Pete Alonso: The Mets’ First Baseman Quietly Waging Soft-Power Warfare, One Home Run at a Time
In the grand geopolitical chessboard, most pieces move with the subtlety of a drone strike: loud, expensive, and leaving craters where nuance used to live. Then there’s Pete Alonso—first baseman, Mets lifer, human embodiment of the phrase “built like a Soviet apartment block”—quietly swinging a maple bat in Queens as if the fate of the…