Ukraine says it was attacked from Russia, Belarus, and the Crimea.

Many major cities have been attacked. It is clear that though Putin sent "peacekeepers" using Luhansk and Donetsk as a pretext, their mission has no particular relation to those insurrections or to the provinces they are in.

Putin said he intends to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine. Translated through his propaganda system, I think that means he threatens to remove the current "Nazi" government of Ukraine (never mind that it's led by a Jew) and impose a puppet government. Perhaps with permanent Russian "peacekeepers" to keep it in power.

That doesn't mean it is what he actually intends to do. Like his US protege Trumputin, Putin loves lying, and the more brash and absurd, the better.

Humanity has a chance to eliminate malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS, but it will require more money.

*US government halts [the wrecker's] plan to approve mining road in Alaska.*

* Rising temperatures pushing much more freshwater towards poles than climate models previously estimated.*

This means that predictions of droughts and desertification will need to be revised upward.

I wonder how this affects the threat to turn off the ocean currents in the North Atlantic — the gulf stream and the conveyor. That would cause disaster for coastal countries in that region, including Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia.

*Greens unveil $19bn plan to subsidise coal workers to transition away from fossil fuel jobs.*

Oops! If you offer coal miners that cushy deal, coal mine owners will demand to be paid to transition away from fossil fuel investments.