[merek]

A good lot of them seem to be from Matt Lakeman, whose writing I highly recommend. He goes into detail about history, politics, and tries to understand why things are the way they are in the places he travels.

The list is missing Lakeman's recent travels in Afghanistan: https://mattlakeman.org/2026/01/05/notes-on-afghanistan/

[Denkel]

Read his take on Spain. If all his guides are the same... Better don't read them. As libertarian (he is the one mentioning it I did not have to look for it), he spends too much text -wrongly- analyzing the politics. His comment about socialized healthcare is an example of someone having "only one appointment per month" as a big failure of the system, that's rich coming from someone from the Country in which people die because they have to ration their insulin. And apparently Spain is more radical because communists get a few seats every election, but somehow America is less radical despite 30% of the population consistely supporting the fascists. He notes the far-right party without realizing that their platform is almost 1 to 1 to American Republicans... And I am going to stop there, but his takes in general are awful.