The idea that Ukraine will accept any of this is for the birds, surely? Yes, if they were losing on the battlefield, but slowly giving up ground against a grinding offensive is not losing (as anyone … (View Post)

It’s a “Russian Victory plan” only without the fighting. Seems astonishing that the US think that Ukraine would go for it. (View Post)

“Who will rid me of this troublesome priestcongress?” (View Post)

It’s absolutely pissing it down in Oxford today, I can tell you that much. (View Post)

Clarification - I think Tom Forth has confused the NBER paper with a different publication this summer (at least it’s by different authors!) that used the ”synthetic UK” methodology. The NBER paper i… (View Post)