Reading archive 2022-03-24

Exclusive: Sources Say Oligarch Funded Scheme to Paint Swastikas in Ukraine: Multiple sources tell Rolling Stone that a Ukrainian businessman offered payouts for a false flag operation aimed at bolstering Putin’s claim that Ukraine was a Nazi hotbed

Exclusive: Russia Backs Europe’s Far Right: Emails and documents show just how closely Italian, French, German and Austrian politicians coordinate with Moscow

Prosecutor who resigned over stalled Trump probe says ex-president committed felonies

Putin's endgame: Will it be stalemate, nuclear war — or regime change in Moscow?: Putin is a "rational actor," says scholar Matthew Schmidt — but he still might use nuclear weapons to avoid defeat - "Now Zelenskyy is being forced to choose between the population he's responsible for that is being held hostage, such as in Mariupol, and the things that population is fighting and dying for, which are independence, territorial integrity and European values and identity."