An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

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Flash a bit of cash and the British resistance to an Indian prime minister would be even easier to overcome than that, I suspect. So the difficulty for me comes from people who maybe don’t know enough about Ukraine just regurgitating certain things.

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Born in Moscow in 1982, he grew up in the Soviet Union before moving to Britain with his family at the age of 13. When I stepped down from public leadership in 2005 I did so with a clear and optimistic vision of where this country was headed. There are occasional infelicities – such as a habit, which occasionally “triggers” me, of explaining that which either shouldn’t be explained or shouldn’t be cited. Safety now means feeling emotionally secure, rather than actually safe; and unsafe means feeling emotionally threatened, rather than actually being unsafe.And Kisin maintains that "we're having all sorts of difficult conversations that you're not seeing on TV, you're not hearing on the radio. Exactly how this can be done is not clearly set out in Kisin’s book, but the internet is a key player in promoting a genuine diversity of views that allows citizens to access alternative ideas to what they are fed in the mainstream media, and from their universities. But beneath the sizzle of the snark, there is often a familiar weariness, half in love with easeful death, and a deeper, more bitter desire to bring it all crashing down. For all the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides.

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If Russia continues to perform worse than expected, in a war he claims is against ‘Nazism’, will Putin still be able to present this as a victory? Given the fact that ‘woke’ ideology itself derives from Marxist ideology, it shouldn’t surprise us that the more ‘woke’ our policing system, legal system, media, and entertainment industry become, the less free we will be to speak our minds, just like the Russia that Kisin grew up in as a young child. It might be showing its age, it might be a fixer-upper, but the West is still better preserved and patched up for a while yet, rather than demolished to create a brownfield site for redevelopment.Some say that this unanimity alone is reason for suspicion, because Western elites can never be trusted, and must always have ulterior motives.

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Of course, the fruit of this was widespread poverty, scarcity, and general inefficiency felt by everyone except a few Russian elites who were in cahoots with the state. Since April 2018, Kisin has been co-presenter of the show Triggernometry, a YouTube channel and podcast. Bernie Sanders honeymooned in Soviet Russia, and praised it, not realising that he was given a very controlled and limited look at Russian society by his tour guides. It wasn't until he moved to the UK that Kisin found himself thriving in an open and tolerant society, receiving countless opportunities he would never have had otherwise. Towards the end, he wisely quotes the Soviet defector and KGB operative Yuri Bezmenov, who gave a still-famous television interview in the 1980s in which he explained how the Soviets were attempting to subvert the West.Born in the Soviet Union, where he experienced both untold wealth and grinding poverty, he moved to the UK when he was 13 years old. For an engaging and honest introduction to what is good and bad in the modern West, and why it is worth defending against its critics, An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West will be hard to surpass. O’Neill: I have often found myself at loggerheads on the Ukraine question with the kind of people who would consider themselves to be on our side – people who would be critical of wokeness and the European Union and in favour of freedom of speech. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, particularly among younger cohorts in Ukraine, everything that was perceived as being new and good was considered to be coming from the West. As you know, I’ve documented the level of media misrepresentation and the outright lies we have seen over the past six years in particular.

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For he has, all his life in the West, seen around him people who are used to their luck, expect it, take it for granted and – in some cases – end up spitting on it. But never mind the shadow cabinet, or the cabinets of Tony Blair and John Major – the one from which the next prime minister will likely emerge makes the bridge of the Starship Enterprise look pale, stale and male. Kisin’s book is an especially ideal read for young people, because it is written in a very engaging and non-technical style (although some readers will find the language at times confronting). Kisin has written a lively and spirited book defending the society he is grateful to have found himself in. Having watched Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe "religiously" when it aired, he argues that there's now a gap "in the market for cutting-edge, hard satire that is balanced and unbiased".Funny, provocative and unswervingly perceptive, An Immigrant's Love letter To The West interrogates the developing sense of self-loathing the Western sphere has adopted and offers an alternative perspective. For all of the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides. He and Foster launched Triggernometry in 2018 as an outlet for free speech and discussion of controversial subjects such as the "culture wars". Konstantin Vadimovich Kisin ( Russian: Константин Вадимович Кисин; born 25 December 1982) is a Russian-British satirist, author, political commentator, and co-host (with Francis Foster) of the Triggernometry podcast. And you’ve got to understand, in Russia, Western expansion isn’t perceived as a sort of minor inconvenience – the West is the enemy.



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