Thanks for the free psychoanalysis. But, as a 67 year old retired history and investments prof, I long ago seceded from the status-metering game and have nothing to prove to anyone except on a basketball court.
Since Latvian is my eighth language and I've been invited to teach in seven universities in Latvia, Poland, Spain and Germany, there's ample empirical proof of what I offer here.
Having lived through the peaceful collapse of two fascist regimes in Portugal and Spain in 1974 and 1976, interviewed veterans of civil war and anarchist revolution in Spain's civil war and lived in archives for 2 years, I offer readers more than merely theoretical understanding of war, civil war and revolution. So do my British, American and Ukrainian veteran and entrepreneur colleagues who have lived in Kyiv working for Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, founding a Ukrainian tech startup and organized the territorial defense of Bilohorodka.
As a speaker of conversational Russian and Latvian who's lived in Riga since 2005, I know far from everything, but certainly offer readers a familiarity with the history and geopolitics of this region you can't possibly access. So, unless you subscribe to Brexiteer and Russian useful idiot Michael Gove's "people have had enough of experts" anti-intellectual Luddism, you might try refuting my arguments with evidence instead of remote diagnosis by psychobabble.
Thinking is hard work, which is why most people won't do it. Thinking to construct an argument backed by evidence is even harder work. You began one of your articles about imperial Uncle Sam with:
"It’s not a coincidence nearly every nation aligned with the (US) global agenda has an economically conservative government." Evidence this is untrue: center left governments in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Canada, the Netherlands, Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile.
Supporting an argument with evidence is just a matter of basic scholarly integrity you were apparently never taught. If you come to the kitchen with evidence-free nonsense, you'll never be able to stand the heat.
You also wrote "No to Putin, No to NATO". I have proven with ample evidence, based on a far deeper understanding of this region's geopolitics and history, that this none of the above dish is not on the menu. Every former Warsaw Pact nation in Europe understands this, while you claim to know more than they do from a much safer distance. Let me simplify this with an equation: no to NATO = genocidal erasure of Ukraine from the map.
My mission here, as a permanent resident of Latvia, is simple: Putin started a war on my birthday, February 24, and I declared war on him with the only tools I have: words and money--donating and raising four figures in February and March for Ukrainian territorial defense and refugees. Using evidence-based argument to refute evidence-free whataboutist nonsense is part of that mission. Since I live in a beachfront forest in Jurmala which still has Soviet pillboxes, this is also simply a matter of self-defense. My self-esteem, amply fed by my wife, family, friends, basketball buddies and readers who thank me, has no role in this mission.
The American Psychiatric Association defines remote diagnosis as medical malpractice. But don't worry, I won't sue you.