Joe Biden calls Putin's incursion into Ukraine an invasion and announces a slate of sanctions.

Canada's Parliament greenlights Justin Trudeau's continued Emergencies Act invocation.

And Nancy Pelosi is monitoring American truckers headed for Washington, D.C.

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All righty, so there's a lot of movement on the Ukraine front.

The big move yesterday is that Joe Biden, the president of the United States, announced a

new slate of sanctions against the Russian regime, including against some of the oligarchs

who are in Russia, against Vladimir Putin

personally. Now, does Vladimir Putin care very much about that? Not really considering he has some

$200 billion worth of stuff just hanging out. He's got it in Russia. He's got it in Switzerland.

He's got it pretty much everywhere. So Vladimir Putin isn't going to be on the unemployment line

anytime soon. But the question is whether the slate of sanctions isn't going to be on the unemployment line anytime soon.

But the question is whether the slate of sanctions is actually going to do anything, because

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