Putin visited Mongolia this week—this is BIG news for three of reasons:

* He’s still running around and making deals, despite having an ICC (International Criminal Court) arrest warrant out for him.

* He flipped the bird (again, unsurprisingly) to the Europeans…OR (on the flip side), did the Europeans set themselves up to be the butt of their own joke?

* Mongolia may be moving back into Russia’s orbit, at least economically.

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