`4g01` Mick Ryan on Leadership
“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?” - Benjamin Disraeli | UkraineCurt Readings & Musings [2024g01]
Hello possums!
Although we often speak about leaders and leadership, we’re surprised at how seldom we’ve thought about leadership methodically. Mick Ryan’s short essays —
Leadership in Modern War We must prepare for other future conflicts by learning the many lessons about leadership offered by the ongoing war in Ukraine. Part One of a two-part article.
Leadership Lessons from Ukraine Part two of my special examination of the key lessons about modern leadership from the war in Ukraine. In this final part, strategic and combat leadership are the focus.
— are relevant beyond Ukrainian or military spheres.
If you’re closely following events in the Holy Land, you’ll probably wish to read this Jerusalem Post article :—
IDF knew of Hamas's plan to kidnap 250 before October 7 attack - report
The IDF had precise information about Hamas's intentions, but due to prevailing conceptions in the security establishment and possible negligence by officials, the warning signs were not acted on.
Cheers dears!
+... and in the Left corner ...+
☼☼(For everyone, but of special interest to Social Democrats, Bolshevik imperialists, and other lefties)
UKRAINE LACKS LABOR FORCE Iuliia Mendel Weekly Updates
☼¶ _The Guardian_
Kaja Kallas: the Russia-defying Estonian PM poised to lead EU foreign policy Critics fear Kallas’s unyielding nature makes her the wrong fit to succeed Josep Borrell but allies admire her strength and clarity Patrick Wintour
Kallas, influenced by her reading of history, was convinced that [attempting to softly dissuade Putin from beginning an all-out invasion] was futile. Ever since, along with her fellow Baltic leaders, Poland and the UK, she has argued forcefully that Ukraine does not just need support for as long as it takes, but with whatever it takes.
Her argument is that Russia is a revanchist imperial power and to listen to Moscow’s threats, she insists, is to give into the fear. She favours ending sanctions loopholes, more arms, war crimes tribunals, the seizure of Russian assets, banning Russian tourists from the EU: the whole package. Recently she has expanded her concept of the Russian threat to include the use of other disruptive methods including migration, disinformation and sabotage.
Above all she warns of the consequences of a loss of European will. “Achieving peace or a ceasefire on Russia’s terms does not mean the suffering will stop. Worse, Putin will always want more and no country in Europe will then be safe,” she told the Guardian in a recent interview.
+Wayfarers’ Watch+
☼☼(For everyone, but especially for people interested in religion and theology)
☼¶ ☼Society of Jesus: Thinking Faith (England & Wales),
A new world and a new mission During the first session of the Synod on Synodality, many delegates were surprised, and consoled, to be introduced to the new 'digital continent' and the emerging mission of the Church 'there'. Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ considers how a concept that was key to Jesuit philosopher, Bernard Lonergan clarifies this new evangelisation and ministry as a radical inculturation; and how digital mission not only illustrates but actually enriches the meaning of Lonergan's ‘communications’.
and also, for some background on H.E.:—
Cardinal Czerny: My family during World War II: an interview with Johanna Bronkova of Vatican News
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+Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union+
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‘No need for evidence’ in Russia’s terror trial of young Crimean Tatar woman for not denouncing another Ukrainian 24.06.2024 The 'trial' without any crime is coming to an end of 25-year-old Emine Zekeryaeva, with the defence blocked from proving that the FSB doctored the evidence
![Emine Zekeryaeva Photo Crimean Solidarity Emine Zekeryaeva Photo Crimean Solidarity](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ad93d13-5bb0-48b2-81ca-b722cce502ca_1941x1158.jpeg)
Russia sentences 15-year-old schoolboy to 5 years for criticizing Putin regime and war against Ukraine 25.06.2024
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian hostages are in the Russian Federation
Emir-Usein Kuku and Russia’s savage persecution of Crimean Tatar human rights defenders 26.06.2024
Ukrainian abducted, tortured and sentenced in Russia to 14 years on grotesque ‘international terrorism’ charges 27.06.2024
Nariman Dzhelyal, tortured Donbas hostages and Berdiansk priests freed, others remain in Russian captivity and in danger 01.07.2024
ICC arrest warrants deal fatal blow to demand that Ukraine accepts Russian occupation 'in exchange for peace'
+Toots etcetera+
ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki@mastodon.social
1/ Injured Russian soldiers report that they are being sent straight back to fighting in Ukraine without any medical treatment or admission to hospitals. Their superiors are unsympathetic ..
1/ Russian military recruiters are now offering criminal suspects and accused a deal to avoid a trial by going to fight in Ukraine. It's the latest example of how Russia is tackling manpower shortages in the ongoing war by targeting a wider pool of potential recruits.
1/ More than 10,000 people have been charged with refusing to serve in the Russian armed forces since 2022, with nearly 8,600 sentences being passed. Cases of refusal are currently setting new records, with as many as 35 verdicts a day in April 2024.
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+The Living Spirit+
A rabbi was asked by one of his students “Why did God create atheists?”
There is an old tale where the rabbi was asked by one of his students “Why did God create atheists?”
After a long pause, the rabbi finally responded with a soft but sincere voice. “God created atheists” he said, “to teach us the most important lesson of them all – the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that God commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his actions are based on his sense of morality. Look at the kindness he bestows on others simply because he feels it to be right.
When someone reaches out to you for help, you should never say ‘I’ll pray that God will help you.’ Instead, for that moment, you should become an atheist – imagine there is no God who could help, and say ‘I will help you’.”
("A Theological Debate" by Eduard Salomon Frankfort (19 August 1920 @56, in Laren, North Holland) — Artful Dodger)
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+Start every day with a smile, and get it over with+
Church attendance manual (5): church signs Christians love signs, especially the big ones on street corners. They give us a rare and precious opportunity to share our faith and ideals with the public. Here is how ten different traditions make use of this important item of outdoor furniture.
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☼¶ ☼Church Life Journal, an e-periodical of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame
Hunger, Poverty, and the Eucharist
Bishop Flores on wealth.
The Incarnation itself is the gift most suitable. The Lord’s public ministry is a pedagogy of deeds and words that, when combined, form signs of things God would have us learn to hunger for. The pedagogy of desire is the moving dynamic of the Kingdom.
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The Issue and the Charge: Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?
Hans Urs von Balthasar [26 June 1988]
All of us who practice the Christian Faith and, to the extent that its nature as a mystery permits, would also like to understand it are under judgment. By no means are we above it, so that we might know its outcome in advance and could proceed from that knowledge to further speculation.
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The Political Theology of Recognition
Patrick Gilger on Charles Taylor.
The problem with framing the border [of the United Mexican States and the USA] as a crisis … is that in everyday parlance crises are chaotic, and chaos must be met not with holiness and hospitality but division and distance, regulation and rules, law and order. The deep problem—which includes but exceeds the need to work for legal immigration reform—is that framing the border as a crisis prevents us from seeing it otherwise. “At the root of our inability to address global migration is a fundamental misrecognition,” wrote Bishop Seitz. It is, he continued, “the borders we have internalized” that prevent us from seeing this “crisis” through the lens of Christ.
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among the most important political roles the church catholic can play in fulfilling its own task of being an agent in salvation history is to recognize others in their differences. It would also mean that the self-chosen task of a post-Christendom Church responds (providentially?) to one of the most pressing dilemmas facing democratic polities in our majority-minority age: the problem of recognition. We can be helped in understanding this problem—and better understanding the political theological task of the Church thereby—by turning to an essential philosophical essay on this topic: Charles Taylor’s “The Politics of Recognition.”
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The Problems Posed by AI and Flannery O'Connor's Unfinished Novel
Jessica Hooten Wilson on why the heathen rage.
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The Disappearance of Public Theology From the Public Square
Cajetan Cuddy on the public square.
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St. Bonaventure’s Medieval Theory of Doctrinal Development
Jordan Haddad on the history of ideas.
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Thinking Christianly About Technology, or, Why Your Grandkids Don’t Care About Church
Colin Miller.
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The Limits of the Burnout Society Critique
Dylan Belton on homo laborans.
☼¶ ☼Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University — Public Orthodoxy
Transgender Experience and the Theological Limits of "Gnosticism"
by Bryce E. Rich
☼¶ ☼Outreach (a lesbigatesque Catholic resource from New York)
Quieting the voice of despair Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Jb. 38:1, 8-11; 2 Cor. 5:14-17; Mk. 4:35-41) James Martin, S.J.
The Gospel tells us: Never give up. Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Wis. 1:13-15, 2:23-4; 2 Cor. 8:7, 9, 13-15; Mk. 5:21-43)
☼¶ ☼Society of Jesus: Thinking Faith (England & Wales), America (USA) Eureka Street (Victoria) &c.
A new world and a new mission During the first session of the Synod on Synodality, many delegates were surprised, and consoled, to be introduced to the new 'digital continent' and the emerging mission of the Church 'there'. Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ considers how a concept that was key to Jesuit philosopher, Bernard Lonergan clarifies this new evangelisation and ministry as a radical inculturation; and how digital mission not only illustrates but actually enriches the meaning of Lonergan's ‘communications’.
and also:—
Cardinal Czerny: My family during World War II: an interview with Johanna Bronkova of Vatican News
☼¶ ☼Vatican News, Sala Stampa &c.
[The other] Father Martin: Jesus calls us forth from the grave A conversation with Fr James Martin, SJ, author of “Come Forth: The Raising of Lazarus and the Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle.”
By Andrea Tornielli
+From Ukrainian publishers+
☼¶ ☼ ψ The Kyiv Independent group, including Ukraine Daily, Belarus Weekly
Peace summit 'smart' way to combat Russian propaganda, Australian representative says. The Kyiv Independent sat down with Australian Government Services Minister Bill Shorten.
Photo: Urs Flueeler /POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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+Tl;dr — From many sources+
☼¶ _The Atlantic_
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum@journa.host
The tabloidization of everything is all around us already. That market is saturated. We don’t need The Washington Post to join in as well: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
☼¶ The Atlantic Council
Ukraine’s recovery cannot begin without enhanced air defenses
By Edward Verona [εξηλσιορ*ψ]
Putin just reminded the world why Russia must lose
Historic day for Ukraine as EU launches official membership talks
By Peter Dickinson [εξηλσιορ*ψ]
Reconstructing Ukraine at war: The journey to prosperity starts now
By Ambassador John E. Herbst, Olga Khakova, and Charles Lichfield [εξηλσιορ*ψ]
Ukraine’s innovative drone industry helps counter Putin’s war machine
By David Kirichenko
☼¶ Axel Springer SE (_Politico, Bild, Die Welt, Fact_)
☼¶ The BBC, ABC, CBC, NZBC &c.
☼¶ Bellingcat
Civilians Trapped in Al Fashir as Rapid Support Forces Advance
☼¶ _The Bulwark_
☼¶ Carnegie (_politica, Russia Eurasia_)
How the Latest Sanctions Will Impact Russia—and the World The new sanctions package will be extremely painful for the Russian economy, but it’s two years too late to be a gamechanger. In a global context, however, it increases the risk of the fragmentation of the financial system.
Thursday, June 20, 2024 | Alexandra Prokopenko
Why China Sat Out the Ukraine Peace Summit Beijing’s refusal to take part does not mean it wants to keep its distance from the Ukraine war. Instead, it will look for allies in the Global South.
Friday, June 21, 2024 | Temur Umarov
How the Russian and North Korean Leaders Swapped Roles Unlike Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin chose to bring about his country’s international isolation himself. Modern Russia is not an inheritance, but a regime built by his own hands.
Monday, June 24, 2024 | Alexander Baunov
What is the Real Cost and Benefit of Ukrainian Attacks on Russian Refining? The bulk of the current analysis of the attacks on refineries is celebratory, with a strong element of confirmation bias—and that is a classical folly that prevents learning. Russia’s refining sector, unlike its Black Sea Fleet, has proven to be resilient to the recent type of attacks, rather than the Achille’s heel of the Russian economy that many were hoping it would be.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 | Sergei Vakulenko
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While strengthening ties with the East, Putin has not forgotten the West—particularly the countries that find themselves within an “arc of instability” in which Russia and the West are vying for influence. Bosnia and Herzegovina is one such country. In his paper published as part of a joint project between Carnegie Europe and Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Dimitar Bechev analyzes the role Russia plays in the political landscape of Bosnia and Herzegovina and whether the West is capable of countering Moscow’s influence.
Cozying Up to North Korea Means Diplomatic Sacrifices for Putin The new approach will badly damage Russia’s relations with some Asian countries, in particular South Korea, which is now likely to greenlight weapons shipments to Ukraine.
Friday, June 28, 2024 | Fyodor Tertitskiy
☼¶ CEPA, CSIS, CftNI, CSET, C4ADS &c.
Crossing Thresholds: Ukrainian Resistance to Russian Occupation
by Jade McGlynn
China’s Military AI Roadblocks PRC Perspectives on Technological Challenges to Intelligentized Warfare
Sam Bresnick, June 2024
War Machine The Networks Supplying & Sustaining the Russian Precision Machine Tool Arsenal
by Al Maggard
Degrading Russia’s ability to wage war is critical to the survival of Ukrainian democracy. Among the Russian defense industry’s greatest vulnerabilities is its reliance on foreign technologies. Few technologies embody this vulnerability better than computer numeric control (CNC) machine tools — devices that employ computer technology to automate the manufacture of critical defense equipment like precision-guided munitions and aircraft parts.
☼¶ _Daily Kos_
☼¶ Deutsche Welle
☼¶ _Engelsberg Ideas_
June 17, 2024 Francis J. Gavin
The lens of game theory and economics – micro and macro – moved far beyond describing how prices were set and how markets in goods or the flow of finance capital worked. The language of the market was applied to subjects ranging from law to human social behaviour. Indeed, that language of economics and the market has increasingly been used to describe human activities – sports, love and romance, and even war – that were once understood as driven by passions that were hard to measure and immune to bargaining.
Paul Josephson chronicles how the Tsars, Soviets and now Putin have constrained and distorted the study and research of science in Russia.
South Korea rests between two great powers, China and the United States, writes Lukasz Bednarski, and it must navigate the economic, political and security dynamics of an increasingly polarising world.
☼¶ The European Council / Council of the European Union
Ukrainian refugees: Council extends temporary protection until March 2026
EU opens accession negotiations with Ukraine
Think Tank reports on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine
☼¶ _European Council on Foreign Relations Update_
Late-stage Putinism: The war in Ukraine and Russia’s shifting ideology
☼¶ _Forbes_
☼¶ _Foreign Affairs_ (The Council on Foreign Relations [US])
Israel’s War of Regime Change Is Repeating America’s Mistakes But Israel Can Still Learn From America’s Successes
By David Petraeus, Meghan L. O’Sullivan, and Richard Fontaine
Xi Jinping’s Russian Lessons What the Chinese Leader’s Father Taught Him About Dealing With Moscow
By Joseph Torigian
☼¶ _The Guardian_
Kaja Kallas: the Russia-defying Estonian PM poised to lead EU foreign policy Critics fear Kallas’s unyielding nature makes her the wrong fit to succeed Josep Borrell but allies admire her strength and clarity Patrick Wintour
☼¶ Institute for the Study of War
¶ Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment 2024 f 20
The United States made a policy change to prioritize delivering Patriot air defense interceptors to Ukraine against the backdrop of the increasing threat of Russian guided glide bomb use in Ukraine. US National Security Spokesperson John Kirby stated on June 20 that the US is going to "reprioritize" the export of Patriot missiles so that the missiles "rolling off the production line" will go straight to Ukraine. Kirby characterized the decision as "difficult but necessary" to ensure that hundreds of Patriot and NASAM munitions produced for the next 16 months would go to Ukraine, regardless of which country ordered them. Kirby stated that Ukraine will receive the first shipments of Patriot missiles by the end of Summer 2024 and that other countries that ordered Patriot missiles will receive them on a "delayed timeline." Kirby stated that other countries impacted by the delay were ”broadly supportive” of the decision to prioritize Ukraine’s air defense needs. The Romanian Supreme National Defense Council announced on June 20 that Romania will donate one Patriot system to Ukraine due to Russia's large-scale strikes on Ukrainian energy and civil infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba have recently emphasized Ukraine's need for more Patriot systems. ISW continues to assess that Ukraine's ability to defend itself against devastating Russian glide bomb strikes is heavily contingent on Ukraine's ability to target Russian aircraft within Russian airspace using US-provided air defense systems before Russian aircraft can launch strikes at Ukrainian cities, critical infrastructure, and frontline positions.
¶ Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment 2024 f 22
Russian forces are exploiting the sanctuary that US policy still protects to support Russian combat operations in northern Kharkiv Oblast and elsewhere in Ukraine. … Russian air defenses will reduce the effectiveness of Ukrainian F-16s if the US does not allow Ukrainian forces to use ATACMS to destroy Russian air defense systems in Russian territory.
¶ Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment 2024 f 25
Two major international bodies—the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) — announced decisions on June 25 confirming Russia's long-term perpetration of war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.
¶ Iran, Israel-Hamas Update
¶ China Project
☼¶ Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute for Human Sciences)
☼¶ _The Intercept_
☼¶ _The Interpreter_ (Lowy Institute)
The case for AUKUS you should read – even if not yet the explanation we need A Labor backbencher sets out the challenges Australia faces from China and a rationale for nuclear-powered submarines. Sam Roggeveen 26/6/24
Assange’s guilty plea ‘crucial’ for US intelligence community Julian Assange’s guilty plea to one criminal count made his release palatable for the United States’ security community and removes an irritant to US-Australia relations, writes the former US Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper. Read more
Some consular cases are more equal than others It’s hard to think of a case that has consumed more official hours and dollars than that of Julian Assange, writes former Australian diplomat and consular affairs expert Ian Kemish. Read more
☼¶ LGB
☼¶ Meduza
‘No cigarettes, no vodka, no Internet’ Aral Sea fishermen earn good money harvesting tiny brine shrimp eggs in the harshest of conditions. But how long can it last?
By Emilia Sulek
☼¶ _Moscow Times_
☼¶ News Ltd
☼¶ _New Yorker_
☼¶ _New York Times_
☼¶ _openDemocracy_
☼¶ OVD-Info and the _Dissident Digest_
Today we discuss two topics loosely connected by the perennial subject of the Russian state weaponising health in jails: the death of an elderly pilot, and an adult content creator refused HIV medication.
2024 f 26 Russia today is commonly stereotyped as a country of gray and grim, one where free expression is never visible. However, Russia still has many an oasis of nonconformist expression — underground raves, protests, queer communities and so on. Some are relics of a less repressive era, when the Kremlin’s crackdown campaign was only barely starting.
☼¶ _Pearls & Irritations_
☼¶ _People & Nature_
Post-election battlegrounds for climate and social justice. Where our movements may clash with a Labour government: on North Sea oil, public ownership of electricity, community energy and techno-fixes. By Simon Pirani.
☼¶ 'Perun' - YouTube
☼¶ _Project Syndicate_, George Soros &c.
☼¶ Reuters
☼¶ Riddle Russia
☼¶ RUSI
☼¶ _Der Spiegel_
☼¶ The Strategist — The Australian Strategic Policy Institute
The curiously cozy relationship between Taiwan and Japan
Jane Rickards | 18 June 2024
Because Taiwan lacks formal diplomatic ties with most countries, it works hard at developing cultural and social links with them. (Read more...)
☼¶ _Sydney Morning Herald_, Nine Entertainment &c
☼¶ _Tempest_
☼¶ United to Protect Democracy [USA]
☼¶ _Vanity Fair_
☼¶ War Translated
☼¶ _The Washington Post_
☼¶ Nikkei _Financial Times_ AND OTHERS
https://www.ft.com/content/7110fc18-5a31-4387-9f4c-0cc5753d050a How Russia is using nuclear power to win global influence | Despite sanctions, Russian companies are building more than a third of the new reactors around the world, which is gaining Moscow new friends
Anastasia Stognei in Tbilisi, Benjamin Parkin in New Delhi, Jamie Smyth in New York and Malcolm Moore in London
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European populists back Putin as they roll out their anti-Ukraine positions Europe’s far right parties are winning more backing in the polls, and will have increasing influence on policy over the Ukraine war.
Natasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex
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The Jerusalem Post [εξηλσιορ*]
IDF knew of Hamas's plan to kidnap 250 before October 7 attack - report The IDF had precise information about Hamas's intentions, but due to prevailing conceptions in the security establishment and possible negligence by officials, the warning signs were not acted on.
Good-bye & bless you!
*_* Хай живе вільна Україна *_* "L’Ukraine a toujours aspiré à être libre" - Voltaire *_* Няхай жыве вольная Украіна *_* Larga vida a Ucrania libre *_* Да здравствует свободная Украина *_* Long live free Ukraine *_* 自由乌克兰万岁 *_* Bandera rossonera la trionferà! *_* تحي أوكرانيا حرة *_*