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World News · week of 17 Aug – 23 Aug

World News: 17 Aug – 23 Aug

Pressure held steady across the week (70 to 68) — a flat week is a real result, not a missing one.

68

pressure at the week’s end, 0–100

-2

move across the week

6

editions published

159

sources read behind them

The arc · 6 days with a board

The band each day fell in.

No written analysis for this week

Everything on this page is measured from the week’s own boards and editions. The written read is added when the engine runs its report pass; a week without one still has its record.

What we said to watch

17 Aug Watch what the strikes on Russia's shops and warehouses do to Russian opinion, because both armies are now betting that pain far behind the lines will do what neither can do at the front, and being attacked from outside tends to bind a population to its leadership rather than split it.

The beat ended the week Stretched thin.

18 Aug Watch whether the new disarmament working group publishes an actual sequence with dates. Another round of meetings called productive would mean the Gaza plan is still stuck exactly where it was.

The beat ended the week Stretched thin.

19 Aug Watch whether any European government calls a sabotage case an armed attack rather than a crime. That one change of wording is what would pull the fight out of the seams and into the open.

The beat ended the week Stretched thin.

20 Aug Watch whether other senior Ukrainian figures join Fedorov's call for a wartime vote. One sacked minister is a grievance; several would make the fight over who governs Ukraine as consequential as the front line.

The beat ended the week Stretched thin.

21 Aug Watch Haiti's voter-registration count between now and December: it measures how far the government can physically get, which late funding cannot change.

The beat ended the week Stretched thin.

22 Aug Watch whether the money paying for Congo's Ebola response is renewed before it runs out in a few weeks. Cases are doubling faster than trained teams are arriving, so help that is late by a month now buys far less than the same help would have bought in May.

The beat ended the week Stretched thin.

The honest half. These are the markers the boards named at the time — kept on the record whether or not they turned out to matter.

The board on Monday, and the board at the end

Opened

17 Aug

Strikes behind the lines 90
Civilians paying 83
The Iran truce ending 78
US forces stretched 74
Spilling into NATO 60
Talks still running 34

Ended

22 Aug

Ebola outrunning help 93
The Iran war's long reach 85
Russia's war spilling outward 79
Talks that go nowhere 64
Decisions the state cannot deliver 58
Old standoffs settling 27

Both boards exactly as they were written at the time — not a diff. The engine names the forces fresh every morning, so "The cheap-yen gap" on Monday and "Money leaving the dollar" on Friday may well be the same pressure under different words. Comparing the labels would measure the labels; comparing the two boards yourself is the honest version.

The week’s editions · 6

World 22 Aug · 26 SRC

Ebola outruns the response in DR Congo, with half the deaths in twenty days

World 21 Aug · 26 SRC

Haiti books an election in a capital it does not control

World 20 Aug · 31 SRC

Russia hits Kyiv again as Ukraine's sacked defence minister calls for a wartime vote

World 19 Aug · 33 SRC

Russia threatens Britain over drones, while the fight it means is already burning in Estonia

World 18 Aug · 23 SRC

Kushner shuttles between Hamas and Netanyahu, and the Gaza plan moves nowhere

World 17 Aug · 20 SRC

Ukraine sends 600 drones at Moscow as Russia burns a Kyiv book market

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