“North Korea says it has detected a case of the BA.2 omicron subvariant in its capital, Pyongyang, the first time the country has acknowledged a positive coronavirus infection since the pandemic began more than two years ago,” the Washington Post reports.
El Salvador Expected to Default as Bitcoin Plummets
“The Salvadoran experiment to make bitcoin legal currency has hit a wall,” El Pais reports.
“As a result of the fall in global markets caused by the uncertainty of the war in Ukraine, rising inflation and the US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates, the price of the most popular cryptocurrency in the world has plummeted more than 50% from its all-time highs. And with it, so too have the bonds of the government of El Salvador, which are trading at 40% of their original value, as investors start to doubt whether the country can meet its next debt payment.”
Cardinal Arrested by Hong Kong National Security Police
“Hong Kong’s national security police arrested Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, former opposition lawmaker Margaret Ng Ngoi-yee and singer Denise Ho Wan-sze on Wednesday, accusing the three opposition activists of colluding with foreign forces,” the South China Morning Post reports.
57 House Republicans Voted Against Ukraine Aid
Politico: “About five dozen House Republicans voted down a nearly $40 billion aid package to help Ukraine in a late-night Monday vote. They cited a mix of process problems and a desire for the U.S. to remain focused on domestic issues.”
Soldier’s Wife Says Ukrainian Kids Should Be ‘Cut’ Up
“In what is perhaps a disturbing sign of the effectiveness of Russian propaganda over the past two months, the wife of a Russian soldier in Ukraine has reportedly been caught urging him to torture Ukrainian children who refuse to support Moscow,” the Daily Beast reports.
From the recording: “I would inject them with drugs, and if it worked, I’d look into their eyes and say ‘Die, suffer.’ I would cut their wee wees and carve stars out of their backs, and actually cut out parts of their ear every day, their finger, so that they’d hurt so bad.”
When even her husband appears taken aback, she shoots back: “I just hate these Ukrainians, I hate them.”
Shanghai’s Lockdown Leaves Thousands in Its Streets
“Shanghai’s lockdown has kept tens of millions of residents trapped indoors for a month and a half. Thousands of others in China’s wealthiest city have found themselves in the opposite predicament: living in the street,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Russia Has Seized Much of Eastern Ukraine
“Russia’s nearly three-month-old invasion of neighboring Ukraine has been punctuated by flawed planning, poor intelligence, barbarity and wanton destruction,” the New York Times reports.
“But obscured in the daily fighting is the geographic reality that Russia has made gains on the ground.”
Putin Prepared for ‘Prolonged Conflict’
“It’s been 75 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, and as the battle becomes a grinding war of attrition, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be preparing for ‘a prolonged conflict,’ a top U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday,” the Washington Post reports.
Wall Street Journal: “U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers Tuesday. U.S. spy agencies, she said, see a lengthy war of attrition that is unlikely to be settled by the current fighting in eastern Ukraine, and little chance of a near-term negotiated solution.
Biden Says He’s Reviewing Tariffs on China
“President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that his administration is currently evaluating how to best move forward on existing tariffs on China enacted during the Trump administration, but he cautioned that no decision has been made,” CNN reports.
“Some experts and business groups have called on Biden to get rid of the tariffs as a way to combat inflation.”
U.S. to Increase Pressure on the Taliban
“The United States will take steps to increase pressure on Afghanistan’s Taliban government to reverse some of its recent decisions restricting the rights of women and girls if the hardline group shows no sign of rescinding the actions on its own,” Reuters reports.
Biden Concerned That Putin Has No Way Out
President Joe Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no exit strategy for the Ukraine war – and that is a problem for the West, USA Today reports.
He said Putin is a very calculating man who “doesn’t have a way out right now, and I’m trying to figure out what we do about that.”
Queen’s Absence Casts Shadow on Johnson’s Reboot
“Queen Elizabeth II will miss the state opening of Parliament for only the third time on Tuesday, casting a shadow over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s attempt to reboot his flagging U.K. premiership,” Bloomberg reports.
“The 96-year-old monarch is suffering ‘episodic mobility problems’ and the Queen’s Speech laying out the government’s agenda for the next parliamentary session will now be delivered for the first time by her son and heir, Prince Charles.”
“The Queen has pulled out of several public events in recent months, and has also been seen walking with the aid of a stick. She’s previously skipped the near-annual parliamentary set-piece just twice in her 70 years on the throne — both because of pregnancy. The announcement that she’ll miss it again provides Britons with a reminder that the reign of the country’s longest-ruling monarch won’t last forever.”
Father of Released Marine Said Ted Cruz Did Nothing
The father of Trevor Reed, a Texas marine recently released from detention in Russia, told the Dallas Morning News that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “didn’t do anything” to help negotiate the release.
Said Joey Reed: “He’s an embarrassment to the state of Texas. I don’t care what or who runs against him, I will work for their campaign to defeat that son of a bitch.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I do not think Putin is a character like Hitler. He comes out of Dostoyevsky.”
— Henry Kissinger, in an interview with the Financial Times.
Democrats Want Biden to Boost Ukraine Aid
“Congressional Democrats are preparing a plan that would boost President Joe Biden’s requested $33 billion Ukraine aid package to nearly $40 billion, and a House vote is possible as soon as Tuesday,” the AP reports.
“In what would be a setback for Biden’s push for more COVID-19 spending, the measure would not include any of added billions in pandemic spending that the president has wanted included in the plan.”
Russian Oligarch Warns Putin Is Not Stable
An oligarch close to Vladimir Putin has warned friends that his “psychiatric health is bad” and there is a “very real” threat he could use nuclear weapons, the Daily Mail reports.
The prominent billionaire has told associates that the Kremlin leader’s “psychiatric health is bad indeed,” and “stories about him going bonkers are not a joke.”
Quote of the Day
“We are now living in a totally new era.”
— Henry Kissinger, in an interview with the Financial Times, on modern weapons which can produce “levels of catastrophe that were not even imaginable.”
Russian Smart TVs Hacked
Russian television schedules were hacked to display an anti-war message as the country celebrated with a Victory Day parade, the BBC reports.
The name of every programme was changed to: “On your hands is the blood of thousands of Ukrainians and their hundreds of murdered children. TV and the authorities are lying. No to war.”
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