#MeToo brought this while George Floyd brought an explosion in black victims of homicides. And this result was easily predictable all along because of how the cause was defined.

You get so used to having all of your time outside of work claimed by a child that it becomes a way of life. And then all of a sudden, the child is 7 and tells you in a tolerant way, “I’m busy right now, Mommy, but I’ll play with you later.” Which, by the way, I never said to her in her life.

As a result of suddenly free morning, I invented a new breakfast recipe. I thought it would be absolute garbage but it turned out surprisingly delicious. I cracked two eggs into 1/3 cup of ryazhenka (US alternative is kefir), mixed it with a teaspoon of flour, added a handful of chopped up ginger, some shredded carrots, sunflower shoots and cumin seeds. Then I cooked it as an omelet. The carrots and the shoots only have time to cook a bit, so they remain firm and balance out the mushiness of everything else.

I don’t have a picture because ryazhenka is beige, and that makes the result look nothing special. But it tasted phenomenal.

NATO doesn’t exist. The Iraq war killed it.

There is absolutely no likelihood that American voters will support sending troops to any place that didn’t militarily attack the US. And if the US doesn’t honor NATO’s obligations, there’s no NATO.

Everything has consequences. The Iraq war was so colossally stupid and massively immoral that its impact will be felt for a long time. It showed that the US army is weak and incompetent. It changed the perception of the US as a military power abroad, but even more so at home.

American people now see the US as a loser in what concerns the military. It’s a foregone conclusion that the US army will lose. Nobody even fantasizes about a possible victory because that would be too daft. Before you deny it, please tell me why you are opposed (like I am, I’m completely opposed, too) to sending US troops into battle anywhere. Because you don’t want another Iraq and another Afghanistan, right? Because you expect the US to lose. I don’t blame you because I feel the same way.

Once again, I most whole-heartedly oppose sending US troops anywhere. I’m simply honest with myself about why I oppose it. And if the strongest army in the NATO will never engage with anybody militarily, there is no NATO.

The US government knows that the US army is never going to fight again. Hence the forced vaccination, hence the morale-sapping wokeness trainings, hence the sissification of the whole outfit. The army can’t serve its original purpose. So now it’s a pool of free subjects for large human experiments.

When Trump talked about abolishing the NATO, he simply proposed making an already existing fact official. It would be the honest thing to do. There are countries in Europe right now that sincerely believe US soldiers will come to defend them when Russia invades. I talked to a guy from Lithuania yesterday, and he believes this completely. But we all know it’s never going to happen. And I think it’s a good thing because I don’t want to feel humiliated by our loser army. Let’s let people know that we aren’t showing up, and it’s all good.

We don’t really need a standing army. Technology and geography make it unnecessary, so it’s not even a big deal.

The Russian journalist was nice. She said she emigrated from Russia to Ukraine in 2013 and learned the language, so I forgave her for being Russian. Unfortunately, she’s not a great public speaker and doesn’t know that unless you have a talent for public speaking, you need to train and prepare. A lot of stuff she wanted to talk about involved play on words (like the famous babovna), and you just can’t explain that well if your English isn’t fantastic and you haven’t thought it through beforehand.

But the star of the event was an American professor of International Relations who talked about what the world will look like in 2050. He’s a superb public speaker, better than I am. Brimming with energy and optimism. He explained why all the doom-and-gloom predictions about the war with China, climate apocalypse, or resource scarcity were stupid. I hear the arguments he made regularly on Ukrainian TV, and it was a strange experience to hear them in English. I was greatly tempted to ask him if he was a Ukrainian spy because both the content of his talk and the energetic, exultant delivery sounded very familiar.

Of course, the audience bristled because they love drama and imaginary catastrophes.

We need many more people like that professor. He was like a smart Tony Robbins.

A really good lunch was served at the International Day. I ate but then the Russian speaker started her talk about the Russian propaganda, putting up photos of the Russian propagandists on the screen. So now I’m on the verge of throwing up.

The International Day is extraordinarily non-woke. I’m on the fourth speaker so far, and not a single slogan has been unfurled. It’s a very strange experience to hear several talks in a row by completely normal people.

The director of our International Studies is Eastern European, which explains the normality of the invitees.

Also, I talked to the Russian dissident at our event, and she says she worked with the Russian chief propagandist Solovyov back in the 2000s. I asked her if my memory of him as quite anti-Putin and pro-West is correct, and she confirmed. The guy’s been so rabid that I started to doubt my own memory.

Never forget that famous propagandists don’t believe their own narratives. They are exploiting poor, deluded proles who trust them.

I met with a representative of the deaf community yesterday, and he was the most boisterous, loud person ever. He made no sounds, obviously, but it felt like he did because he had an enormous presence. An amazing, fascinating person.

Yes, but do these dummies actually identify as women? Has anybody bothered to ask or are we OK with blithely midge seeing them?

We have an International Day today (organized and the International Studies, not by me), and there’s a Russian person coming to speak about Ukraine. Yes, she’s a dissident, whatever, but still.

I hope she doesn’t start on how they are living in a dictatorship because I have things to say about that load of complete baloney.