Such a crazy busy day

Too much for one day. As was yesterday. As will be tomorrow. I did have the excitement of writing four bullet points on innovations in climate finance for development in three minutes. No seriously, that was fun. 

Next week will have less. 

Lafayette Park. Construction. 

It has been decided. The profits from frozen Russian assets will fund Ukraine’s war effort. Not the initial $300 B in assets that Russia deposited in the west and that we’ve frozen, just the profits off them. 


One of Ukraine’s battalions released a video, possibly as part of a recruitment drive, of one of their drones helping a Russian soldier. First they tried to kill the soldier with a grenade but failed. The next time the drone flew over the soldier asked for mercy so the operator had the drone drop the grenades away from him and bring him water and tell him to follow the drone. The drone led him to where he could turn himself in, even waiting for a bit so he could have a smoke. 


Now, again, it is against international law to use prisoners of war like this, but is is also good to see some humanity. 


Russia has a weapon nicknamed Satan 2 that is supposedly the deadliest missile in the world. It failed to launch for the fourth time on Saturday, exploding as it was being refuelled 500 miles from Moscow. It was a test launch. It failed. 


Ok. So someone told me that Putin was originally supposed to continue what Gorbachev began and that he was supposedly pro-democracy. Anyone heard of anything that could explain what happened?