“As soon as...” is a weird way of ordering an evacuation.
Does that mean Americans in Ukraine can spend one last weekend walking in the park, going to a nice restaurant tonight, and tomorrow night?”
They are in no danger from Putin.
An agreement is in place and Putin is a straight dealer in when it comes to this kind of thing. Putin is mean as can be but does not want to be seen as a maniac. He wants Russia to be respected, feared and powerful without being a terror state. He knows how to walk the line and has for years.
Agreed about Putin here.
Putin is jettisoning the fiat dollar, exiting SWIFT and IMHO, heading straight for GESARA.
Which is really funny to me, in that Blinken is threatening as part of “sanctions” to eject Russia from SWIFT. That’s like giving Russia the Comfy Pillow!
There’s an e-mail sitting in their inboxes. They won’t get to read it until Monday. Meanwhile, the rest of the world knows all about it.