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Ukraine Shake-Up: Zelensky Sacks Popular Defense Chief, & IDs CEO Of Naftogaz As Likely Next Prime Minister Update(1410ET): FT is reporting late in the day Wednesday that Ukraine's 35-year old defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, who has grown in popularity for his 'reformer' reputation and for orchestrating the ramped-up drone war on Russia, has been sacked by Zelensky. The shock move comes days after Yulia Svyrydenko, Zelensky's prime minister, was forced to step down, and amid a big cabinet shake-up. Zelensky had previewed huge changes coming. As to who might be elevated as...

Narrative Control: The Collapsing Authority Of The State Authored by Jacob Reynolds via 'Academy of Ideas' substack, Perhaps the central battleground of contemporary politics is the need of our political elites to control the narrative. Primarily, the role of establishment politicians is not to deliver changes and reforms, not to fix problems identified by people in their everyday lives, and not to change circumstances such that they can attract votes, but to maintain narrative hegemony. Crucially, this differs from previous attempts to maintain ideological hegemony – that is, to win the societal ‘battle...