Favorites March 1st 2022
Whoa. This is important. When Xi issued his statement of support for Putin before the invasion, he may have been tricked into thinking Putin wouldn't invade.
Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 @Lingling_Wei
Tricked everyone besides US intelligence.
I don’t know whether the alleged Zelensky assassination plot was, in fact, foiled by FSB snitches, as the Ukrainians say. But saying the tip came from with the FSB itself is maximally designed to send the FSB into a counterintelligence ouroboros.
I'm constantly worried that they'll find a way to do him in, but maybe I'm not giving enough credit to the individuals who'd have to carry it out.
BREAKING: Exxon withdraws from Russia. “We are beginning the process to discontinue operations and developing steps to exit the Sakhalin-1 venture,” it says (unclear what “discontinue” means, but Exxon operates the LNG facility, so it’s a big deal)
Update on yesterday's news, I believe that's all the US Oil companies out of Russia.
New pod: RUSSIA ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, with special guests @Noahpinion and @nicolas_veron
open.spotify.com/episode/2mtGcc…
We have the Russian economy in a choke hold.
Putin has a gun to the head of Ukraine—and all of humanity.
The moral urgency to find an off-ramp couldn’t be higher.
This was a good overview of where things stand regarding sanctions strategy
Some foreign policy prognosticators prior to the war were claiming that if Russia is allowed to invade Ukraine, our deterrence of the Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be weakened. I actually think the reverse is true now 🧵
The west's response has been strong enough to demonstrate that we'd take it seriously. (Plus we're seeing that it's quite hard to quickly conquer a smaller nation that's had time to prepare). It’s a short thread if you want to see the rest.
