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01/07/2025

One more feature of the Soviet Union ends. Ukraine ended Russian natural gas transit through its pipelines on New Year’s Day. The two countries had failed to reach an agreement. Since the collapse …

01/04/2025

Arnold Rüütel died in Tallinn on the last day of 2024. He was President of Estonia from 2001 to 2006. Before the Soviet Union broke up, he held a number of official positions in the government of t…

01/04/2025

Just before the new year, an essay from late October got some attention. On New Year’s Day, I posted it along with a comment on Bluesky. That post is still circulating and has gotten hundreds of ey…

12/18/2024

The New York Times Editorial Board, as part of their series on nuclear war and nuclear weapons, wrote a long appeal to Donald Trump to get us out of our dependence on nuclear weapons. (gift link) T…

12/17/2024

Over the last few months, the New York Times has run articles on nuclear weapons and nuclear war. The latest is by William Langewiesche, about a classified war game in which nuclear war escalated m…

12/17/2024

In the 1950s and again in the 1980s, the American public engaged with the issues of nuclear weapons. Demonstrations led to banning atmospheric tests in 1963 and bolstered both Ronald Reagan’s and M…

12/15/2024

Governor Larry Hogan (R) of Maryland indignantly posted a video of what he thought was a drone swarm on Twitter and insisted that the federal government was not doing enough to protect citizens fro…

12/02/2024

While Russia has been focused on destroying Ukraine, things have been happening in other places. An anti-government group in Syria has taken Aleppo, and Georgia is experiencing major unrest in Tbil…

11/21/2024

Russia sent a new missile last night to Dnipro that provided a spectacular show. In combination with its change in nuclear doctrine, the message is “This is what a nuclear strike might look like.” …

11/10/2024

I am getting questions and seeing too many bad takes on nuclear proliferation in the Trump administration. I advise everyone to sit down quietly. Nothing is going to happen quickly, and probably a …

11/08/2024

I hate this. Something that isn’t much talked about is the opportunity cost of electing Donald Trump. There are plenty of things to deal with more immediately, like the prospect of of mass deportat…

10/26/2024

Ross Douthat does the public service of interviewing two people likely to be at the top of a Donald Trump foreign policy team, Robert O’Brien and Elbridge Colby. (gift link) O’Brien was Trump’s nat…

10/17/2024

Man, you look away for a few days, and all sorts of nonsense creeps in. Like most of us, I’ve been focusing on the presidential campaign. What happens to everything else depends on that outcome. Bu…

10/10/2024

Beyond Donald Trump’s direct and obvious grifts is a secondary industry of grifts that both live off the direct grifts and support them. And third-rate hangers on and more. It’s a grift ecosystem. …

10/02/2024

Vladimir Putin has announced plans for changes in Russia’s nuclear doctrine. How much difference will this make in how his war in Ukraine is being fought? Probably not much. Fabian Hoffmann has cat…

09/18/2024

Today the (male) NASA adminstrator, Bill Nelson, accepted Congressional Gold Medals from the (male) Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, on behalf of Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her service…

09/16/2024

The day after the debate, Marcy Wheeler asked why the pundits didn’t listen to Kamala Harris the several times before the debate when she said what she was going to do. She notes that they paid att…

09/11/2024

Last night, Decker Eveleth, who identified a possible Burevestnik launch site, asked me about a quote. I was in the middle of watching the Harris-Trump debate, so I said I’d post something later. T…

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