wrote this a while ago, it’s been sitting a’round, since I don’t really bother much with ukraine any-more; it reminds me of this scene :
it is the learned and repeated story of the region: ukraine [the borderland ➠ 404] rebels, things do not go so well, a new master emerges …
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/19/1093620434/45-cities-in-china-are-in-some-sort-of-covid-lockdown-heres-the-toll-thats-takin
Economic warfare? – how China disentangles with the united States?
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/04/nctt-m04.html
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/thought-for-food?s=r
https://www.cfindustries.com/newsroom/2022/union-pacific-shipping-restrictions

bonus tracks: