The PAC behind Zo & his radicals, Ukraines lessons on war and other commentary

Conservative: The PAC Behind Zo & His RadicalsAmerican Priorities, a new super PAC is “behind the surge of radical leftist candidates” in New York, reports Tablet’s Liel Leibovitz.“The group’s two largest donors,” Omer Hasan and Mohammad Waqas Javed, are alums of the “data company AppLovin.” Its largest shareholder, Hao Tang, reportedly has “deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party,” and JPMorgan Chase closed his account over “source of funding” concerns.

“Hasan and Javed were the top donors” to Zohran Mamdani’s New Yorkers for Lower Costs PAC.While attention is focused on AIPAC’s impact, “the most prominent PAC on the scene right now is funded primarily by two veterans of a shady tech colossus with strong links to China and repeated allegations of ties to the Communist Party in Beijing.”Military take: Ukraine’s Lessons on WarUkraine is “imposing persistent strategic pressure” by attacking Russia’s “front lines, air defenses, fuel depots .

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and by trying to isolate occupied Crimea,” cheer David H.Petraeus & Clara Kaluderovic at The Wall Street Journal.

Although “Ukraine almost certainly can’t destroy” Russia, its recent attacks have caused “Russia’s worst nationwide fuel shortages in years.” Kyiv is forcing Moscow “to defend everywhere” as it imposes “pressure simultaneously across many arenas.” “The U.S.should draw three lessons” from Ukraine’s “agile, software-driven, distributed warfare,” instead of relying on “hardware-heavy” warfare.

Ukraine has “changed the central question of the war” to whether Russia can keep up with it’s the “pressure.” “That is a remarkable reversal.”Education desk: The Drive To Kill Great SchoolsNew York’s teachers unions “have filed another lawsuit aimed at limiting educational options for New York families,” this time by trying stop a new school, Strive, from taking over a charter granted to the Success Academy charter-s...