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Columbia University SIPA alumnus @ColumbiaSIPA foreign policy; security policy; mil/defense; int'l affairs; history; econ; politics; law; mostly Asia & Europe
Feb 16, 2022 16 tweets 3 min read
So #Ukraine wasn’t exactly Desert Storm this morning, but of the interesting stuff that did happen though..

Yesterday Russian/Belarusian forces commenced and completed construction of a pontoon bridge in #Belarus some 4 miles from the border with Ukraine. 1/ It’s basically in the middle of nowhere and without an obvious purpose, but if you look at the surroundings it makes an interesting suggestion. The pontoon bridge is 10.5 miles north (as the crow flies) of Pripyat/Chernobyl, and spans the same Pripyat River which 2/