RE: https://mastodon.social/@hadon/116103127968398568
The tone policing paragraph is a m a z i n g, enjoy this marvel of #AngloGaze particularly from a magazine that has contributed to spreading the rumsfeldian narrative for decades:
"Others find the haughty manner in which it tries to impose [🇫🇷 ideas] insupportable. [...] Central and eastern Europeans have not forgotten how Jacques Chirac, then president, told them that in backing America’s war in Iraq they had 'missed a good opportunity to shut up'."
Tone policing about IRAQ in 2026, lmao.