I’ll have to check it out. They’re already publishing his speeches on a monthly basis, with proceeds going to the Ukrainian Red Cross….. War Speeches
Shout out to the good Dr O! She also has a book -The Zelenskyy Effect- out soon that will be very relevant to us (preorder here or your favourite local bookseller).
I'm hoping this book gives it the old college try.
Manu before: I have no friends! (seriously, there's even a book about it)
Ze: Emmanuel, would you be available for an hour and a half long phone call?
Manu now: I have one friend!
I think it was an interview; Macron was defending himself against some speculation he was friend with two oligarchs (oh isn't this familiar...)
Oh god, there's even a <em>book!</em> "Macron; The man who had no friends". Jeeeze. Poor Manu.
I would NOT recommend reading this now, but the book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland goes into this. From the description:
> Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.