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Russia Continues to Attack, Allies Slow but Finally Engage | Schaftlein Report

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Russia Continues to Attack, Allies Slow but Finally Engage | Schaftlein Report
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1) Russia attacks airfields and fuel depots – 300K refugees flee
*Germany shifts policy to deliver anti-tank weapons and increase defense spending to 2% of GDP
2) 3000 Russians arrested in demonstrations across Russia – Discontent grows at home
3) European skies are closed to Russian aircraft – Putin puts forces on Nuclear alert in an effort to intimidate the allies who call it reckless
4) Russian financial markets roiled as additional sanctions add to stress
*SWIFT is partially utilized to hurt the Russian economy – Russian Central Bank cannot access foreign reserves ($600B frozen)
**Russian central bank raised interest rates from 9.5 to 20% to halt the slide in the Ruble
5) Russia and Ukraine negotiators begin discussions at Ukraine/Belarus border while fighting continues
6) China calls for a halt to the violence as concern grows over global economic disruption
7) Washington Post/ABC News poll shows Biden at the lowest approval number ever at 37%, with 57% Disapproving
*Harvard/Harris has similar numbers 38% Approval and 55% Disapproval
8) Control of Congress 50% Republican and 40% Democrat
Economy 37% Approval and 58% Disapproval
Pandemic 44% Approval and 50% Disapproval
Border and Immigration 66% Disapproval and only 34% Approval from Biden’s personnel polling company
*62% believe Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump was President
9) Consumer Price Index up 7.5% year over year in January – No surprise here
10) Trump hints at 2024 run in CPAC speech – Trump (59%) and DeSantis (28%) run 1-2 in CPAC straw poll – Pompeo 3rd at 2%
11) Biden’s energy policy disaster under the microscope at gas prices increase across the country

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As a lifelong advocate for the dream promised us in the Constitution, Andrew West has spent his years authoring lush prose editorial dirges regarding America's fall from grace and her path back to prosperity. When West isn't railing against the offensive whims of the mainstream media or the ideological cruelty that is so rampant in the US, he spends his time seeking adventurous new food and fermented beverages, with the occasional round of golf peppered in.




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