Hitting Russia where it hurts

The world has launched an economic war against Russia to stop the war in Ukraine. This will be as decisive as the battles on the ground.

In the magazine today

In the Cosmopolitan Globalist yesterday, Paul Davies explained how the global economic war on Russia works—and why, in his view, it will succeed.

Coming up today, we have Part II of WAR 101, by Tecumseh Court. Read Part I here, in which he introduces readers to “Warfighting,” the how-to manual for the US Marines, and explains how to apply its concepts to the news we’re seeing from Ukraine. Today, he’ll be covering the fundamentals of tactics. This one’s a must-read. You never know when you might need to keep the Red Army out of your neighborhood.

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Overnight recap

• Russia shifted to an aggressive bombing campaign, increasingly hitting civilians.

• The defensive line the southern city of Kherson fell and Russian troops were seen driving around

• The leader of the separatist region in Donetsk says Russian-backed separatists plan to surround the port city of Mariupol.

• Kyiv and Kharkiv are standing, but many civilians have been killed by Russian missiles.

• Russian paratroopers landed in Kharkiv and attacked one of the city’s military hospitals. Ukrainian forces are fighting back.

• Russian rockets hit a military academy in Kharkiv.

• Belarusian troops are on standby for deployment, Ukraine’s ministry of defense says.

• Ukraine is seeking humanitarian corridors for medicine, food. The Ukrainian health minister is in contact with the WHO Regional Office for Europe, trying to organize delivery of medicines and food to the areas most affected. Russian occupying forces, the health minister says, are not allowing private deliveries of food and critical medications to pass.

• Estonia will provide more Javelin anti-tank missiles and ammunition, while Latvia will send 30 trucks of ammunition, supplies, and fuel.

• Trostyanets in Sumy Oblast, has been occupied. Three columns of Russian troops entered the city, demolishing historical landmarks and damaging an art gallery, power lines and roads. The city has been left without television or radio, and the internet is unstable.

• The US will close its airspace to Russian planes.

• From the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces: “As of 6:00 a.m. on March 2, the 7th day of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Russian forces are trying to advance in all directions, but are resisted by Ukraine’s military everywhere and are suffering losses. Unsuccessful in advancing its forces, Russian forces continue to launch missile and bomb strikes in order to intimidate the civilian population.”

• Russia: Financial collapse, mad run for hard currency, financial markets closed; all government websites down. Ukraine: All websites up. Electricity, water, and banks working normally.

• The UN says at least 136 people, including 13 children have been killed in Ukraine since Thursday, February 24. President Zelensky says 16 Ukrainian children have been killed and 45 injured in the past four days of Russian shelling.

• Boeing has announced it is suspending maintenance and technical support for Russian airlines, along with its operations in Moscow. Ford followed suit.

• ExxonMobil will discontinue operations at Sakhalin-1, its last remaining oil-and-gas project in Russia.

• The US Department of Justice will form a Task Force to hunt down Russia’s oligarchs.

• Putin signed a decree prohibiting anyone from leaving Russia with more than US$10,000 in foreign currency. (See our story in the magazine.)

• Russian lawmakers in Moscow’s Gagarinsky district have denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as “a disaster” and demanded immediate withdrawal or the troops. “This is a path to the degradation and impoverishment of the country. No other actions could cause more damage to the Russian economy,” reads the appeal.

• Russian rockets struck the Holocaust memorial at Babyn Yar.

• Google said it will no longer permit articles from Russian state-funded media to appear in Google News.

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