Opinion

This photo of a dead Russian soldier outside Kharkiv reminds me of the Battle of Stalingrad. Images like these can have a huge impact. Please share it with any Russians you know and hope it impacts resistance to the war there.Photo by Tyler Hicks/New York Times. pic.twitter.com/gmN8CgjQif— Anders Östlund (@andersostlund) February 26, 2022 General Staff of Ukraine … [Read more...] about Putin has found his Vietnam

Sanctions shmanctions.It may be wise to consider the possibility that Putin is only interested in power, not money; in guns, not butter - increasingly so. He has no personal skin in the economic game, pays no price.The theory that he has hidden assets stashed away is naive.— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) February 25, 2022 … [Read more...] about Sanctions, shmanctions

Vladimir Putin has launched an unprovoked assault on the sovereign country next door. He is obsessed with the defensive alliance to its west. And he is trampling the principles that underpin peace in the 21st century https://t.co/Gd9QFlLJgg— The Economist (@TheEconomist) February 25, 2022 … [Read more...] about Putin gone full Hitler

One of the things the 20th century taught us, very expensively, is that it's a mistake to appease dictators who invade their neighbors.— Paul Graham (@paulg) February 24, 2022 … [Read more...] about it’s a mistake to appease dictators who invade their neighbors

Czech president: Russia should be cut off from SWIFT https://t.co/qipPNucmEl pic.twitter.com/8QEPyMMZqF— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) February 24, 2022 … [Read more...] about Russia should be cut off from SWIFT