So it continues.

World, including Turkey, is no longer prepared to accept the rules-based order of the naked emperor:

Attempts to take control of the democratic will of the Turkish people is futile. Gone are the days of playing the colonial governor.

Nothing to see here.

Hungarian Foreign Ministry’s State Secretary Tamas Menczer:

Budapest expects the Ukrainian authorities to stop harassing ethnic Hungarians in the Zakarpatye Region,

Reality spoken in Spiegel:

German intelligence has admitted to huge losses of Ukrainian troops in the ongoing battles for Bakhmut.

Let's see what happens next

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nikki-haley-teases-2024-presidential-run-need-go-new-direction-rcna66686

https://twitter.com/thesiriusreport/status/1352324839978229761?t=yqNwEzR21M3Rae8EkREOQw&s=19

Milley facing reality:

Russia's war in Ukraine will likely end in a negotiation and not on battlefield

From a military standpoint, I still maintain that for this year it would be very, very difficult to militarily eject Russian forces from every inch of Russian-occupied Ukraine

Germany failed to reach an agreement with its key Western allies on sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

Borrell answered his own question and then suggests doing opposite. It would be laughable if the outcome was not so tragic.

Russia is used to fighting to the end, She did it with Napoleon, she did it with Hitler.

Therefore, right now it is necessary to continue arming Ukraine.

Reports US is telling Kiev to tell their forces to leave Bakhmut. Western media source citing US officials.

Taiwan is a very different proposition to Ukraine

European Union does not see eye-to-eye with the United States when it comes to opposing China, the French finance minister told CNBC.

France’s Bruno Le Maire said:
China cannot be out, China must be in.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/china-must-be-in-france-says-its-diverging-with-washington-on-beijing-ties.html

US continues to try to provoke China into taking action against Taiwan so it can then claim Beijing is aggressor and seek to sanction it like Russia via Ukraine

Beijing needs to ignore this provocation and let US through its impatience take step too far and expose its intentions

The vice-president of Taiwan has spoken on the matter of independence.

https://twitter.com/ChingteLai/status/1616377916316868608?t=5D1Nt1gll1GQlbCd1BGYIg&s=19

We in the west largely still haven't worked out that the US is fighting a proxy war with Russia not to defend Ukraine but to seek to destroy Russia. The irony is the US told us this was precisely the reason last April.

Wonder how many of the Beltway have dollar bank accounts in Ukraine?

Is this why we are seeing some of the Beltway apoplectic about their fears of Russia winning the war?

Increasingly clear talking to many Americans that they believe that because Russia didn't scorch earth Ukraine in the early days of the war that they don't have the capability to do so. It is a serious miscalculation on so many levels.

Binance said Signature Bank will only handle user transactions of more than $100k as of Feb 1, 2023.

As a result, some individual users may not be able to use SWIFT bank transfers to buy or sell crypto for amounts less than $100k

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-22/binance-says-signature-sets-transaction-minimum-amid-pullback

Brazil and Argentina are expected to announce the commencement of preparatory work on a common currency to be utilised in bilateral trade.

De-dollarisation continues.

In a shock to no-one with a basic grasp of price caps, clown show continues:

US has admitted to difficulties with introduction of price ceilings on Russian oil. Apparently it was more complicated than the US Treasury envisaged and now things may not go according to plan.

So it continues:

Appears that Burkina Faso has cancelled agreements that permit French forces to be in their country and has told them to leave within a month.

Appears Brussels believes it is now crunch time in the Ukraine war.

Head of European Council Charles Michel:

The next 2 to 3 weeks will be decisive for Ukraine's situation.

So much for Europe acting tough with Russia over sanctions.

The clown show that never ends.

https://twitter.com/david7000lee/status/1617430508715008000?t=xzATAhoCvef6RWy3vC5U6Q&s=19