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The conclusion that’s reasonable to draw from these anecdotal reports is that Russian internet infrastructure was a vital part of the tool kit of people who spread misinformation. There’s a lot of pieces of this economy that are run out of Russia — bot networks, for example, networks of people who sell who buy and sell stolen credit card information, a lot of the economy around buying stolen [social media] accounts — because Russia has historically tolerated a lot of cybercrime. Either it turns a blind eye or a lot of these groups actually directly work for, or are contractors to, the Russian state. – Russia is having less success at spreading social media disinformation (for now), by Laura Edelson, in an interview with Sophie Bushwick, for Scientific American
The bottom line remains that a war involving less than 1% of the world’s nuclear arsenal could shatter the planet’s food supplies. – How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet, by Witze, for Nature
Wayne E. Lee, a military historian in the United States, shared the following essay by a ‘Stanimir Dobrev’ on birdsite. Because it is written for people with recent military or intelligence experience, I have expanded or glossed the acronyms and linked to some Wikipedia pages. – Things I Don’t Know About the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet, by Witze, for Nature
Things I Don’t Know About the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
On Mastodon and Twitter: @bad_immigrant / @bad_immigrant, posting snippets of protests, pictures and short videos taken by people.
@kamilkazani has some great threads on Twitter.
This is a brief guide for selected threads. It will include materials on the current war and briefs useful for prognosing the future of the region once the war is over – Thread of threads
This was the first thread I had seen, but the others are good, too.
Much of the “realist” discourse is about accepting Putin’s victory, cuz it’s *guaranteed*. But how do we know it is? – Why Russia will lose this war?
Why Russia will lose this war?
Journalism
The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in. – 20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony
20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony
Others:
@timkmak: Zelenskyy was urged to evacuate Kyiv at the behest of the U.S. government but turned down the offer… – Working for NPR
Ukraine support:
If we stop supporting Ukraine, then everything gets worse, all of a sudden, and no one will be talking about “fatigue” because we will all be talking about disaster: across all of these dimensions: food supply, war crimes, international instability, expanding war, collapsing democracies. Everything that the Ukrainians are doing for us can be reversed if we give up. Why would lawmakers even contemplate doing so? – Would You Sell Them Out? by Timothy Snyder
Russian assets:
Western governments are drawing up plans to issue debt to help fund Ukraine, using Russian assets as a backstop for the repayment in a move that would force Moscow to start paying for its invasion. – G7 draws up plans to backstop debt-raising for Ukraine with Russian assets, by Chris Cook, Henry Foy and Laura Dubois, for the Financial Times
G7 draws up plans to backstop debt-raising for Ukraine with Russian assets