Saturday, August 10, 2024

Reading archive 2024-08-10

Opinion Surprise Ukraine offensive pokes Russia’s soft underbelly: Kyiv just made a move that military analysts, and Moscow, apparently, didn’t think was possible.

The friendliest social network you’ve never heard of: On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is strictly prohibited.

Montana GOP Senate candidate touts his business. It’s losing millions.: After last year’s slow wildfire season, Tim Sheehy’s aerial firefighting company has suffered steep losses.

A pastor said his pro-Trump prophecies came from God. His brother called him a fake.: Jeremiah Johnson became a sensation when he embraced politics. His brother Josiah, also a preacher, couldn’t shake his concerns.

Vietnam accelerates island building to challenge China’s maritime claims: As tensions mount in the South China Sea, Vietnam is dredging and filling in land, fortifying barriers and erecting new structures to create hundreds of acres. - "The steps that Vietnam takes to 'secure itself' in the South China Sea, including its island building, should not be regarded as escalatory, said Nguyen Hong Quan, a Vietnamese major general and retired official at the Ministry of Defense. 'After all,' he said, 'it’s China that started this.'"

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