Your questions, answered: Part III

Zipping right along ...

Welcome, those of you just now tuning in! This week, we’ve been running an extended AMA with the editor of the Cosmopolitan Globalist. The editor would be me—Claire Berlinski.

See:

• Ask me Anything

• Answers, Part I

• Answers, Part II

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Today’s topics and questions:

• Why do smart people believe stupid things?

• Is the US experiencing a political realignment?

• Why is the party of the reset button with Russia, circa 2009, suddenly so hawkish?

• When do the Ukraine war crimes trials begin?

• Eastern authoritarianism

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But first …

Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM

Zelensky: “Today is a historic day. We are returning Kherson. As of now, our defenders are approaching the city. But special forces are already in the city. The people of Kherson were waiting. They never gave up on Ukraine… and Ukraine always regains its own.”

Hromadske Int. @Hromadske

💔 This is what Kherson and Kherson Oblast looks like now: delighted locals hang Ukrainian flags and shout patriotic slogans

Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof

Liberated Kherson singing Chervona Kalyna, a song that was banned for nine months. No electricity — Russia destroyed the power lines before leaving.

Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel

This is how I can see my aunt from Kherson region for the first time in 9 months - in a video hugging a Ukrainian soldier. She even doesn’t know to have become an internet star 💙💛

Guillaume Ptak @guillaume_ptak

Incredible scenes of joy in liberated Kherson. Those people have been through hell.

Saint Javelin @saintjavelin

russia: the people of Kherson voted in totally legitimate and legal referendum to join russian federation The People of Kherson:

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love

Kherson Babushka found out that in the neighboring village there is one unhugged Ukrainian soldier:

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love

🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers are ambushed by Special Kherson Hugging Forces 🌺💐🌷🌺💐🌷🌺💐🌷

Robert Zubrin @robert_zubrin

My cousin Eliot was a photographer. He was with the army when we liberated Paris from the Nazis, and took a photo of two French girls standing on a bridge with smiles a mile wide, filled with sheer joy. I'm seeing that same smile in some photos coming in from Kherson now.

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Why are Democrats supporting Ukraine?

A reader: Why does support for Ukraine suddenly equate with social justice? How is it that the two are aligned? Why is the party of the reset button with Russia, circa 2009, suddenly so hawkish?