1. George Soros, a Hungarian-born investor and founder of the Open Society Foundations advocacy network, gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference discussing the potential consequences of a Ukrainian victory in the war with Russia.
2. He warned that a Third World War must be “avoided at all costs” and that “Europe’s support for Ukraine must be preserved.”
3. He noted that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is supplying Ukraine with weapons such as missiles, tanks and ammunition needed to withstand a Russian assault, but found that opposition from the now Republican-led House of Representatives “makes another large bipartisan funding package from the U.S. unlikely.”
4. Russian private paramilitary contractor Wagner Group has been active on the ground in Ukraine, but its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin recently said current efforts to surround Ukrainian forces in the town of Bakhmut were being impeded by Moscow’s “monstrous bureaucracy,” furthering f