#Australia is learning how to stop acting like a guest in its own hemisphere—standing firm on its sovereign economic interests, enforcing fair value for its resources, and operating as a confident, Indo-Pac power rather than an insecure outsider desperate for regional approval
🇷🇺 “GREAT RUSSIA” SOUNDS BETTER FROM A TROPICAL PARADISE
A Russian woman breaks down in tears over having to leave a tropical paradise and return to Russia, saying the prospect has pushed her into depression.
The contradiction writes itself.
Patriotic mythology is easy to romanticize from somewhere warm, comfortable and far away.
Returning to the country being praised is apparently another matter entirely.