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<\/p>\nYesterday, most of Sunday’s snow was gone. However, although we are expecting sun today, it won’t warm up to above freezing before Friday. Good thing I like staying inside.<\/p>\n
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The Conversation – How do Russia\u2019s reasons for war stack up? An expert on \u2018just war\u2019 explains<\/a> Great Power – There is no way back. [Part 1] [If we want the war to stay in Ukraine, we have to win it in Ukraine.]<\/a> Women’s History – Wikipedia – Grace Hopper<\/a> Food For Thought: Yesterday, most of Sunday’s snow was gone. However, although we are expecting sun today, it won’t warm up to above freezing before Friday. Good thing I like staying inside. Cartoon – Short Takes – The Conversation – How do Russia\u2019s reasons for war stack up? An expert on \u2018just war\u2019 explains Quote – That\u2019s not […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3866,3838,3805,4873],"class_list":["post-47095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-history","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-womens-history","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – That\u2019s not to say that [philosophers, theologians, politicians and military leaders] always agree on how to apply just war principles to an actual conflict. Given the Kremlin\u2019s attempts to justify its invasion of Ukraine, including its groundless accusations of genocide, it\u2019s worth analyzing Russia\u2019s position through the lens of the just war tradition \u2013 the focus of my work as a political scientist who studies the ethics of conflict.
\nClick through for a crash course<\/a> in what makes waging war morally acceptable. As she shoud, the author works hard to be fair. This question is not black and white, but multiple shades pf gray.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Since the first boom, Ukrainian strategic decision-making was actually about looking for victory \u2014 which technically is what strategy is for; strategy is a theory of success in war \u2014 and about creating opportunity for something other than just dying quietly in the mud and the rubble. This has given them an incalculable advantage over Russia. And honestly, over us. We haven\u2019t caught up yet.
\nClick through for the full article<\/a>. I am not, of course, on Twitter, but someone at DU who is found this article recommended in a tweet by LTC Vindman.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages.
\nClick through for bio.<\/a> How could I<\/strong> possibly do a Women’s History month (and on a blog<\/strong> where Pat B<\/strong> is a prime contributor) without including “Amazing Grace”?<\/p>\n
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