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Judging from the amount of prestige and resources Russia has poured into it, Putin seems committed to risk at least limited military action in the Ukraine. It could be a repeat of Putin’s earlier campaign of subversion or involve a conventional overt component. America’s dilemma is to respond without escalating the military conflict while potentially …

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New at the Belmont Club. The world after Covid won’t look like 2019.

New at the Belmont Club. The unexpected happens to America’s rivals too.

New at the Belmont Club. Two public health strategies, many weary publics and one endless war against a hit and run virus.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-on-covid-no-federal-solution-11640648750

New at the Belmont Club. Are you sure Santa isn’t real?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-collins-emails-great-barrington-declaration-covid-pandemic-lockdown-11640129116

Putin’s low regard for the administration is making him reckless in Ukraine. https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/putins-ukraine-calculation/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/joe-biden-polling-public-approval/index.html

Russia’s Gazprom PJSC has steadily reduced gas flows to Europe as the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline had its certification delayed until possibly July. No new flows into Europe are forcing utilities to drain their gas storages (already at seasonal lows). Some utilities have had to restart fossil fuel generators to avoid grid disruption.

New at the Belmont Club. How do you break out of the loser’s spiral?

New at the Belmont Club. The end of the 20th century was a very special time. Only politicians could think it would last forever.

The threatened invasion of Ukraine

https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-a-fusion-reaction-has-generated-more-energy-than-absorbed-by-the-fuel

To compensate for European reluctance to take Putin on

“Extreme food prices slam the world”

Biden folds, won’t oppose Putin gas pipeline