2020 Collapse

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  1. sgbuyer

    sgbuyer Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Ukraine is just the bait and Russia fell for the trap, unfortunately. The Americans are using divide and conquer. Take out the weaker one first. What's going to happen in the next 30 days will be vicious. Whoever is strategising this is brilliant. :D
     
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    The bait can bite. If a handful of PRO EU Ukrainians or Pro Russian Ukrainian get upset and they have access to any crude bombs and blows up the two pipes in Ukraine for the betrayal by EU or Russia than EU goes into the rolling dark ages for a year or two.

    EU gas reseve will last 6 weeks at current levels .... How long do you think it will take to build LNG ports beucase there isnt enough and extra LNG ships to be built to take up the slack.... 2 years?
     
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    Pd is up 5%
     
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    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/28/rus...ent-from-9point5percent-to-bolster-ruble.html

    Russian’s central bank has nearly doubled the country’s key interest rate from 9.5% to 20% as its currency, the ruble, hit a record low against the dollar on the back of a slew of new sanctions and penalties imposed on Russia by Europe and the U.S. for its invasion of Ukraine.

    The rate hike, the central bank said, “is designed to offset increased risk of ruble depreciation and inflation.” This follows the central bank’s order to halt foreigners’ bids to sell Russian securities in an effort to contain the market fallout. The ruble fell as far as 119.50 per dollar, down a whopping 30% from Friday’s close.

    The bank also said it would be freeing 733 billion rubles ($8.78 billion) in local bank reserves to boost liquidity.
     
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    sgbuyer Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Russia is threatening nuclear war. Do you still think about LNG?

    It's like a man possessed by the devil charging at a group of police with a knife, the police points a shotgun at him and warns him to stop but he doesn't stop.

    So, what will the police do? Surrender, and hope that the crazy man will stop? :D

     
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    You lack strategic foresight or tactical intelligence, Nukes are threats made by leaders of handful of countries that have them. Meaning pressing the MAD (Mutaully Aussured Destruction) Button is limited to few individuals. Even if Putin say press the button doesnt mean Russian forces will, if Putin is having a bad day.

    The above be it Putin, Biden or Kim can be calculated to a certain extent strategically.

    Blowing up pipeline can be one of 48,000,000 disgruntled village idiot or Pro EU Champion or Pro Russian patriot in Ukraine. Therefore it is a not a strategic outcome that can be calculated.

    Like the police accountant that was shot dead by disgruntled teenager supporting Tailban in Sydney.

    Do you think the 1000's km of pipes are bullet proof?
     
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    need not be disgrunted, just give $1,000 anybody that need cash is willing to do it...any section or any time. so the act will happen
    if you pay sufficient bitcoins to some young spies, they will divulge the locations of the actor president
     
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    Russia will place nukes in Belarus. Maybe that's why Germany finally woke from their slumber.

    https://www.france24.com/en/europe/...ng-nuclear-weapons-russian-forces-permanently
     
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    Russia closes airspace to 30+ states
    The measure is a tit-for-tat response to sanctions against Moscow
     
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    I love how you just make shit up o_O
    NOT
    Russia can afford to close it's borders to the world & survive withou them .
    Yes there will be a cost , but they can survive .
     
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    Just came across this weird looking sweaty video, but interesting points (especially the technical part) are made in it:


    This guy is very bullish on Bitcoin. Could he be right?
     
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    True, but I doubt the Putin regime would survive that.
     
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    That is your opinion.
    Putin will survive just about anything.
    Even the US navy already in the Black Sea.
    Wander why he pulled out the big stick?
     
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    Yes, it maybe shit and speculation. But I've never said that Russia won't survive due to sanctions. The US is already a falling power. North Korea, China's pet is doing very well to survive on Chinese meagre hand out, just enough to survive and feed a million phony soldiers, but not enough to pose a threat to me. If Russia wants to be a pet, I have nothing more to say. :D
     
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    He has an 80% approval rating, that’s a lot of Russkies that love him, and a lot to turn before they hate him.

    On the other hand it’s economically and socially fkd, the government is corrupt, Putin is a dictator and these sanctions are going to hurt Russia because a nation can’t prosper isolated from the world’s financial system.

    It’s easy to look with Anglo eyes and point out where Russia and a lot of Eastern Europe is failing, but we’ve had the benefit of a social system built on about 1000 years of common law, that’s a foreign concept to most people of Europe and indeed to the rest of the world.
     
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    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/backlash-china-over-vulgar-social-093000837.html

    Mon, February 28, 2022, 5:30 PM·3 min read


    Chinese authorities have called for caution over online comments about Russia's invasion of Ukraine amid concerns that public internet sentiment stoked anger towards citizens abroad.

    The conflict is hotly debated on Chinese social media, with some internet users sympathetic towards the plight of Ukrainians and others mocking the conflict and cheering on Russia's aggression.

    A number of users appeared to endorse sexual violence against fleeing Ukrainian women, saying they would "gladly take care of them", prompting widespread criticism of their behaviour.

    One Beijing resident, Chen Jingjing, said she openly argued with people making such "jokes".

    "It's a vicious joke, it's treating women in war like sexual resources, instead of treating them like human beings," she said. "I cannot accept that."

    "I don't even dare go into a shelter, I'm afraid I might get rejected," she said.
     
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    I've no doubt that he has good intentions for Russia at the beginning.

    Love is a powerful thing but dangerous at the same time. For a country, love is dangerous because you can make illogical decisions when you put emotions into the equation. :D

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