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Josef Bouska

Josef Bouska is a writer and consultant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during a meeting with military personnel of Russian Air Forces Base of Kant at the Ala-Archa State Residence on October 12, 2023, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (Contributor/Getty Images)

“Putin’s Western fan club” wants to force Eastern Europe into a Russian bearhug

Josef Bouska
A worker carries out sanitation operations for the Coronavirus emergency in Piazza dei Miracoli near to the Tower of Pisa in a deserted town on March 17, 2020 in Pisa, Italy. | Medical staff wearing protective clothing take test samples for the COVID-19 coronavirus from a foreign passenger at a virus testing booth outside Incheon international airport, west of Seoul, on April 1, 2020. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Europe and America blew it on the pandemic: A tale of blindness and arrogance

Josef Bouska