– The White House has released a fact sheet on the Ukraine war, including embedded links to even more details.
– Politico has a good summary of new laws and policies to counter Chinese technology [relevant to week 7 exercise]
– Yahoo News says Russia plans to take over Belarus.
– Prigozhin accuses Russian military of treason.
– David Frum makes case for AMLO as an autocrat.
– WaPo columnist details GOP budget games.
– Dan Drezner skewers DeSantis foreign policy
– A footnote inspired me to read this article on how, except for US independence, the British won the war of 1775-83.
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