For the second day in a row, I slept 1-9 a.m., although there was one gettingup at about the 6.5 hour mark.

It was all the more miraculous in that in between the cookings yesterday, I had a rather fat and illicit nap. I should have wanted to stay up longer, but I didn’t. The remote icy blessing of the Goddess is apparently upon me.

Her rain is said to be ready to fall upon us four hours from now.

I have two obsessive distractions to conquer or cope with before getting back to a fully intentional and productive life. The one I’m going to tell you about is that proxy war and how it is unfolding in real time on the ground.

Most mornings, this is the main list of links I follow.

Alex Christoforou
Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
These three are tightly linked. ‘TheDuran’ is just AC and AM in collaboration, sometimes with a guest. The guests range in quality from literally unwatchable to starkly and satisfyingly informative.
One recent guest falling into the latter category is iEarlGrey.

Where these first four are mostly about talking analysis, and about the big socioeconomic and geopolitical picture, the four below are based on maps, and the minute dissection of reports that tell of how the map looks right now in the moment from day to day. There are plenty of other channels trying to do the same. These are the best I’ve found.

Military Summary
Defense Politics Asia
War in Ukraine
New World Econ

I’ll leave it there, but the name of that last one is important. The old order is changing very fast and the proxy war is only a symptom of it. I propose to myself that tomorrow I go there, in a little more depth. The proposal is under review.