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Thinking of my NPR colleagues who went to bed as foreign correspondents and woke up as war correspondents.
He goes on: "I’m joking of course, none of them went to sleep"
Ship queues are lengthening at East Coast ports. Turns out that shifting shipping to lower-volume ports works kinda like having Googlers move to Spokane: even a small bump means the locals are overwhelmed.
Just in case you thought world logistical problems had improved...
Airspace over Ukraine is EMPTY now, according to @ADSBexchange. Heavy civilian air traffic elsewhere warned of "HIGH risk," any altitude. The image says it all.
Wow! I wonder if there were planes that changed route mid-filght...
Result of sanctions presumably?
Not wild about this!
Pretty brave thing to be doing, hundreds were arrested for this.
Seriously, just take the yachts. How is this even a debate. Just take them. Find a legal justification later. Speed matters.
Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman
This seems like a no-brainer
Seems like the paradox of sanctions policy against Russia is that policymakers really *don't want* sanctions are too strong, because that would make the situation more dangerous (e.g., you think he's crazy now, what if his regime *really was* in mortal danger of collapsing)
The concept of a sweet spot for sanctions is not something I had considered before. More explanation on this here. Also related, Russia seems to have been cutting Europe's gas before the sanctions started.
