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Not so much Plan B, as just Plan A running into Orbán’s veto, but not giving up in advance, and hoping that Orbán is not going to be around much longer so that the accession can go through with the next government.

There must have been a gallery component, since I only looked at generators that had one available.

Honestly, in hindsight the templates were really not a big deal. Just for fun, I tried converting the Hugo template I used to Pelican, and it was easy for me.

Pelican is solid and mature and I would use it, in hindsight. The only major flaws are that it’s much slower (but makes up for it with incremental builds) and that the community is much, much smaller. On the plus side, Jinja2 is much, much, much better than Go templating (Hugo borrows from Go).

I went the same direction, from WordPress to static site generation. I did the same evaluation as you are trying to do and ended up with Hugo, mostly because there is a lot of support available for it. My runner up was Pelican, because I was fluent in Jinja2, but I didn’t want to mess around with the templates and Hugo’s were prettier. Sue me, I am shallow.

The one regret I have about Hugo is that the templating language is challenging. I am trying to be as neutral as possible, but it seemed like even simple things were complicated to achieve. If someone would come up with a Hugo that speaks Jinja2, I’d be really delighted.

Other than that, conversion from WordPress to Hugo was relatively straightforward, despite needing to find a gallery component and converting menus. Hugo is indeed very fast in processing, which become important when your blog has thousands of articles.

I set up the blog as a private git repository. The server pulls from it, then runs Hugo and a full text search engine, and the content is visible and searchable within five minutes on update.

Overall, I would absolutely agree with you. But with the recent fall of oil prices, I don’t think the economics are there for Putin to be able to sustain the war. He needs it to end, and soon.

Zelenskyy, on the other hand, seems to have been rattled by the swiftness with which Russia pushed back Ukraine out of Kursk oblast once America stopped intelligence sharing.

I could see it play out like you describe: both sides continue to just want to outlast the other. Even then, the Trump administration plays linchpin: they can stop intelligence sharing again, and they can push the price of oil up and down to an extent.

I continue being surprised that the war is not more unpopular in Russia. Something that makes a million people flee out of their country can’t really be value neutral or even popular. But then again, Russia has a very long history of stubborn rulers that pushed things too far and then were overthrown when they wouldn’t relent, which is again the scenario you describe.

Good article, IMHO

The Ukrainians can’t take back lost territory, but they’re not going to get rolled over either. This has come down to a war of economic attrition. It’s what’s happening in the Russian rear that decides this.

Strange as it seems to say this, the Trump administration played this well. They negotiated with both sides, saw that the Ukrainians were willing to make concessions while Putin was stubborn, so they went with the side where they could make money.

The thing I don’t understand is that the administration pulled out of the peace negotiations, but the gas deal with Ukraine requires peace to be realized. Nobody is going to build shale gas extraction facilities in an active war zone, after all.

So, either the Trump administration knows something we don’t about Russia’s ability to continue the war, or they will have to force Ukraine to make concessions to get a peace deal. In both cases, they’d be better off continuing the peace talks, no?

Purdue Pharma and the entire Sackler family. I’ve witnessed so many horrible things done by Oxycontin-addicted people; knowing that history, I want to puke my guts out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States#History

Thank you for the info!

It sound like he was trying to get Russian citizenship through military service. Then they sent him to Bakhmut to die with 100,000 other recruits. Number made up, but probably not that far off.

After using Metro and Vanilla for ages, I switched to Gramophone. Looks pretty and I find it intuitive. Also has great support for media change detection and does m3u playlists (that I rely on heavily) very well.