@dmitri Best podcast about the Ukraine war by far. Great selection of topics and especially good level of depth- not too nitty-gritty for laypeople but not too cursory if you already have a general overview. Would love podcasts on other geopolitical topics, i.e. Iran!

@Pwnallthethings @chaos You reckon there‘s any halfway realistic way for the west to deter BY from invading? I don‘t see a lot of obvious ways to raise costs tbh- obviously more weapon deliveries to UA could be promised but escalation calculus regarding eg ATACMS would probably remain the same and Putin seems to still be convinced that higher quantity of weapons already delivered is manageable for RU/BY

@dmitri @Pwnallthethings @tom4okstate Yeah, also depends on whether he simply massively miscalculated when "annexing" or if he thinks he can still reconstruct a boat out of the ashes. Probably depends on whether annexation is seen more as aspirational or if annexed regions are really and not just rhetorically considered as part of Russia by rest of the elite I guess.

@dmitri @Pwnallthethings @tom4okstate Do you think the concept of winning/losing for him is binary at this point, i.e. that he will push for full control of the „annexed“ regions even at the cost of not being able to hold on to Crimea conventionally? Or is the war existential only insofar as he can‘t lose but not that he has to win?

@eljefedsecurit @Pwnallthethings also seems to depend on the settings of one‘s own server; I can‘t see any followers of accounts on different servers than my own without clicking on that person‘s profile on their server. Makes following people from that page a little finicky since I‘m logged out on that tab.