Erdogan Says Only Traitors or Illiterates Link Rate to Inflation

The Telegraph

Desperate Putin is deluded to think he can win

Vladimir Putin must feel a little smug. After months of bad news, his armies are inching forward in the Donbas and even Boris Johnson is admitting that they are making “gradual, slow, but – I’m afraid – palpable progress”. Global food and energy prices are also rising thanks not just to Western sanctions, but Russia’s blockade of the Black Sea and closure of international pipelines. And Henry Kissinger, a diplomat famed for his sense of realpolitik, has suggested Moscow be allowed to hold onto s