Thursday, May 15, 2025

We'll probably never know whether weak Russian invasion of Ukraine headlines like these at CNBC contributed to Trump's thinking that Ukraine started it

Shrinking from calling what Russia did an invasion was a temporary flight from reality for CNBC, probably motivated by keeping people from panicking and selling stocks.

It's all about the money, for Trump no less than for CNBC. And also for Vladimir Putin.

It should be about something else.