The financial, kinetic and political elements to defeat Putin needn’t drive Russia from Ukraine entirely—Germany and Japan still held vast swathes of territory on VE/VJ Day—only that they are enough to impose escalation dominance. But like Timothy Garton Ash I doubt Biden has the gumption.

🫂 Benny Golson • I Remember Clifford L'Olympia, Paris, 1958 • Benny Golson • Lee Morgan • Bobby Timmons • Jymie Merritt • Art Blakey •

Weird because Chris Bowen said the EV market was going great guns. #auspol

Now that we have some idea what Israel can do to Hezbollah if so minded, we can appreciate how amazingly restrained it was of Israel to endure almost 12 months of unprovoked rocket attacks before hitting back hard.

The most powerful short video of our time. "He went from being a good leader to being a great leader, to being Winston Churchill with an iPhone." If you haven't already then please do watch The Zelensky Story on BBC iPlayer.

A time-honoured tradition of heroes who have fought tyranny, notwithstanding a faction of the GOP flying inverted, ignorant of history and willing again to appease aggression. Pour it on.

Phenomenal effect documented in this thread including a crater nearly the size of a football pitch.

Antisemitism is alluvial to the left and right nether reaches. Trump is not an antisemite, as the author notes. Trump champions Israel and condemns antisemitism, but the orbital plane of his politics—populist, isolationist, conspiracist—intersect it and Newton's Laws take over.

These and other stories of Ukrainian self-starting volunteerism—any Western society would recognise—show a healthy civic society now flourishing despite years of communist Russian oppression.

I’ll take “Bogus data washing” for $360 billion, Alex. #auspol

Past as prologue.

Or just go nuclear. "Massive transmission lines transporting energy from wind and solar farms in the state’s north will be built on the habitat of one of the state’s most significant koala populations, two separate reports have found." #auspol dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/trans…

This inexplicable US hesitancy, which has manifested over every major capability to help Ukraine defeat the Russian aggressor, has prolonged the war and increased costs in blood and treasure. That strategic temerity will have a cost for American national security down the road.

The provocation of existence.

A result that would drive nuclear weapons proliferation—by vulnerable and aggressor alike. The Biden administration at least rhetorically appreciates the stakes, yet by its own strategic hesitancy makes that outcome more likely.

Talk is cheap.

Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 tears Russia’s UN ambassador a new one over Russia’s abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children.

Leaving aside an input accounting trick to ignore cost of assets it funds and intends to use, it’s risible for Anthony Albanese govt to conveniently ignore considerable consumer energy cost tho it concerns itself with every imaginable consumer cost from groceries to housing to healthcare.

And the ISP accounting trick is based on an illusion of prospective consumer energy choice in a constrained future, when gas is being restricted or withdrawn, and cheap, reliable baseload will not exist: coal is being phased out and nuclear is banned. Where’s the choice? #auspol