The Evening: Russia Sanctions, Pipeline Sabotage, Recommending Dylan, and More

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Good Evening,

It's Wednesday, September 28th.

EU Proposes New Russia Sanctions

The European Union put forward a series of new sanctions on Wednesday aimed at punishing Russia for escalating the Ukraine war by drafting at least 300,000 men into its army, threatening the use of nuclear arms and holding discredited referendums in occupied territories widely seen as a prelude to annexation, as the NYT reports

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Robust Response Against Nord Stream Sabotage

European leaders on Wednesday vowed a “robust and united response” to any attacks on their energy infrastructure following a series of breaches in underwater pipelines that are sending tons of natural gas into the Baltic Sea, as the Washington Post reports

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Bank of England Action to Address Crisis

The Bank of England launched an emergency intervention to restore order in bond markets after a government tax-cut plan sent borrowing costs soaring and triggered a meltdown in complex financial instruments held by pension funds, as the WSJ reports

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Executive Education

Global Foresight: Preparing for Future Trends

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is Washington's premier executive course for mid-to senior-level professionals responsible for helping their organizations predict and prepare for the global macrotrends that will drive change for the next 30 years.

Video Shorts

Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Data Unpacked,” “Testify,” “What's Happening,” “Preview,” and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel

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In That Number

155

Hurricane Ian is on the cusp of Category 5 strength with maximum sustained winds of almost 155 mph.

Source: Washington Post

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Critical Quote

“Any deliberate disruption of active European energy infrastructure is unacceptable and will lead to the strongest possible response.”

— Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

iDeas Lab

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Last week, the CSIS Australia Chair hosted a conversation with Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen on opportunities for the U.S.-Australia partnership to deliver a clean and secure energy future for the Indo-Pacific. Watch the ReCap here.

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The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.

Optics

(Photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images.) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki tour a compressor station of the new Baltic Pipe natural gas pipeline on the day of the pipeline's official opening on September 27, 2022 near Goleniow, Poland.

Recommended Reading

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hat Does Russia's 'Partial Mobilization' Mean?

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" by CSIS's Mark F. Cancian.

This Town Tomorrow

At 9:00 a.m.

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, the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda holds a conversation on overcoming barriers to humanitarian access in northern Ethiopia.

Later, at 11:15 a.m.

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, the Atlantic Council hosts a conversation with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on how the Department of Commerce has begun to implement the CHIPS and Science Act to compete with China.

And, at 11:30 a.m.

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, Carnegie holds a discussion on the trajectory of the war in Ukraine.

Video

This morning, the CSIS Middle East Program hosted a conversation with H.E. Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's former deputy prime minister, to discuss the unfolding political situation in Iraq. Watch the event here.

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Podcasts

J. Stephen Morrison speaks with Dr. Ashish Jha, White House Covid Response Coordinator, to discuss the bivalent vaccine launch and how the White House navigates the divergent realities of the pandemic.

Listen on Spotify

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Smiles

One of my teenage sons provided the ultimate smile when he called from college and said, “Dad, I’ve been getting into Dylan lately, what do you recommend?”

His call has kept me smiling, especially when he followed up with, “I’m liking Dylan because it reminds me of the country/folk/blues rock of the Zac Brown Band.” I barely know who the Zac Brown Band is, but more critically, after a lifetime of study, I still don’t think I hardly know who Dylan is.

So, my task is to strategically sherpa my boy into becoming a Dylan fan and hopefully an aficionado. Where should I start? You have to understand, Gen Z doesn’t know albums. So I can’t recommend “Blood on the Tracks,” “Blonde on Blonde,” “Highway 61 Revisited,” or one of the astounding Bootleg Series releases like “Rolling Thunder,” “Trouble No More,” “The Basement Tapes,” or the more recent “Springtime in New York.”

Gen Z listens to songs. Disaggregated ones at that. It would be natural to start with “Like A Rolling Stone,” perhaps the greatest song ever recorded. But you’d have to be visiting from Mars to have never heard that track. I could go with the late '80s resurgent Dylan “Oh Mercy,” which I feel deeply because the bard was living in my Uptown New Orleans neighborhood when he recorded it with Daniel Lanois and the Neville Brothers. Initiating my son with the Rolling Thunder material could be highly confusing to him: Why is David Bowie’s guitarist from the Ziggy Stardust years playing with Dylan? Why is Dylan wearing a makeup mask while performing? What does Allen Ginsberg have to do with it? For that matter, how would a teenager today understand Dylan’s conversion from Judaism to Christianity and back to Judaism and the impact it had on some of his greatest music? How do I explain The Band?

Of course, Dylan’s catalog is sprawling across musical genres. Some of the best Bob Dylan material is subtle and elusive, making recommendations all the more challenging. Is “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You,” the closing track of “Nashville Skyline,” filler or is it one of Dylan’s greatest tunes? Then again, on “Nashville Skyline,” Dylan’s voice sounds different from everything else he ever recorded. The list of conundrums goes on.

As I ponder Dylan’s many mysteries, it occurs to me that his music is like anyone else’s in the sense that what gets your toes tapping is what resonates. I still don’t know exactly how I’m going to recommend Dylan to my son—I usually create a Spotify playlist for him, which is a platform Gen Z digs. Creating a playlist is also complex. Do I open it with “Tangled Up In Blue,” a live version of “Tombstone Blues,” or launch with “Subterranean Homesick Blues?” I think I may send him this video which is one of the more mesmerizing Dylan performances. Every single time I watch it, my toes are tapping, and I wonder if there has ever been a musician with more presence or one so in command of his craft.

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