Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
The Fuse: How Long Can Russia Pay for Its War?
A weekly monitor tracking the funding chain behind Russia’s war effort, from oil revenue and bond auctions to reserves, inflation, and industrial activity.
Why it surfacedThe site reduces a sprawling fiscal question to a memorable chain of indicators and currently puts the fire at link two: borrowing. Its 6–7 month worst-case runway is presented as a range, with every number tied to a primary source and a track record acknowledging that forecasts can fire too early.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.