Testing The Waters.

A sudden change in fortunes.

1. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: “(T)he world is at the most dangerous strategic juncture since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The West faces escalating threats of conflict on three fronts, each separate but linked by unknown levels of collusion: Russia’s mobilization of a strike force on Ukraine’s border, China’s ‘dress rehearsal’ for an attack on Taiwan…