Posted on 01/26/2024 2:26:53 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Biden Bro Construction Company “rebuilt” Iraq. Clinton, Biden/Obama, Uniparty (R) Halliburton insider rip off type companies will all get filthier rich.
You probably also admire rapists who don’t murder their victims.
The original argument was re BRICS, trends in that, and whether foreign holdings of US Treasuries show some progress towards BRICS. I showed that US Treasuries are holding up in foreign markets.
If you want to argue for BRICS otherwise go ahead.
US debt is another matter. Per classic macro the main result of that is to crowd out US private debt issuance making investment capital scarce and raising interest rates. And that is happening.
https://www.jpmorganchase.com/about/our-business/historical-prime-rate
https://www.global-rates.com/en/interest-rates/libor/
Well, that is your problem. Your mind is simply unreceptive.
The argument began, if you want to trace it, on an assertion that someone or something was not properly conservative. Since I have made a study of conservatism, I rebutted this claim on the grounds that the fellow did not understand conservatism as such, in a historical sense. Catholicism comes into it because in essence modern concepts of political thought come from classical philosophy and Catholic scholasticism. You can find it all, essentially, in Aquinas, the Summa.
But as I also said, we can bring a horse to water, but we can’t make the beast drink. Which is the fundamental problem with education. Which you are demonstrating very well.
WE/NATO wanted this proxy war and, at every turn, did everything it could to keep it going.
There would have been no need for any “peace agreements” AT ALL if Russia could have just stopped attacking & invading its neighbors without provocation
You keep ignoring that crucial point ... that’s where it all started
Putin’s Russia is the problem
Jan 26, 2024
- FPV drones transform cheap, easy-to-produce drones into precision guided weapons; - FPV drones have several disadvantages including loss-of-signal as it begins its attack dive or encounters electronic warfare;
- AI targeting allows an operator to designate a target while still in signal line-of-sight and before entering an area defended by electronic warfare, for the AI to then automatically guide the drone to its target without any external signal;
- Russia's large military industrial base lends its an advantage in both quantity and quality over Ukraine and its Western sponsors;
Yep. And the US will get exactly what it got out of Afghanistan - nothing. Meanwhile, the US will be 50-100M illegals net positive, most of its population homeless or relegated to being renters, buying used cars because that's all they can afford, and approaching $50T in debt. The future's so bright we gotta wear shades.... /s
Proud Azov POWs! 15,000 feet to ground in 20 seconds! Bring your parade parachutes!
“MORAL OF THE STORY - don’t illegally invade sovereign countries, and your assets won’t get seized, duh “
No.
The moral of the story is don’t do coups, then use the military to attack breakaway provinces.
Biden has threatened to attack Americans with F-16s.
Something that Ukraine has already done.
VIDEOS
Russia Admits: Our Attacks Don’t Even REACH Ukrainian Lines
Combat Veteran Reacts
331K subscribers
1-25-2024
13:06 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FYkkxdSVLo
VIDEO
Russia Tells Crazy Lies Over Downing of IL-76
Jake Broe
[I am a United States Air Force veteran who served for six years (O-3) as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer (13N).]
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Jan 25, 2024
24:38 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm8uFhWRESU&t=17s
Russia is saying that 65 Ukrainian POWs were onboard a Russian IL-76 aircraft when Ukraine shot it down over Belgorod.
There are many inconsistencies with this story and Russia refuses to allow international observers inspect the site or see the bodies.
The Ukrainians have struck another Russia oil depot this time on the Black Sea in Tuapse.
Videos of plane crash:
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Problems with Russia’s story:
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Videos of Russian oil depot fire:
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Here's a tidbit, to further insight into the players:
"With 33 million hectares of arable land, Ukraine has large swaths of the most fertile farmland in the world. Misguided privatization and corrupt governance since the early 1990s have concentrated land in the hands of a new oligarchic class. Around 4.3 million hectares are under large-scale agriculture, with the bulk, three million hectares, in the hands of just a dozen large agribusiness firms. In addition, according to the government, about five million hectares – the size of two Crimea – have been “stolen” by private interests from the state of Ukraine. The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is thus over nine million hectares, exceeding 28 percent of the country’s arable land. The rest is used by over eight million Ukrainian farmers.The spoils of war are being tabulated, and if those "investments" turn sour for the likes of "investment partners," it is assured that hell will pay. Somehow.The largest landholders are a mix of oligarchs and a variety of foreign interests – mostly European and North American, including a US-based private equity fund and the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia. All but one of the ten largest landholding firms are registered overseas, mainly in tax havens such as Cyprus or Luxembourg. Even when run and still largely controlled by an oligarch founder, a number of firms have gone public with Western banks and investment funds now controlling a significant amount of their shares."
War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine's Agricultural Land
And: "The report identifies many prominent investors, including Vanguard Group, Kopernik Global Investors, BNP Asset Management Holding, Goldman Sachs-owned NN Investment Partners Holdings, and Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway's sovereign wealth fund. A number of large US pension funds, foundations, and university endowments are also invested in Ukrainian land through NCH Capital – a US-based private equity fund, which is the fifth largest landholder in the country."
Those wacky Clintons are eyeing the spoils.
"President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and President Clinton in a one-on-one conversation about the state of global affairs; the refugee crisis created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; and what members of the CGI community can do to help."
I just want to help.... hold the beautiful money for a while. :)
THAT is exactly how they planned to divvy up Russia. Too bad, so sad that Putin wouldn’t roll over for them.
There was constant provocation for eight years leading up this war.
Russia had far more of a reason invade Ukraine than we ever did in either Iraq war.
We fomented an illegal coup in 2014, installed a puppet government hostile to both Russia and the ethnic Russian population. We trained, funded and armed Ukraine with lethal weapons. We teased NATO membership for Ukraine. We were running biolabs with deadly pathogens in them in Ukraine.
If Russia or China were doing all that in Mexico, WE'D, justifiably, would invade.
So, repeating the same lies over and over again isn't going to make them true. And, the VAST majority of the world knows the narrative you're spewing is lie.
But, get this through your thick skull -- there isn't ANYTHING Ukraine can do to get back the territory they have lost. Nor do the residents in that territory want to go back to being part of Ukraine.
Ukraine can only lose more territory. And, it will unless there is an unconditional surrender.
“Just focus on the rock and your anger will float away, up into the clouds...”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4213087/posts?page=133#133
NOT EXACTLY... gray rock is just a reminder to ignore the negative commenters.
The gray rock method: is a tactic to deal with conflict and abusive, manipulative behavior.
The idea is abusive people enjoy getting reactions from their victims. This approach of Gray-rocking leads us to just skim, without response, ignoring “foolish” comments or memes which refuses a reward for negative behavior.
This system will calm antagonistic ‘detractors, dis-tractors, comments and memes. The intention for the ‘image’ of a gray rock is simply a reminder to BE KIND rather than to RESPOND IN KIND.
Ultimately, peace and kindness can be achieved on FR threads.
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