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Or a Berlin Airlift II.

I didn’t know before I moved here that the GDR authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the Antifaschistischer Schutzwall (Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart), which matches some of Putin’s recent rhetoric.




SpaceX Starship supply drops?

Cargo planes dropping pallets will be legitimate targets. I wonder if Starship would be fast and high enough for enough time that it would be hard to destroy before it landed.


If they’re NATO aircraft, I suspect Russia wouldn’t want to attack them for similar reasons to why the USSR didn’t in Berlin ‘48-‘49.

Starship is unlikely to be ready soon enough, but if it was, as it’s a rocket I would worry about it triggering ICBM alarms.




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