Dmitri Alperovitch

"Russian military has increasingly come to resemble an early Cold War–period museum” Great @ForeignAffairs piece from @KofmanMichael and @RALee85

What other currency is preferable to the dollar as a reserve and trade currency “when Europe’s a museum, Japan’s a nursing home, China’s a jail, and Bitcoin’s an experiment”? Great quote from @LHSummers cited in a terrific piece by @nfergus

Great piece from @MarkGaleotti on the true threat nationalist milbloggers (or “turbo-patriots” as he calls them) present to the Putin regime. They are a symptom of the decay in Putin’s power structures that he relies on to control the populace Short

“The process of making an individual shell takes around three days” Fascinating piece on the work being done to increase 155m shell production in the US

“Tank for tank the Nato armour is superior. But this is a full scale ground war in which the numbers of vehicles fielded and how well they are fought matters far more than the qualities of individual pieces of equipment” Excellent point by @Jack_Watling