Memia on Sunday 27-Feb-2022: 🇺🇦Ukraine this week, next Taiwan?🇹🇼// Novorossiya brief🇷🇺🇨🇳// stranger than fiction🧟// deep code🔣// from mini-state to digital giant🇪🇪

Flying Chrome Penguins

Kia ora,

Watching the shocking footage from Ukraine in the last few days, I don’t think many of us living in peace and (perceived) security in the South Pacific can truly imagine what it is like to suddenly find oneself inside a warzone… so far outside my realm of experience, anyway. Sending support to everyone under siege in Ukraine right now.🇺🇦✊

In this week’s Memia on Sunday:

• 🇺🇦Ukraine this week, next Taiwan?🇹🇼

  • A scan across commentary and analysis of the Ukraine invasion and scenarios on how things may play out in a now-suddenly-very multipolar geopolitical world.

  • A look at Russian military technology… why is Russia seemingly fighting a 20th century war in 2022?

  • Is Taiwan next?

  • What might this week’s events mean for Aotearoa?

• Weekend exploring

  • Regular weekend selection of links for your Sunday reading, listening and watching, including:

    • Stranger than fiction: Tin foil hats and mental health at the continuing Wellington protests

    • Deep Code: a look at the writing and interviews by polymath cultural and geopolitical thinker Jordan Hall

    • From Mini-State to Digital Giant: How did a tiny Baltic state become the world’s foremost digital government? Interview with Estonia’s outgoing government CIO.

    • Flying Chrome Penguins: a first look inside Dubai’s spectacular new Museum of the Future.