He said nothing to support any assumption, including mine all of my life, that it would continue, perhaps in fits and starts but continue.
He can't logically assert that the trend will continue. I would not assert that things must get better either. The generic warning label applies here: past performance is no guarantee of future results. My guess is that the US (and Canada) will have reasonable growth, that Russia will lose in Ukraine and that Trump will lose in November. No guarantees though.
Edit: I will post this full article on the Biden board.
Let’s start with the fact that Putin has already failed in his objective. He wanted to flatten Ukraine. He wanted to ensure that they had no sovereignty, independence, agency, no democratic future — because a democratic Ukraine, a European Ukraine, is a threat to his model for Russia, among other things, and because it’s the first building block for his larger territorial ambitions.
Can Ukraine succeed? Absolutely. Can Ukraine come out of this more sovereign, more economically independent, stronger, more European than it is now? Absolutely. And I think it will. But we’ve got to stay with it. We’ve got to make sure our allies stay with it.
-Victoria Nuland |
