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Post by sunny225 on Apr 6, 2024 22:26:49 GMT
"Nothing is certain except Blinken is an Idiot." -- STRAIGHT UP TRUTH RIGHT THERE!
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Apr 6, 2024 23:01:39 GMT
At this point, politically Biden & co could use a war, but certainly nothing of the scope of a war with Russia. I agree wholeheartedly with solargeek, that Blinken is an idiot. I'll add that he's a dangerous one too as he has no idea what each and every word he says means to our enemies. No matter how it might start, a war with Russia would quickly escalate to nuclear, and nobody wins. I don't see it happening, no matter what Blinken/Biden say. As to Mr Kuntsler's other assertion that the economic bottom is about to fall out, I agree. When gold starts hitting new records you can bet the people much smarter economically that us have been reading the tea leaves for a while and feel more comfortable with something they can touch rather that digits on a computer screen. Two things will combine to destroy the world's economy. One, simple math says fiat currency, even though devalued in some countries, is no more than a matter of faith in the government's ability to maintain its buying power. There's no historical record to bolster that faith. Second, human nature combined with derivatives. We think of huge hedge funds and investment banks as nearly scholarly in their money moves, but nothing could be further from the truth. The people really making the bets are upper-middle managers whose bonuses depend on short term results. Their incentive isn't necessarily the solvency of their employer as much as that quarterly bonus check. The entire derivative market is built on nothing more that hope and (?)prayer that the institutions they're dealing with are as solvent as they purport to be. On a Saturday morning a bank nobody has ever heard of could in back channels declare insolvency. By Monday morning every stock market and bank in the worlds would be broke. That's how it happened with Lehman Bros. and more recently the big regional banks on the coasts. Those institutions were US, and were able to be papered over, but "The Big One" will be international and beyond the Fed's control. As I've said before, I'm betting around August for the fecal matter to hit the oscillating device.
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Post by farmgirl on Apr 6, 2024 23:45:48 GMT
At this point, politically Biden & co could use a war, but certainly nothing of the scope of a war with Russia. I agree wholeheartedly with solargeek, that Blinken is an idiot. I'll add that he's a dangerous one too as he has no idea what each and every word he says means to our enemies. No matter how it might start, a war with Russia would quickly escalate to nuclear, and nobody wins. I don't see it happening, no matter what Blinken/Biden say. As to Mr Kuntsler's other assertion that the economic bottom is about to fall out, I agree. When gold starts hitting new records you can bet the people much smarter economically that us have been reading the tea leaves for a while and feel more comfortable with something they can touch rather that digits on a computer screen. Two things will combine to destroy the world's economy. One, simple math says fiat currency, even though devalued in some countries, is no more than a matter of faith in the government's ability to maintain its buying power. There's no historical record to bolster that faith. Second, human nature combined with derivatives. We think of huge hedge funds and investment banks as nearly scholarly in their money moves, but nothing could be further from the truth. The people really making the bets are upper-middle managers whose bonuses depend on short term results. Their incentive isn't necessarily the solvency of their employer as much as that quarterly bonus check. The entire derivative market is built on nothing more that hope and (?)prayer that the institutions they're dealing with are as solvent as they purport to be. On a Saturday morning a bank nobody has ever heard of could in back channels declare insolvency. By Monday morning every stock market and bank in the worlds would be broke. That's how it happened with Lehman Bros. and more recently the big regional banks on the coasts. Those institutions were US, and were able to be papered over, but "The Big One" will be international and beyond the Fed's control. As I've said before, I'm betting around August for the fecal matter to hit the oscillating device. At this point, I'll take every extra day we are blessed with to prepare physically and spiritually.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Apr 7, 2024 0:00:08 GMT
farmgirl, I sincerely hope I'm wrong, and will apologize profusely in December when Trump wins. My basic problem is understanding the evil, and that's the only word to describe them, the evil machinations of the Marxist democrats and the lengths they'll go to to maintain power. They're a mentally sick bunch who revel in oblique mind control through the media and academia. I doubt they have a stopping point, which is why I think they'd rather bankrupt this country than lose control of it.
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Post by farmgirl on Apr 9, 2024 1:24:21 GMT
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Post by farmgirl on Apr 9, 2024 1:24:42 GMT
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Post by sunny225 on Apr 9, 2024 23:52:38 GMT
tomluongo.me/2024/04/06/nato-its-time-to-cull-the-snake-in-the-uss-garden/NATO: It’s Time to Cull the Snake in the US’s Garden This week’s brouhaha in Brussels saw the Foreign Ministers of NATO emerge from their holes in the ground looking for food now that things are finally warming up for Spring. And they had a message for us: more for them and less for us. They were ready to steal the food from our mouths, our children from our homes, to give Ukraine the aid it needs to beat Russia in a war only they seem to want. They would strangle the political process at home to make this so. They would betray their basic roles as diplomats, speaking with forked tongues, to confound the conditions for dialogue with Russia and end the fighting. In fact, with all the war mongering going on you would have thought this was a convocation of military commanders, not diplomats. But that’s where we are in this process. The message of NATO’s foreign policy is simple, “War first. Talk later.” Facts on the ground don’t matter. Budget deficits don’t matter. Plunging public support for Ukraine doesn’t matter. All that matters is what these people want. And they want war. But at the same time, they won’t admit that that is exactly what they are waging. The doublespeak has gotten to the point where even Pinocchio is looking at outgoing General-Secretary Jens Stoltenberg going, “Dood. Your schnoze!” Then again, Stoltenberg is a year past his ‘use-by’ date. He’s even more a lame duck than French President Emmanuel Macron at this point. The problem for those who actually run NATO, they can’t agree on who to replace him with… a British Neoconservative or a Dutch Neoliberal? In the same week where the French and Russian Defense Ministers had a frank conversation about Ukraine, the attack in Moscow on civilians, and how quickly Russia will vaporize French troops sent into the fighting, we’re treated to the complete abandonment of all diplomatic pretense. And even then, that discussion was more of a diplomatic endeavor than anything coming out of Brussels, if Mark Wauck and Alex Mercouris are correct. Mercouris, of course, has a lot more to say, but that’s the long and the short of it. It was all a pathetic game, transparently so. The Russians were forced into this war, but now that they’re in it they’re in it to win. Mercouris sums it up: The Russians are not under any pressure to negotiate. They are winning the war and they know they’re winning the war. The West, if it wants to avoid a spectacular geopolitical disaster—which is what a defeat in Ukraine would be— in its own interests needs to talk to the Russians. But coming up with half baked proposals such as a return to Istanbul or a Frozen Conflict is going to get nowhere. It is only going to annoy the Russians even more. The logical and right thing to do is to ask the Russians what it is, exactly, in Ukraine that they want to achieve, and see whether it might be possible for the West to meet them halfway. I would have thought that is basic obvious diplomacy. It’s been so long here in the US where we’ve had a Secretary of State who wasn’t hell bent on a war with Russia, Iran, or China (or all three consecutively and concurrently) we’ve forgotten what having diplomats looks like. I mean think about it. Antony Blinken’s sad dog-eye technique makes you wistful for the days of Condoleeza Rice’s angry diversity hire routine. more at link
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Post by farmgirl on Apr 10, 2024 4:16:15 GMT
It almost seems that they want Russia to strike first.
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Post by BrewDaddy on Apr 10, 2024 4:28:23 GMT
War mongering propaganda....
bd
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Post by farmgirl on Apr 10, 2024 16:30:28 GMT
War mongering propaganda.... bd Is it really propaganda when our lovely leadership keeps doing press conferences announcing how they are poking the bear?
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Apr 10, 2024 22:55:50 GMT
When an article buries this little gem, yeah, it's propaganda leaning one way:
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Post by farmgirl on Apr 10, 2024 23:16:55 GMT
When an article buries this little gem, yeah, it's propaganda leaning one way: I overlooked that part. However, I do believe that war is coming, either with Russia, China, or both, but I hope I'm wrong.
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Post by farmgirl on Apr 11, 2024 5:58:52 GMT
Insider Paper @theinsiderpaper NEW: Europe must prepare for potential war, as a full-scale conflict on the continent beyond Ukraine is “no longer a fantasy”, the EU’s chief diplomat has warned. - FT
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Apr 11, 2024 11:40:01 GMT
If war(s?) break out it'll be before the November election. The whole world knows Biden is weaker than homogenized puppy pee.
All the EU/NATO talk seems to me to be bluster for home country consumption. It's hard to believe they're so bent on self-destruction that they'd put Putin in a corner where his options are down to one.
Now, China is a whole different ballgame. Xi has the goods on Biden & co, and making his move on Taiwan before Trump might be elected would be his safest move. The question is, just how dedicated to the protection of Taiwan would we be. Biden and Blinken have been all over the map on commitments, and the SE Asian countries including Australia would be useless without US forces.
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Post by sunny225 on Apr 11, 2024 17:41:52 GMT
I don't think the war that is coming will only be in Europe or ME or Ukraine. I'm pretty sure that America is the number one target of a whole lot of regimes this time.
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