First, thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt on the internet as I know that can be hard these days. I have no idea who OP is so its totally possible

First, thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt on the internet as I know that can be hard these days. I have no idea who OP is so its totally possible I got caught by propaganda. My read of the article was that it seemed like a historically based account of the current situation with some fairly obvious bias/editorialization mixed in so I was interested to see what other folks would post in response. I’ll absolutely look into both of those authors for more background.