Favorites February 26th 2022
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Nothing has yet pushed Ukraine off the front page of every newspaper. Kyiv is getting hit pretty hard, including obviously non-military targets.
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Wow, not that long ago flights of weapons headed for Ukraine had to be routed around German airspace.
Speaking of airspace
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Haven't been including much info about Tucker Carlson, but he's been very pro Putin over the last few days/weeks/years
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Wow, that's a bummer. With it's massive lift capacity, it was probably the only plane capable of moving certain huge single items. It once carried a 130 ton generator from Prague to Australia.
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One counterpoint is that Russians appear to be deploying TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS to Ukraine, which could potentially be used to just start leveling cities. This is what they look like in action.
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Smith calls it the "Ultimate weapon of economic sanctions"
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Sanctions on other countries never had massive impact because the countries were often relatively isolated to begin with, Russia is not North Korea.
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He's the chair of urban warfare studies at West Point. He also presented some best practices in a twitter thread format.
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If you buy into markets as a way of predicting things, this is useful info.