Day 1, Phase 2

Maybe Belarus Won't Invade

Kharkiv Economic University. Photo Photo c/o Третя Сила

There's something about senseless destruction in this photograph, which evokes the Eternal Struggle, the 1923 American silent drama film.

Reginald Barker, we recall, also co-directed the famous anti-war feature, Civilization, a story about a submarine commander who refuses to fire at a civilian ocean liner supposedly carrying ammunition for his country's enemies.

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Which brings me to Eric at The New York Times, who gives us a preview of what Phase 2 of Putin’s Special Operation in Ukraine might look like:

Sounds like the perfect theater of operations for Tyler and members of the Sheikh Mansur Battalion. But the “Russia-backed separatist” bullshit is old, misleading and serves no journalistic purpose. Let’s bounce around more accurate descriptions of the enemy, please.

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Belarus. The Belarusian soldiers who want to further invade Ukraine can simply join the Russian army. That way, we can pretend it’s just another Russian invasion. Not complicated.