3.19.2024

Maybe, maybe not, possibly

"A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies."
Can't be proven absolutely, but pretty suspicious, says this Atlantic article. [Also available on Apple News+]

And it's not just Russia, of course. From The Dispatch:
Do you also worry that social media writ large is saturated with foreign propaganda and that enemy states are harvesting data from American users? The TikTok ban won’t do much about that, I’m afraid. As one House Democrat noted Wednesday, there’s nothing stopping the Chinese government from buying Americans’ personal data from willing brokers.

[TikTok, by the by, which claims it would never use its data to meddle with U.S. affairs, recently created an avalanche of phone calls to D.C. by instructing it's users to call their congresscritters.]

Joseph Stalin reputedly said "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use." Maybe he was right.

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