The idea of a 99-week
A European war with no end in sight definitely wasn’t on my bingo card in late 2021, but here we are.
This update is going to be a bit on the light side because ground combat action was spotty, and a lot of political issues need to be addressed in more in-depth posts.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech at the World Economic Forum had a lot of good material that must be parsed. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin and deputy chairman (and former prime minister and former president) Medvedev were saying that no compromise with Ukraine was possible. Chinese and Turkish banks have dropped Russian correspondent banks for fear of secondary sanctions, and the US and EU are near an agreement that will confiscate frozen Russian assets in the West and dedicate them to rebuilding Ukraine. Hungary is on the verge of being stripped of voting…
