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@VictorTheClean3
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2 years
After 9/11 it was obvious that in order to move away from the petrodollar, only a nuclear power could make the first step, and do so probably only at gun point. There we are.
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Printing oil: If you control a major currency (USD) and the major exporters (Saudi Arabia) of the most important resource (oil) sell only for your currency and then invest a large part of the proceeds in your financial market, then you can in effect *print oil*, ...
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@vtchakarova @AlexGabuev After 300+ dsys of NATO war against Russia, China understands that either Russia wins or China loses. Thus, before there will be any Ukrainian soldiers on Crimea, there would be Chinese troops defending Crimea for Russia.
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@kruuk @sethharpesq Implement Minsk II, talk to Russia and assure them you will not be a NATO advanced outpost against them, and thus avoid the war in the first place. That's what you do.
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@VictorTheClean3
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The Iron Curtain 2.0 - The Empire of the United States is coming to an end. Since 1971, everone who needed oil, had to pay for this oil in USD. Ultimately, the only way of obtaining these USD, was selling real goods to the U.S. Hence, the U.S. were able to fund an Argentina style
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@VictorTheClean3
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@vtchakarova @AlexGabuev It's worse than that. The longer the sanctions war drags on, the greater the developmental advantage granted to the BRICS, simply for availability and import price of all sorts of industrial resources, especially energy.
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@freegolds @coast_milton @LukeGromen @MichaelGoodwell @FOFOA999 Lack of commodity supplies is the one crisis that you cannot paper over by printing money. You kick the can, but you break your leg. The can doesn't move.
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@VictorTheClean3
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@vtchakarova @AlexGabuev That also tells you why US & EU is now a slowly sinking ship. Militarily, you were never able to defeat Russia (nuclear war). But even economically, it will be impossible to wear out the Russia & China alliance.
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i.e. increase credit volume or expand monetary base and pay for imported oil without any real (=real economy) expenditures. The U.S. was able to *print oil* since the 1971 end of gold convertibility and 1973 trip to Saudi Arabia by Treasury "energy czar" Bill E Simon.
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@VictorTheClean3
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@GeromanAT Borell said in 2022 "This war has to be decided on the battlefield." -They should buy him a ticket to Chasiv Yar.
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@VictorTheClean3
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With the Western sanctions against RU and with the West rendering FX reserves and even custorial gold storage questionable, we are *not* in the scenario in which the EUR suceeds the USD as the world oil currency. We are rather in the "direct bid for gold" scenario.
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@VictorTheClean3
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@narrative_hole Looks as if the Russian pilots knew/saw where the F-35 were. Does nobody ask the obvious question?
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@VictorTheClean3
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Printing gas: Soviet Union/Russia has delivered nat gas to Germany since the 1980s, being paid for in DEM/EUR. Now the EUR is a major currency, and until recently, Russia accumulated EUR reserves. This would put euro area in a position to *print gas*.
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@VictorTheClean3
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But be nice to your commodity exporter. If they immediately sell their USD into the FX market or, much worse, ask directly for gold, then (1) you lose the ability to *print oil* and (2) gold begins to trade like money.
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@VictorTheClean3
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@Spriter99880 @mortymer001 Seems she doesn't speak for Germany, but rather for the U.S.. If I were German, I'd consider calling this High Treason.
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@VictorTheClean3
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@guyverhofstadt Why cannot you accept the outcome of a democratic election?
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FOA said "the world reverts to pay-as-you-go economics".
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In such world, the printer is powerless - any expansion of credit volume or base money will quickly lead to inflation, not give the printer any actual power. The resource exporter, however, will never get 100 bbl/oz for their oil when gold trades like money. Pehaps 500 bbl/oz.
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@VictorTheClean3
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2 years
Tectonic shift of global financial system in one tweet: If you can buy oil and natural gas with other currencies, what is the point of holding USD exchange reserves?
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The destruction of Ukraine is a major nuisance for Russia. It is a catastrophe for Ukraine and for Western Europe. But for the US, it is a relative advantage. That's all you need to know.
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@vtchakarova @AlexGabuev So again the US is fighting a long term question (ability to have their double deficits funded by the Rest of the World via the reserve status of the USD) with a short term band aid. Thus the US are forcing themselves to start another war in the middle east within a few years.
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@WestonAPrice @ProfTimNoakes @BrianHookerPhD Infants have a high risk of contracting hepatitis B from homosexual intercourse and also from unclean reused syringes when they try to inject illegal drugs, don't you understand?
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@EU_FPI While your "peace facility" killed thousands of Ukrainians, your "purchasing power stability facility" has lowered people's real incomes by 12%.
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Without commodity support for the EUR, the ECB has only bad choices: (1) raise rates, sell bonds, reverse their QE, accept the recession Volcker style and save the currency or (2) inflate and end up like the USD.
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@JulianRoepcke Ukrainian lines in the east are collapsing. Soon Russia will march through towards river Dnepr without much resistance. UA losses now amount to way over 50 thsd casualties, irreplaceable for a decade.
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If true that Saudis are willing to switch to EUR, even more so, the euro area would be able to *print oil and gas*. The resource exporters could directly ask for gold, but if they don't, then "the printer knows gold in the many thousands" (Another).
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@imetatronink As soon as the US realize they cannot win without destroying the world, they still have the option of abandoning the USD in favour of gold and to reset the system themselves.
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@thesiriusreport Problem is that, at this stage, Russia has no incentive to negotiate. That ship sailed 4 to 6 weeks ago.
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@vtchakarova Well, it's not that Russia cannot pay - they are drowning in money. It's just that US, EU governments are expropriating investors in Russian bonds. Your tweets are misleading. You can do better.
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@vtchakarova @AlexGabuev This war will not be for denial of sales (as the moves against Iraq & Iran used to be - i.e. in order to take out competition), but rather trying to get their hands on the oil. I hope the Arabs have thought about it and have found a way of deterring the US.
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Why remain prudent if the opposite is not immediately punished? Now that RU is withdrawing gas support from the EUR, the policy choices of the ECB are seriously narrowed. They must absolutely hate the sanctions lady in Brussels.
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@guyverhofstadt Sorry chaps, cantina closed. Only lentil soup today. Btw heating is off, so bring a warm sweater.
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@anders_aslund Read: Oh, sh*t, the Russians are united - no regime change anywhere near. But let's write something anyway. Dump twitter readers already forgot that I told them Russia would run out of missiles by mid March. So just make something up and write it.
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Did you notice that since about 2012, when EUR partly became a gas currency, euro area policitians were tempted to go on spending sprees, ECB began to monetize government debt, later some demanded common euro debt to be issued, at least the EFSF now exists.
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@SNMilitary Let's see how that works out - luckily Nord Stream 2 is ready.
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@ianbremmer @gzeromedia The international community.
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@Glenn_Diesen @TheSuperbubble When Taiwan has been destroyed, the US will have a near monopoly on microprocessors outside of China. That's the goal. That's why there will be war irrespectively of what the Taiwanese think or want.
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@vonderleyen Lining the pockets of Ukrainian oligarchs with kickbacks for "the big guy"?
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@ZMiST_Ua Incorrect. Ukraine blew up the dam because it ends the supply of drinking water to Crimea. They tried that before.
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@vtchakarova You declared that you wanted to defeat Russia on the battlefield. So now that you are getting the war that you ordered, stop complaining.
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@guyverhofstadt How is Julian Assange doing? How many tweets have you sent on order to support him? How about Edward Snowden? What did you do in order to support Charles/Chelsea Manning? You have *zero* credibility.
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@Cernovich Every war needs its "incubator hoax".
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In such a financial world, gold trades like a commodity (close to production cost of the mines) b/c the purchases by the commodity exporters fly under the radar and everyone else is happy with USD.
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@ukraine_map Rather than celebrating New Year, you might want to reconsider whether it was a good choice to keep violating the Minsk II Agreements.
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@mortymer001 @Red_Orthodox @richimedhurst Funny question. How legal is it to block Russia's USD and EUR clearing? Thinking about 'legal' is sooo 80ies.
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@NovichokRossiya Obamas prize has shown that a minimum of half a million casualties are reqired before you qualify for nomination.
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Why is this attractive to the resource exporter? They get, say $30/bbl in cash plus $5/bbl in gold at $500/oz (historic figures) which is they pay for gold only 100 bbl/oz (ignore the currency part which has to go into gov't bonds and will shrink over time anyway).
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@RnaudBertrand All these sanctions are *not* against Russia nor China, for the dragon bear is self-sufficient and independent. That's merely the narrative. The sanctions are rather economic warfare against Europe. Very effective.
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@vonderleyen Soon plenty of happy parents will be freezing in the dark. Thank you, Uschi! Your American superiors will reward you $$$ nicely for your service.
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@vonderleyen The sanctions that are now crippling Europe, weren't Russia's idea. It was your free policy choice. So stop whining.
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If the gas exporter allows ECB to print (and as we suspect the oil exporter might soon, too), why not exploit this privilege to print, and so after 2012 the EUR became ever more like the USD in terms of debt issuance and spend thrift politicians.
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@TrueGrit_3rd @GeromanAT This is not an S-500, but the "hypersonic interceptor"/"satellite killer" which may later go as S-550. The S-500 is still truck based, two tubes per track and cold launched as are the S-300 and S-400. The hypersonic interceptor is silo based and hot launched.
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@Cernovich He's probably in the US embassy in Warsaw, recording videos in front of a green screen.
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@yanisvaroufakis How is Julian Assange doing?
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We are heading for the biggest currency crisis since the fall of the Roman Empire.
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@mazzenilsson @johandemeuleme1 Sure they left a passport. Same as always.
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Once you can buy oil (in size) for other currencies, nobody is forced to purchase USD reserves any longer. At that moment the existing USD reserves instantly become toxic because of the structural trade deficit of the U.S.
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ECB needs a firm commitment from RU and KSA asap (and be sure that Brussels don't sabotage it), or it will get very difficult.
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@djuric_zlatko @GeromanAT Wait. It's Ukraine who is supposed to be attacking. EU will want their money back if UA doesn't win ....
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Globalization: globalization as we know it is a small part of specialization and supply chain management and a large part of petrodollar induced trade imbalances. How so?
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What's commonly known as "globalization" is really a huge imbalance in international trade flows centred around petrodollar recycling.
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@ianbremmer Fed: printed trillions. ECB: printed trillions. BoE: printed billions. BoJ: printed trillions. Wild guess: it's clearly the Russians. The Russians pooped on the carpet.
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Around 1970, Kissinger, Volcker & Co decided that the price of oil had to increase by 400% (listen to Sheikh Akhmed Zaki Yamani) in order for the USD backing to switch from gold to oil.
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@Bundeskanzler @ZelenskyyUa Germany declares war on Russia. A war that it cannot even fight b/c they don't have an army that's capable of confronting Russia. How can this be in the interest of the German people, I ask?
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@SNMilitary @HawkEye02723358 Problem with this assessment is that the downside (refugees, risk of escalation, damage by sanctions, loss of commodity/energy trade relationships) is concentrated in Europe whereas a potensial upside pops up in America.
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@vtchakarova @frankknopers China knows that should Russia lose in Ukraine, the US would move to cut off China from her resource imports. So a Russian "win" in Ukraine is an existential question for China. You coined the term "dragonbear". It's way more relevant than you are prepared to admit.
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@vonderleyen I call bullshit. Whose shipping companies stopped doing business with Russia b/c of the sanctions? It's in your hands to restart global trade.
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@vtchakarova High time to end the sanctions that NATO imposed against European industry, talk to Russia, cut a deal, and return to cooperation. Time to tell Ukrainian nationalists and Washington neocons a couple of hard truths and make policy *for* Europe (which includes Russia).
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@taxibistront They presented a prepared statement saying he retired on April 5. Weird. Did they just cut formal ties when it became clear they were irrevocably surrounded in Mariupol? Then joining black ops was his get-out-of-jail-free card in Canada? Anyway, confirmation still missing.
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Britain. The most vulnerable from an end to the petrodollar, hence thd most desperate and also the most aggressive. Virtually no domestic resources, hardly any manufactured products to sell internationally, small gold reserve, increasingly isolated after #brexit .
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@guyverhofstadt Last time I looked, Ukraine was not a EU member. And it's too corrupt to become one. So why bother? Orban is right.
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@vtchakarova It's basically EU leaders who are causing inflation. But why care about facts ...
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@Exusnx What's even better is that, without the U.S., you wouldn't even be waging this war in the first place.
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@jfarchy Warning: Do not do any business in the UK. Unreliable legal framework. Asia, Dubai, Shanghai, all say thank you to Rishi.
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Ruble gold arbitrage thoughts: RU had a pre-war trade surplus of about $100bn. They will eventually sell all their commodity exports to *someone*. Assume $50bn will have to be paid in RUB - the rest in other currencies that the RU CB keeps as reserves.
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@DagnyTaggart963 @freegolds Russian trolling plays in a different league.
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@ianbremmer Russia has a trade surplus of about $100million per year at last year's prices. Everyone from Turkey to China to Africa to South America want to buy their stuff. A freely convertible ruble would be the strongest currency. They will need regulations to weaken it.
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@vtchakarova US and Western Europe in complete war hysteria. Rest of the world: ... know that game, no, thanks.
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Volcker to Kissinger, about 1969: "For the US to remain hegemonic, we should handle other people's surpluses." Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis spills the beans (minute 19:00 to 23:00)
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@Levi_godman Uschi The Geographer? How will you *get* that Azeri gas? By air plane?
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@Sprinterfactory Dear Josep, that ship has long sailed.
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@karlnehammer Yeah, OMV has got two accounts at Gazprombank, one in EUR and one in RUB. They pay the contract price in EUR (not RUB and that's what Nehammer refers to), but the amount is then exchanged for RUB (for the intended monetary policy effect).
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@zerohedge Where are the blue ckeckmark twitter accounts with the flag and the slogan "I stand with the Solomon Islands"?
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@SamRamani2 In Poland it's an open secret that the total losses (not limited to Bakhmut) are closer to 5000. But they were volunteers, and so who's going to complain and about what?
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If the Gulf Arab states wanted to help Palestine, the best move would be to sell oil only for physical gold. That would reset the international financial system from credit to real assets and make funding Israel increasingly painful for the US @ebrahim
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@RWApodcast Acc. to US info, Russia surrounded the bulk of the UA forces east of river Dnepr over a week ago, since then told them to surrender, also told UA negotiating team. Guess they decided not to surrender.
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@guyverhofstadt Arsenej Yatsenyuk, former Ukrainian prime minister (when the Ukrainian air force bombed their ethnic Russian citizens in Donezk and his hooligans burned Russian protestors alive at Odessa). Just a stiff arm. Another sports injury. Never mind. European values.
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@POTUS The United States has imposed unprecedented costs on our competitor, the Europen Union. Fixed it for you.
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@zerohedge Haha. Nobody wants to give them to Ukraine in their own name.
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@thesiriusreport @mortymer001 You shoot your own foot and when it's bleeding and hurting, you say to your people "Putin did it.". The rule of Western propaganda.
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@aaronjmate Why are the US in Syria? Because Assad is not a US puppet and was to be regime changed? Because they wanted to deny Russia access to the Mediterranean at Tartus? Or because Qatar wanted a pipeline route, Assad said no, and Qatar paid off Hilary Clinton? Other motivations?
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@BRICSinfo Too many assassinations recently. Stay safe, MbS.
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@AZgeopolitics Who withdrew unilaterally from the ABM and from the INF Treaties? The West is not "agreement capable" - that's a new technical term in a rapidly changing world order.
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@vtchakarova If NATO loudly announce that they will keep attacking Russia from what's left of Ukraine, this shouldn't surprise you. Of course, it's about NATO.
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@DeItaone Rumour says that there were military advisors with the Azov batallion in Mariupol who did not get out before Russia cut off the city. Attempt to evacuate by helicopter ended in two shot down, not all evacuated, some still captured.
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@SamRamani2 Imagine Belgium announced that all education would be provided in French only. You'd have a major civil war the next day. Same if Switzerland decided that all education would be in German only. So I assume civil war is their goal. Good luck with that.
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trade deficit without an Argentina style currency crisis. The world is changing fast. A global nuclear power (RU) who is at the same time the world's largest resource exporter, no longer accepts these USD. The world's largest manufacturer and exporter of consumer goods (CN), also
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@noclador If Russia was defeated on March 18, then why do Zelensky & gang still need heavy weapons?
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