01-039 | War Edition

1. ‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes* (Politico)

   • Putin Says U.S. Is Undermining Global Stability (New York Times, 2009)

   • The Russian Orthodox Church and Ukraine (Wall Street Journal)

   • Contextualizing Putin's "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" (Harvard University)

   • Why the Kremlin Is Shutting Down the Novorossiya Project (Carnegie Moscow Center, 2015)

   • Two Decades On, Smoldering Questions About The Russian President's Vault To Power (Radio Free Europe, 2019)

   • Russia's Military Nadir: The Meaning of the Chechen Debacle (The National Interest, 1996)

   • Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned (CNN, 2020)

   • CNN-Bellingcat investigation identifies Russian specialists who trailed Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny before he was poisoned (CNN, 2020)

2. Why did so many observers misjudge Putin and Zelensky? (The Atlantic)

3. 11 reasons we haven’t seen big Russian cyberattacks yet (Washington Post)

4. What more could the west do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? (The Guardian)

5. War brought Vladimir Putin to power in 1999. Now, it must bring him down (The Guardian)

* I hate Politico! I hate Q&As! (This is a Q&A, by the way!) 2 Articles is supposed to be a weekday thing! There shouldn’t be sub-links! Everything about this shouldn’t exist, and yet, it does, and it’s No. 1, which should tell you just how insightful and important it is. If you read nothing else this week or next week, read this and the articles to which it links, some of which I’ve included here as a sub-list, which, again, shouldn’t exist! This is important!

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