Morning Jolt: Russia’s Excuses Are for the Birds

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December 27 2024

On the menu today: Two days after Christmas, in what is traditionally a slow period before New Year's Eve, the news cycle returns to two of my obsessions — the characteristic callousness, murderous recklessness, and habitual dishonesty of the Russian government, and the similar traits found in the regime in Beijing. The Russians have shot down another passenger airliner, and a huge scoop in the Wall Street Journal reveals that the U.S. intelligence community's shoulder-shrugging inconclusive investigation into the origin of Covid left out a lot of assessments that concluded a lab leak was the most likely cause. To paraphrase Norm Peterson, it's a dog-eat-dog world, and our government is wearing Milk-Bone underpants.

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