In the years of my childhood, that description was applied to the ultimate comic book hero, Superman. In today’s cyber world, it’s the news that travels at supersonic speed, often rendering a just-released item obsolete, or at best, not completely accurate.

Just a short while ago, I stated that Russia was not expected to send a representative to the World Economic Forum being convened this week at Davos, Switzerland. I stand corrected.

According to a news flash that just popped up in my email, the Kremlin’s special envoy, economist and business executive Kirill Dmitriev, will indeed be attending. [Julian Borger, The Guardian, January 19, 2026.]

Whether he will be authorized to discuss the situation in Ukraine, however, is still unclear.

Stay tuned.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
1/19/26