Dmitry Kuleba, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and pitchman for more weapons, complains that despite over $150 billion in weapons and aid sent to Ukraine by the U.S. and NATO, they have not done enough to help Kyiv in its fight against Russia.
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PUTIN CEMENTS OUR TOP TREND OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY: WESTERN SANCTIONS FAILED
Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to take a victory lap last week and indicated that the West has lost the sanctions war and Russia has largely been able to avoid an economic calamity.
U.S. AT WAR WITH RUSSIA: TRAINING UKRAINE TROOPS IN AMERICA
The U.S. announced last week that it will begin training about 100 Ukrainian troops at an army base in Oklahoma on how to operate the Patriot missile system that will be headed to Kyiv.
RUSSIA SAYS NO UKRAINE WAR IF KYIV ABIDED MINSK AGREEMENT
Russia’s top diplomat to the UN said Friday that the nearly year-long war in Ukraine could have been avoided if leaders in Kyiv enforced the Minsk Agreements, which turned out to be a ruse by the West to buy time to rearm Ukrainians for a future fight.
ROCKY ROAD AHEAD FOR WORLD ECONOMY
The global economy in 2023 faces lingering high-interest rates, sharpened rivalry between the U.S. and China, the ongoing mess in Ukraine, and debt bombs exploding in developing economies, speakers at this year’s annual meeting of the American Economic Association in New Orleans said last week.
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
This is week 22 of our report of job losses, and with each passing week, the losses grow larger.
TOP TREND 2023, WE OWN YOU: OPENAI SEEKS INVESTORS, VALUES ITSELF AT $30 BILLION
OpenAI, the private company that developed ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence that converses in natural language, is seeking to raise capital in deals that would value the company at $30 billion, the Financial Times reported.
COMPANIES LEASING LESS WAREHOUSE SPACE
U.S. companies leased 132 million square feet of warehouse space in 2022’s final quarter, 28.2 percent less than in the third quarter, real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield reported.
U.S. AUTO SALES WENT INTO THE DITCH IN 2022
Last year, the U.S. auto industry sold 13.7 million vehicles, 8 percent fewer than in 2021 and the fewest since 2011 during the Great Recession, data firm Wards Intelligence shows.
IRS: HIT THE PLANTATION WORKERS OF SLAVELANDIA, DON’T TOUCH THE RICH
In 2022, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service focused its audits on low-income individuals, according to IRS data analyzed by Syracuse University’s Transactional Access Records Clearinghouse (TRAC).