When markets panic, authoritarian exporters cash in. In less than two weeks, Russia has earned an estimated 6bn from fossil fuel exports, money that ultimately feeds the Kremlin's war machine. Easing sanctions now would not stabilise markets. What it would do is allow Russia to sell the same oil for a far better price.
Blood runs through every human body. And yet there's still not enough of it. For one, not enough people are donating it. But it's also really hard to store, and it takes very special conditions to keep it healthy. But there's a potential solution: an artificial version that wouldn't need to be treated quite as gently or refrigerated. The Department of Defense recently granted $46 million to the group responsible for the development of a synthetic blood called ErythroMer.
"This is simply saying that the money that we allocate as Congress for barracks and child development centers and quality of life infrastructure should be used for barracks and child development centers and quality of life infrastructure, not anything else."
