Dear Nicholas, 

thank you for such a serious treatment of my concerns. 

I appreciate your reassuring me about Indentation Uniformity and Footnote Placement of the Internet links.

I want to raise a question about the marketing plan. You said:

"Securing these endorsements is a priority, however, please know that you've not subscribed to our marketing plan and we can not proceed with these activities without initiating the marketing plan".

Isn't the author (me, in this case) supposed to have a taste of something before he subscribes to it? Is It not like a pig in a poke?

I'd like to have a sample of marketing before discussing it in more detail.

If the book is published without scholarly endorsements, no wise marketing will compensate for it.

Scholarly Endorsements are certainly very important, and  I know many native speakers of English as like-minded people in terms of my book:
  Benjamin  Abelow, M. Gordon Hahn, Stephen Lendman (who died recently), Medea  Benjamin, and Nicolas Davies, John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs, to name just a few.  
However,  I do not expect Scholarly Endorsements to be positive, if they come from an entirely different vantage point.
For example, Serhii Plokhy seems to know much about Ukraine. He is not only my countryman but he comes from my native city of Zaporozhye, which does not prevent us from seeing things differently. The same can be said about Timothy Snyder, a professional, but from a school with a different vision.
Since my approach focuses on the linguistic factor of the war such authors as Louis-Jean Calve (Language Wars and Linguistic Politics), , Rachel May (The Translator in the Text), Nicholas Ostler, (Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World) deserve close attention.
I wish you prioritized Robert Lane Greene in this respect, because his analysis of the linguistic situation in Ukraine is similar to mine, and his books predicted the Ukrainian tragedy.

I look forward to the book being available on Amazon before the end of this month.

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'He is an introvert – a man of deeds, not words': How Vladimir Putin rose to power in Russia

The lean, fit and sober Putin proved popular in a country used to the erratic behaviour of Yeltsin, who was so boozy and unhealthy that it was sometimes a news story when he managed just to make it into the office.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241220-how-vladimir-putin-rose-to-power-in-russia

Last year, Tucker Carlson scandalised America by travelling to Russia and interviewing Vladimir Putin. As US viewers denounced the idea that one ought to speak to an enemy such as Putin, Tucker strolled around Moscow, filming himself taking the subway, buying a burger from the new Russian McDonalds, and going grocery shopping in a Moscow supermarket. Behaving, in fact, like he was in the West.

Back home, Tucker had some good things to say about Putin, as well as some bad things. But it was the streets and shops of Moscow that really “radicalised” him. The West likes to paint Russia as poor, miserable and oppressed, but Tucker described a perfectly ordinary modern society. The discrepancy between what Tucker had been taught to expect and what he actually saw in Russia didn’t just unnerve him — it made him angry.

Of course, one might point out that Moscow and St Petersburg are Potemkin villages of sorts, covering up the reality of deep poverty in much of the rest of the country. But none of this is ultimately a matter of facts. The conflict between the West and Russia today is now seen as ideological and existential, just as the conflict between communism and capitalism once was. To say something nice about the Russian enemy is to take his side; to say something nice about him that also happens to be true is seen as even more treasonous. 

https://unherd.com/2024/10/would-you-move-to-mother-russia/

The Oxford English Dictionary records the phrase "soft power" (meaning "power (of a nation, state, alliance, etc.) deriving from economic and cultural influence, rather than coercion or military strength") from 1985.[4] Joseph Nye popularized the concept of "soft power" in the late 1980s.  For Nye, power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes you want. There are several ways one can achieve this: one can coerce others with threats; one can induce them with payments; or one can attract and co-opt them to want what one wants. This soft power – getting others to want the outcomes one wants – co-opts people rather than coerces them.

Soft power contrasts with "hard power" - the use of coercion and payment. 

North Korea's constitution now defines the South as a "hostile state", according to state media, in the first mention of what Pyongyang's recent constitutional revisions entailed.

State newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported the change as an "inevitable and legitimate measure", at a time when tensions between the Koreas are at their highest point in years.

The North on Tuesday blew up roads and railways connecting it to South Korea - a move which state media described as "part of the step-by-step implementation to thoroughly separate [the Koreas]".

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Early Tuesday morning, the U.S. Senate approved $60 billion in additional aid for Ukraine in a vote of 70-29. All but three of the no votes were from Republicans, including Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who on Wednesday voiced his continued opposition to sending any more aid to Ukraine.

“I was totally against this Ukraine funding that we voted on, we stayed up all night the other night and voted like 5:30 a.m. in the morning,” Tuberville said, speaking at a Montgomery Chamber of Commerce event. 

“Why was I against that? First of all, I’m not voting for a dime to Ukraine, I see what’s happening: it’s like a junior high playing an NFL team in football. They can’t win.”

In Germany, the word "Putinversteher" (female form "Putinversteherin") is a neologism and a political buzzword (Putin + verstehen), which literally translates "Putin understander", i.e., "one who understands Putin". It is a pejorative reference to politicians and pundits who express empathy to Putin and may also be translated as "Putin-empathizer." Putin-Versteher was among frequent suggestions for the Un-word of the year 2014, but the panel of linguists favored the word Lügenpresse ("lying press"). Among the runners-up was a similar term, "Russland-Versteher" (Russia-Understander). Although the word was used in English media as early as 2014, it became an international term in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion.

The venomous German term is a cover-up for those who denounce everyone who takes pains trying to understand Putin because there is allegedly nothing to understand about him: his guilt must be taken for granted. Whoever refuses to back up this narrative is considered to have committed a crime against humanity, punishable by up to three years in prison.

Western “democratic“ discourse knows how to defend itself  [Baud, 2022: 260]

There will be those on the more cautious end of the spectrum who will argue that Ukraine has already made its point, that Putin’s war of choice must now bring some pain to Russians.

That despite recent setbacks on the battlefield in the Donbas region, Ukraine has shown itself capable of mounting a sophisticated, combined arms assault using all the elements of modern warfare.

In other words, withdraw now with honour, having given the Kremlin a bloody nose, before Russia brings in enough forces to kill or capture the invading Ukrainians.

The hardline nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) political party Ms Farion was a member of blamed Russia directly for the killing.

"Moscow shoots in the temple for the Ukrainian language," it said in a statement.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp387p1zrgpo

According to Semonides of Amorgos, a male poet working in Greece in the 7th Century BC, there are 10 main kinds of women. There are women who are like pigs, because they prefer eating to cleaning; women who resemble foxes, as they are peculiarly observant; donkey-women, who are sexually promiscuous; dog-women, marked for their disobedience. There are stormy sea-women, greedy Earth-women, thieving weasel-women, lazy horse-women, unattractive ape-women, and – the one good kind – hard-working bee-women.