I missed this one. It appears the RF is trying to set up reciprocal foreign asset seizures ahead of expected formal seizure of RF assets in the US. Here’s a very short article in Xinhua.

This actually looks like an attempt at de-escalation to me. The seizure of foreign property is an act of war, and the Putin administration seems to be looking for a way to appease RF entities holding those frozen assets in the US without a war declaration, should those assets be subject to formal seizure by the US. Am I reading this correctly?

here’s the post

The Cuban Communist Party is mad at the German Embassy over a Facebook post.

On that same date, Press Freedom Day, 8 161 kilometers from Berlin, the German Embassy in Cuba, and through the Facebook account of that legation, consummated a gross act of interference and flagrant violation of international standards for diplomatic relations, by altering the text and photo on the front page of Granma with erasures typical of (un)classified documents, even on the name of Palestine. “There is not much to see here,” the publication added.

To my ear, this style is the Nashville version of “Adult Contemporary” ca. 2010. Similar things were happening in Evangelical Christian music at the time.

does this style actually sound good?

It sold a lot of records. A more interesting question might be “is it country?”, or “who gets to decide what country is?”. It’s probably better not to argue about that sort of thing on the internet though. Instead, here’s a video of a contemporary christian group from Nashville performing a minor novelty country hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ow1pV2MqN8

but they’re not wrong

This is amazing. Thank you for posting! The Lysenko story is wild, and one of my favorites. There is almost nothing available in the English language that portrays “Lysenkoism” as a reaction to Fascist Eugenics. The compelling part of the story is how extreme the influence of political ideology was on the science of genetics at the time, and this guy gets it.

The hilarious part is that there’s plenty of tungsten deposits in the US, but getting it out of the ground would require, you know, industrializing.

Thank you for this update! I didn’t follow Bentley closely, but he has been on my mind a lot since his reported death. It’s the kind of thing that won’t be widely reported in English because his existence was embarrassing to the American project in Ukraine. WTF happened to Texas???

a stalemate is when the enemy captures your cities. and the more cities they capture, the more of a stalemate it is.

That went quicker than last time, didn’t it.

Listen sweaty, we have to protect the only democracy in the middle ease. By the way, have I told you about the terrible man-made famine of 1931?

The Kagan-Nuland connection is strong.

Trots being trots

Million dollar take: Mueller good actually even though he’s FBI because dialectics.

good bot

A 4.8 earthquake hit NYC this morning. The footage from the U.N. Security Council meeting is pretty funny.

https://youtu.be/fOBIR7hNzrA

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Sure, but I’m usually wrong. I think it’s likely that the RUAF will try and make a buffer zone out from the Belgorod and Kursk borders. This will have to include Kharkov City.