Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 20, 2025

‘He bombs everything all the time’: US said fuming at ‘madman’ Netanyahu after Syria strikes

A word of caution, I have not found a good way to balance the links on this issue. There are a lot of fake and real stories going around that come from this region and it is hard to separate the two. The biggest problem I have with the following link is that it takes as given the the Bedouin forces are the same as Syrian government forces and it is not at all clear that is true. Syrian Regime Accused of Mass Slaughter, Rape in Ongoing Assault on Druze Minority

How China Became the World’s Biggest Shipbuilder

How India became a french fry superpower

The much-discussed contraction in entry-level tech hiring appears to have *reversed* in recent months. In fact, relative to the pre-generative AI era, recent grads have secured coding jobs at the same rate as they’ve found any job, if not slightly higher.