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The world has progressed beyond the need for Russian power

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A crumbling, aggressive, dysfunctional petrostate cannot be a balancing force in the world.

Big news seems to be coming fast and furious these days. We’re still waiting on the midterm results, and I already wrote about the crypto crash, so today I think I’ll write about the Ukraine war. In the last few days, Ukraine has taken the key city of Kherson in the south of the country, in a battle that started as a planned Russian withdrawal and is turning into a catastrophic rout. First, the basic military situation. Kherson city is the provincial capital of one of the four Ukrainian provinces that Vladimir Putin recently claimed ownership of. The city was conquered by the Russians early…

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