Thank God for the Russian media.
The pictures
from the Oval Office on Wednesday — published by a Tass photographer,
as no U.S. media were present — are jolly and good-humored. President Trump,
who fired his FBI director a day earlier, is grinning for the cameras and
shaking hands with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and the Russian
foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. They, too, smile and laugh, relishing the many
ironies of the moment.
Have a close look at those happy faces; keep the images in
your head. Then turn your attention just for a moment to the story of Ildar Dadin, an unusually brave young Russian. Dadin
was arrested in Moscow in 2015, one of the first to fall victim to a harsh new
Russian law against dissent. His crime was to have protested peacefully and
repeatedly, mostly by standing silently in the street with a sign around his
neck.
Sometimes it concerns me that a real billionaire owns the Washington Post. So far, I love what he's doing with it more than what the fake one in the White House is doing with his new acquisition.
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