Missile-stop tour: Zelensky in America
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Ukraine’s president is again on American shores, trying to secure support of all kinds. He needs it—diplomatically, militarily and politically. America’s tendencies toward “woke” discourse and policies have permeated its politics, but our analysis finds that “peak woke” is already in the past (8:57). And the latest instalment of the wildly popular football video-game formerly known as simply “FIFA” (17:13).
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| 1:25.0 | The word woke is an evocative one, |
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| 1:36.1 | When we do and then crunch some data, we find that the country seems to have passed peak woke. |
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