of Mexican descent?
Not trying to flatter our Indian bhais, but statistically speaking, Desis that make it state side and their kids are on average visibly more educated and financially successful than their Hispanic counterparts.
Inevitably, that's going to be more threatening to certain relatively more entrenched segments of American society that are worried that they're losing their place at home, if not in the world at large.
You might be misreading my post. Not here to apologize for NATO or to justify their policy measures, but also not here to legitimize Russia.
Both sides bear responsibility, and have partaken in escalations that have led to where they're now.
Insisting that one side is more just and righteous than the other on a normative basis is best left to virtue signalers. Granted the Russians have been more consistent in their policies, but that's also more achievable when you're a "big country" rather than "an alliance of one big country herding multiple medium and small countries."
However, it is surprising to see someone as favorable to Russia as you refer to Ukraine's capital as Kyiv rather than Kiev!
Even the Israelis didn't mind Nazis, including those who openly expressed old loyalties, like the late .
In all fairness, a lot of Germans, including many completely reasonable people, held NSDAP membership before and during WW2 because it was a professional or even social necessity. Kind of like how being nominally Christian tends to be a necessity for most candidates seeking major elected office in the Bible Belt.
The problem with much of Europe, in particular Germany, isn't that certain Nazis subsequently became prominent Eurocrats, but their inability to have honest conversations about it.
No wonder they're now scrambling to respond with guys like this now running the show on the other side of the Atlantic . . .
