Since Russia moved around 100,000 soldiers, including heavy military equipment, to its own western border with Ukraine, relations with the West have hit a new low. While the US is urgently warning Russia against an invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has given the West an ultimatum.
His demands: an end to NATO’s eastward expansion, the abandonment of the stationing of weapons systems near the Russian border and the winding up of the NATO infrastructure in Eastern Europe. Representatives of the USA and Russia met for bilateral talks in Geneva on Monday. A meeting of the NATO-Russia Council is scheduled for this Wednesday in Brussels – the first in two and a half years. So far the fronts have hardened, and there is no solution in sight.
The USA is threatening Russia with economic sanctions – and other NATO countries like Germany are also coming under pressure to act. What consequences would a spiral of sanctions have for the financial markets and how big is the chance of a peaceful solution? Handelsblatt Russia expert Mathias Brüggmann provides the answers.
In addition: The once celebrated investment strategy of the American investor Cathie Wood is currently encountering a mixture of misunderstanding and malice: While in spring 2021 the volume of her most important tech fund was $ 28 billion, today there are only just under $ 18 billion left – and that despite the fact that almost all leading indices worldwide were in double digits during this period.
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Why Cathie Wood now even sees this development as an opportunity and whether this could be an exemplary investment strategy for private individuals who are willing to take risks, explains financial editor Andreas Neuhaus.
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