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2026-02-08

The Crystal may still be beset by a number of roiling clouds, but would you bet against what has been glimpsed therein?

For my money, ZH is as likely to be right as anybody, and maybe more likely than many ...

Squint into the murky depths here.

But would Russia really bother to invade its Eastern European ex-USSR neighbours? Why not just wait, make clear it's neighbourly intentions by offering reliable cheap gas supplies and other trading advantages, and wait (probably not very long) for the EU to collapse of its own unaccountable intransigence?