👀🌐 Global Eyes Mini

🚗 Let's experiment with a shorter format.

I was very sad this weekend because four of you cancelled your subscriptions without telling me why.

My brother thought it was because Global Eyes is too long. He says there’s just too much information. There are too many links. Its arrival in his mailbox feels like a chore, he told me. It takes him hours to read everything. He said he wants a newsletter that saves him time, rather than adding to the list of things he needs to do. Also, he wants me to explain what the items I include mean, rather than expecting him to read them all and come to his own conclusions.

So let’s try doing it that way today. I’ll just cover the five most important stories from each region, and I’ll include fewer links and slightly more commentary. If you like it better this way, that’s great—it’s less work for me! If you don’t, let me know. We can also do a mixture. Tell me what you like and we’ll do it—we aim to please.

Just please, please stop unsubscribing. It makes me so upset.

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🇪🇺🇬🇧🇷🇺🇺🇦 Europe, Ukraine, and Russia

🇫🇷 Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right … Did you see what those French voters did? I knew they were dying to screw Macron up, but I thought they’d maybe they’d do it by handing NUPES a bigger victory than the polls indicated.

Nopes! The French voters were even more irascible than I imagined. They so badly wanted to give Macron the finger that they paralyzed their own government.