Thursday, December 08, 2022

A NASA satellite…

 …goes in the fritz at the same time Viktor Bout arrives in Russia. I don’t like it when an important NASA satellite goes dark. It sounds Russia and/or China.

NASA doesn’t know why it went dark and it has been worked on to reengage it unsuccessfully.

Viktor Bout

Putin is desperate. Things haven’t gone well with his wars and he is hoping Bout can fix it all. There will probably be an uptick in some arms into Russia, but, it will be brief. The world is different than it was when Bout made his money. Now he is being asked to bring arms into Russia rather than export them. 

Bout has friends and connections and will get early successes simply because people owe him a favor, but, favors are short lived.