Trump: "I heard today that 'we [Ukraine] were never invited [to the negotiations]', well you've been there for three years and should have never started it"
Wild stuff. The outcome in Ukraine will be entirely based on how well the parties play into making Trump look good at the negotiating table.
Putin is playing it intelligently, he is letting his advisors play hardball and can swoop in as the reasonable dealmaker later as necessary.
Zelensky, on the other hand, badly miscalculated by challenging Trump in public on multiple platforms.
The problem here for me is that Trump fundamentally misunderstands Russian objectives with respect to Ukraine. He's looking at this like a real estate deal instead of a question of control over Ukraine's political and social destiny. When they hit that point in negotiations they will stall.
Trump: "I heard today that 'we [Ukraine] were never invited [to the negotiations]', well you've been there for three years and should have never started it"
Wild stuff. The outcome in Ukraine will be entirely based on how well the parties play into making Trump look good at the negotiating table.
Putin is playing it intelligently, he is letting his advisors play hardball and can swoop in as the reasonable dealmaker later as necessary.
Zelensky, on the other hand, badly miscalculated by challenging Trump in public on multiple platforms.
The problem here for me is that Trump fundamentally misunderstands Russian objectives with respect to Ukraine. He's looking at this like a real estate deal instead of a question of control over Ukraine's political and social destiny. When they hit that point in negotiations they will stall.
That hurt tech stocks. For the past few weeks, the 10-year yield has traded between 1.72% and 2%, as traders moved into the bond for safety when Russia headlines were ugly—and out of it when headlines improved. Now, the yield is touching its pandemic-era high. If the yield breaks above that level, that could signal that it’s on a sustainable path higher. Higher long-dated bond yields make future profits less valuable—and many tech companies are valued on the basis of profits forecast for many years in the future. Stocks closed in the red Friday as investors weighed upbeat remarks from Russian President Vladimir Putin about diplomatic discussions with Ukraine against a weaker-than-expected print on U.S. consumer sentiment. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices.
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