Day 742
Running these miles
I read Sam’s world salad so you don’t have to1.
Sam and Jeremy don’t use the word genocide in their essay. The problem is not that we mistrust Putin and his friends. There is no time for talking about talking, or even thinking about talking about talking, when the monster next door has abducted your children, is dropping 500-kilogram caliber corrected aircraft bombs on your towns and staging idiotic land assaults like the one below near Novomykhailivka yesterday.
A survey commissioned by censor.net tells us that a minority of Ukrainians now think Z is working effectively.
And this just in from The Washington Post2:
That additional U.S. security assistance, which ended months ago, is a talking point in the 2024 presidential election is bad enough. The adjective I would use to describe the story about Olena’s (non-)attendance at the State of the Union address is twisted.
I leave you with today’s presidential pep talk.
(He says that on Tuesday he had a lot of meetings and discussed the biggest problems.)
How to Pave the Way for Diplomacy to End the War in Ukraine. No Negotiations Yet—but It’s Time to Talk About Talking (Foreign Affairs, March 5, 2024)
Ukraine’s first lady declines State of the Union invitation. The White House had intended for Olena Zelenska to sit near first lady Jill Biden and Russian opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya, who is viewed with some skepticism in Ukraine (The Washington Post, March 6, 2024)