Leo Blanken returns to the the Bridge to discuss the Weird and the Eerie. "The First World War was replete with the weird, due to the presence of things that did not seem to belong. Beyond the massive scaling up of firepower, several qualitatively new weapons were introduced that produced the unsettling effect of the weird."
President Putin made three foundational assumptions in launching his war against Ukraine that should have been correct but were not. First, Putin assumed the invasion of Ukraine would be a quick and easy fight. Second, he assumed the world would denounce the invasion but tacitly allow it. Third, Putin assumed the war would deter NATO expansion.
