Ukraine Thoughts And Links
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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Is There a No Fly Zone Over Ukraina?
International norms are all that stands between us and nuclear war, so we had better respect them. No sane person thinks it's worth risking nuclear war just to protect something as minor as the illusion islands. If there was ever a point at which two nuclear powers disagreed about who was in the wrong, one of them could threaten nuclear war to get that wrong redressed. The usual play book heotes can seem half hearted and faintly ridiculous. It feels like a bunch of arbitrary lines where we act with bluster and belacosity on one side, then shrinking like fainting violets away from the other.
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