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Is This Already a World War? Two Answers, and the Record
Which sources back which section of this article, and what its evidence base looks like.
Which sources back which section
| Section | Sources behind it |
|---|---|
| What Happened | Bret Stephens’s own column; ASPI’s own Strategist commentary, by Carl Janz and Colin Karotam; SouthFront; Sputnik International; Liga.net; DroneXL’s account of the Wall Street Journal’s reporting; Fortune’s account of Druckenmiller’s Wall Street Journal op-ed and the debt figures; the US Treasury’s own daily debt data; Reuters, via Defense News; Ukrayinska Pravda, via Yahoo News; The Defense Post; RFE/RL, quoting Grajewski, Coffey, Golkar and Swanson; the Congressional Research Service; gCaptain, on the 2012 origin of the “historic low” framing |
| Timeline | Bret Stephens’s own column; ASPI’s own Strategist commentary, by Carl Janz and Colin Karotam; SouthFront; Sputnik International; Liga.net; DroneXL’s account of the Wall Street Journal’s reporting; Fortune’s account of Druckenmiller’s Wall Street Journal op-ed and the debt figures; Reuters, via Defense News; Ukrayinska Pravda, via Yahoo News; The Defense Post; RFE/RL, quoting Grajewski, Coffey, Golkar and Swanson; Military Times, on the USS Abraham Lincoln’s deployment and Sen. Blumenthal’s letter; Jo Inge Bekkevold’s essay in Foreign Policy; Semafor’s brief on intertwined-conflict framing |
| The Argument | Bret Stephens’s own column; ASPI’s own Strategist commentary, by Carl Janz and Colin Karotam; DroneXL’s account of the Wall Street Journal’s reporting; Fortune’s account of Druckenmiller’s Wall Street Journal op-ed and the debt figures; the US Treasury’s own daily debt data; Reuters, via Defense News; Ukrayinska Pravda, via Yahoo News; RFE/RL, quoting Grajewski, Coffey, Golkar and Swanson; the Congressional Research Service; Military Times, on the USS Abraham Lincoln’s deployment and Sen. Blumenthal’s letter; Jo Inge Bekkevold’s essay in Foreign Policy |
| What Others Add | Jo Inge Bekkevold’s essay in Foreign Policy; RFE/RL, quoting Grajewski, Coffey, Golkar and Swanson |
| Conclusion | Bret Stephens’s own column; ASPI’s own Strategist commentary, by Carl Janz and Colin Karotam; DroneXL’s account of the Wall Street Journal’s reporting; Fortune’s account of Druckenmiller’s Wall Street Journal op-ed and the debt figures; the US Treasury’s own daily debt data; Reuters, via Defense News; Ukrayinska Pravda, via Yahoo News; The Defense Post; RFE/RL, quoting Grajewski, Coffey, Golkar and Swanson; Jo Inge Bekkevold’s essay in Foreign Policy |
What the evidence base looks like
- 17Sources behind this article
- 5Sections, every one of them sourced
- 13Press reporting and signed opinion journalism, read in full
- 4Institutional analysis and official data, read in full
| What the source is | How many | How they were read |
|---|---|---|
| The column under review | 1 | Read in full, as the published Chinese-language translation carrying its own byline, publisher and date — a citable public source, not an unpublished input |
| Journalistic reporting of the events cited | 12 | All twelve read in full via curl; three of them (SouthFront, Sputnik International and Liga.net) each independently corroborate the same New York Times report, which could not itself be reached at its own page |
| Analytical commentary and critique | 2 | Both read in full: The Strategist’s piece by the analysed report’s own two authors, and Jo Inge Bekkevold’s Foreign Policy essay, published five months before this column |
| Official government data and research | 2 | Both read in full and directly: the US Treasury’s daily API queried live, and the Congressional Research Service’s report fetched as a PDF and text-extracted |
Reliable
Reliable, but with an interestWorth believing and reliableWeak on both, and used with careHonest, but thin
Worth believing