Not even trying to mask the racism on @CBSNews:
“This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan…This is a relatively civilized, relatively European—I have to choose those words carefully—city where you wouldn’t expect that or hope that it’s going to happen.”
@adamkotsko oh and here is a recently unclassified transcript of a phone call where yeltsin tacitly ask president clinton to approve putin months before he’s elected @adamkotso
as US federal debt climbs steadily into trillions, 🇷🇺-🇺🇦 war is used to delay raising interest rates, inflation soars, and global appetite for non-sovereign currencies increases we’re witnessing a tectonic shift away from dollar dominance
🇨🇳’s largest banks’ offshore units stopped issuing US dollar denominated letters of credit for purchases of physical Russian commodities ready for export, but yuan-denominated LOCs are available for some clients