Did Russia’s President Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine to distract attention from his own political weakness at home? Sure, he was unhappy about NATO and obsessed with restoring the glory of the Russian empire. But the timing of this war and Putin’s expectation of a quick victory may be rooted in his own domestic political failures.

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La demande annoncée est grotesque, surtout si l’on considère le gaspillage incontrôlé actuel du Pentagone.

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On Thursday, Lithuania’s parliament unanimously passed a resolution urging for a no-fly zone over Ukraine, joining its fellow Baltic state Estonia in calling for the action, which would require shooting down Russian planes and bombing anti-aircraft missiles inside Russia.

The Lithuanian resolution “urges the United Nations to take immediate action to secure a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop mass civilian deaths.”

The world’s top-ranked tennis player, Daniil Medvedev, could be banned from playing at Wimbledon unless he offers “assurances” that he isn’t a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

China has issued a full response to the US regarding recent allegations related to the Ukraine war in a new Washington Post op-ed. China’s ambassador to the US blasted as total “disinformation” the White House charge that Beijing is poised to answer positively Moscow’s request for military assistance in Ukraine. Jake Sullivan had warned the China delegation in Rome that severe “consequences” would follow any Moscow-Beijing cooperation regarding Ukraine.

This week on the New World Next Week: Saudi enters talks with China to denominate some oil sales in yuan; the Ukrainian Defense Ministry turns to Clearview AI for facial recognition on the battlefield and the home front; and a Gates-driven project to launch GM mosquitos takes off in California and Florida.

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President Joe Biden in a Thursday St. Patrick’s Day luncheon event on Capitol Hill called called Vladimir Putin a “pure thug” and “murderous dictator” – in his harshest words yet for the Russian leader since the start of the Ukraine invasion.

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“They don’t know what to do with me.”

Linda Hurst was referring to the doctors she has seen to find relief from the illness she has struggled with daily, almost two years after testing positive for COVID-19. “It put me down,” she said.

CIA paramilitaries had been training Ukrainian forces on the frontlines of the Donbas war against Russian-backed separatists since 2014 and were only pulled out by the Biden administration last month, Yahoo News reported on Wednesday, citing former US officials.

The past two days saw reports of “progress made” in ongoing Ukraine-Russia ceasefire talks, but a Kremlin spokesman shot that down as “wrong” while still affirming that discussions are continuing Thursday.

Wednesday afternoon saw for the first time President Biden when asked by a reporter call Vladimir Putin a “war criminal”. Peskov weighed in on the provocative words, saying this characterization was “unforgivable”. And according to Bloomberg:

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Le professeur James Hansen estime que les politiques inadaptées arrêtées lors du sommet des Nations unies sur le changement climatique de novembre dernier conduiront la planète à dépasser la zone de danger de 1,5°C au cours de cette décennie.

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Update (1250ET): Adding to the angst and uncertainty that followed the optimistic FT report earlier that Ukraine and Russia are working on a “15-point” peace plan which sent risk assets soaring just after 10am, moments ago Ukraine president spokesman Mihailo Podolyak tweeted that “the FT published a draft, which represents the requesting position of the Russian side.

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Not a day goes by without a prominent Republican warning that “radical” Democrats are seeking to transform the United States with their “woke,” “socialist,” or “communist” ideas. However, a new study on polarization in Congress shows that, while both parties are getting more extreme, it is the GOP that has shifted much more sharply to the edge than congressional Democrats have. 

Des données récentes du gouvernement américain mettant en évidence la croissance rapide des concentrations de méthane dans l’atmosphère au cours des dernières années inquiètent de plus en plus certains scientifiques, qui craignent que la crise climatique causée par l’homme n’ait activé une boucle de rétroaction hostile, qui pourrait entraîner un réchauffement planétaire irréversible.

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Russia’s central bank announced that it will suspend purchases of gold from banks due to overwhelming demand from households, Reuters reports. The purchasing pause will take effect Tuesday with no end date set.

“Currently, households’ demand for buying physical gold in bars has increased, driven, in particular, by the abolition of value-added tax on these operations,” reads a statement from the central bank.

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One of the core staples of the past 40 years, and an anchor propping up the dollar’s reserve status, was a global financial system based on the petrodollar – this was a world in which oil producers would sell their product to the US (and the rest of the world) for dollars, which they would then recycle the proceeds in dollar-denominated assets and while investing in dollar-denominated markets, explicitly prop up the USD as the world reserve currency, and in the process backstop the standing of the US as the world’s undisputed financial superpower.

Those days are coming to an end.

A leaked March 3 memo revealed this week that the Kremlin instructed Russian media outlets to “use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson.” Carlson is the only Western “journalist” mentioned by name. 

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Headlines like, “WWIII has likely started already, but we have been slow to recognize it,” from Bill Ackman, and corporate media pushing nuclear war hype and hysteria had sparked unease among American households who hadn’t felt this way since the early days of the virus pandemic when they were caught empty-handed with limited supplies to weather COVID lockdowns.

Alors que l’immigration domine la campagne présidentielle, l’émigration accrue de Français musulmans témoigne d’une crise plus profonde pour le pays.

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On Sunday, former House representative for Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard released a video calling for the Biden administration to work with Russia and other parties to establish a ceasefire in Ukraine so dangerous pathogens held by US-funded biological research labs in the country could be destroyed.

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US troops will stay in Poland despite Russia’s missile attack on western Ukraine’s Yavoriv military facility, which is about 15 miles from the border of Poland, a senior Pentagon official told Stars and Stripes on Monday. The US currently has about 8,750 troops in Poland, more than half of which were deployed in recent months as tensions escalated in the region.

Within the last hours there have been growing reports that Israeli government websites have been hit in a major cyberattack.

Multiple regional correspondents are reporting that Israel has declared a “national state of cyber emergency” given it’s already being called the “largest-ever” cyber attack carried out against Israel’s infrastructure.

From one geopolitical crisis to another.

In case the firehose of news from Ukraine (and increasingly, China) was not enough, here’s one more: according to Iran’s Mehr News citing a statement by the IRGC Intelligence Unit, on Monday evening IRGC intelligence dismantled a sabotage attempt at the Fordow nuclear facility by “a group of people.”

EU seeks more “opportunities for cooperation” with apartheid regime.

Days after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed an emergency session of the UN General Assembly. He said at the time that the thought of a nuclear is “simply inconceivable” – but warned world powers they must do everything possible in terms of diplomacy from reaching a nuclear showdown scenario.

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Le changement climatique est en passe de transformer la vie sur Terre telle que nous la connaissons, et à moins que le réchauffement de la planète ne soit considérablement ralenti, des milliards de personnes et d’autres espèces vont arriver à un stade où elles ne pourront plus s’adapter à la nouvelle normalité, selon un rapport majeur publié lundi.

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China is not just any type of dictatorship. In fact, it isn't even communist. When you understand the principle that the Chinese government is really operating on, you start to understand why China has been built up to be the rising new superpower of the 21st century and what that means for the future of humanity.

With war raging across the world’s bread basket, risk of World War 3 the highest it has been since the Cuban missile crisis, commodities hitting new all time highs every single day, inflation (even the watered down CPI version) set to hit 10% in a few months, and the Fed rushing to hike rates so high it slams the US into a pre-scripted recession (as it somehow hopes to make a “soft landing” even as fed funds futures signal a hard landing and at least 50 bps of rate cuts after the burst of hiking is over later this year), it is easy to forget that China is still around.

Earlier when commenting on what’s been reported as “significant progress” made in Russia-Ukraine talks, we noted that “It remains to be seen if this is the start of a peaceful resolution to the war or just another false dawn.” Well, just a few hours later the false dawn has arrived via a bombshell FT report citing anonymous Biden administration officials who say that Russia has issued a formal request from China for military support in

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Update(11:56ET): The White House is considering Russia’s Sunday attack on Ukraine’s base at Yavoriv, which lies a mere 10 to 15 miles from NATO member Poland’s border, a dangerous escalation aimed at the West, also given that only until last month US National Guardsmen were present there reportedly training Ukrainian troops.

It’s been less than three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and things couldn’t be going better… well, unless you are one of the 44 million Ukrainians whose country is getting shelled. But let’s forget them for a moment (as the world will in a few weeks).

On the face of it, Russia’s performance justifies the giddiness of military experts (both real and on Twitter).

Cette semaine dans la revue, puisque Macron refuse d’assumer son bilan en en débattant, même « avec les Français », nous le poursuivons pour lui ; mais ailleurs l’hypocrisie se porte bien aussi et si les pénuries sont à craindre, c’est ailleurs ; enfin un petit article culturel pour se détendre. Merci à nos contributeurs.

Not The Onion: there’s a war in Europe, a massive refugee crisis of well over 2.5 million leaving Ukraine, global markets in chaos, soaring energy prices amid rising inflation, talk of avoiding World War 3… and the White House is busy giving a “briefing” to TikTok influencers, as in the popular Chinese app…

Setting the stage for a potential major escalation with Western and NATO powers, the Kremlin warned on Saturday that the Russian military is prepared to target Western arms shipments that are continuing to pour into Ukraine. Russia’s Deputy FM Sergei Ryabkov said on state TV that Washington had been informed in the last days that Moscow will see weapons supply convoys entering Ukraine as “legitimate targets”.

Update (2130ET): Initial reports that missiles ‘struck’ the US Embassy in Erbil, Iraq have been downgraded.

A dozen ballistic missiles launched from outside the country did hit the northern Kurdish regional capital on Sunday – however there were no casualties, and no parties have claimed responsibility.

A reporter for a major Chinese media outlet covering the war in Ukraine is deliberately assisting the Russian war effort by helping to solicit intelligence on Ukraine troop movements on social media, WhoWhatWhy has learned. 

After banning imports of Russian oil following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the US is looking for friendlier sources of energy as fuel prices rise. 

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President Biden on Friday said that a direct conflict between NATO and Russia would mean World War III amid growing calls for the US to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which would involve direct fighting with Russia.

American police departments have so much extra tactical gear that they’re sending it to Ukraine to help the country’s mostly non-professional military fight back against the much more well-equipped Russian military. It’s also worth noting that Ukraine’s annual defense budget is smaller than that of the NYPD.

Tel Aviv reinstates racist ban on Palestinian family unification.

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Ukraine government officials are sounding the alarm alleging that Belarus is preparing its own military operation for a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in support of Russia. So far Belarus has only participated in the offensive by allowing Russia to attack from its territory, beginning when the operation kicked off on February 24.

A drone crash in Croatia which is believed to have come from the nearby war in Ukraine is being described as “a serious incident” by the Balkan country’s president Zoran Milanovic. The Soviet-era Tu-141 “Strizh” reconnaissance drone, likely operated by Ukraine’s military (given as the Associated Press noted that it’s the only known country currently operating Tu-141 drones) crashed just outside the capital city of Zagreb on Thursday.

During his relatively brief Friday speech on the Russia-Ukraine war, President Biden called for an end to normal trade relations with Russia, clearing the way for increased import tariffs, and announced a ban on Russian-made vodka and caviar, as we detailed earlier.

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In a possible message and warning to NATO, Russia’s air force is now attacking locations in the far west of Ukraine—some of them for the first time since the invasion began on February 24.

Beyond the tragic war devastating Ukraine, the global chessboard is being rearranged. It’s as if Putin gave the board a violent shake, and the pieces can never be put back where they were.  Although the new configuration is hard to predict, one thing is certain: China’s position will be mightily strengthened.  

That’s our focus on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, as we talk with Dr. Timothy Heath, the senior international defense researcher, focusing on China, at RAND Corporation.

The World Health Organization told Reuters on Thursday that it advised the Ukrainian Health Ministry to destroy “high-threat pathogens” held in labs around the time Russia invaded Ukraine.