Making their intelligence public did nothing except possibly tip Putin off to
its sources.
It was, in the technical register, actionable. And yet there was no action:
don’t provoke him by bringing in troops. Bringing in troops might have been the
very thing to deter him from acting though he
Does anyone remember Vladislav Surkov, "managed democracy," "non-linear
war"?
Sure, you must, he emerged into view in the West with the Ukraine war of
2014, with the disinformation and the little green men. He was an aesthete
and "political technologist," a PR guy and a reality TV fan, able in
thanks Brian - as ever an astute analysis
It's intriguing how every autocrat this year hankers for the period round
1945-9: Modi wants to go back to Partition; Xi keeps claiming the revolution;
Trumpistas want to return to the Eisenhower era (For what it's worth Boris
seems to want to return to
Yesterday, as Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, some people on the Internet
noticed a strange thing. I'm not going to comment on the big picture except to
say
that the situation is terrible, the invasion criminal and the failure of other
countries to do anything meaningful to stop it,
