✪ White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan traveled to Kyiv on Friday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and announce a new $400 million military assistance package the United States is sending amid the Russian invasion...
✪ Britain’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Rishi Sunak, best known for signing the cheques on the mega-money lockdown policies of the Covid era and pushing the national tax burden to the highest levels in decades, will be the next Prime Minister after the only other serious challenger dropped out of the bidding at the last minute...
✪ The absolute imbroglio that is British politics will continue as the candidates for yet another Tory leadership contest ready themselves for a — blessedly brief — battle for the keys of Number 10. The race to replace failed PM Liz Truss is set to conclude by as soon as Monday, when another globalist stooge may well be installed into office...
✪ Infrastructure in Kyiv and other major cities far from the Ukrainian frontlines received heavy damage on Monday, with many believing the strikes to be retaliation for a blast which destroyed part of the Kerch Bridge between Crimea and mainland Russia at the weekend, which the Ukrainians celebrated even if they did not definitively claim responsibility for it...
✪ The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it cannot rule out “sabotage” as the cause of significant damage to the Nord Stream pipeline network that carries gas from Russia to Germany…
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✪ Commentary: I have been watching, with horror, the escalation of the economic situation in Europe since about mid-February. On Feb. 21, I published a short Twitter thread detailing the economic worst-case scenario for Europe if the war between Russia and Ukraine would break out, as it did...
✪ Russian president Vladimir Putin warned this week that Russia would stop all energy exports to the West if Europe goes against its standing contracts and caps prices of Russian exports due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
✪ The end of an epoch: The Queen died at Balmoral, her private Scottish home this afternoon at the age of 96. She was Britain’s longest-ever reigning Monarch, at 70 years and 214 days...