Nvidia is worth more than the entire German stock market. Mississippi’s per‑capita income is nearly Germany’s. @TylerCowen explains why European living standards have fallen so far behind Americans’.

Galeotti: "For Putin, after all, further delaying any more serious US action and the optics of a meeting with the US president will already be wins." thetimes.com/world/russia-u…

WTF? “Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15 per cent of the revenues from chip sales in China, as part of an unusual arrangement with the Trump administration to obtain export licences for the semiconductors” ft.com/content/cd1a07… via @ft

“In the most important sense, Putin got everything he wanted before he even set foot on Alaskan soil. An illegitimate usurper and an indicted war criminal, he has been readmitted as a bona fide participant in the international community.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

Baltic states know Russian occupation is never temporary - “Land swaps and de facto annexation in Ukraine won’t bring peace and could lead to decades of brutal subjugation”, wrote the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia ft.com/content/7c5714…

Putin comes to recast himself from bloody aggressor to ‘equal’ great power, peddling deceptive détente and hollow economic promises — while advancing his piece-by-piece conquest of Ukraine in the heart of Europe and mocking peace talks. He will stop only when met with force.

Vladimir Putin is mysteriously exempt from Donald Trump’s frequent tirades, insults and public humiliation. Our Lexington columnist explores why economist.com/united-states/…

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba opposes making official visits to Yasukuni, and cites the fact that the Emperor stopped visiting Yasukuni after Class-A war criminals were enshrined in the 1978. x.com/mrjeffu/status…

The man who unleashed the largest war in Europe since WWII, killing hundreds of thousands of people, turning millions into refugees, destroying the cities across a country, is calmly flying into the United States, not being punished, but rather being welcomed as an equal partner

The eternal shame of America

Putin seems to have won, hands down.

Putin has won

The morning after the talks. In Ukraine.

Japan ready to participate in security guarantees for Ukraine, PM says cnn.com/world/live-new…