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Putin’s Terror-Bombing Campaign Won't Work Either
History suggests Ukraine won’t be war-crimed into submission.
One of many attacks on civilians in Kyiv.
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This newsletter often makes fun of Vladimir Putin’s general weirdness and incompetence, but to be honest we’re just whistling past the graveyard. Yes, Putin has all the charisma of a lamprey eating a whale carcass and all the military acumen of Carl Spackler. But he also has many weapons, some of them nuclear, and a complete lack of human decency. It’s a deadly combination.