A roundup on the latest insanity, from Judith Curry.
Category Archives: War Commentary
The World’s Longest POW Camp
Trent Telenko says it’s not going well for that Russian convoy.
[Update a few minutes later]
Unfortunately, as noted at the end, it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
[Sunday-morning update]
Day 8 of the column held hostage.
This isn’t a debacle for the Russian military; it’s a disaster.
Putin’s Determination
“The crisis is not merely that Russia is invading Ukraine; it is that Russia is invading Ukraine in particularly reckless, destructive, and catastrophic ways. It is as if Vladimir Putin is an obsessed and abusive lover, determined to destroy what he cannot possess.“
The World’s Weak Leadership
The State Of Putin, And The World
Thoughts from Laughing Wolf (who seems to finally be starting to recover from the literal lightning strike).
[Update a couple minutes later]
Bryan Caplan has thoughts on enticing desertion at his shiny new blog.
Sanctions Start To Bite
Russian porn stars hardest hit.
TBH, I wouldn’t pay anything to look at those women.
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.
[Update a few minutes later]
No, Joe, you don’t fight inflation by doubling down on all the stupid things you’ve been doing that cause inflation.
Mriya
Was the AN-225 destroyed in Ukraine? That was a unique airplane, the Soviet’s equivalent of our Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
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.
[Update a few minutes later]
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.
[Update a couple minutes later]
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.
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.