Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In Washington DC this morning, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Climate activists have had big oil companies in their sites for decades, and not without

reason.

But transitioning to greener energy depends on other firms that you've probably never

heard of.

And then really don't want to stop pumping oil.

And every year, for one weekend, the world's best barbecuers descend on Memphis to compete

in the world championship bargui cooking contest.

We'll take you to this year's event to meet the happy sufferers of smoked swine fever.

First up though.

This week, the sounds of war rang out in the Crimean Peninsula.

Tourists at a black sea resort fled as explosions and a column of smoke appeared in distance.

A nearby Russian airfield was up in flames, but precisely what caused the destruction

remains something of a mystery.

Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president, didn't claim responsibility for the blasts.

But he had a message for the world.

This war began in Crimea, he said, and must end in Crimea too.

I'm looking at these spectacular satellite images in front of me.

Shashank Joshi is the economist defense editor.

And what they show is a lot of wreckage, wreckage of what used to be Russian planes, destroyed

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