Happy Monday!

Happy Monday!

My going to Shenandoah and seeing glorious leaves persuaded my neighbors to skip town and go tomorrow. 

Spreading beauty throughout the world!

People who have been paying attention know that Russia intervened in US elections, not in the voting but in the disinformation, and they, along with Iran and maybe China, have been trying to influence these elections. We know they just generally try and succeed in increasing the divides in the US. We know that they intervened in Moldova elections. We know that Finland has done a great job on not falling for these things because they teach their children critical thinking.

The UK has just told Russia that the UK is “coming after” them for their “clumsy, ineffective” attempts to stoke unrest. The UK unveiled new sanctions against three Russian agencies and three senior figures attempting to undermine democracy and support for Ukraine. 


“Israel’s Strike on Iran Also Hit Russian Arms Industry’s Once-Strong Image
Destruction of Iran’s antimissile systems supplied by Moscow follows Ukraine’s hits on more-advanced Russian defenses” - Wall Street Journal
Russia’s equipment hasn’t done so well in defending Russia against Ukraine and it didn’t do well in protecting Iran’s military infrastructure. Russian S-300 air-defense systems keep getting hit. 
Also embarrassing is that Ukraine keeps hitting Russia’s more advanced S-400 systems. When the war is over Russia will have trouble exporting its weapon systems because no one will want them anymore. 
Croatia will send Soviet era tanks to Ukraine and buy up to 50 Leopard 2A8 tanks from Germany to replace  them.