Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

https://sprotyv.mod.gov.ua/

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-medieval-and-highly-effective-tactics-of-the-ukrainian-protests-a292fc7a40c2?s=09

From 2014

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/zelensky-suspends-11-ukrainian-political-parties-with-russian-ties/?s=09

“The largest of [the suspended parties] is the Opposition Platform for Life, which has 44 out of 450 seats in the country’s parliament. The party is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, who has friendly ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the godfather of Medvedchuk’s daughter.”

Yeah, that sounds like a problem...

Ukrainian Counteroffensive Near Mykolaiv Relieves Strategic Port City - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrainian-counteroffensive-near-mykolaiv-relieves-strategic-port-city-11647605489

While Canada was _still_ closing restaurants for covid two years into the pandemic, Ukraine is re-opening restaurants and cafes in the middle of a vicious war, as soon as the front line moves back.

More importantly, top Ukrainian politicians are also officially urging schools to reopen whenever possible to give kids a sense of normality: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Ca__nC8lWHt/

Yeah, Expedia, I think travel to Ukraine is a little worse than "unstable"... An entire hotel got blown up a few days ago in Chernihiv...

"🔴 Ukraine War - Drone Shows Intense Close Combat Between Ukrainian & Russian Troops In Kherson"
https://youtu.be/y1dXAs2ybIU

@lucash_dev ...and gain of function research is not offensive bioweapons research. Don't mix up the two.

@lucash_dev Huh? We don't have evidence that the biolabs in Wuhan were making bioweapons.

We have solid evidence that Russia is not making arguments in good faith. They are not the ones who should get the benefit of the doubt here. Berenson's explanation makes sense: they hired a bunch of offensive bioweapons researchers to do peaceful research, including bioweapons defense and detection. That's totally ok.

@lucash_dev Read that article again, more carefully. It'd do you some good.

@Tusk By that standard, what _isn't_ a foundation of bio warfare?

Highly infectious pathogens simply aren't good offensive weapons, because they pose a huge risk to your own people. The only plausible exception is to use pathogens that _aren't_ particularly deadly, in conjunction with social manipulation. It's plausible that china is doing that; it is not plausible that the US is doing that.

Stop being a useful idiot.

@Tusk Gain of function research has proven to be irresponsible. Quite likely even criminally negligent.

But it is _not_ on the same moral level as funding offensive bioweapons research. Not at all. And no-one is seriously accusing Fauci of funding that.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/dont-be-a-useful-idiot

"Don't be a useful idiot

No, the United States wasn't funding bioweapons research in Ukraine; this was part of a long-running effort to pay off ex-Soviet scientists so they wouldn't take their talents to South Tehran"

Good read.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/03/11/the-real-truth-about-viruses/?s=09

@jeffcliff https://twitter.com/iaeaorg/status/1501545859468742664

@jeffcliff Attacking nuclear plants is pretty clearly against international law in almost all circumstances _even if_ they are military installations. There's simply no excuse for Chernobyl, and I think the international community is right to set an example.

Of course, from a practical point of view, you want to encourage soldiers to surrender. So executing just the higher ranking officers involved probably makes sense.

@jeffcliff Absolutely. The interference so far is absolutely a war crime and the Russian soldiers involved already deserve to be shot.

The fact they are forcing plant personnel to stay at the plant rather than allowing them to be rotated normally and take time off is itself another war crime.

@jeffcliff Chernobyl has been closed for about two decades, so the fuel should be at the point where it doesn't need active cooling. The international atomic energy regulator claims the same.

That said, I could imagine the Russians exploiting this for fear purposes, eg with a false flag attack with deliberate radiation releases.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-elite-media-is-lying-about-ukraine

Sure enough the most competent reporter on covid is the one making the most sense on Ukraine.