And, my god - have you read Anne Applebaum's wiki bio? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Applebaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Applebaum The first 2 p

And, my god - have you read Anne Applebaum's wiki bio? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Applebaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Applebaum The first 2 paragraphs: "Anne Elizabeth Applebaum[4] (born July 25, 1964) is a Polish-American[5] journalist and historian. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked at The Economist and The Spectator,[6] and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post (2002–2006).[7] Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for Gulag: A History published the previous year.[8] She is a staff writer for The Atlantic[9] and a senior fellow at The Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.[10]" "Applebaum is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[70] She is on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy and Renew Democracy Initiative.[71][72] She was a member of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's International Board of Directors.[73] She was a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) where she co-led a major initiative aimed at countering Russian disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).[74] She was on the editorial board for The American Interest[75] and the Journal of Democracy.[76]" "In 1992, Applebaum married Radosław Sikorski, who later served as Poland's Defence Minister, Foreign Minister, and Marshal of the Sejm. He is a Member of the European Parliament. The couple have two sons, Aleksander and Tadeusz.[77] She became a Polish citizen in 2013.[78] She speaks Polish and Russian in addition to English.[79]" If this deeply embedded elite journo is who you trust to give you the low-down on what's going on, no wonder we are so far apart in understanding what is going on!