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First snow in 🇺🇦 raises concerns that 🇷🇺may begin more aggressive targeting of 🇺🇦 energy infrastructure.
Last year 🇷🇺 began striking energy infrastructure in October, leaving thousands of Ukrainians without energy.
Many worry that 🇷🇺is waiting for temperatures to drop to sub-zero level to cause maximum disruption.
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A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Compelling human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Click to read The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
EU approves €900 mln for Hungary as the bloc tries to override 🇭🇺 veto of aid to 🇺🇦.
EU had blocked post-pandemic stimulus funds to 🇭🇺 due to suspicions of corruption.
In response, Hungary has blocked the EU's decision to provide Ukraine with €50 bln economic aid until 2027.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/eu-executive-approves-900-mln-euros-funds-hungary-2023-11-23/
🇺🇸 historian Timothy Snyder says that he hates “the stalemate analogy because war is not a game of chess" and explains that the current situation can be improved by increasing aid from the West.
Taiwan’s two main opposition parties will not run as a coalition.
The KMT and TPP decided to run on the same presidential ticket, however after failing to settle disagreements over polling, the parties have failed to unite.
This gives an advantage to the ruling DPP, which takes a more Taiwanese nationalist stance.
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A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Compelling human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Click to read The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
The fact that the West doesn't give Ukraine all the weapons it needs for a quick, decisive victory suggests more than caution. It suggests a preference for business as usual with Russia, and the hope that Ukraine can be prodded into a land-for-peace deal. And the longer the war lasts, the longer they can keep kicking the can of NATO membership down the road.
The West is not acting in good faith.
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