And how! It’s as if the point of the whole piece was to say “You know what the real tyranny is? Unrealistic expectations.” Meanwhile making out as if the only actors with any agency were soon-to-be-deposed paranoid despots, and certainly not anyone with myriad, paramount geopolitical interests in the region. It’s a patina pretending to be realpolitik. Surface-story apologia passing for cynicism.
Seems oversimplified to me.
And how! It’s as if the point of the whole piece was to say “You know what the real tyranny is? Unrealistic expectations.” Meanwhile making out as if the only actors with any agency were soon-to-be-deposed paranoid despots, and certainly not anyone with myriad, paramount geopolitical interests in the region. It’s a patina pretending to be realpolitik. Surface-story apologia passing for cynicism.