But Pope Brock plays him in such a one-note key of gulping and spitting and snickering cynicism that the spectacle becomes numbing.

In April 1937 it united formally with the rest of the right—Carlist traditionalists, the 'monarcho-fascists' of Renovación Española and the residues of the CEDA—to form the monopolistic party of a state many would regard as 'fascist'.

At the early stage, AS patients manifest with microhematuria and the GBM appears as normal under electron microscopy; in advanced patients, proteinuria develops and the GBM shows distinct structural changes; such as attenuation, thicken, layering or splitting [14 ].

Medvedev cited these supposed “Western analysts” in order to propagate Russia’s colonial fantasy: envisioning Ukraine’s territory reduced to just the Kyiv region, while the remainder of Ukraine would be divided among Russia, Poland, Romania, and Hungary. Such a narrative recalls Putin’s February 2022 speech questioning Ukraine’s statehood and accompanies intensifying Russian calls to expand its “special military operation” to realize its imperial map.