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YES this is a frightening situation where Putin has no endgame or off-ramp from his original plans And his original intended plans did not end w Ukraine. I don’t think he needs provocation or propaganda. He will act willfully with or without it. j

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One image I found striking today was of all the people backed up to get through the subway turnstiles in Moscow because their ApplePay and GooglePay did not work any more. J

We can agree about the press, or not, and make that point without mocking a teenage girl and her geometry class. J

There are more important Russian assets to be removed from more important places. But people want to take a stand where they do have the agency to do so. My blue puffer and yellow hat on Saturday may have been useless on a geopolitical scale, but it felt meaningful to me to express myself...

Good luck at Lowe’s. J

I think you could have made your points without first mocking a teenage girl. J

For my part, I was taught, during USSRs existence and the prior history, that “the Ukraine”was an agricultural region and the breadbasket of Europe. Ukraine as an independent country called just “Ukraine”, vs Ukrainian people’s republic or Ukrainian soviet socialist republic, is only about...

I experience that feeling a lot at work. J

RT is propaganda. Sad story where Ritter went in his views. You could delete your post or at least the media vs just an edit comment. J

You could be right. But his taking of those other places was not perceived as a direct threat to Europe the way taking Ukraine represents a more existential threat to Eastern Europe, the Baltic and Scandinavia, and NATO. I have been following former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul for...

... was probably a rational actor in the past but no more. Too much power for too long and now his narcissistic urges have taken over. You rarely see him smile but did you see how he smiled as he humiliated his minister in the recent session. Chilling. He must be in a rage now, not getting...

Stopped wearing my red puffer. My puffer colors now stand w Ukraine. J

More recent Ukranian history here, by a Yale historian. https://www.vox.com/22950915/ukraine-history-timothy-snyder-today-explained Particularly with the USSR, Stalin, collectivization, famine, WW2, fall of the USSR. j

Btw, that article was published in May 2021. Continuing... Fallacy #3: Ukraine was historically a territory of Russia. Nyet. In the days after the Kyivan Rus’ fell to the Mongols, Ukraine was for half a millennium part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Russia had no dominion over Ukraine...

I found this article to be informative https://gregolear.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-fallacies-with-victor?utm_source=url Here is a highlight “ Fallacy #1: Ukraine is “Little Russia,” a spin-off of the original—... If anything, it’s the other way around. As Rud writes in his superb 2014...

Morning in Ukraine. Kyiv survives another night. Impressive national will and unity and courage. Not over. J

Stillwater Dry: lady mcConnell Streamer. Simiseal leech w red beadhead* Emerger: Sparkle dun, gray Nymph: Rickards damsel nymph, orange details version Chironomid. “JBC”, jays best chironomid * tie with the also must have black and variegated and gold sparkle wooly buggger in modest...

I was fishing Leech lake once and catching fish taking Callibaetis mayfly emerger patterns consistently, then it shut down even though mayflys were still emerging and fish wer still taking something at the surface. Maddening!!! So I caught a fish on a leech and sampled the gullet and it was...

Taxon, glad to see you on this,forum to help us with insects and challenge us with specimens. J