Who could forget the riveting moment, during the high Cold War tensions of the early 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan strode to the White House podium and told the American people that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had “gone absolutely crazy.” Raising his voice to a yell, Reagan thundered that Andropov was bombarding thousands of people in the middle of Europe “for no reason whatsoever” and warned Moscow that “it better stop.” Trump has added Putin to the list of people responsible for the war, not because he has had an epiphany, but because (at least to judge by his message) he is, as usual, desperate to escape responsibility for his own failure to live up to his promises: “This is a War that would never have started if I were President,” the Truth Social post continues. Hyland, an anthropologist, had traveled here to the remote mountain village of Jucul in the Peruvian Andes to study them, in the hope of unlocking one of the most important lost writing systems in history, that of the Inca empire.
Author: Tom Nichols
Published at: 2025-05-27 22:01:00
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