Why Americans shouldn’t be happy that they suspended Russian operations.
Yes, they can do it to anyone they want with “unacceptable” opinions.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Elon And Russia
Climate, And The Real Crisis
A roundup on the latest insanity, from Judith Curry.
The Limits Of Libertarianism
Thoughts from Joel Kotkin.
The World’s Weak Leadership
Biden’s War On Energy
Thanks to it, American are paying more, and Putin wins.
If you support this administration’s energy policies, you are objectively pro-Putin.
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No, Joe, you don’t fight inflation by doubling down on all the stupid things you’ve been doing that cause inflation.
No Matter How Bad You Think It Is
…you can’t keep up with what a programmatic disaster SLS/Orion is.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
More commentary from Bob Zimmerman.
Ukraine’s Deadly Gamble
A history you won’t read much of anywhere else.
There should be hearings on this when the Republicans take back Congress.
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Broken link fixed, sorry.
[Update a while later]
Kyiv is holding out, and Putin is furious.
I’ll bet he is. He believed his own propaganda about Ukraine, and Ukrainians.
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Putin’s failure.
[Update later afternoon]
An assessment of the current situation. The Ukrainians have surprised everyone, and for Putin the surprise is quite unpleasant.
The Roots Of Wokeness
Ukraine And Space
Thoughts on the implications of the invasion, from Bob Zimmerman.
[Friday-morning update]
The repercussions of this for the space industry could be broad and unforeseeable.
It was always a mistake to make ourselves so reliable on Russian/Ukrainian hardware.
[Afternoon update]
Ukrainian invasions have affected our own space policies in the past.
As Jeff notes, if the Russians pull out of ISS, their human spaceflight program wouldn’t have much to do.
[Mid-afternoon update]
Yet.
[Saturday-morning update]
Eric Berger runs through the potential implications for space.