oh, no lol… millennial through and through. he seems to have had an interesting route to discovering his own politics, sort of hippy adjacent mixed with surprisingly incisive and lucid takes on geopolitics, and seems to have become a third worldist in no small part due to being brought up in the usa, but he seems to be pretty young comparatively. for some of his reflexive anti-communism, i think it’s just typical anti-soviet sentiment for his generation, especially given his background as usa diaspora )who migrated back to country of origin but he acknowledges he spent a good while in the empire. he has an interesting piece on almost being recruited for like, i forget what it was but pro-usa ‘journalism’)