Putin Thinks Smaller
May 27, 2022
3 minutes
by WILLIAM
M. ARKIN
“I don’t think we’re ever going to go down to pre-pandemic prices.”
THE PENTAGON ANNOUNCED ON MAY 13 THAT Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu for the first time in 84 days, urging “an immediate ceasefire.” Austin’s call, U.S. government sources tell Newsweek, came after high-level White House deliberations where President Joe Biden and his national security advisers discussed a new intelligence assessment of Russia’s effort and the implication of Finland and Sweden’s announcements that they would seek NATO membership.
“There’s a general sense
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