Edition 4 · Fragile Links

Roast the Week

Everyone is in charge. Nobody is responsible.

Everyone is in charge. Nobody is responsible.0:000:58
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Ukraine’s military satellite link was slowed this week. Elon Musk said the President decides the limits. The President said: “It wasn’t me, and I don’t think it was Elon.”12

So Ukraine has found the cause of its connection problem: nobody.

In September, Donald Trump signed a law to sanction Russia. In October, he put it on hold, in the national interest.3

Russia will be made to pay. Eventually. Preferably in diesel.

Trump said he finds Zelenskyy “more difficult to deal with than Putin”.4

To be fair, it’s easy to get along with someone when you keep waiving their sanctions.

Iran says a mine sank a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz. America says it was an Iranian projectile.56

The ship has declined to comment.

Cartoon: caricatures of Trump and Musk each point at the other beneath a STARSHIELD satellite whose signal crawls along with a snail, while Zelenskyy glares at a buffering drone controller and Putin sips tea. Captions: “It wasn’t me, and I don’t think it was Elon.” So Ukraine has found the cause of its connection problem: nobody.
AI illustration. Roast the Week. Hindsight Media