Alternative Visions- Bad (Good) News Comes in Threes?

Today’s show reviews 3 important speeches of the past week: by Putin, France’s president Macron, and US Senator, Chuck Shumer. Speeches related to the US 3 wars in progress: Ukraine, Israel-Gaza, and Yemen. The Macron speech, an interview, reflected his retreat from the threat to send French-NATO (along with Baltics & Czech) to Ukraine. Deeper, it reflects chaos within EU/NATO as what strategy to implement now that Russia is defeating Ukraine and Trump-US may leave Europe holding the Ukraine war bag. Putin’s reply to Macron was if he (Macron) says there’s no longer any ‘red lines’, then Russia has none as well, including use of nuclear arms if Russia’s existence is threatened. Putin repeated his oblique suggestion again that the ‘west’ may take western Ukraine, which never was part of the Slavic homeland. Third speech by Shumer ‘warned’ Netanyahu was ‘out of control’ and elections should take place in Israel, clearly a message from Biden. All 3 US wars (proxy or direct as in Yemen) all going poorly. Show concludes with another ‘3s’: 3 economic reports in the US (CPI, PPI, and Retail sales) all showing a chronic inflation and emerging real economy slowdown developing.