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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.


Wow, not that long ago flights of weapons headed for Ukraine had to be routed around German airspace.
Speaking of airspace


Haven't been including much info about Tucker Carlson, but he's been very pro Putin over the last few days/weeks/years


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.


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.


Smith calls it the "Ultimate weapon of economic sanctions"

Sanctions on other countries never had massive impact because the countries were often relatively isolated to begin with, Russia is not North Korea.

He's the chair of urban warfare studies at West Point. He also presented some best practices in a twitter thread format.


If you buy into markets as a way of predicting things, this is useful info.