Nika Kovacs

I'll also just say, I'm not the Christian of the year over here.

No, you and I are just two really bad Jews.

But last I checked, Jesus Christ wasn't like a bloodthirsty warlord.

I thought, blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

This is such a bastardization of Christianity.

Christianity is supposed to value civilian life.

What is Christian about threatening to blow up desalination plants?

What is Christian about bombing a girls' school?

So this is this bullshit performative Christianity that doesn't comport with any Christianity I'm familiar with.

I mean, you're the Russian in the conversation.

In the same way that there's a TikTok economy here, there's a Telegram economy.

How do you communicate with them?

I think it feels right to me.

I mean – and I saw a crazy – the New York Times bureau chief in Moscow did a great report on this.

And one of her points was that increasingly the internet outages are in Moscow.

The reason it's an important point, as you know better than me alone, is that if the internet's out in Moscow, what the hell is going on in the rest of Russia?

Because Moscow is supposed to be the connected cosmopolitan place.

And we should say, already, Facebook is banned.

YouTube is banned.

WhatsApp is banned.