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‘… the gradualism of the past is out, and this time we’ll start at the top of the escalation ladder and stay there.’ — anonymous American official, regarding Russia, January 2022
‘I can’t recall, at least in recent memory, a period in which an escalation or intensification led to a fundamental de-escalation and led to profound stabilization of the situation.’ — anonymous American official, regarding Israel, September 2024
‘As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.’ — George Orwell, April 1946