While the US strike a deal with russia on the delivery of diesel fuel to the US, and russia targets Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as school, hospitals, busses, and homes, Ukraine continues hitting russia on industry that hurts all russians.
Ukraine’s earlier focus was on russian oil installations, which resulted in massive fuel shortages and major decline in oil exports. This is clearly noticeable for any russian carowner, and delivers blows to the already fragile russian economy.
Each time one thinks the #WhiteHouse has reached the lowest watermarks, they proudly amaze the world and beat what was considered the absolute lowest level by going even lower. This time, a computer game was presented by the white house. The game is about building ‘the border wall’ and arresting and deporting ‘illegal immigrants’.
Perhaps, as I did, you wonder about the modern history of neighbors Ukraine and Russia, like:
I’ve tried to summarize all agreements on peace and sovereignty that Ukraine has been involved in with Russia since the fall of the USSR…
I would like to contribute to Paul’s recent essay by trying to put institutions and persons into a different perspective.
If you find the tone somewhat cynical, then you may be right.
It’s about politics after all. Continue reading →
Two days ago, from the time I write this, a peace plan for Ukraine was leaked, most likely from the White House or from the Pentagon. It didn’t reveal much detail, but from any of those sources, anything could be expected. Two days in and the contents all over the news, I can confirm that it must look exactly like the put’n wishlist for Christmas presents. And there’s nothing in it for Ukraine. Continue reading →
Over a year ago, I wrote a short post on Tweetr and left the platform. Read more about the article here. With no real alternative, I refrained from this part of Social Media and concentrated on others. Now I’m back, but not on Tweetr!
After a year without me tweeting, a viable alternative did finally surface in the form of the BlueSky mobile app. BlueSky looks like Tweeter used to look and offers similar functionality. But here without the downsides Tweetr developed. For one, BlueSky offers proper moderation and a timeline that makes sense. It is add-free (for now) and free of use. Continue reading →
Once upon a time, you had Twitter to distribute new, opinions and other stuff you wanted to share. I joined quite late, in 2016, and used the app mostly to share technical conferences I joined. Once I started writing books, I used the platform to announce my books. Later, after The Deep was published and the actual sabotage took place, I published links to the news articles combined with a comment and a link to my book.
Then Elon came along… Continue reading →