I'm on a row...
Wordle 258 3/6
I somehow feel almost guilty. While having fun playing Wordle rather mindlessly in the safety and comfort of my home, people are fighting for their lives, their country, trying to repel enemies who have biggest guns and weapons.
As Day 8 rolls on, more sanction took place, Russian and the Belarussian athletes are banned from Winter Paralympitc Games. Even Russian cats are not welcomed to international competition. Russia is taking the scored earth approach, shelling the Ukrainian nuclear plant, talking about the nuclear option of mutual destruction, you can't get better than this. Other former Eastern Bloc countries are quaking in their pants, knowing that they'll be next in Russia's crosshair, Moldova and Georgia hurry to submit their EU application.
While Biden is putting his team together to do something about Russia, he firmly shoots down the idea of embargo of Russia oil, this is all while the Congress has bipartisan support of much tougher actions against Putin's unprovoked attack on Ukraine. I find it rather hypocritical for Biden to push Germany to halt Nord Stream 2 (that together with the existing pipeline through Ukraine) would have had relied on the Russian energy supply for some 40% of Germany's needs. So here we are, telling allies in EU to suck it up and suffer higher energy price, while Biden uses the same reasoning to refuse the oil embargo (because that would have likely pushed up gas prices in US).
With so many techies in Ukraine, they are getting creative, raising funds for war resources not just by traditional means like war bonds, but they're accepting cryptocoins as donation. On the other hand, Russia's credit rating has descended to junk bond territory. Serve them right.
More stinks come out of the Russian-Chinese collaboration, with news that China has requested Russia to hold off on the Ukraine offensive until after the Winter Olympics in Beijing wraps up so as not to steal China's thunder. This really stinks to high heaven. Putin and Xi deserve to go to hell, together, forever. Though I highly doubt that their buddy-buddy relationship can last for very long, given that China will not stick its neck out for Russia, should China risk its own skin.
Serious business aside, I find this picture from Reuters figuratively, metaphorically, and more importantly, literally illustrious of Macron's efforts in trying to be the elder statesman, but failed miserably. Who could possibly communicate across such a vey very long table?!?
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