the foco dad
a stay-at-home dad muses about raising his two children
Category: Foreign Relations
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Two years ago the winner of best documentary feature at the Oscars was a movie called 20 Days in Mariupol, directed by Mstyslav Chernov. The movie includes compelling and tragic footage and interviews from the first few weeks of Ukraine’s war with Russia following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It was one of…
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Way back in October of 2024, Elon Musk and his DOGE shock troopers, which included a man with the social media handle of Big Balls, claimed that they would cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. (That would be nearly a third of the entire budget.) It was a new era of austerity and employment…
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I check in once a day with my dear friend in Israel. He and his family already live in a volatile region of the world and what Trump did in the wee hours of Saturday morning has made day-to-day life in Israel and the Middle East even more fraught with peril. Trump and Hegseth live…
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I love a good documentary. This time of year between Oscar nominations and the Oscars show is like Christmas for documentary lovers. A lot of the films become available to stream on some platform or at least become available to rent. In 2023, one of those movies was titled Navalny, after the Russian lawyer and…
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After all the things Trump has done with his first year of his second term, threatening to invade and completely take over Greenland, strikes me as the most dangerous action yet. Never in my wildest dreams did I foresee a day in which the greatest threat to European sovereignty would be the United States. But,…