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After Ukraine, Is This Country Next?
Yields on Belarus government bonds have surged to near 10% this morning (up 130bps) and the "managed" Belarus Ruble has leaked further to new record lows against the US Dollar. One can't help but wonder what message the Russian actions are sending to other Eastern European nations but one thing is clear, capital is not comfortable there as bonds see the biggest price drop in almost 3 years.
Belarus Bonds seeing major outflows...
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Belarus already needed Russia to bail them out before. But will Russian have enough troops to handle both Belarus and Ukraine at the same time?
You don't need troops in Belarus. Hint: Anschluss
Just some vodka, Tia Maria, and cream.
I'll work for that.
What about all that $$ they got for writing code for Healthcare.gov?
That should be bringing in some coinage.
pods
I thought those were indians, go figure
That depends on whether the west destabilizes it first...
There is no evidence the "West" destabilized Ukraine.
Really? Do you honestly believe that? After decades of precedence, you see no evidence? Listen, the United States would destabilize a chicken coop in Estonia if it benefited some fucking banker somewhere. Don't be so naive.
The naivete on these boards is staggering...
Combined with the complete lack of a grasp of the underlying themes that have been driving civilization over the past 5,000 years....
Of course the existence of these themes does not imply they are moral or just... But to deny them is the equivalent of believing in fairy tales...
LOL, Estonia. No need to destabilize anything here, everything is sold long ago(both to EU and Russia). And if you still insist, our politician will do it for you on their own dime and initiative.
How can you tell when a woman from Minsk is having her period?
She is wearing only one sock...
I laughed.
My wife who is sitting next to me didn't.
Is she wearing only one sock ??? That would explain that...
Yes.
Understandable...
I hope you didn't have to take a shot in the ribs for it...
And the leading cause of death amongst women in Minsk? Toxic sock syndrome!
How'd your wife like that one?
Belarus, led by ex-Soviet communist Alexander Lukashenko, has openly called on Russia to annex Belarus. Vlad doesn't need troops... they'll willingly go to Russia. Russia hasn't annexed Belarus because it doesn't want to inherit that financial shitstorm. Just pull up USDBYR and you'll see that in the twelve years since I studied in Minsk, the BYR has dropped from 1750/USD to almost 10,000/USD today. Vlad doesn't want Belarus. Layman's 100% spot on... troops not needed.
Wouldn't that send the NATO-licking Poles into a tizzy, as well as Brussels itself? I'd LMAO.
Of course they'd give it some Madison Ave sounding name...
If there was no NATO, Putin would walk all over Europe. Fuck Putin.
Remarkable how the clowns here fail to grasp that simple fact...
He might stop at the Elbe, after all he does need customers to buy his gas so as he can line his pockets...
More to the point, Walkure, fuck NATO AND Putin.
Both sides are equally reprehensible here. And I am beyond disgusted with all the support that Czar Vladimir seems to be finding here, both with the Tylers and with most of the posters. They are all falling into the exact same trap and false dichotomy of supporting the (possibly) lesser of two evils that they rightly deride in their domestic political scene.
Putin is the most dangerous man in the world, as he is a man playing amongst boys...
He is a autocratic kleptocrat...
Autocrats always seem more powerful and decisive....
Do not be fooled...
i agree putin is a mad dog.
great news about the jewish pianist film getting an oscar .
for the hoolocaust documentary about the old lady playing in the camps.
as a jewish pole i think poland stands alone with france in confronting this putin nazi.
we will show him with are aussie friends that he cannot get away with this.
spielberg is already working on the ukraine refugee fund raising commercial.
soros says this could be putins final solution.
the cheap labour of mighty poland will crush this putin dog.
My best guess is that Vlad looks at Lukashenko, who's able to maintain an extremely tight grip on the throats of the Belarussian people, and sees no reason to intervene there since Luke's doing such a great job of doing the Kremlin's work for them.
But, when Luke slips up like Yanni (no, no, the other "has been," Yanukovich), Vlad will restore order ala Crimea... but wait for the BYR to hit 20k first. Then Vlad will be greeted as the liberator from another corrupt political regime. They'll throw roses, not molotov cocktails.
Send the troops in! We want action, not all this tossing around.
Yeah! Major world conflict killing millions! Yeah! FUCKIN AWESOME!
GITSUM GITSUM GITSUM!!!!!!!!!
Rather some due dilligence (hah!) on Moldavia.
Fips, it's not just Moldova... Georgia's PM meets Obozo and Biden in DC (today)
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Kartvelian Puppet - is today's tune...
And then you've got these from last saturday (when one tweet is not enough to get your message across) :
https://twitter.com/xenia_sobchak/status/439876816489426944
https://twitter.com/xenia_sobchak/status/439877802549334016
Laws of unintended consequenses. Crash it bithez!!!
Send
All this shit does is send us back to Eastern bloc/western bloc. The banksters think they can rule the world, but the East will rightly never let the fuckers take control of them
And pricks are buying stocks with all this shit going on!!!!
You might want to read up on Antony C Sutton about bankers and the East
http://www.whale.to/b/sutton.html
Light reading then :)
This smells a lot like Germany before WWII....where is Neville Chamberlain....he is Obama this round...where is OUR Winston Churchill....we need one
he's currently the Mayor of Toronto
Yellen? The bitch looks like him with a bowl cut.
And for the record, Churchill was a cunt of the first order. People need to stop romanticizing that fucking drunk midget.
How Sir Winston Churchill Starved 4 Million Indians
The author points out that Churchill, explaining why he defended the stockpiling of food within Britain, while millions died of starvation in Bengal, told his private secretary that ‘the Hindus were a foul race, protected by their mere pullulation from the doom that is their due.’ Pullulation, Mukerjee notes, means rapid breeding.
Mukerjee cites the notes from the British War Cabinet meetings that were released in 2006, which show that Churchill’s decision not to send food to starving Bengal was anchored on the analysis that, after the war, Europe would need a lot of food, and food prices would be high, and for Britain to import food at that time would prove costly. Moreover, surplus stocks built up in Britain by the denial of food to Indians would be worth a lot more on the world market after the war. On the basis of this analysis, Churchill resolved in 1942 to build up a stock of 27 million tons through civilian imports.
http://www.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=1396
How come the Indians were not growing their own food? Oh wait, that would imply responsibility for self.
You would know that Indian food was stolen by Churchill if you could read - the usual story of banksters starving people by printing money is also there:
The famine that killed 4 million Indians in Bengal was orchestrated from outside. ‘Since 1939,’ Mukerjee wrote, ‘the United Kingdom had been drawing grain and manufactures from India for the war effort, and the colonial government had been printing money to pay for these purchases. The resulting inflation had combined with other factors to precipitate famine in early 1943.
http://www.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=1396
British government is experienced in this kind of behavior. Ask Irish people for details...
Yeah, Churchill's cunt... too many people fawn over him as if he took on the Nazis for the good of man kind.
War is a racket!
And, let's not forget - declassified docs show that Churchil used Mustard Gas (WMD) on the people of Iraq way before Saddam or Bush Jr were born! *
* Not saying that Saddam or Bush Jr weren't assholes, but I'm simply adding that Churchill is a bigger and fatter asshole - think a "clown's pocket" asshole.
JustObserving, in lieu of better information for the present, I'm downvoting you ...
JO is 100% correct!
In fact the British were responsible for slaughtering millions colonializing the region, never mind the starvation caused by the British to make matters worse! note: you don't read much of this... for the very fact, that to the victors, so goes the writing of history. check out Yale Library (#2) Archives and Harvard (#1) Library archives in the country. great ref. source with facinating documentation. Oh, I forgot to mention the Library of Congress which is a must.
jmo
Ps. fwiw: The Irish hated the English so much that in both wwi & wwii they did everything in their power to thwart the british empire. Reason being was they had a better chance living under german rule than the shit bagging british treatment over centuries of repression!
Go Irish!!!
Cunts of first order include: Hitler, Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot to name but a few...
Even worse are the twisted fucks like Beria, Yezhov and Eichmann.....
Get your hyperbolic rhetoric straight...
Edit: And in the interests of being fair and balanced, lesser cunts include Hafez Assad, LeMay and Teller....
Edit2: I bet the twits that junked me would not even know who Yezhov was without looking it up on Wiki....
Churchill was a war criminal.
Do you miss the good ol' days of Papa Joe?
It would appear so...
Sounds like you're Projecting. There's nothing in his text to support your statement.
I am reasonably familiar with the posters recent body of work vis a vis the Ukraine....
It is an entirely natural conclusion, after all, flag waving Russian Nationalists hardly long for the days of Leonid and Nikita...
Smart money heading to Greece or Italy where everything is stable. The Squid is probably buying.
Watch Senil......er...Senator McCain. Any country that piece of shit goes to will be next under the NWO gun.
This should be viewed as further evidence that "markets" are mere government tools. There are no markets.
The impact on Russian "markets" is from global central bank action. Putin has a chance here to assert the reality that his oil is more important than their paper. He can refuse to take paper in payment, and that would shake the central bank cartel at its foundation.
Why not just sell gold forward to the American? His past willingness to cut supplies and past examples of its success makes your point weak? Adding Ukraine to Russia completely turns it on its head. Until the media made the story everybody assumed it was already Russian and will be quickly replaced by media fueled fear of something else? ?
sell gold to Americans? Really? I must be misunderstanding you.
IR - "Sell gold forward" - means take the dollars today and deliver the gold tomorrow.... Of course Tomorrow never comes. Kinda like all the German gold in the NY Fed vaults.
Thank you, sir...I just stack and make no attempt to trade or understand further than my dollars becoming worthless at some point.
Belarus is firmly allied with Russia. It has a unified and very effective air defense network with Russia. Belarussians hate West Ukrainians.
Russian is the mother tongue of 72% of Belorussians. Belarussian is used by less than 12%.
seperate government is wasteful...
So Russia wins the currency race to the bottom? In the future all are goods belong to Russia?
A 10% of the Rouble (relative to the Euro) makes Russian gas 10% cheaper for Europeans. Bullish for EU economy, and ties them closer to Russia, rather than to KSA/Qatar and the USD.
A shame that the New & Improved Tylers didn't point this out (to my knowledge).
Since when E.U. pays for Russian gas in roubles?
But of course that ethnically Russian-centric Country like Ukraine that the EU/U.S./Israeli/U.K. alliance says doesn't have anything to do culturally or otherwise with that neighbor of 143 million they share a border with since...
This is an attack on the financial systems of Russia and it's allies by Wall Street, The City of London and the ECB.
..." by Wall Street, The City of London and the ECB." Y'mean the neo Bolsheviks ?
Soviet Union is going to do an AT&T--break up then restore itself.
Dont anybody worry - we will stop red plague on Baltic border. Please buy our war-bonds
Or conscript your children
Where is Boris Alotofkrap?
Maybe he is Ukrainian and now has his hands full, or hands cold and trying to stay warm?
I thought the same thing...he has been unusually quiet.
In his submarine...?
Maybe... reminds me of a story...
Vlad goes out drinking one night. He arrives home very late and stumbles loudly through the bed room door. He falls several times as he undresses then slaps his ballerina girl friend on the ass and says, "Wake up bitch. You're next."
Meanwhile, across the World... Obama smokes a doob. Then after bending over for Reggie he jerks off to his own picture. Then gets roughed by Michelle.
A tale of two leaders... or one leader and a putz.
With the exception of spanking a cute, little ballerina, that created a whole series of mental images which were most inappropriate. Funny and true, but inappropriate.
Russia doesn't need to spend much since the world's wealth and power is located in the hands of a few oligarchs. Simply going to the source is the most effective ways these days. Last century things were a bit different. With the US less than 500 people control the whole nation. Same with EU. There you have the Goldman Sachs. Perhaps as few as one to deal with there.
In the old days the US made people believe that there was a national budget. All smoke and mirrors. No if you need to get something done you go directly to those in charge.
Why do you think they used the phone scene with Obama talking suposedly to Putin. Obama is a joke played on sheeple. He is the Totus. There wasn't anyone on the other end of the line.
It is Crimea, not the Ukraine. Crimea is a Russian ethnic enclave. Why is the Crimea part of the Ukraine? It only became part of Ukraine when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev arbitrarily gave the peninsula to his native land in 1954. It hardly mattered until the Soviet Union broke up in 1991 and Crimea ended up in an independent Ukraine.
Is it Russia That Holds the Winning Hand:
http://winteractionables.com/?p=9697
yeah, whatever was in middle ages doesn't count - right?
does your history beings in 1918 only?
Crimea was annexed by Russia in 1783, not 1918. It was Turkic before then, never Ukrainian.
R you Russell Means in drag, maybe Alger Hiss, or maybe just a typical Democratic Party Leftist?
Doesn't look like Putin is stopping at Crimea.
He better not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4WgBfETc
then again...maybe he should...
Russian "ethnic enclave?" Why yes, the Tsars and the Soviets sent said ethnic Russians to dilute the indigenous populations of their many "republics.' Ignorance seems to rule the day in nearly all facets of the puedo amerikan intellect.
I hope Slovakia doesn't pull an end around and pass Belaru. Of course the banksters who own the auto factories would probably not like that.
Belarus will go with whoever has the biggest bribe...
A diplomatic slowdown into spring is the first order! Taking away the Pipelines threat by allowing Putin to think he is winning for several months. Getting into spring takes the teeth out of Putin's leverage? Meanwhile the technocrats swing into action! Loans are produced and given to Russia controlled by IMF and technocrates to dismantle Ukraine and gut its wealth! Making Russia happy in winter is getting tougher each yr?
Don't know which country will be next, but I'm confident more Eastern European countries will be invaded by Russia while the world watches from afar. Neither the US nor the EU have the balls to even levy trade sanctions with Russia. Most are afraid to talk harshly. Russia has a clear road to rebuilding the USSR. I'm now recalling the 2012 hot mike conversation Obama had with then President Medvedev when he asked Medvedev to pass on word that after the election Obama would work with Putin. Apparently, Obama was promising to help him rebuild the Soviet Union.
why?
are you nuts?
At best Putin has a 120,000 man fighting force here.
He's gonna take on the entire West?
"Wow...good job. You still haven't seized the ten ship Ukrainian Navy yet."
If a million people suddenly show up in "Maiden Square ready to kill every Russian on the Planet" the he'll start staring down the barrel of the the real killers."
"Europa" is not in a very happy mood these days...but that Euro is kickin' ruble butt right now. And Chancellor Merkel is EAST GERMAN.
"Many ghosts of the past lie in Crimea."
I would HIGHLY recommend this "Putin" character and his Russian THUGS let them rest.
yeh.... vet... you knda forgot about China...
Of course Belarus is next. I told you boys that last week. But do I get any credit? Noooo.
I am just a wanna bee philosopher who can't spell.
The USA and Europe can't levy sanctions on Russia, unless it wants to see natural gas and oil prices explode. The fragile western economies couldn't bare that.
Wow !... and Belarussian bonds is such a liquid market.... ZZZZZzzzz