Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Money market mutual funds have seen assets rise over the past two weeks, up $203 billion to $3.27 trillion. I'm guessing you are afraid of both banking and money market mutual funds. Do you hide cash in a coffee can buried in the backyard, 6ix? Or bury gold?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nearly $100 billion in deposits pulled from (US) banks.
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I use banks. I also have CDs and Money Market Mutual Funds.
And yes, I do have money buried as well. I've got a diverse portfolio.
No gold though. Gold is a scam. If we ever enter Mad Max world it will be as useless as cash, and anybody arguing otherwise is living in pure fantasy.
At least you can wipe your ass with a $100 bill.
Where are you going to flash that gold where somebody isn't just going to take it from you or kill you outright to get it? Unarmed Democrats with gold will be unarmed and/or dead Democrats without gold in the Wasteland.
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Quote:In Mad Max World your US dollars will be as spendable as Confederate dollars. Instead, Canadian dollars are what you need to bury in your backyard. Or if you're a Texas Trumptard, Mexican pesos. Whichever border is closest, that is the currency you should be burying. In Ukraine, after Russians nuke it? Best to have buried Euros or Russian rubles, not Ukrainian hryvnias.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No gold though. Gold is a scam. If we ever enter Mad Max world it will be as useless as cash, and anybody arguing otherwise is living in pure fantasy.
History of hryvnia https://bank.gov.ua/en/uah/uah-history
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Originally posted by second:Quote:In Mad Max World your US dollars will be as spendable as Confederate dollars.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No gold though. Gold is a scam. If we ever enter Mad Max world it will be as useless as cash, and anybody arguing otherwise is living in pure fantasy.
Yes. I know that. And you know that I know that because you cut that part out of my post when you quoted it.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
At least you can wipe your ass with a $100 bill.
I wasn't saying that cash would be any more valuable than gold in Mad Max world, I was just saying that the people scaremongering the dupes into using up all of their cash TODAY to pay for seriously inflated Gold prices and hoard up gold for a day that might not ever come are con artists... and very good ones at that.
Maybe not as good as SBF and crypto/NFT con artists have been short term in the last 5 or so years, but Gold has been a very long con that has made a very few people seriously rich off of very many people for decades and that grift is still very much alive and well.
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Instead, Canadian dollars are what you need to bury in your backyard. Or if you're a Texas Trumptard, Mexican pesos. Whichever border is closest, that is the currency you should be burying.
Incorrect. Canadian Dollars and Mexican Pesos will be nothing but toilet paper as well.
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In Ukraine, after Russians nuke it? Best to have buried Euros or Russian rubles, not Ukrainian hryvnias.
It doesn't matter there either.
The only currency that will be valid in the Wasteland is guns and ammo, good health, intelligence, grit, building/engineering/survivalism skills, the ability to work with others (or quickly ingratiate yourself with and prove how valuable you will be to somebody powerful and charismatic who does).
SPOILER ALERT: Democrat voting pussies in the Millennial and Zoomer generations who spent half of their college days in cry rooms and came out with college degrees in gender studies need not apply. With the exception of child bearing aged women in that demographic that don't look like a thumb, they all die within the first month.
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Stockholm said on Wednesday that it was summoning the Russian ambassador to Sweden for warning the country would become a "legitimate target" of "retaliatory measures" if it joined NATO.
Russian ambassador Viktor Tatarintsev on Tuesday warned Finland and Sweden that by joining the alliance they both risked embroiling themselves in Moscow’s deepening confrontation with the West.
"If anyone still believes that this [NATO membership] in any way will somehow improve Europe's security, you can be sure that the new members of the hostile bloc will become a legitimate target for Russian retaliatory measures, including military ones," he wrote in a statement posted to the embassy’s website.
Tatarintsev said that rather than becoming safer, Sweden would be "taking a step towards the abyss."
In response, Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom announced that "the Ministry for Foreign Affairs will summon the Russian ambassador to make a clear statement against this blatant attempt at influence.”
"Sweden's security policy is determined by Sweden — no one else," Billstrom added.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/03/29/sweden-summons-russian-envoy
-after-nato-bid-warning-a80649
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Not even taking into consideration any alleged Russian threats, Sweeden and Finland would do themselves a huge favor by staying far the hell away from NATO.
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Quote:On one hand, Trump says he can protect Finland for free. On the other hand, NATO requires a country to spend 2% of its GDP on defense. Why then join NATO? Save your money, Finland! No one should join NATO, if they believe Trump is truthful:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Not even taking into consideration any alleged Russian threats, Sweeden and Finland would do themselves a huge favor by staying far the hell away from NATO.
Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday that if re-elected president, he'd use his relationships with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin to orchestrate a "very easy negotiation" for peace.
"And there's a very easy negotiation to take place. But I don't want to tell you what it is because then I can't use that negotiation. It'll never work. But it's a very easy negotiation to take place," Trump said. "I will have it solved within one day, a peace between them."
"So you'd prefer if you were president, you think you would have a negotiated settlement?" Hannity asked Trump.
"Within 24 hours," Trump said.
Trump has kept saying it will take him just one day to solve the war in Ukraine.
"It wouldn't even be tough, I know what to say to each of 'em," Trump said during a phone call to the conservative TV channel Real America's Voice, referring once again to Putin and Zelenskyy.
He made the same claim at his Saturday rally in Waco, Texas, where he declared he's currently the only presidential candidate who could promise to "prevent World War III."
Trump has not provided any concrete substantiation on how he would end a conflict in 24 hours.
In March, he said on Fox News that he "could've made a deal" for Russia to take over "certain areas that are Russian-speaking areas" in Ukraine. The international community has condemned Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory. Zelenskyy also said in July that Ukraine will not cede territory to negotiate a ceasefire with Russia.
In March 2022, a month after the war kicked off, Trump also proposed a plan to try to end the war that involved pressuring Putin with US nuclear submarines — a suggestion that ran counter to all of the US's efforts to avoid direct military intervention in the war.
"And we say, 'Oh, he's a nuclear power.' But we're a greater nuclear power. We have the greatest submarines in the world, the most powerful machines ever built," Trump told the host Stuart Varney during an appearance on Fox Business,
"You should say, 'Look, you mention that word one more time, we're going to send them over and we'll be coasting back and forth, up and down your coast," Trump said. "You can't let this tragedy continue. You can't let these, these thousands of people die."
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-keeps-saying-solve-ukraine-034612851.html
6ixStringJack, the question for Finland is simple. Can Trump's Secret Plan end the War in Ukraine in 24 hours? If Finland does join NATO, that is a good sign that Finland does not believe Trump can do what he says.
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‘May the force be with you’: Star Wars actor Mark Hamill lends Jedi voice to Ukraine
Chaos strike when air raid sirens start howling in war-torn Ukraine, but some Ukrainian Star Wars fans are finding comfort and strength in a familiar voice.
“Attention. Air raid alert,” says Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker in the popular sci-fi film series. “Proceed to the nearest shelter”.
After dangers from the skies pass, Hamill announces that the “air alert is over” and signs off with “May the force be with you”.
The actor has lent his voice to Air Alert, a mobile phone app linked to Ukraine’s air defence system, the Associated Press reported on Monday.
The app warns Ukrainians that Russian missiles, bombs and deadly exploding drones may be incoming when the raid sirens start howling, said the report.
“Don’t be careless,” Hamill warns. “Your overconfidence is your weakness.”
Hamil told the news agency that he has admired from California how Ukraine has “shown such resilience... under such terrible circumstances”.
Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion, now in its second year, reminds him of the Star Wars saga with fearless rebels battling and eventually defeating the Galactic Empire.
Ms Olena Yeremina, who is a business manager in Kyiv, said Hamill’s “May the force be with you” sign-off made her laugh at first. But now, its enduring humour gives her strength, according to AP.
“It’s a very cool phrase for this situation,” she said. “I wouldn’t say that I feel like a Ukrainian Jedi, but sometimes this phrase reminds me to straighten my shoulders and keep working.”
More at https://www.straitstimes.com/life/may-the-force-be-with-you-star-wars-
actor-mark-hamill-lends-jedi-voice-to-ukraine
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The battle over Bakhmut, the eastern city in Ukraine, has turned into a “slaughter-fest" for the Russians, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Wednesday. The head of the Wagner mercenary group said the Bakhmut fighting "has already practically destroyed the Ukrainian army," but added that Wagner has "been pretty battered" as well.
There are roughly 6,000 Wagner group mercenaries fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told US lawmakers on Wednesday.
“They're conducting combat operations right now in Bakhmut primarily. It's probably about 6,000 or so actual mercenaries and maybe another 20 or 30,000 recruits that they get, many of whom come from prisons,” Milley told the House Armed Services Committee alongside US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. “And they are suffering an enormous amount of casualties in the Bakhmut area; the Ukrainians are inflicting a lot of death and destruction on these guys.”
“The Ukrainians are doing a very effective area defense that is proven to be very costly to the Russians. For about the last 20, 21 days, the Russians have not made any progress whatsoever in and around Bahkmut,” he said. “So it's a slaughter-fest for the Russians. They're getting hammered in the vicinity of Bahkmut and the Ukrainians have fought very, very well.”
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-29-23/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:On one hand, Trump says he can protect Finland for free. On the other hand, NATO requires a country to spend 2% of its GDP on defense. Why then join NATO? Save your money, Finland! No one should join NATO, if they believe Trump is truthful:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Not even taking into consideration any alleged Russian threats, Sweeden and Finland would do themselves a huge favor by staying far the hell away from NATO.
We already protect Finland for free. The only reason they have free healthcare in most of Europe is because they don't have to spend any real money on their military because Big Brother USA puts all of their money into theirs and plays world cop.
Nobody in NATO outside of the US pays their share either anyhow, so that point is moot.
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Quote:How did you convince yourself of that?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
We already protect Finland for free. The only reason they have free healthcare in most of Europe is because they don't have to spend any real money on their military because Big Brother USA puts all of their money into theirs and plays world cop.
Nobody in NATO outside of the US pays their share either anyhow, so that point is moot.
Health spending accounted for 9.2 % of Finland's GDP. – almost one percentage point below the EU average of 9.9 %.
https://health.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-12/2021_chp_fi_english.p
df
Compare that 9.2 % for Finland to 18.3% for the US.
https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/statistics-tr
ends-and-reports/nationalhealthexpenddata/nhe-fact-sheet
Military expenditure (% of GDP) in Finland was reported at 2.0303 % in 2021.
https://tradingeconomics.com/finland/military-expenditure-percent-of-g
dp-wb-data.html
Compare that 2.0303 % for Finland to 3.4832 % for the US.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/military-expenditure-percen
t-of-gdp-wb-data.html
6ix, Finland fought two wars with Russia in the 20th century. Finland beat Russians to death in a ratio of 5 dead Russian soldiers (not civilians) per dead Finn but Russians still think Russia won, for some reason. The exact same thing happened with Germany. 5 dead Russians per dead German. I presume the average Russian is a poor warrior, just as the average Russian is poor compared to a German or a Finn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War
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