“Putin’s Tracks”: Ukraine in black & white

Illustrator David Plunkert made a chilling distillation of history’s echoes for the cover of the New Yorker:

“Look at it this way,” my son noted, “At least the tracks suggest that it’s retreating.” God, let it be so.

Elsewhere, I don’t know the origin of this image, but it’s hard to think of a case where a simple Desaturate command was so powerful.

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