China reasserts support for Russia on security issues.
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Axios says Ukraine suffers up to 1,000 casualties a day in Donbass, 200 to 500 deaths, many wounded.
Russia reduces Nord Stream 1 natural gas deliveries to Germany now by 60%.
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30-year mortgage rate tops 6.28%
The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.75%, the largest one day increase since 1994, a panic move to stop inflation.
USAF clears crew of C-17 cargo plane that dropped Afghans to their death during Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, no surprise there, it was business as usual, a moment in 20 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/us/politics/military-clears-crew-afghan-evacuation.html
Biden doesn’t know how to negotiate with the Taliban, or anyone for that matter. His State department employs clowns, Blinken being the head clown. The real world doesn’t speak in honk honk.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/west-getting-afghanistan-wrong-again-202935
The Biden team prefers to signal virtue, crying a lot, coming up short every time.
WSJ article on Afghan government officials filling up their pockets with American dollars, then running away to the west to buy nice homes in nice places, hardly a surprise to common Afghans living in western nations given that working for the previous government or the US military assisting the previous government under the pretense of helping to build a thriving Democracy and making advancements in women’s rights, justifying bombing native Afghans including women and children to do so, depersonalizing any Afghans that resisted as terrorists, or worse, Pakistanis, then turning around and buying nice homes in California, Virginia, and elsewhere, was a right of passage in the identity of the diasporan Afghan.
You would think Americans had wised up to Afghanistan being used as a laundromat to launder their tax dollars into the pockets of corrupt Afghan government officials, and all participants in general, but then they turned around and decided to make Ukraine an even bigger tax dollar money laundering center.
Such is life.
Kabul News reports that IEA leadership has gathered in Kandahar to discuss a range of issues likely including reopening of girls’ secondary public schools.