David Sacks

This article by @lieven_anatol provides an excellent historical overview of why Crimea is such a powder keg and would be folly to retake.

Extraordinary thread. TLDR is that widely repeated claims of “Russian disinformation” were based on bogus data Twitter knew to be false. In other words, the political partisans & pundits claiming to protect you against disinformation were most likely to be the ones spreading it.

This is a remarkable interview predicting the FTX collapse a month before it happened. Kudos to @AlderLaneEggs @Hedgeye. (Start video at 34:40.)

Update: This is an excellent article on the role that NATO expansion played in the current crisis. I see that @McFaul deleted his original tweet, so perhaps this is game set match?

The point is that when you’re in an escalatory spiral, further escalation is not going to get you out. Here’s the full Shapiro piece, which is worth reading.