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Feb 7 4 tweets 2 min read
Terrific Brookings #RussiaUkraine event just wrapped up, worth watching the video.
new panel just started, via @tedreinert

brookings.edu/events/the-rus…
Not directly about Ukraine, but noted @asliaydintasbas observation that on NATO/Sweden/Finland: think Erdogan wants to negotiate with the US. The Biden admin has been reluctant to engage in that conversation, while Erdogan is wanting to triangulate that relationship,
to get US promise for F16s, and sort of pushing back on CAATSA sanctions....
Some way to see if can be a deal worked out...It is a hard issue, she said, possibly made harder by the earthquake, whose scale of loss of life and destruction she described as of Biblical proportions.

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Feb 8
one hour in, Putin’s invasion
Biden: will we stand for the defense of democracy? …
one year later, we know the answer: yes we would, and we did.
Biden recognizes Ukraine ambassador
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Biden: tonight, i’m announcing, all construction materials used in federal infrastructure products will be required to be made in america. lumber, glass, drywall..
many populist, protectionist elements to this. appeal to non college educated blue collar people who feel left behind
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jobs, economy, domestic manufacturing… jobs, jobs, jobs.
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🧵 “What the Chinese have done is taken an unbelievably old technology, and basically married it with modern communications and observation capabilities” to try to glean intelligence on other nations’ militaries, said one official. “It’s a massive effort.”
“On Monday, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman led a briefing on China’s balloon espionage for some 150 people from about 40 embassies, said a senior administration official…Separately, U.S. officials have begun to share specifics with officials in countries such as Japan
“whose military facilities were targeted by Beijing…

In Japan in 2020, an aerial orb drew speculation. ‘Some people thought this was a UFO,’ said a Japanese official. ‘In hindsight people are realizing that was a Chinese espionage balloon….’
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i know nothing about flight tracking so an uninformed question. is this an air force plane following the balloon? flightradar24.com/COBRA47/2f11b8…
meant this one
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