Speaker Johnson to stand for freedom; Amb. Fried on Russia-Ukraine peace talks in '22; US wages versus the other rich, western countries
Speaker Mike Johnson: “We are going to stand for freedom and make sure that Vladimir Putin doesn't march through Europe...We have to project to Putin, Xi, and Iran, and North Korea, and anybody else that we will defend freedom.”
Amb. Dan Fried: “[I]t's dumb to assume that Russia will accept anything less than a Ukrainian capitulation, openly or disguised, without a change in what Stalin called the ‘arithmetic,’ meaning the balance of force on the ground.”
Jeff Weniger, WisdomTree: A massive wage arbitrage has opened between the US and its competitors. The overwhelming majority of people in the US have no idea just how much more money they make than the Japanese, French, British, etc.