Read Solzhenitsyn's "200 Years Together" the book that for years was not allowed by the west to be translated into English and is "the most banned book in modern human history". And see what's really going on today.

https://archive.org/details/TwoHundredYearsTogetherByAlexanderSolzhenitsyn

We know what happened when Russia put missiles into Cuba in the early 60s. The US was going to go to war. If Russia puts missiles into Mexico the US will go to war with Mexico to remove the threat. This stuff is only difficult to understand when you believe the current globalist, one world govt, "you will own nothing", warmongers propaganda. They want to take over Russia and then China. They have even produced a map of Russia being divided into 6 new countries , after they conquer it.

NATO expanded long before Putin.

Ukraine joined NATO's Partnership for Peace in 1994 and the NATO-Ukraine Commission in 1997, then agreed the NATO-Ukraine Action Plan in 2002 and entered into NATO's Intensified Dialogue program in 2005.

Over the course of the 1990s and early 2000s, NATO expanded three times: first to add the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland; then seven more countries even farther east, including the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; and finally with Albania and Croatia in 2009.

During the early 2000s, President George W. Bush pushed for Ukraine to become a NATO member. France and Germany opposed it, fearing escalation with Russia.

Read some history

I agree. We maybe just need a toolset to be able to filter out spam, or what each individual may want to ignore ? I am not sure of a definitive approach here, but certainly most don't want to be inundated with literal nonsense as we've just experienced , en masse

This is massive. Within the past 10 days we came within a hair of being wiped out in a nuclear war. It turns out there was a de-facto coup with the military ordering Biden to stand down on authorising long range missile strikes from Ukraine into Russia. This , by the way, was precisely why Russia went to war with Ukraine, Russia could not allow nukes with a 5 minute flying time to Moscow to be deployed in Ukraine. Especially since the USA already has a first strike nuclear doctrine. Would the USA allow Russian nuclear missiles to be deployed to Mexico ?

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/american-coup

This is a global Bolshevik revolution, to make a global govt. China and Russia have to be taken, Ukraine was the battering ram to get into Russia, take it and break it into 6 countries, then onto take China. But its going belly up in Ukraine as they get hammered by Russia.

This is a global Bolshevik revolution, to make a global govt. China and Russia have to be taken, Ukraine was the battering ram to get into Russia, take it and break it into 6 countries, then onto take China. But its going belly up in Ukraine as they get hammered by Russia.

We are in the Bolshevik Revolution 2.0 This time the Trotskyites , retreaded as Neocons, have come back with tech to enslave us. "The first task of the communist revolution is to seize all private property", said Marx. The elites become the govt and they therefore will own everything, the poor have nothing, so the middle class must be destroyed and comprehensively looted into the poor class. They will own nothing. How do you do that ? Tokenize all their property, collateralize it , pull the rug to create a credit default and seize the collateral.

Recognise this for what it is

We are in the Bolshevik Revolution 2.0 This time the Trotskyites , retreaded as Neocons, have come back with tech to enslave us. "The first task of the communist revolution is to seize all private property", said Marx. The elites become the govt and they therefore will own everything, the poor have nothing, so the middle class must be destroyed and comprehensively looted into the poor class. They will own nothing. How do you do that ? Tokenize all their property, collateralize it , pull the rug to create a credit default and seize the collateral.

Recognise this for what it is

Tokenization will make YOUR assets more accessible to be seized as collateral in a credit default like a derivative collapse. Your house , your car, your policies, your stocked and bonds everything will be taken ! The laws have already been changed to facilitate this.

"You will own nothing".

Whose side are you on ?

Russia is the richest country in the world. It has maybe quadrillions of dollars of resources. Russia needs nobody else's resources. Russia straddles 11 timezones and is the pivot of Mackinder's World Heartland theory. Without controlling Russia you cannot control the world. Russia gets invaded or provoked into war at least every 100 years by people wanting to steal its resources and gain its strategic position. America has 700 military bases around the world, most are surrounding Russia. Russia has one foreign military base, in Syria. A bankrupt west needs assets for the bombed out balance sheets. Russia has the assets.

You haven't read any history.

You are 100% correct. Duration matching is one problem, but excess loans without any matching is the problem and bank failure , or the implied threat of failure by a bank run , is the solution IMO. No regulation, because that becomes regulatory capture, just caveat emptor. Learn the hard way!

Saylor makes this an industry. It's his business model. Nothing wrong until enough volatility wrecks you.

Saylor worries me. The investing graveyard is full of "to the moon assumptions". Nothing wrong with that if you're conservative and debt free , but when you pyramid borrowing and debt to speculate on such an assumption, I think the chances are that you almost certainly eventually go bust, hit by a volatile glitch.

There will always be credit/debt. It will arise spontaneously, not least in the manufacturing cycle, when goods are ordered but only paid for on completion of being manufactured. In the meantime costs and salaries must be paid. Credit notes arise and circulate as money to facilitate this. These notes used to be called Real Bills. They are settled for bitcoin or gold upon payment for the goods manufactured. The problem comes when the debt issued becomes unmoored from the settlement amount. Like in fractional reserve banking. I don't know how you solve this problem. I don't think you can.

Sure, scams are as guaranteed as the sun rising in the east. I should qualify that Aristotle referred to a universal token of exchange of value or what we now call Sound Money.

anyone know how to dump this ReplyGuy irritant ?

Aristotle defined money a few thousand years ago and is pretty much common sense. Money is a commodity that must be :

Divisible, portable, durable, fungible, desireable, relatively scarce , not consumed by industry and maybe , lately , one or two other properties.

The commodity with the most properties of money becomes accepted as money.

The tech led, commercial real estate decimation probably hit Trump.

Trump has only one goal for his presidency , to enrich himself. He doesn't give a fig for anyone else. "Warp speed , baby !". Trump makes me sick, as do the rest of the politicos.

Btw who's this Reply Guy grifter spamming the network ?