(0240) Awoke too early, too cold to be up, even with heater on, shall post item 1 then try for a second sleep till maybe 0730, optimistically. So this same post will go on, over a few hours. A post will publish itself at 0505 at OoL.

 

1. Russia

Don’t trust the MSM, from FT to Politico but this is what we have so far:

From the Tucker-Putin interview: