Danny and Derek deliver the goods a day early. This week: an update on Gaza (0:36); more Ansar Allah (Houthi) activity off of Yemen’s coast in the Red Sea (11:46); Italy withdraws from the China-led Belt and Road Initiative (15:04); South Korea launches a spy satellite (16:51); an attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau (19:35); a Russia-Ukraine update featuring prisoner exchange talks with the U.S. (23:03) and dwindling funds on Ukraine’s behalf (24:56); Venezuela-Guyana tensions on the rise over the Essequibo border region (28:35); and a COP28 update (32:36).
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We sent out an email before the ad started running letting everybody know that Substack does not offer the capability of sending ad-free versions to paid subscribers and that, as a result, once this one ad campaign is over we won't be running any more of them. I realize nobody reads anything these days, but given that we'd already agreed to do this particular ad I don't know how else we could have cushioned the blow.
I realize paid subscribers are irritated about having to listen to an ad and I sympathize. It was only after we'd committed to this campaign, basically to dip a toe into the ad water, that we learned Substack lacks the capability to send separate ad free versions of the show to the paid feed without doing a confusing workaround. We decided that the simplest way to resolve the situation we found ourselves in was to send an email alerting everybody to the ad and to go back to a fully ad free show once this campaign is over, unless/until we figure out a way to do it properly with ads only for non-subscribers. This too shall pass.
Derek is a subtle assassin, biding his time and striking when it’s least expected. Get owned Danny
Lmao
At the risk of being attacked as a neoconservative, liberal interventionist, democracy spreading Zionist party pooper, has peace broken out anywhere?
I miss world peace at the cost of mean Tweets.
We sent out an email before the ad started running letting everybody know that Substack does not offer the capability of sending ad-free versions to paid subscribers and that, as a result, once this one ad campaign is over we won't be running any more of them. I realize nobody reads anything these days, but given that we'd already agreed to do this particular ad I don't know how else we could have cushioned the blow.