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I'm just a few dozens of pages from finishing “Maldita Guerra” by Francisco Doratioto, a book about the Paraguayan War which was the bloodiest inter-state war fought in South America. A war that also defined the development of the Brazilian military and its institutional role.
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Picked back up Norm Finkelstein's "I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!"
Fink is fun to read, especially when he's mad about something, but this book is a largely unexceptional critique of wokeness. There's a limit to the value of anything that just leaves you nodding along most of the time. I might skip to the Obama chapter because I don't think I've heard a non-chud really go ham on him before.
I used to recommend Finkelstein to normal people, but lately he's gotten a little too based about Israel, which limits his crossover appeal outside of rabid lefty circles.
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