February, 2022

• 16 February

  US hasn’t verified Russian pullback of troops near Ukraine

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he welcomed a security dialogue with the West, and his military reported pulling back some of its troops near Ukraine. But U.S. President Joe Biden said the U.S. had not verified Russia’s claim and that an invasion was still a distinct possibility. Putin …

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• 16 February

  Вперед, Валиева!

  Случилось чудо. Теперь, может быть, и войны не будет. Камила Валиева допущена до соревнований, апелляции МОК, ISU и WADA не удовлетворены. Я не фанат спорта и не понимаю людей, зацикленных на успехах национальной сборной, но моральную победу Валиевой оцениваю необычайно высоко. Дело в том, что она вундеркинд, а именно любовью …

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• 16 February

  Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase

  As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba. Washington’s response, on January 26, to Russia’s demands of withdrawing NATO forces from Eastern Europe and ending …

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• 16 February

  Im Psycho-Krieg schlägt Biden Putin mit den eigenen Waffen

  Die US-Geheimdienste haben aus der Annexion der Krim gelernt und führen Russlands Militärstrategen vor. Für den Kreml-Chef sind die Optionen schlecht. Ben Wallace fühlt sich in der Ukraine-Krise an 1938 erinnert. Ein „Hauch von München“ liege in der Luft, warnte der britische Verteidigungsminister in Anspielung auf die Appeasement-Politik Neville Chamberlains, …

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• 16 February

  Russia sanctions bill is a ‘single barrel, sawed-off shotgun’

  If God forbid the administration fires it, the results will be to wound Moscow, but also to blow off America’s own toes. The Menendez bill on sanctions against Russia could be described as a hair trigger on a single-barrel sawed-off shotgun, with all that weapon’s combination of dreadful effect and …

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• 16 February

  Median Inflation Gauge Offers Better Read On Price Trends – Analysis

  Economists debating inflation in the United States are confronting a difficult challenge: stripping out volatile price changes to gauge underlying pressures. The most common measure of underlying or “core” inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, has been hard to read during the pandemic. The traditional measure came into …

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• 15 February

  The War Party Wants A New Cold War, And The Money That Comes With It

  

  In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal this week featured a column by Walter Russell Mead declaring it’s “Time to Increase Defense Spending.” Using the Beijing Olympics and the potential Ukraine War to push for funneling ever more taxpayer dollars into military spending, Mead …

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• 15 February

  Dbeibah Trying To Take Libya By Force: What Will Happen Next?

  

  Libya’s political jostling is intensifying as the parliament prepares to announce a new Prime Minister. Despite the incumbent Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh’s refusal to step down has pushed ahead with plans to again extend a transitional period and delay any elections. In addition, the maneuvering comes after December’s collapse of a …

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• 15 February

  NATO Secretary General Praises Transatlantic Unity To Protect Black Sea Region

  

  On Friday (11 February), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited the Mihail Kogălniceanu Military Base (MK) in Romania to greet Allied deployments to the security of Romania and the Black Sea Region. In a joint press conference with the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis, the Secretary General thanked Romania for …

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• 15 February

  The US Is Facing A Sputnik Moment In The International Economy – Analysis

  

  Beijing is ahead in the race for establishing a global digital currency standard (FPRI) — At the Beijing Olympics—in addition to showcasing a 60-foot snowman and an ambitious (if controversial) environmental initiative—China is debuting its newly minted central bank digital currency, or CBDC. The country had hoped to make a …

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