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That’s a given. Hopefully our defenses against cyber are up to the task....

Credit for ingenuity although I’m sure many others have done it...lol.

Pm me and if I can find the book I’ll send it to you. I may have loaned it to someone but I’ll look. USSR had a viable space program and they tested big nukes on their own soil but Nikita Khrushchev was big on bluster and small on real things.

Regarding WFH-when I was still full time working I came in 100% of the time and vowed I’d never be remote. Now that I have 2 part time gigs each about a day per week I see huge benefits FOR ME. I’m mainly consulting and I choose the hours to work and some weeks I work what seems like all the time and other weeks hardly at all. But for one of the groups, I needed to have a discussion that was best done in person. I really looked forward to the interactions that day! Anyone with a strong work ethic does fine remotely. But based on who I see around in the middle of the day walking and shopping, a lot of remote workers are fukking off half the time. I guess if their work gets done it’s ok and maybe they’re working late at night when I don’t see people.

But-are they usable? I read a book by Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame who said that a retrospective of the Cuban missile crisis showed USSR with 4 warheads-probably why JFK felt confident drawing a line in the sand....

What is the condition of the nukes in Russia? The conventional military looks pretty bad with poorly maintained old equipment. People imho seriously overreacting to the nuclear potential which is extremely low imho. Intelligence was pretty good leading up to the Ukraine invasion but not sure if we can ever know publicly what the nuclear status is. The Putin bunker story is not at all verified-a Russian professor/conspiracy theorist claims it.

I walked out-not realizing it snowed! 0.4. Must have been a good one!

At what point will someone close to Putin pull the plug on him? Russian higher ups are really nervous about nukes. Everyone is nervous about nukes but only one person is threatening….

I made chicken Kiev about 45-50 years ago and it was good.

Cold April possibly without baseball. What a combination...

That’s parliamentary elections and as the article stated they rubber stamp everything that the kremlin decides to do. The wildcard is Putin himself. He has apparently been particularly paranoid about covid personally and essentially isolated for 2 years. I just don’t buy into the idea that Putin doesn’t have an ironclad grip on Russia.

My point is he still has support of the majority of Russians outside of urban areas. That means he is supported by the vast majority of Russians. War solidifies support initially. When it goes bad that support erodes quickly. I think a lot of people are jumping to conclusions here.

The people protesting are not suddenly turning. We don’t have hundreds of thousands in the streets. Russia is a huge country and Putin would win in a huge landslide in an election if held right now. But if things do t go so well in Ukraine it’s a different story.

If the majority of Russians turn on him he’s done. How do you know support is tepid in Russia?

Mugabe. Many other examples. I don’t think Putin ages out so much as eventually losing the support of Russians. The next major move will be telling.

3/18-19/56. One of my all time favorites

Zelensky’s grandfather barely survived the Holocaust. With that said, given free reign by Germany, there have been unspeakable murders of Jews by Ukrainians during the war. Same for other countries notably Poland.

My grandparents came over from Ukraine circa 1910. On my grandmother’s papers upon entry at Ellis Island the country of origin is listed as Russia as that area (Berdychiv-about is 100 miles SW of Kyiv) was Russia for about 500 years from the Middle Ages until post USSR.

350m? Doesn’t buy much!

I honestly think Russia will install a puppet and then be forced to occupy Ukraine during the inevitable insurgence. That could be a bigger problem than they imagined. No doubt they’re heading elsewhere but it won’t be so clean in Ukraine and they could unwittingly be dealing themselves a huge blow. My main concern is whether or not Putin has sanity at the level he has historically had. People saying something is off and some really disturbing language .

Added another 0.5. 7.3 final

2 hour finish to cleanup. 6.8”-probably final. 17 degrees. Deep winter. I’ve had a one footer and a 2 footer and another 7 incher. By far this was the toughest to shovel and blow.

The model didn’t but the interpretation by various vendors did.

7.2 at Logan as of 1pm. BOS over 50” for the season so far.

Snowing really hard now.