Caine: "In a matter of weeks this went from strategic planning to operational execution." So, they want people to know the timeline.

aside from being very dangerous, this is very clearly a breach of the UN Charter; it sounds like aggressive war. there’s a tendency to think violations don’t matter bc international law is hard to enforce but this is a cardinal principle of international cooperation *& it matters to other countries*

I used to think a history degree was basically pointless. A kind of Oxford gatepass. But since user-generated online content became a thing, have realised that three years' training in assuming biases and checking sources is unbelievably useful.

And rare.