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Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
From outside Kyiv today.
Outside Kyiv, >4 hours ago.
Low-flying Russian ground-attack fighter outside Kyiv today.
Russian helicopter with anti-anti-aircraft flares near Kyiv today.

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Feb 26
1) Last summer, a colleague and I published a long review of Vladimir Putin's psychological motivations. It's an unsparing profile, going back to Putin's childhood, adolescence, and his membership in a Leningrad street gang that reputedly raped weak boys. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/upl…
2) Putin has presented special riddles as to his actions, motivations, and goals, even today. Many critics, at home and in the West, paint him as nearly invincible. Some astute observers say he nurses profound personal vulnerabilities ripe for exploitation.
3) The Russian version of our report is here. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/upl… Image
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Feb 23
Pending legislation would make Big Data censorship worse than it is. All in the name of "safety."

Conservatives flail around to "do something." But they risk giving the woke militants what they want. newsweek.com/conservatives-…
2) For years, most Republicans gave Big Data carte blanche to censor free speech. They blew the chance in 2017-18 when they controlled the White House & Congress. They ignored concerns that big social media, protected as public utilities, would censor based on political views.
3) @RichardHanania: "in response to expanded Silicon Valley censorship, it's now become common for Republicans to not just support anti-censorship rules but strict antitrust legislation to punish Big Tech."
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Feb 22
Fearful master: US Capitol today. West front remains closed off at lawn level. High steel fence with reinforced posts, looks permanent, at second floor level.
Prototypes of new permanent-looking, heavy concrete barriers, tinted to look like Capitol limestone, filled with crushed stone and joined by 1” steel bolts, still sit by Library of Congress, Independence Ave & 2nd St SE. Jersey barriers to the right look flimsy by comparison.
Close-up of the heavy duty, high steel fences on the second level of the West Front of the US Capitol. Never seen anything like this before; this was a public area since it was built. These fences went up in about December and appear permanent.
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Feb 21
Biden made his strategic signaling to Putin in May 2021. bbc.com/news/world-us-…
2) Russia conducts its massive Zapad war games near Ukraine every four years. This is a predictable event. Zapad-2021 started last September. Biden & NATO had plenty of time to say something and exercise leadership, but chose the beta option. Another green light for Moscow.
3) @AlexisMrachek of @Heritage put forward a good set of options for Biden to exercise leadership before Zapad-2021, but Biden opted for the weak approach. dailysignal.com/2021/09/08/rus…
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Feb 18
1) Russia is now practicing strategic nuclear missile drills. There’s a story behind this story. rferl.org/a/russia-new-m…
2) The Russian ballistic missile submarine in the photo, Yury Dolgoruky, was funded by the American taxpayers. It was the first of Russia’s next-generation SSBN’s, more modern than our Ohio-class subs.
3) Moscow was out of cash and couldn’t pay the shipyard workers to build the sub. The workers kept going on strike. They resumed work after the Clinton administration sent IMF cash to the Russian central bank. This happened at least twice. Biden was a big supporter in the Senate.
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Feb 17
1) It's helpful to understand Vladimir Putin as a person. Here's a profile of him that I wrote when he took power 22 years ago. There were gaps in his biography even then. He was never a "spymaster." academia.edu/49051829/Portr…
2) "The dearth of hard facts about Putin’s KGB career and the official silence, combined with the Andropov-style myth-making about Russia’s new leader ... indicate that something about Putin’s KGB past is hidden." He did not have a distinguished KGB career.
3) "Putin’s blank biography is being filled with fiction. 'Among the myths that are already building around Putin–some peddled purposefully by his staff–is that he was a career intelligence officer, a member of the KGB’s elite crew of superspies...'"
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