When asked why he is willing to lose his job when going forward with the foreign aid bills, Johnson responds: ‘I'm doing what I think is right here. I think providing lethal aid to Ukraine right now is critically important. I believe Putin will march through Europe otherwise. We

Will AI boil the oceans? On the contrary, it can and should be harnessed to speed the green transition bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

If the West gave Ukraine half the support it gave Israel on Saturday, it could turn the war around, says Marc Champion bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Iran's reckless attack on Israel is a reminder that it's the real threat to peace and stability in the Middle East. That's all the more reason Israeli leaders should be restrained in their response bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Iran's missile barrage was a failure and Israel can turn it into an even bigger win by ending the war in Gaza, says Marc Champion bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Ukraine could face defeat in 2024. Here's how that might look bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

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A redesigned FAFSA form was supposed to make it easier for students to apply for financial aid for college. The exact opposite happened instead bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Slovakia has elected a puppet of the pro-Moscow coalition as its new President.

Leading Slovak media say results are clear and Peter Pellegrini has won.

It means that Slovakia, a frontline NATO member, now will have government serving as direct proxy and ally of Russian

4/6. For the last six months, all of Johnson's ploys have had the same logic. Make a promise, create some hope, generate excuses for European and executive branch inaction, weaken Ukraine, advance Russian genocide.

Putin should forget conspiracies and look at why his security services failed both in preventing and responding to the Moscow terror attack. Unlike pre-invasion Ukraine, the Islamist threat to Russian lives isn't imaginary, my column this AM. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

'There’s a reason a very large majority of UK buyers prefer old houses over new – and why every new housing development is aggressively protested by local residents,' writes Merryn Somerset Webb bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

If you think Chinese clean-energy manufacturing costs are an outrage justifying a reordering of global trade, you might be shocked to learn about the cost of oil production in Gulf countries:

'Abstention' is a deceptively diplomatic word. The US has really just allowed the UN Security Council to start censuring Israel, with more to come bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Can the world’s central banks safely climb down from the worst round of inflation and rate hikes in decades? John Authers and Richard A. Abbey chronicle this perilous journey in a new monthly feature bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-… via @bbgvisualdata

Today we honour the memory of the March deportation victims.

75 years ago, over 20,000 Estonians, including infants and the elderly, were taken from their homes and sent to Siberia in unimaginable conditions by the Soviet occupation regime.

My own family was also deported. 1/

“The security environment is the most dangerous I’ve seen in 40 years in uniform,” Adm. Aquilino warned last week.

“We haven’t faced a threat like this since WW2.”

A few more clips, quotes, & mic-dropping moments from his final public appearance as Commander, U.S. INDOPACOM 👇

The Strongman Fantasy, by Timothy Snyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/t…

Moldova’s pro-EU president Maia Sandu is clear-eyed about what her country is up against. Read the Brussels Edition bloomberg.com/news/newslette… via Bloomberg

“It would not be very surprising if the Kremlin blames Ukraine and the United States for terror in Moscow and uses the Moscow attack to justify continuing and future atrocities in Ukraine.” open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/m…