Day 29, Phase 2
Escaping war-torn home towns in Ukraine. Photo by Chien-Chi Chang I don’t want to write about the war this morning. Chien-Chi is in town and we’ve decided to...
Day 28, Phase 2
Somewhere in Kharkiv. Photo by Chris McGrath c/o Ze Some say that minus U.S. military assistance most Ukrainians would already be walking around drunk in...
Day 27, Phase 2
Dead Russian soldier turning into fertilizer somewhere near New York, Donetsk region. Photo c/o Brosok Mangusta Russia’s attempts to seize control of eastern...
Day 26, Phase 2
Photo by Rodrigo Abd I physically experienced the journalistic side of bullshit with Iuliia Mendel this morning, twice. First this interview. And then a...
Day 25, Phase 2
Map c/o @war_mapper I have no plans to spend lots of time thinking about current tactical aspects of Russia’s further invasion of Donbas. We’ll leave that to...
Day 24, Phase 2
A bombed out residential building in Kyiv. Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters Claire Parker for The Washington Post writes about genocide on the 54th day of...
Day 23, Phase 2
Car passes an oil refinery in Lysychansk, Marko Djurica (Reuters) Nate at CURRENT AFFAIRS chats up “one of the most influential intellectuals in the world”...
Day 22, Phase 2
Photo c/o 93rd Brigade AFU It’s Day 52 and the future of Europe after the Cold War is still up for grabs1. A quick peek at what Ukraine experts were saying...
Day 21, Phase 2
Time flies. Only two months ago, I was thinking about how to roast chicken. Today Franklin is making comparisons with Passover and saying “Ukraine might...
Day 20, Phase 2
Photo c/o Bochkala_#The War! We’re all familiar with the loop-the-loop problem. The basic idea is to take something and propel it around a vertical loop....
Day 19, Phase 2
Somewhere in Bucha, Kyiv region. Photo by Roman Pilipey @epaphotos U.S. President Joe Biden has used the word genocide to describe Russia’s further invasion...
Day 18, Phase 2
Google Ngram Viewer I spent a lot of time during 2014 and 2015 watching battle clips from eastern Ukraine. Most of them were uploaded to a server,...
Day 17, Phase 2
Painting c/o Konstiantyn Kochanovsky Time flies. Only two months have passed since Putin’s beano with Macron in Moscow when he blurted out that Ukraine...
Day 16, Phase 2
UK Defense Intelligence map BBC on April 9, 2022 tells a story about the imminent inevitability1 of Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine, which U.S. and...
Day 15, Phase 2
Nathan’s map Over the last month and a half, we have alternatively explained, described and compared the prelude and execution of the ongoing unspeakable...
Day 14, Phase 2
As Ukraine braces for a second round, the West has a duty to step up by Danid Ignatius (The Washington Post. April 8, 2002) *** Maybe we should start by...
Day 13, Phase 2
Map c/o @war_mapper I’ll concentrate on the military and military-political situation today. I see Stefan has written a very, very long brief. I congratulate...
Day 12, Phase 2
Bombed out Borodyanka photo c/o Andriy Tsaplienko In Ukraine your internationalism can and should be your patriotism. We wrote abut Borodyanka on Day 9 of...
Day 11, Phase 2
Photo: Vadim Ghirda, Ronaldo Schemidt, УНІАН c/o Ze Battleground buffoonery. I just watched CNN’s Ben Wederman almost commit suicide on the outskirts of...
Day 10, Phase 2
Photo c/o Стопкор The “vile purulence“ London-based practicing philosopher Vladimir Pastukhov told us about before the invasion started was on full display...