The dictator threatening Europe

 By Christian Adams

The rouble plunges

 The rouble is plunging, to lows last seen immediately after the invasion of Ukraine began.  Inflation (and the data are almost certainly massaged down) is rising.  

The wheels are coming off in Russia.  Putin is waiting desperately for Trump to take office and prevent Ukraine from continuing its struggle for freedom.   Because if he doesn't, Putin is finished.  Russia is running out of resources to fight the war.

Flattery will get you anywhere

 By Steve Sack

Russian stock market slides

 Professional investors who invest in the stock market have their ears close to the ground.   A falling stock market is a sign of declining confidence, a sign that well-connected and intelligent people have concerns about the future.  

At the same time, if investors lack confidence about the future, expecting rises in inflation and a jump in debt issuance, bond yields rise (i.e., bond prices fall).  

In Russia, the stock market is sliding, and bond yields are surging.   The Putin régime is starting to look very shaky. 

Victory parade

Avdiivka, won by the Russians because of an ammunition shortage, caused by the GQP.

Is there anybody honourable or decent or patriotic or even sensible left in the Republican Party?

 By Nicola Jennings of The Guardian

Xi's mission to Moscow

 From a toot by Bad-i-ucao

For the World Peace —— Xi‘s Moscow visit for Putin

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