I am watching BTC-ETH as a proxy for risk since markets are closed here in America to celebrate racist Presidents whose statues are soon to be removed and donated to black colleges so that they could be re-purposed to create wonderful Elephantine sized George Floyd tributes.
The news up until an hour ago has been grim, with a sharp acceleration in attacks from Russian separatists into Ukraine. Two Ukrainian soldiers died last night and Russian mobilization continues to ebb towards war — with many vehicles now marked with the letter “Z”. Typically this is done during combat so friendlies can be identified easily.
1600 CEASE FIRE VIOLATIONS TODAY — RAMP pic.twitter.com/FjthZbVpyf
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) February 20, 2022
3KM FROM UKRAINE BORDERpic.twitter.com/hVcgwpicMH
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) February 19, 2022
The notion of talks is constructive, but I would not get too excited about them. Just today UK’s Truss said Putin would look to annex NATO’s Baltic allies next.
TRUSS: PUTIN MIGHT LOOK TO ANNEXATION OF NATO BALTIC STATES AFTER UKRAINE *
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) February 20, 2022
The idea of that is gruesome, since it would mean Ukraine is to Czechoslovakia what Latvia is to Poland, ushering in WW3 for the final showdown with Russia. This is of course what the Neo-liberal and Neo-conservatives wanted all along, spill blood in order to capture Mother Russia. It’s all so tiring and most of us just want to eat a sandwich, demand Netflix stops putting out shitty content, and play some golf/tennis. None of us give a fuck about Russia and their designs to “meddle” in our sacred elections or the fate of Hunter Biden’s slush fund inside Kiev. Fuck you — I am not spelling it “Kyiv.”
At any rate, BTC isn’t really moving on the peace talk news — but we can still hope for the best before markets open on Tuesday. Asian and European trade will be the best proxies after BTC-ETH tonight.
Not sure how or anyone is to believe the queen’s bitch Truss, like she has some privy access to Putin’s plans… puh-leeze, for realz!
Well, I’m glad you are asserting yourself. Good to hear from you. Try not to internalize that over which you have no control. What do you have control over? Hyper-vigilance is self cannabilizing. I write this as much for myself.
I feel like Ukrainian war is the “Evergrande bonds” of 6 months later, if you will.
It may or may not happen but either way the risk premium is about half baked in. Some commodities will spike but they were going to get there eventually anyway. The US public is 60/40 against getting involved in this shit and buddy…the 40 have skinny fucking arms and aren’t picking up a rifle. The 60 might pick up and rifle…and march to DC instead of Kiev.
Time to get back to these bond yields. A quick scan of teitter tells me there are still blue check assholes who think inflation is set to be replaced by deflation in the next 2 quarters. God I will have what they’re smoking.
Anyone remember ‘ancient history’? The Mueller probe, President Trump’s Russia collusion?
&^ck the mainstream media and their liberal elites. They are literally destroying the world. I will NEVER vote Dem – EVER.
Dems / GOP , if your over 15 years old and have not yet figured out that Team Red V Team Blue are just distractions for the masses to think their vote actually matters..
well then you deserve to get screwed ,
Either way you will be screwed just the shape of the cocks change
For now, I like to think my vote matters. The GOP seems to have burned its mission statement. Trump was a terrible President. Did you read the latest on his big deal with China? They didn’t hold up their end of the bargain and Trump didn’t keep his eye on the ball. He was too busy eating and flushing papers down the toilet. Being worshipped. Golfing. Spitting poison like a benzedrine puff adder. And for a grand finale, attempting a coup d’etat.
Everything you said about him is PERSONAL, but none of it concerns his policy.
Frankly I don’t care what a leader does in his personal life, only what POLICY he has and how he leads the nation. Who he ^&ks, how he speaks, it is all irrelevant.
Trump DRILLED and got the price of gas down.
He brought the Abraham Accords and brought peace to the Mideast without losing a single US soldier.
He put tariffs on China and used diplomacy with Russia.
He wiped out isis and killed the leader of Iran’s revolutionary Guard
He demanded and RECEIVED the EU pay it’s fair share for NATO
He put a stop to the insane ‘Iran Deal’ that the Jihadists laughed about
He got unemployment for blacks and Latinos to RECORD LOWS
He inspired patriotism and allowed dissent and free expression (something the left apparently can’t abide).
He made the US energy independent
He exposed the LIARS in the MSM as fake news.
What has ‘Brandon’ accomplished?
Your having a conversation with a crazy cat loving lunatic. Don’t bother
11/2021 [In a Fox News interview that aired on Sunday, Trump said, “Look, when I left, gasoline was $1.87. That was a year ago. And now, it’s I guess just hit $7.50 in California, the rest to follow…”]. The old CA gas station scam.
[Both of Trump’s claims about gas prices at the time he left office were off by more than 50 cents per gallon. The national average for regular gas on his last day in office, January 20, was $2.393 per gallon.]
He was too busy committing treason to leave us sustainable gas prices?
If he brought peace to the Middle East why was the bug-out from Afghanistan such a walk in the park? What did he do there for our soldiers?
His China deal has proved to suck big time.
[But the president told a different story on Monday during a speech to law enforcement officers in Chicago ahead of two fundraising events at a hotel he owns in the Windy City.
He told the officers that once the U.S. military — which had help from Kurdish forces Trump recently allowed to be attacked by Turkey’s military — had eliminated “70 percent” of the so-called caliphate, “I said, ’Let’s go home.’”
Despite his own words over the last few months, the president then blamed the news media for reporting his “100 percent” claim.] What’s that he only did 70% of the job. Not a very good grade.
July 2018 [“Actions speak louder than words,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters as the NATO summit got underway. “Since Trump became president, U.S. funding for military presence in Europe — the European Deterrence Initiative — has been increased by 40 percent.”]
I’ll just give a link to this one but I doubt you have the attention span and requisite education to analyze it https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/opinion/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-us-israel.html
Yea. Blacks and Latinos hold Trump and the Magas in high regard. Dream on!
He committed treason and fomented an attack on our Capital because he’s a sore loser and needed more time to hide his shenanigans behind the shield of presidential privilege.
The U.S. is energy independent? What are you smoking?
You are a Trump boot licker. You would lick pig shit right off his shoe if he told you to.
It sounds like Biden didn’t make the Chinese keep up their end of the bargain then.
But either way who cares? Fuck China, the goal is to do less trade with them, not just close the trade deficit. I don’t just want China to buy stuff I want our manufacturing back.
According to Meet the Press’ Moscow reporter today, Russian media has changed their messaging over “the last 48 hours” and is now sounding more like they’re prepping the masses for an armed conflict.
Anyway, it’s Meet the Press, so take it for what it’s worth: it’s either a lie to serve a larger lie, or a truth to serve a larger lie
@mtracey 5h
Should go without saying, but there is no “reporting” to speak of here. It’s just CBS and other chosen outlets passively receiving uncorroborated leaks from “intel” sources who know the journalists will dutifully distribute
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@CBSNews · 7h
The U.S. has intelligence that Russian commanders have received orders to proceed with an invasion of Ukraine https://cbsn.ws/3s1yjLA