The miltary analysts I trust the most, i.e. the ones that talked to Ukrainian soldiers in detail about the first days of the invasion, have gone on the record that things were a lot closer than commonly presented and could have gone the other way too. Hostomel, the infiltrators in Kyiv, etc.

Trump just out-Putin'd Putin. That might lead somewhere.

Honestly, if we get serious about building up our defense industry, that will at least give them the satisfaction we're finally taking them seriously.

That's a better basis for negotiations than what we've been doing the last four years.

I saw it coming earlier, but this was the point of no return for me.

LIHOP-Theorien sind ein rabbit hole, mit dem man besser gar nicht erst anfängt.

Zwischen dem Höhepunkt der Eskalationsangst im Herbst '22, den Verschwörungstheorien, und den tatsächlichen Konsequenzen hat sich die 🇺🇦 damit wirklich keinen Gefallen getan.

That was an exasperating read. Doubly so because I fully realize, any unsolicidated 'advice' I feel compelled to offer runs the risk of making me part of the problem, not the solution.

So I'll just say I recognize what a dilemma this is, and that anyone who's been there has my full sympathy.

He's two lions short.

Shoot, a gal could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

Because apparently no one considered the direct participation of North Korean troops escalatory either.

I hope you're familiar with Paul d'Anieri's work. It's regrettable he's not as present in the public sphere as others.

The longer we delay this debate—particularly in Berlin—the more apparent it becomes that either Germany does not view Ukraine as crucial to Europe’s security architecture as its rhetoric suggests,...

I only saw the first season. Laurie was good as always, and I found it passably amusing. Not as good as The Thick of It, though.

I guess since the Russian invasion, I don't have as much an attention span left for fiction.

Avenue 5?

I'm not really in the loop anymore, though.