Saturday, February 26, 2022

Reading archive 2022-02-25

D.C. park, trail will no longer honor official who advocated destroying Black residents’ homes

Swiss halt new bank business with Russians on EU sanctions list

Big Tent for the week of February 25, 2022 - "Republicans, by contrast, are torn rather horrifyingly between a pro-Putin faction of corrupt and/or ideologically fascistic Trump loyalists, and a nominally anti-Putin faction, and the glue holding them together is reflexive partisan demagoguery. Putin is brilliant, and playing Biden like a drum; Putin is brilliant but this magnificent development wouldn’t have happened if Trump were president; Putin is a tyrant, but his tyranny is only possible because Biden is 'weak'; Putin is a tyrant, but Biden should be weaker towards him and save his firepower for the southern border. It’s incoherent but coherence isn’t the point. Exploiting war against an ally to hurt Democrats is the point. This is their m.o. in just about every circumstance—whatever the facts on the ground, unite through hyperpartisanship."

By invading Ukraine, Putin loses allies in eastern Europe

US special operations presses on in Ukraine amid threat of Russian invasion

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