Ezra Klein’s interview with Timothy Snyder is so good.
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Keep these racist child-snatchers the hell away from refugees!
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The western values that are being touted today helped enthrone the monster who is now shelling Ukrainian women and children. However corrupt and repressive his regime, Putin was tolerated by the west – until he became intolerable. In much the same way, until last month Roman Abramovich was perfectly fit and proper to own Chelsea football club. Now No 10 says he isn’t. There are no values here, not even a serious strategy. Today, Boris Johnson claims Mohammed bin Salman is a valued friend and partner to the UK, and sells him arms to kill Yemenis and pretends not to notice those he has executed. Goodness knows what tomorrow will bring.
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I think there’s ovet 1000 Russians going thru Finland daily.
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All my Russian homies hate Putin.
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Bummer it’s paywalled.
I tried archive.md, but forgot that doing so disables things like a recorded-interview link. 
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I’d interpret it slightly differently from just ‘raising the stakes with the West’. It also looks like “I know I am going to have to settle for less than I wanted and may lose face, which will increase internal criticism, so to mitigate that I will have to get much tougher internally and crack down on all dissidence in my own population”
And, as also noted upthread (@GagHalfrunt), it harks back to the great Russian tradition of purges, just to remind them what they are about to get.
Let’s just hope he gets what Russian purgers have also traditionally received. Soon.
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Blue and yellow ribbons in her hair.
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This photo was taken by the girl’s father who had her pose with an unloaded shotgun. I saw the original posters’ comments when it was first making the rounds during the first week of the invasion (I think). It’s a cool photo, but not all that it appears to be.
Edit: here’s the original, by Oleksii Kyrychenko:
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What about that voice makes it worth a listen?
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It’s about how to support Ukraine militarily without escalating to war between NATO countries and Russia.
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I’ve seen some reports that a number of these weapons may have been captured by Russian forces, and I’m wondering, given how sophisticated they are, whether there’s any means for the US to disable them remotely. If not, there should be because there’s certainly a long history of American-made weapons eventually falling into the hands of folks who definitely shouldn’t have them.
I normally hate those “your software license needs to be renewed” messages but something like that might be warranted in this case to periodically confirm ownership, even if it means that occasionally a Ukrainian soldier isn’t able to fire one when they want to because someone let it lapse.
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Folks like say, Americans?
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That could open up an exciting new field in ransomware.
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Among others, definitely.
Seriously though, we’re sending tens of thousands of these advanced, small, highly portable guided missile systems into a chaotic war zone, and I really hope we’ve got systems in place to track and disable them. Imagine the damage that just one of these could do to a civilian airliner, armored motorcade for a head of state, or, like in the movie Syriana, to a CNG tanker ship.
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I was being serious.
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