![]() ![]() His then wife Kim Kardashian filed for divorce in 2021. “Like, I don’t think he even knows my full name or anything.”įox and Ye had several high-profile dates last year. “We were literally together for like a minute,” Fox told Cohen. Jeremy Cliffe on how Russia isn’t able to offer former Soviet countries a bright future in the Russian sphere of influence so it resorts to military might instead.Julia Fox says she and Kanye West only dated for a month, and it doesn’t sound like they got to know each other that well.ĭuring an appearance on Wednesday’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” the actress talked about her brief relationship with the artist who now goes by Ye. In no particular order but all worth your time: The videos are meant to be seen by both a domestic audience (stir up patriotism) and westerners on Twitter (reminder that Putin means business!). ![]() They are, but if Russia didn’t want us all to see them, we would not be seeing them. I also took a quick look at Russian-army-on-the-move TikTok which you’ve been seeing non-stop on Twitter, and I suspect a lot of it is intentional posting by Russia to keep the temperature up. On the outside, everything looks perfectly normal (ok, perhaps fewer foreign tourists than usual) and people look happy. It definitely feels like things are getting scarier, as hard as it is for me to write these words because when you are in Kyiv (I know I have said this a million times this week), it simply does not feel like there is any impending danger or doom or risk of invasion. Julia Ioffe’s take on why Biden is doing this now is the best I’ve seen: Israel usually doesn’t have bad intelligence, particularly when it comes to Russia and Ukraine. ![]() Israel is pulling its diplmat families out. My immediate thought was I hope they gave Kyiv a heads up because this has the potential to cause panic which the Ukrainian government will naturally want and need to avoid. They did also say they do not believe Putin has made up his mind yet (had to laugh at that one, of course he hasn’t). What else? This evening the US government came out and said it has changed its assessment based on new information and now expects Russia could launch an attack on Ukraine before the end of the Olympics, meaning next week. So it is a completely stuck situation until one side wins, one way or the other (how you define winning, I am not sure). And if Kyiv recognises those areas of eastern Ukraine are lost forever, which president and government want to be responsible for handing over a chunk of the country’s territory after 14,000 Ukrainians lost their lives in the ongoing war there? None of course. At some point, Russia is going to have to integrate them. Instead, the DNR and LNR remain economic wastelands completely dependent on Moscow that serve as a lever Russia can use against Ukraine.īut the situation isn’t sustainable. Ukrainian journalist Sergey Rudenko noted today that if Russia really wanted to, it would have recognised the DNR and LNR long ago, similarly to how it handled its annexation of Crimea. They are not going to be re-united with Ukraine, but the Ukrainian government cannot say this out loud without losing face. The problem, of course, is the DNR and LNR areas are, in essence, long gone (my words alone). Minsk is essentially a non-starter for Kyiv because it would mean negotiating with the separatists and Russia would play a mediator role while Ukraine obviously sees Russia as an aggressor and those eastern territories as still technically part of Ukraine. Today we learned the Normandy format talks in Berlin lasted nine hours but basically made no progress. There is a lot of excellent journalism being produced at the moment. So much news today out of the increasingly more tense situation surrounding Ukraine (otherwise known as will Putin be stupid enough to actually invade), rather than writing a lot (it’s been a long week), I would like to share with you what I have been reading to help me better understand the situation from all sides.
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