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By owning a substantial amount of US Debt? Also, Stuart, you make me curious if Biden can continue to help foster strong condemning financial sanctions against Putin for invading Ukraine, maybe China will hold off on its Taiwan ambitions. Xi is sitting back taking notes, I’m sure.

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No sooner does Putin create an alliance with xi than Russia sends troops to Belarus during the Beijing olympics. is xi thinking, oh how nice of you to not invade til the games are over? No, xi is thinking that Putin thinks that Russia is the senior partner, with 1/10th the population. The honeymoon is over. Meanwhile, has it been two weeks since the invasion? That is how Russians measure time, in two week intervals. If they don’t succeed by then at a task that seemed so straightforward they will become very discouraged. They “worked like Russians” but did not succeed. There will be a big change.

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