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« Reply #820 on: March 08, 2022, 02:39:08 PM »
I have learned a few things recently.
1. Almost every foreign policy expert concluded that moving NATO East was a mistake and would lead to bad things. Kissinger, George Kennan, John Mersheimer, etc. Some of these decades ago.
2. The actions that would trigger a Russian invasion were adding Ukraine to NATO and  shelling the East Ukraine.  Having the Ukrainian president ask for nukes while the West remained silent was the icing on the cake.

I.e. all of this was foreseen.

The finance stuff is over my head, but I kept reading that every financial sanction (Iran, VE, Russia) was one more reason to weaken the dollar as reserve currency.

These morons in the state dept think that it is better to have bad things happen if you can blame Putin afterwards. Good things are better than bad things. Neutral Ukraine is better than current situation.
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« Reply #821 on: March 08, 2022, 04:05:22 PM »
Heh, well...Keenan flipped like Kissinger...Kissinger got us into stupid crap like thinking business ties with China would loosen China and migrate them out of Communism...when it just made it easier for China to rape us coming and going...and Dems migrated to Communism...and Keenan thought talking nice with the Soviets was productive...thought chucking Taiwan under the bus would prevent Commies tagging-teaming up, that worked well...

And anybody remember who was calling the shots when Keenan pooh-poohed NATO & Kosovo?  Yeah, Slick Willie Clinton!  Anybody remember who gave Keenan a medal?  G H W Bush!  Keenan didn't want NATO expansion at inception when it cannot be argued it had no role to play in helping bankrupt and collapse the Soviet experiment.  So the embrace of him now seems self-serving.

And no idea where Mersheimer comes into this...he has a schitzophrenic attitude about Jews and he opposed Ukraine in the NNP treaty as he thought Ukraine would be best kept independent with a nuclear deterrent or it would eventually be gobbled up by Russia...well, that came true...any embrace of him as being an originalist in the No NATO Ukraine movement is reading in a lot...he made a recent comment that the conflict now raging may have a genesis to Bucharest 2008 (cough, W Bush)...when at that time until now he said no such things.

But, who cares?  Nobody.  We have to accept the fact that no matter what happens we did not have a say in any of it...nobody is listening...nobody cares about anything except what they want to...and if the world implodes...so sad too bad...

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« Reply #822 on: March 08, 2022, 04:16:57 PM »
In other news...

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/now-courted-biden-socialist-strongman-maduro-hails-cordial-us-talks-oil-supplies

Another stupid move...by a Marxist puppet...begging another Marxist puppet...

So Un-21st Century too...why beg when you can invade and take...such a pussy!!!
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« Reply #823 on: March 09, 2022, 09:00:19 AM »
Meanwhile...puppet JoeFraud gets a yuuuge FJB by Saudi's & UAE...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/saudis-uae-refuse-speak-biden-over-ukraine-situation

 ::doublebird::   ::laughonfloor::

And so far domestic oil industry is telling JoeFraud to drop their shackles...

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/approve-our-permits-us-oil-industry-responds-after-biden-cuts-imports-russia

...while Jen Psucki denies any JoeFraud policies are hampering domestic output.

Bullying and lies doesn't seem to be working...wait till the anger of the serfs hits a breaking point. 
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« Reply #824 on: March 09, 2022, 09:49:22 AM »



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« Reply #825 on: March 10, 2022, 10:03:10 AM »
OK, let's talk about the bad and the stupid...there is some crossover in those two as always...

The bad - The plandemic insanity crushing businesses and livelihoods and decimation of the logistics struggling to support what producers might be trying to bring to market...the exploding inflation...now hearing that as a result of the shooting war in Europe, the ongoing cyber warfare occurring and the hyperactive economic warfare happening and the batshyt-crazy JoeFraud regimes policies to crush American energy production and driving us into the arms of enemies loving high oil prices...now many warnings about a global food shortage that could last at least 2-3 years...

Beef - We've all seen beef prices go apesh!t...now they're calling beef "luxury meat".

Well, sheeeit...JoeFraud and his merry band of Marxist goons see EVERYTHING as a luxury!  They are making gas prices soar, Gruesome Newsom is giddy over people having to walk away from their petro vehicles and prepping naked dances in praise of Gaia...they are making natural gas soar without no alternative for serfs to go to other than raiding forests for firewood no amount of policing will be able to stop...

More from the link showing nations are looking to their own selves first, OUR MARXISTS IDIOTS ARE NOT!

Of course it isn’t just meat supplies that are going to be tightening.  Ukraine and Russia normally account for about 30 percent of all global wheat exports, but now the war is going to cause that number to drop precipitously.

As panic about global food supplies spreads, some countries are already placing restrictions on how much can be sent out of the country.

For example, on Wednesday Indonesia “tightened curbs on palm oil exports”.

And in eastern Europe, Serbia, Hungary and Bulgaria have all recently made moves to make sure that their people have enough to eat…

Serbia announced on Wednesday it will ban exports of wheat, corn, flour and cooking oil as of Thursday to counter price increases while Hungary banned all grain exports last week.

Bulgaria has also announced it will increase its grain reserves and might restrict exports until it has carried out planned purchases.

Ukraine, known as the “breadbasket of Europe” given it’s long been among the world’s top ten wheat exporters and supplied over $6 billion in agricultural products to the European Union in 2020, has issued an emergency order Wednesday banning the export of grains and other products.

The ban includes the export of wheat, oats, millet, buckwheat, sugar, live cattle, meat, and other products considered vital to the global economy. But amid wartime, and with Ukraine’s government saying many of its citizens are now starving under Russian siege, Ukraine’s minister of agrarian and food policy Roman Leshchenko said the drastic action was taken to avert a “humanitarian crisis in Ukraine,” stabilize the market and “meet the needs of the population in critical food products,” according to the AP.

Lebanon could face wheat shortages from July, forcing the government to reduce subsidized flat rounds of Arabic bread, which sustain the 80 percent of Lebanon’s population who live in poverty, according to a report by The Irish Times. Flour mills in Lebanon delivered supplies only to bread bakeries on Monday and Tuesday, forcing bakers who make pastries and thyme pizzas to close as a means of rationing wheat imported from Ukraine, which supplies 60 percent of the country’s wheat needs.

Here in the United States, fertilizer prices are causing havoc for farmers all over the country.

If you don’t believe me, perhaps you will believe a prominent farmer from Iowa that Tucker Carlson just interviewed…

Ben Riensche, the owner of Blue Diamond Farming Company in Iowa and a farmer of 16,000 acres in that state, told Carlson that the sanctions will have a far-reaching impact on our food supplies in the very near future.

“Soaring fertilizer prices are likely to bring spiked food prices,” Riensche said. “If you’re upset that gas is up a dollar or two a gallon, wait until your grocery bill is up $1,000 a month, and it might not just manifest itself in terms of price. It could be quantity as well. Empty-shelf syndrome may be starting.”


http://endoftheamericandream.com/beef-is-now-a-luxury-meat-and-goldman-sachs-says-to-brace-for-one-of-the-largest-energy-supply-shocks-ever/

There is a blurb in the link too about AAA seeing an uptick in thieves siphoning gas from vehicles...that will get worse too.

Most of this could be mitigated if nations weren't ruled by complete assholes!
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Re: Just commodities
« Reply #826 on: March 10, 2022, 10:58:18 AM »
More news...

Pain for ChiComs - https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/ukraine-crisis-strains-beijings-commercial-ties-moscow-kiev

 ::smallestviolin::

With the world imploding the low-info narcissists and their addiction to ChiCom spyware like Tik-Tok has them lamenting the loss of their precious mundane videos - https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/everyones-videos-are-gone-us-tiktok-users-report-outages-popular-app

 ::smallestviolin::

LBMA & CME axe Russia's OTC gold accreditation - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-tees-stop-russian-gold-act-triggering-lbma-and-comex-eject-russian-refiners

This will be fun...keep an eye on this - https://www.kitco.com/market/
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« Reply #827 on: March 10, 2022, 01:16:19 PM »
^^^^
As I understand Tik Tok. The Chinese control it but inside China they have a clean version. They only pump the filth into the US and the West.

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« Reply #828 on: March 10, 2022, 03:24:24 PM »
They use it for espionage too here...
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« Reply #829 on: March 10, 2022, 04:00:36 PM »
They use it for espionage too here...

The US was finally wise to ban Huawei. There was the fear that the equipment would be bugged and used to spy. In part because the US bugged Cisco equipment shipped overseas.
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« Reply #830 on: March 11, 2022, 08:33:30 AM »
The official gamed numbers...so hideous it cannot be hidden...


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« Reply #831 on: March 13, 2022, 11:17:39 AM »
https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/12/biden-i-did-that-stickers-gas-pumps/

Jen Psucki is a liar!


H/T-WZ

Gas began its increase shortly after The Steal and really began to escalate when JoeFraud was illegally installed and issued EO's shutting down domestic production and pipelines like Keystone!


H/T-WZ

These Ameriphobic snakes can hiss and slither, but they cannot hide their complicity!

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« Reply #832 on: March 13, 2022, 12:38:07 PM »



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« Reply #833 on: March 13, 2022, 01:18:43 PM »
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« Reply #834 on: March 13, 2022, 01:29:58 PM »
Speaking of this, how do I change the time here?

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« Reply #835 on: March 13, 2022, 02:11:17 PM »
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« Reply #836 on: March 13, 2022, 03:10:01 PM »


https://thesaker.is/america-shoots-its-own-dollar-empire-in-economic-attack-on-russia/

The American Empire self-destructs. But nobody thought that it would happen this fast
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by Michael Hudson posted by permission

Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion.
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So I am somewhat chagrined as I watch the speed at which this U.S.-centered financialized system has de-dollarized over the span of just a year or two. The basic theme of my Super Imperialism has been how, for the past fifty years, the U.S. Treasury-bill standard has channeled foreign savings to U.S. financial markets and banks, giving Dollar Diplomacy a free ride. I thought that de-dollarization would be led by China and Russia moving to take control of their economies to avoid the kind of financial polarization that is imposing austerity on the United States.[2] But U.S. officials are forcing Russia, China and other nations not locked into the U.S. orbit to see the writing on the wall and overcome whatever hesitancy they had to de-dollarize.

I had expected that the end of the dollarized imperial economy would come about by other countries breaking away. But that is not what has happened. U.S. diplomats themselves have chosen to end international dollarization, while helping Russia build up its own means of self-reliant agricultural and industrial production. This global fracture process actually has been going on for some years, starting with the sanctions blocking America’s NATO allies and other economic satellites from trading with Russia. For Russia, these sanctions had the same effect that protective tariffs would have had.
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Re: Just commodities
« Reply #837 on: March 14, 2022, 08:11:26 AM »
So it's a good thing...then why is everybody acting so butthurt?
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« Reply #838 on: March 14, 2022, 01:34:27 PM »
So it's a good thing...then why is everybody acting so butthurt?

I read that ending the USD as the world reserve currency or the petrodollar is a real bad thing for US citizens.
As I said before, this whole thing is over my head.
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« Reply #839 on: March 14, 2022, 01:48:12 PM »


Some Michael Hudson content. He is not a flake. I recall he has worked in the belly of the capitalist beast. Standard oil? Citibank? I do not understand this international finance.
His bio is very interesting. I watched it more than once.

https://youtu.be/hH9pzzIIEj4
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Economist Michael Hudson discusses what is causing the global inflation crisis, and also how the US Federal Reserve quietly bailed out big banks in September 2019 with $4.5 trillion of emergency repo loans that appear to have blatantly violated the law.

https://thesaker.is/the-saker-interviews-michael-hudson-4/
https://thesaker.is/the-saker-interviews-michael-hudson-3/

https://thesaker.is/america-shoots-its-own-dollar-empire-in-economic-attack-on-russia/

The American Empire self-destructs. But nobody thought that it would happen this fast
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