Russia’s Ghost Ships and the Evolution of a Grain Smuggling Operation - bellingcat

No less significant for the future balance of power in Eurasia was the transformation by which in little more than a century the princely state of Muscovy – until 1480 a tributary state of the Mongol ‘Golden Horde’ – advanced over the steppe to the Caspian Sea and built a vast fur-trading empire through the Siberian forests to reach the Pacific in

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This looks like a pretty reasonable plot of P(Russia invades Ukraine) over time. Except that, as was subsequently revealed, the image is in fact an edited version of a screenshot of this Manifold question, wherein the original price graph has been replaced with that of front-month Brent crude futures1 over the same time period. As it turns out, the... See more