Excellent if infuriating read by @gregolear.bsky.social
Katherine Davies
"This isn’t the eleventh century, when restless Franks could repulse the Turks from the Holy Land and set up shop in, say, Antioch. Jared Kushner ain’t Tancred of Galilee. The only way to establish a hereditary monarchy, in this day and age—and in this economy—is to build one from scratch."
James Brooke is the template for our current crop of power-mad oligarchs.
