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Poroshenko on the Minsk Agreement
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"We had achieved everything we wanted. Our goal was to, first, stop the threat, or at least to delay the war – to secure eight years to restore economic growth and create powerful armed forces.
Notice he didn't say anything about removing troops and heavy weaponry from the line of contact, stop shelling civilians in Donetsk, or establish local control in the Donbas which were the agreed-on aims of Minsk II.
Merkel, on Minsk II.
Quote:Nothing in there about enforcing a ceasefire, withdrawing troops and weapons from both sides of the contact line, stopping Kiev from shelling Donetsk, developing local governance for local issues, or respecting the rights of the Russian speaking majority in that region. Apparently, SHE had no intention of enforcing Minsk II.
"I thought that the introduction of NATO accession of Ukraine and Georgia, discussed in 2008, was wrong [for that time]. The countries did not have the necessary prerequisites for this, nor was it fully understood what the consequences of such a decision would have been, both with regard to Russia’s actions against Georgia and Ukraine, as well as NATO and its rules of assistance. And the Minsk Agreement of 2014 was an attempt to give Ukraine time [to be ready to join NATO].
Ukraine used this time to become stronger, as you can see today.
Hollande on Minsk II
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"Yes, Angela Merkel is right on this point," he told the Kiev Independent media outlet, while commenting on Merkel’s remark that the Minsk agreements allowed Kiev to gain time, but by no means prevented further hostilities in the Donbass. "Since 2014, Ukraine has strengthened its military posture. Indeed, the Ukrainian army was completely different from that of 2014. It was better trained and equipped. It is the merit of the Minsk agreements to have given the Ukrainian army this opportunity."
Nope! Nothing in there about enforcing the provisions of Minsk II either!
Zelensky on Minsk
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Zelenskyy admitted that he had previously told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron that the Minsk agreements were "impossible" and he did not plan to implement them.
"As for Minsk as a whole, I told Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel: we will not be able to implement it like that," Zelenskyy said in an interview with Spiegel published on Thursday.
This backs up my point that Germany, France, and Ukraine never intended to implement the Minsk II agreements, that the MAIN purpose of signing was to give Ukraine time to build up its military.
Quote:I bring quotes to the table showing that Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko, and Zelensky were acting in bad faith, and you bring up prosthetic hands???
Originally posted by SECOND
Signym, you were born without hands, but are trying to get a job requiring dexterity.
Must be because you're a lying sack of shit too.
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Quote:I am absolutely and positively sure neither you nor Russian diplomats can convincingly prove bad faith with short quotes, Signym. But it is instantly knowable when someone with artificial plastic hands tries to convince you that her hands are made of flesh and bone. Signym, your falseness is very apparent, as is the Russians', as soon as they are touched.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I bring quotes to the table showing that Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko, and Zelensky were acting in bad faith, and you bring up prosthetic hands???
Must be because you're a lying sack of shit too.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
Chaos is about to take its toll
By Paul Krugman | Apr 24, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-virus
Focus on the real economy, where everything says that policy chaos will soon take a real toll. The Fed’s Beige Book, which looks what businesses are saying, says that “uncertainty around international trade policy was pervasive across reports.” And this uncertainty will have dire effects on the real economy.
Many forecasters now expect a recession. But the impact of erratic tariffs and tariff threats may occur even before the economy has time to slump.
Preliminary data suggest that imports from Asia, after surging as importers tried to front-run tariffs, are now collapsing. See the chart at the bottom of this post.
The CEOs of Target and Walmart reportedly warned Trump that we may be seeing empty shelves within weeks. And foreign trade won’t be revived by hints dropped at closed-door financial conferences. Companies need some certainty about policy, which they won’t get.
In other words, we may soon see a disruption of supply chains reminiscent of what happened during and after the Covid pandemic. But this time a virus won’t be responsible. It will all be about Donald Trump. And this time there won’t be a vaccine coming to our rescue. We’re stuck with this chaos agent for three years and three months.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Oh wow! Oh no!
It's an empty graph!!!!!!!!!!
We've just forced your fiction writers to do even less work now.
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Wall Street stock rally falters as Trump touts 50% tariff victory
Wall Street stock markets wobbled Friday after President Donald Trump indicated he envisages stiff US tariffs even after reaching trade deals.
The pullback came after a three-day rally based in large part on hopes that the United States would reach trade deals with its major partners.
TIME Magazine wrote Friday that Trump said in an interview he was still convinced tariffs were necessary and that he would "consider it a 'total victory' if the US still has tariffs as high as 50 percent on foreign imports a year from now."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/wall-street-stock-rally-falter
s-as-trump-touts-50-tariff-victory/ar-AA1DzN3B?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=474e99d17888485ba75e3291db61352c&ei=20
Yup, the winds of change are definitely in the air. Hey Jack, have you stocked up on supplies? I've picked up at least $1200.00 in supplies; as a brace against what's coming in as early as two weeks.
tick tock little buddy, tick tock
T
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Wall Street stock rally falters as Trump touts 50% tariff victory
Wall Street stock markets wobbled Friday after President Donald Trump indicated he envisages stiff US tariffs even after reaching trade deals.
The pullback came after a three-day rally based in large part on hopes that the United States would reach trade deals with its major partners.
TIME Magazine wrote Friday that Trump said in an interview he was still convinced tariffs were necessary and that he would "consider it a 'total victory' if the US still has tariffs as high as 50 percent on foreign imports a year from now."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/wall-street-stock-rally-falter
s-as-trump-touts-50-tariff-victory/ar-AA1DzN3B?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=474e99d17888485ba75e3291db61352c&ei=20
Yup, the winds of change are definitely in the air. Hey Jack, have you stocked up on supplies? I've picked up at least $1200.00 in supplies; as a brace against what's coming in as early as two weeks.
tick tock little buddy, tick tock
T
I'm always ready for everything, pussy. I'm the last person you have to worry about if things go south.
Good Luck. You'll need it.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Wall Street stock rally falters as Trump touts 50% tariff victory
Wall Street stock markets wobbled Friday after President Donald Trump indicated he envisages stiff US tariffs even after reaching trade deals.
The pullback came after a three-day rally based in large part on hopes that the United States would reach trade deals with its major partners.
TIME Magazine wrote Friday that Trump said in an interview he was still convinced tariffs were necessary and that he would "consider it a 'total victory' if the US still has tariffs as high as 50 percent on foreign imports a year from now."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/wall-street-stock-rally-falter
s-as-trump-touts-50-tariff-victory/ar-AA1DzN3B?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=474e99d17888485ba75e3291db61352c&ei=20
Yup, the winds of change are definitely in the air. Hey Jack, have you stocked up on supplies? I've picked up at least $1200.00 in supplies; as a brace against what's coming in as early as two weeks.
tick tock little buddy, tick tock
T
I'm always ready for everything, pussy. I'm the last person you have to worry about if things go south.
Good Luck. You'll need it.
" ~Paul Simon
Supply Shortages Loom as U.S. Shipments from China Plummet
President Donald Trump’s tariff war is sharply slowing traffic on a major shipping route between China and the U.S. The pain of a near-standstill in goods shipments could spread from trucking companies to retail shelves in a matter of weeks.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/supply-shortages-loom-as-u-s-s
hipments-from-china-plummet/ar-AA1Dyu8J
Says the guy with no job. Who do you think believes you're going to be fine? Is daddy helping you? Too funny...
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Quote:China plays Trump card: curbs on exports of rare-earth minerals
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Focus on the real economy, where everything says that policy chaos will soon take a real toll.
Oh wow! Oh no!
It's an empty graph!!!!!!!!!!
We've just forced your fiction writers to do even less work now.
Senior administration officials are scrambling to stem economic damage from China’s restrictions on rare-earth exports, as President Donald Trump’s trade war risks cutting key industries and defense contractors off from supplies of metals crucial to production, according to three people familiar with internal deliberations.
While companies search for alternative suppliers and urge the White House to cut a deal that will keep the materials flowing to U.S. manufacturers, the Trump administration is finding there are no easy solutions. China has a lock on the supply of certain elements that are essential to making such things as military drones, consumer electronics and battery-powered vehicles.
“China knows this is a very strong bargaining chip, and it is why they are playing it,” said Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes, who was a deputy director for batteries and critical materials at the Energy Department during the Biden administration. “This is fast emerging as our Achilles’ heel. What makes these bans particularly dangerous is oftentimes one of these materials is a single point of failure for entire supply chains, and its production rests solely in China.”
The restrictions, imposed by Beijing in response to Trump’s steep new tariffs, have provoked deep consternation at high levels of the administration. Aides at the White House National Security Council, National Economic Council, Council of Economic Advisers, Commerce Department, Energy Department and Office of the Trade Representative, among other agencies, have been involved, said the people familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect internal matters.
Beijing curbed exports to the United States this month of the rare earths, a group of 17 metals critical for industry. Amid deepening concern over potential economic fallout from the trade war, Trump has softened his tone in recent days, saying the U.S. is eager to make a deal and floating substantial reductions in the import duties.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/04/24/u-s-agencies-alarmed-after
-china-plays-trump-card-curbs-on-exports-of-rare-earth-minerals/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:April 25, 2025 | 10:38 a.m. ET
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm always ready for everything, pussy. I'm the last person you have to worry about if things go south.
Good Luck. You'll need it.
Donald Trump has made a new promise to end the Ukraine war by Wednesday. (April 30th.)
Tick Tock.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194412/donald-trump-privately-freaking-ou
t-ukraine-war
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On the eve of his second inauguration, Donald Trump did something no U.S. president had ever done: He launched a meme coin.
April 25, 2025
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/25/briefing-podcast-trump-crypto-meme
-coin/
These tokens, that are not tied to any real world assets, have proven lucrative for Trump and his family. Last month, the Financial Times estimated Trump made upwards of $350 million from the project. While small traders have lost big, the Trump Organization and its affiliates — controlling 80 percent of the token supply — have made hundreds of millions in just trading fees.
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto-empire/
https://www.ft.com/content/cb1def8f-53a6-478e-9b3e-33c383b29629
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/04/24/trump-meme-coin-p
rice-surges-after-top-holders-are-invited-for-dinner-with-president/
https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/trumps-meme-coin-made-nearl
y-100-million-trading-fees-small-traders-lost-money-2025-02-03/
From meme coins, which usually refer to a fun internet or pop culture meme, and stablecoins, whose values are pegged to a real-world asset, to a new government-backed bitcoin reserve, Trump, once a crypto skeptic, is now the industry’s most powerful advocate.
“He went to a big bitcoin conference in Nashville last July. That’s where he declared he would make the U.S. the crypto capital of the planet,” says Intercept reporter Matt Sledge. “And the crypto industry started showering money on him. They saw somebody who would be friendly to their industry.”
This week on The Intercept Briefing, Sledge, who covers crypto’s political reach, discusses how investing in the president has paid off for the industry and for the Trump family.
“So far in Trump’s presidency, things have gone great for the crypto industry. Even as the rest of the economy is on pretty perilous footing, a bunch of crypto companies have seen the SEC and other regulatory agencies drop investigations or lawsuits. Trump has created a ‘bitcoin reserve,’ and in general, regulators and Congress are behaving much more friendly toward the industry.”
On Sunday, a filing with the Federal Election Commission revealed that Trump received a record $239 million in donations that went toward his inauguration. According to reporting from Fortune, the crypto industry gave about $18 million alone.
The meme coins are just one aspect of the president and his family’s growing crypto empire — an empire that includes Trump’s sons, Eric and Don Jr., taking a stake in a new bitcoin mining firm called American Bitcoin. Trump Media is also partnering with Crypto.com and a newly formed investment firm to offer financial products, including crypto to retail investors.
“Just a few weeks ago, the SEC dropped an investigation into Crypto.com,” Sledge points out. “This is something that would’ve been really astonishing under any other president, regardless of their party. You go from a company being under investigation just a few weeks ago to it having this partnership with the president’s publicly traded company.”
For more on how Trump is reshaping the crypto landscape and what it means for the rest of us, listen to the full conversation of The Intercept Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intercept-briefing/id1195206
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https://open.spotify.com/show/2js8lwDRiK1TB4rUgiYb24?si=e3ce772344ee41
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Your focus on plastic hands is puzzling, SECOND.
Why?
Do YOU have plastic hands? Plastic feet?
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