STEVE’S READING RUSSIA – RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW (24.12.25)
From today’s Russian papers: “The US has de facto pulled out of the anti-Russia coalition.” But more concern about Russia’s economy. One paper predicts the upcoming rise in VAT will spark an “inflationary spiral.” Another warns of an “acute labour shortage. More than 800,000 blue-collar workers needed.”

“The US has de facto pulled out of the anti-Russia coalition.”
It was never in the anti-russian coalition to begin with, or as I prefer to call it, the pro-Ukrainian coalition.