First ever trans male to female military officer was arrested for passing military secrets to Russia, supposedly. Our present war with nuclear Russia continues to cause global problems leading directly to massive, rapid energy inflation since the US and Russia are both major energy export powers. Luckily for everyone, the Middle East is temporarily quiet. The war in Europe continues to relentlessly expand and the economic cost is rapidly shooting upwards and the euro and the pound decline rapidly in value as inflation rages out of control. But there is Putin! Is this worth stopping the Russians who live in eastern Ukraine from wanting to be separate from the other ethnic half of Ukraine?