The Friday Five – What’s Next for Ukraine?
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an offer this week to Vladimir Putin, essentially trading the Donbass and Russia’s land bridge to Crimea for peace. Trouble is the Russians don’t believe him.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an offer this week to Vladimir Putin, essentially trading the Donbass and Russia’s land bridge to Crimea for peace. Trouble is the Russians don’t believe him.
In a December interview, Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that the Minsk agreement was not a peace deal, but a ruse to buy time for Ukraine to arm itself for the current proxy war between NATO and Russia.
Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, said this week that Vladimir Putin is fighting globalism, calling Putin “a fighter against the Antichrist” and “chief exorcist.”Continue Reading
A new study finds that, because of inflation, the average US household will have to spend $11,500 more this year to maintain the same standard of living it had in 2020.Continue Reading
Vladimir Putin’s ally, Dmitri Medvedev, threatened the use of nuclear weapons if areas of Ukraine occupied by Russian troops are attacked.Continue Reading
Just days after California decreed an end to new gas or diesel-only vehicles in the state by 2035, EV owners were asked not to charge their vehicles because hot weather is straining the power grid. How will the grid handle millions of new electric cars?Continue Reading
Aleksandr Dugin, the philosopher called “Putin’s brain,” reportedly suffered a heart attack after the car bombing Saturday that killed his 30-year-old daughter. Was the bomb was meant for him, and is the heart attack another assassination attempt?Continue Reading
As if record gas and diesel prices weren’t enough, now regulators are warning that the middle of the US may be hit with rolling outages this summer as the regional grid is short the energy needed to power 3.7 million homes.Continue Reading
The Pentagon said last week it provided the intelligence used by Ukraine to kill 12 Russian generals and Russia’s Black Sea flagship, the Moskva. This raises the question of where, exactly, is Putin’s “red line” regarding American involvement in that war?
Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter has triggered liberals, many of whom are now openly calling for censorship and control of social media.Continue Reading
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