A compilation of current issues, which will nonetheless somehow connect:

• The Trump-Biden debate: what does the Kremlin really want?
• Nepotism: why are the princelings returning to politics?
• Terrorism in Dagestan: what does it portend?
• Covert Ops: ought the West be in the assassination business?

The Spectator piece I mentioned is here.

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