People in the Biden administration are worried that this leaves Putin with one remaining option: unleashing a wave of asymmetric chaos across the West. Think political interference, cyberattacks, assassinations.
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Video of the balloon getting shot down over Myrtle Beach!!
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People in the Biden administration are worried that Putin will unleash a wave of asymmetric chaos across the West: political interference, cyberattacks, and assassinations.
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Asked a former Navy fighter jet pilot about targeting a balloon at 60k feet: "I’ve never been above 50k and it was hard for a Navy jet to get that high. F-22 could get there. That high we used to call “the moron-isphere.” It’s scary to fly that high, it starts to get dark."
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Because on the far right, there is a tacit—and not-so-tacit—agreement with Putin, whom they see as fighting for a white Christian nationalist cause. Whereas China is full of…non-white people.
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Paradox. When Russia invades a neighbor-smashes cities, kills tens of thousands- your social media and mine fill with voices from far left and far right warning against over-reaction and escalation. Russia is a nuclear power, they remind us, and so nobody should resist. BUT ...
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. confirms publicly today's Ukraine assistance package will include Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb, with a range of 94 miles – almost exactly double the range that Ukraine has been provided so far. As first reported by
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as I mention here 'meteorological research' was a favorite Cold War excuse - foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/03/hin
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The airship is from China. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course. The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the
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I’m not the best at sound bites, so I’m always grateful to Michael Kirk and the team at for posting my full interview from “Putin and the Presidents.”
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As we approach the one-year marker of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the toll in the war surges toward half a million dead and wounded on both sides, including some 30,000 killed Ukrainian civilians.
In just one year. And for what?
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"So I imagine - I don't have any proof of this, but I imagine that Putin watching January 6 happening was basically a green light to, you know, start planning things in Europe."
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I’m not the best at sound bites, so I’m always grateful to Michael Kirk and the team at for posting my full interview from “Putin and the Presidents.”
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Thank you to the Forward for taking a stand. This is a good start for the Jewish community, but let’s do more and let’s be much louder.
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Black journalists knew from the jump that the end game of the CRT panic was to justify legalizing anti-Black efforts.
Florida and DeSantis are showing us what was under their *ahem* hoods this entire time.
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Just having it as an option—and AP classes *are* optional—signifies the subject’s importance, it is a signal that maybe once you get to college, you should pursue this, too, instead of, like me, having to teach yourself in your 30s.
But that is obviously the point.
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What an absolute fucking embarrassment. On the 1st day of Black History Month.
I have to say, as an immigrant kid who had little knowledge of American history, I wish I had had this class as an option in high school.
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NEWS — Ron DeSantis is returning to California for fundraising next month.
He is headlining a reception and dinner for the Orange County GOP, per invitation seen by .
Tickets run from $500 to $15,000 to attend.
Sign up here for info to come:
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Who knew that Putin was a tie fiend?
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so i asked chatGPT to write me a song by Vladimir Putin, about neckties, in the style of Bad Bunny, and i am now dead.
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What is Russia? Russia is a place where diners in a restaurant call the cops on a couple at a neighboring table because they hear them voicing anti-war sentiments. The cops then put the woman on the floor and cuff her as she yells “Slava Ukraine!”
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What has kept Putin from giving the green light for a wider, more forceful and disruptive asymmetric offensive in Europe? Thought-provoking piece from for
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There is a growing fear in Washington that Russia will resort to hybrid tactics to inflict pain on Western powers in ways that it can no longer achieve through conventional warfare alone.
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Outstanding from in . Glad to contribute several comments on potential for future Russian hybrid warfare tactics.
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SCOOP : Chris Licht has approached his old colleague Gayle King to pitch her on hosting a prime time interview show that would still allow her to host ‘CBS Mornings.’ It could be just the sort of narrative-changing move he needs. Will she take it?
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Catch Puck’s in ’s “Putin and the Presidents” documentary, airing on Tuesday at 10/9c and streaming now.
Watch here 👉 pbs.org/wgbh/frontline
Subscribe to Julia’s newsletter, “The Best & The Brightest,” here 👉 puck.news/newsletters/th
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According to my colleague, , and are sending correspondents on Trump's campaign plane, "a possible return to the old status quo, c. 2015, and a decision by most mainstream news organizations to cover Trump as a conventional candidate."
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Putin believed that vast oil and gas fields gave Russia irrevocable superpower status, and that using it as a cudgel on his clients would never backfire.
“He has certainly overplayed his hand,” Russian oil expert tells .
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Almost a year into the war, the energy stranglehold Russia thought it had on Europe is more of an awkward side-hug.
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In less than a year, Putin, the master strategist, went from having Europe by the throat in terms of energy to completely losing a market Russia had spent three generations building. "People will never want to rely on Russia again," says .
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Great piece here on Putin's energy miscalculation and the surprising success of the Western oil price cap strategy.
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Another brilliant piece from
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China’s imports from Russia grew by nearly 50% from a year earlier in 2022, while exports rose 13%.
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In less than a year, Putin, the master strategist, went from having Europe by the throat in terms of energy to completely losing a market Russia had spent three generations building. "People will never want to rely on Russia again," says .
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Russia spent three generations building a business out of selling energy to Europe that Putin destroyed in a year. As it turns out, Russia needed Europe far more than Europe needed Russia.
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finland's got one of europe's largest standing armies
& it's not to defend against sweden...
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Wagner has allegedly lost 80% of its prisoner recruits either to casualties or desertion.
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There is less of a worry in Washington now that Putin will go nuclear. Apparently, China and India have told the Russian president that they will completely wash their hands of him if he does.
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And totally sold out of copies of "The Last Year," which even this adult reader could *not* put down.
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Amazing standing room only crowd for The Lost Year launch @KidsandProse yesterday with @juliaioffe. Book sold out completely even with my fellow journo @realBobWoodward speaking upstairs. @MacKidsBooks
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