Tag: ukraine

June 9, 2015 0

Maxim Lott must be a great uphill runner

By News Desk

Tweet Maxim Lott sees the slope of the line for the last 17 years as being virtually flat. I imagine that if he went for a run and came to a hill, he wouldn’t even notice it. The NASA data he cites is here  (which doesn’t include any of the scorching 2015 data), and his article here

June 8, 2015 0

Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine

By News Desk

Tweet Haven’t done a foreign policy post in a while, so here’s three in one: 1. The list above shows messed-countries and messed-up outcomes, so that part’s consistent, but what’s inconsistent is the level of effort by the US to change the outcome.