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9:30 AM ET, February 14, 2022

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Financial Times:
Putin leaves the west guessing as Ukraine crisis intensifies … A comically large table separated Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron last week after the French president flew to Moscow for crisis talks aimed at averting a war in Ukraine.  —  The official explanation for the yawning distance …
Discussion: Bloomberg, ukraine@war and Politico
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Reuters:
Russia's Lavrov urges Putin to allow more time for diplomacy amid Ukraine crisis … Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday suggested to President Vladimir Putin that Moscow continue along the diplomatic path in its efforts to extract security guarantees from the West, as tensions soar over Ukraine.
Discussion: CNBC, Bloomberg, New York Times and CNN
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Putin's impending ‘march of folly’ in Ukraine  —  The world will be watching in horror if Russia invades Ukraine this week — but just watching.  Ukraine will fight alone, as Russian tanks roll across the flat, frozen terrain; precision bombs destroy key targets near Kyiv and other cities …
David K. Shipler / Washington Monthly:
How America's Broken Promises May Lead to a New Cold War
New York Times:
The Right's Would-Be Kingmaker  —  Peter Thiel, one of Donald J. Trump's biggest donors in 2016, has re-emerged as a prime financier of the Make America Great Again movement.  —  Ryan Mac, who is based in Los Angeles, covers the intersection of technology and power.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
John Eastman claims attorney-client privilege over thousands of pages sought by Jan. 6 investigators  —  Attorney John Eastman, a close ally of Donald Trump amid his effort to subvert the 2020 election, has attempted to shield more than 10,000 pages of emails and counting from congressional investigators …
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's latest political obsession: The baseball team owner not toeing his line  —  Donald Trump has a new fixation: a Major League Baseball scion who hails from one of the country's richest families — and who, unlike most other Republican Senate candidates, isn't bowing to the former president.
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Buildup Near Ukraine Features Potent Weapons Systems, Well-Trained Troops  —  The forces give Moscow the means to attack Ukraine from multiple directions but aren't sufficient to occupy the entire country  —  Russia's enormous military buildup near Ukraine features …
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Wall Street Journal:
Why Russian Invasion Peril Is Driving Oil Prices Near $100
Discussion: The Dan Adams Show
Wall Street Journal:
Ukrainian Airline Grounds Fleet as Warnings Over Russia Cause Insurers to Pull Cover
Washington Post:
U.S.-Canada border crossing reopens after six-day blockade by ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters  —  The Ambassador Bridge is the countries' busiest land border crossing and a key supply route  —  A subheadline in an earlier version of this article incorrectly said Ottawa is Ontario's capital.
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David Pugliese / Ottawa Citizen:   Two members of military counter-terrorism unit under investigation for allegedly taking part in convoy protests
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Mike Lindell Says He's Sending MyPillows To The Ottawa Anti-Vaccine Trucker Mob
Discussion: Washington Post and Reuters
Jennifer Sey / Common Sense:
Yesterday I Was Levi's Brand President.  I Quit So I Could Be Free.  —  I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.  —  When I traveled to Moscow in 1986, I brought 10 pairs of Levi's 501s in my bag.  I was a 17-year-old gymnast, the reigning national champion …
Discussion: New York Post
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trevor Noah to entertain at first White House Correspondents' Association dinner since 2019  —  Trevor Noah, host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, will be the featured entertainer when the White House Correspondents' Association hosts its first annual dinner since 2019 on April 30, the association announced Monday.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The MAGA fixation with chaos overrides ‘America First’  —  Once upon a time, the Republican Party stressed social order, the rule of law and capitalism as a vehicle to deliver widespread prosperity.  More recently, the MAGA crowd insisted it wanted an “America First” policy.  Forget all that.
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Dr. Deborah Birx, COVID adviser under Trump, has a book deal  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Deborah Birx has a memoir coming out this spring that will focus on her contentious time as White House coronavirus task force coordinator in the administration of President Donald Trump.
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Most Democrats want Hillary Clinton investigated for any role in Russiagate scandal: poll  —  A surprisingly large share of Democrats wants to see Hillary Clinton investigated over her possible role in manufacturing dirt to try to tie Donald Trump to the Kremlin, a new poll shows.
Melissa Weiss / Jewish Insider:
AOC bemoans ‘cancel culture’ that fired Marc Lamont Hill for ‘from the river to the sea’ comments  —  The commentator was let go from CNN following comments made at a United Nations event in 2018  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) defended former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill …
Tina Reed / Axios:
The U.S. needs a COVID forecast  —  Experts say the U.S. needs clearer, more defined standards that will help the public understand when it's safe to relax COVID restrictions — and when it might be necessary to bring them back.  —  Why it matters: Experts compare this need to a weather forecast …
ABC News:
Pelosi seeks to bury ‘defund the police’: The Note  —  “Defund” sentiments have lost steam even inside progressive politics of late.  —  It was a raging debate inside the Democratic Party in 2020.  —  The nation's top elected Democrats are doing what they can to make sure it isn't in 2022.
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
 
 
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