Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 63

There’s a genocide war still raging and I don’t mean in Gaza.

The summer offensive in Ukraine has made tiny gains in terms of territory.

I don’t know about its effect on Russian forces but they’re not collapsing or failing as they did last year at Kherson.

Maybe its not good to go for a Kursk approach.

Our book is almost on the shelves:

Would you be interested in more excerpts that didn’t make it into to the book? We have them.

Russia’s money problems

Seize Russian money abroad.

One of the ways Russia has been defrauding its economy is by printing the money that has been seized abroad and using it domestically as if that money was still available.

There will be consequences.

Proportionality and punishment.

This is unacceptable coming from a doctor and an ethics professor.

Each of these patient deaths will be the direct result of Hamas choosing to organize its war with Israel from a HQ in a basement of Al-Quds. 

Its also not what the law says.

And this article makes up law. Punishment without a judicial process is not allowed even by the laws of war.

If punishment is a legitimate objective for the military, it can justify an attack that has a non-negligible probability of harming Hamas members.

That statement justifies any possible action.

Up to now militaries have justified killing their opponents by saying they’re removing a threat. Not as punishment. Find me customary law that says punishment is a legitimate objective.

Punishment killing occurs (Osama bin Laden) but it always happens with the justification of imminent or future danger or maybe just self-defence.

I hope to apply a quasi-Talmudic approach to law, I try and find as much case law as possible before making a decision.

Not make stuff up. That’s rather more Anglo-Saxon.

Book of the week

Good read, and I learnt something about RICO I will use in Poland.