I would be deeply grateful if someone would explain the significance of this advance in a way that an interested and intelligent bystander might be able to begin to understand?🙏😆

Is anyone aware of professional explanation of how BlackRock, GBTC, Ark, etc are even going to acquire this ETF #Bitcoin without sending it to astronomical values? We have never seen a situation like this before in the history of financial markets, and I legitimately don’t even know how this will work.

Your position is clear and in some way it is pretty justified — because you are a naive selfish guy who only thinks about today, and it should be totally fine to be this guy in a free democratic world :)

Thankfully, obviously, you are minority so humanity got a chance, because there are still non-democratic govts exist who don’t care about freedoms

Wish you all the best 🤞🏻

Are you kidding? When there is agreement, there is a clear enough. If you want it to sound easy, then according to Budapest memo “enough” is when Ukrainian sovereignty is restored at 1991 borders. Is this clear enough?

Thats actually your country (therefore YOU even if you don’t like it) — obligated to guarantee in terms of international laws. We ask MUCH less. You are dancing to give NOTHING.

If you want to be unreliable partner, say it directly first

All Budapest memo signers broke it in Feb 2014 and it hasn’t changed till today. In fact it became useless even though:

1) Ukraine didn’t break it

2) Ukraine didn’t receive back anything what it exchanged for it

If you want to argue about philosophical differences between “a promise”, “a guarantee” etc in a document signed decades ago by different generations - then dictatorships already won

If you don’t believe a random guy ok the internet - see how entire countries react to that kind of “promises” — Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia give Ukraine ALL they can because they understand they are at the biggest risk. Poland on the other hand stocks up weapon as mad and increases army reserves because it can afford it. Why do they do it? Because they love Ukraine and war? Or because they understand Article 5 has very high chances to become next Budapest memo?

I hope you never get into my situation, but I would without thinking change all my income streams in order to return at least what we had - say, nukes and other heavy equipment. And there are more than 50% of Ukrainians thinking the same after 2022

I can’t answer how would I feel if I would be in your situation without actually understanding what is war. Maybe I would take the same position as you. I also was pretty blind between 2013 and 2017 when war was 100km away from me but I didn’t feel it and believed it never touches me. Now I just view a lot of things differently and trying to share experience of my errors which could help others

P.S. I assume you not only want to avoid printing money in order to support Ukraine, you just want to distance out, because if money is a problem you could just sent troops in order to meet Budapest memorandum liabilities :) but money is the least of help

P.S.S. If GDP is not an indicator for you, take another example - while US sent millions of dollars in water and shovels in the first months Poland sent a couple of hundreds of tanks which in dollar equivalent are peanuts but in survivability terms are MUCH more valuable

I never said this. I’m saying that this is only illusion to believe that it will stop on Ukraine. rusia gets Ukraine, then Eastern Europe, then gets all former USSR republics, then Iran gets middle East and China gets Asia. And then its just a matter of time when this this banner stops being a local joke (it says Alaska is ours)

Canada made a lot, there is huge Ukrainian diaspora. There are Latvia and Lithuania who put HUGE amount of their GDP into Ukraines support (which is understandable since they are next if Ukraine falls, however of course its peanuts comparing to US part with a miserable GDP part). I don’t understand what you are looking for here? US support is big. But its not only one. Other countries combined made MUCH more than US actually. But the main point here - democracies all-together here in this fight, even though today its UA and IL sacrificing their lives, before it was Sakartvelo, Moldova and Ichkeriya, tomorrow it could very well be US if we don’t unite in time

“Southern invasion” 😂😂😂😂 I have nothing to say

In reality this is a war started after WW2 between democracies and dictatorships. So, yes, Ukraine and Israel are just examples of countries having active war actions right now making other countries free of spilling their blood

And btw, do you really believe those are “regional conflicts” and while your neighbors are kind Canadians and working Mexicans — you are fine having prosperous life, better than before even if your allies burn in fire because of having wrong neighbors? And those “conflicts” never touch you?

Do you really believe in this and don’t even think that those “regional conflicts” are actually protecting you?

And btw, do you really believe those are “regional conflicts” and while your neighbors are kind Canadians and working Mexicans — you are fine having prosperous life, better than before even if your allies burn in fire because of having wrong neighbors? And those “conflicts” never touch you?

Do you really believe in this and don’t even think that those “regional conflicts” are actually protecting you?

So in short your suggestion is let rusia genocide 40 millions of citizens of my country because a long time ago your country madd a lot of mistakes which affect your life (inflation mostly) and you are tired with this and don’t want to be responsible for past liabilities?

P.S. nukes were actually taken by force because there were disastrous consequences if we won’t in short

Where are nuclear arsenal US was first to take from Ukraine? If you plan to stop “funding endless wars” do you also have plan first to fix ALL OF YOUR mistakes?

Imagine a race, there’s an orange finish line, but many screaming discouraging remarks by the sidelines. Some things are meant to be known, but not clung to as actualities, like inside jokes. It is impossible to serve two masters, and the “fed,” on the sidelines, plays two parts in a single role. The “hidden hand that shaped reality,” and the discouraging chants. However, the rules of the game of life are unchanging, like a walk in a forest remains that. It’s just that in the human realm, everything is upside down, and thus the orange paradise beyond the finish line, is deemed a bubble, and mere paranoia, since the racer, is made to focus on two things, on top of the goal. I hope this makes sense. It not only slows progress, but creates a negative outlook, and the energy needed to win, is wasted on other pursuits/distractions. Secretary Yellen is playing by the game rules, as her tweet shows, and as finance secretary, or treasurer, her role in the office is as the tweets suggest. Now, who is not in their lane?

Give me one assumption I made, that wasn’t part of your words, bio, or comment. Based on how you understood it. The approach you’re using is already defeating, in that it gives power to a force outside you, that’s supposedly bad for you, no matter what. Fine, you can win that statement, and I can stay in my lane, but a different approach wouldn’t be as bad. To put down those rocks in your arms, and seek a common ground.

Your words…

I agree with you disagreeing with me.

However, therein lies the problem. You’ve already created in your mind what part of #reality you do not agree with, yet your faith is in doubt (last statement). Your bio says “end the fed,” but you don’t fully understand the entirety of the situation. What of dealing with reality as it is, and starting to build up from there? Read her tweet again, and remember your loyalty is in the USA.

Your words…

I agree with you disagreeing with me.

However, therein lies the problem. You’ve already created in your mind what part of #reality you do not agree with, yet your faith is in doubt (last statement). Your bio says “end the fed,” but you don’t fully understand the entirety of the situation. What of dealing with reality as it is, and starting to build up from there? Read her tweet again, and remember your loyalty is in the USA.

The first part of the sentence, goes with the last one, in the first tweet. Israel and Ukraine are American allies, and national security comes first. Secondly, we all must agree that modernizing the IRS, is key, in a way that everyone pays their dues, in a perhaps future automated system. The whole country runs on taxes. Now, making these changes effective, affects the whole. Your approach, and that of most, with regards to bitcoin, and change, is wrong. It adapts a victim’s mentality, and thus why there is very few counter arguments against critics, and critiques. Consider religion, no one can debate, or argue agains God, or Jesus. Try as you may. Find all the philosophy, and smartest of comments, which sound rational. The point is, if you’re selling change, make sure your customer is satisfied, and all queries are solved, lest, it’s self-defeating, and they not only take their business elsewhere, but leave you with unresolved dogmas, kind of like Abe Simpson arguing with a cloud. Didn’t, and wasn’t Donald Trump forced to show his tax documents? Don’t the corrupt ones get evicted, and kicked out, eventually? Like that gold smuggler? Mend something. Look at this tweet with fresh eyes, and realize what you’re doing/saying.

What is your preferred method of accessing nostr? #asknostr

I don’t understand why some #nostr clients have an option to report a profile.

Why would anyone trust me as the rightful source of appropriateness?