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On The Path To War
Submitted by Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity,
The US is clearly now pushing Russia towards war. But if you read the signs correctly, Russia has been preparing for exactly this outcome for many years.
Out of several reasons that US power brokers specifically -- but western power brokers more generally -- are deeply unhappy with Russia right now is that Russia is committing a cardinal sin: it is openly, brazenly calling for an end to dollar dominance and has moved aggressively with China to achieve that aim.
No oil-rich country that has tried to move away from the dollar in the past twenty years has managed to do so without being attacked by the US, suffering a regime change, or being ruined by sanctions. In some cases, all three.
Not only has Russia managed to secure a string of heavy-duty bilateral trade and currency swap agreements over the past year, but they've done so despite ever-increasing threats and responses from the US and its allies. And frighteningly, the equity markets in the West are completely ignoring the nested set of risks that accompany these moves and countermoves by two geopolitical heavyweights, which range from punishing trade wars (already underway), to electronic warfare, to an actual shooting war.
Today's "Markets"Are Untethered From Reality
I put the word "markets" in quotes above because whatever it is that passes for an equity market these days, it bears little resemblance to that of times past.
The "markets" today are using the skimpiest of evidence to support their tendency to feast on fresh central bank liquidity by either levitating higher or failing to go down much on even the most horrendous of geopolitical, economic or environmental news.
As a prime example, in the pre-market on Friday, 8/7/14, beginning in the wee hours of the morning, the S&P futures ramped up 20 points off the lows by market open, and then poured on another 20 points in the cash market.
The reason given? The possibility of calm in Ukraine:
Pre-market Dow reversal illustrates Ukraine sway over markets
Aug 8, 2014
In a sign of just how much stock market moves are being driven by geopolitical headlines from abroad, pre-market futures for the Dow flipped from sizable losses to modest gains after reports that Russia is moving to de-escalate the Ukraine crisis.
Increasingly, every tick of the tape on Wall Street is being driven by news flashes related to bad things happening overseas, including the Russian role in the 5-month-old crisis in Ukraine.
“We are in one of those moments where markets sway on war or no-war rumors,” says Gary Kaltbaum, president of Kaltbaum Capital Management.
The Dow, which is coming off a 75-point drop Thursday, knocking it down 4.5% from its July 16 record close, did an about face this morning, going from down 100 points in pre-market trading to up 42 points.
Wall Street is citing the following news reports for the rebound:
According to Bloomberg: “U.S. equity-index futures rebounded after RIA reported Russia is making efforts to de-escalate the Ukraine conflict. RIA cited Russian Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev.”
(“Russia will continue to make all efforts for a very fast de-escalation of tensions,” Nikolai Patrushev told RIA, a state-run Russian news agency.)
That is about as poor of an excuse for a major market reversal as any I have run across lately. They might as well have said that Cher is considering expanding her next tour by four cities as being the "reason".
For starters, consider the source. Was it Putin himself? No. Instead, it was the very same guy that the EU had just added to their sanctions blacklist a few weeks ago:
EU Blacklists Russia’s Federal Security Chief, Security Council Secretary
Jul 26, 2014
MOSCOW, July 26 (RIA Novosti) – The European Union has added key Russian officials to the blacklist, including Russian Federal Security Service chief Aleksander Bortnikov and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.
Did he say anything concrete, such as that meetings were going to be held and that constructive solutions were on the table that Russia might find agreeable?
No. All he parroted was the standard Russian talking point, which Putin himself has used many times, that Russia hopes for a rapid return of peace to Ukraine.
That's it...and so I have to ask: That's worth forty S&P points?
On the other side of the ledger, the one pointing to escalating tensions, we have a lot of very credible items that any sane person would easily think vastly outweigh a single talking-point sentence by a Security Council member.
For example, consider this:
Moscow’s food ban could cost EU $16bn, spark crisis in Europe
Aug 7, 2014
Russia’s ban on agricultural food imports could cost the European Union about $16 billion (12 billion euro) and drag the continent into the crisis, officials warn.
The Russian government signed a decree on Thursday which bans the import of beef, pork, poultry, meat, fish, fruits and vegetables, cheese, milk, and dairy products [for one year] from the EU, US, Australia, Canada, and Norway.
Now why would a country that's about to announce that it's going to seek a rapid return to peace in Ukraine on Friday, pass this particular and Draconian decree on Thursday? That just doesn't make sense. And of the two, if I get to choose between a year-long food ban and a single sentence by a Security Council member, I'm going to have to go with the idea that the food ban is telling us more about the actual state of things.
Such a ban will cause a lot of hardship in Russia. We can expect food price spikes for sure, and possibly even food shortages, too. Therefore, it was not done lightly.
This food ban followed the cancelation of a Russian defense deal by Germany two days prior:
Germany Just Canceled a Defense Deal With Russia - Who’s Next?
Aug 6, 2014
As European countries try to balance their economic dependence on Russia with their desire to punish president Vladimir Putin for meddling in Ukraine, Germany has stepped ahead of the pack to poke the bear in the eye, canceling a €123 million ($165 million) defense deal with Moscow earlier this week.
In response, the Kremlin has said it will sue Rheinmetall, the German defense firm that was to supply parts for a military training facility for the Russian military. The deal, signed in 2012, was suspended by Berlin shortly after the annexation of Crimea in March; this week’s move permanently bars the delivery of the equipment. Last week the European Union banned all arms exports to Russia, but that only covers future deals.
The scuttled deal was simply for parts for a training facility, the sort of thing that might just as easily have been covered under normal import and export trade agreements. But since the facility was military in nature, it fell to the sanction sword.
And only a day prior to that, Putin called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council:
Russia Calls For Emergency UN Security Council Meeting As Troops Fortify On The Border
Aug 5, 2014
Russia called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday over what it called an urgent humanitarian situation in Ukraine, according to a report from the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS.
"We are convening an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine," Russian Ambassador to the U.N. Vitaly Churkin was quoted as saying.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the U.N. and the International Committee of the Red Cross expressed "readiness" to discuss its plan to deploy a "humanitarian mission" to Ukraine, which some consider to be a pretext for an invasion by Russian forces.
The White House has openly worried about what would be, for all intents and purposes, an invasion under the guise of a "peacekeeping" operation.
"We’ve seen a significant re-buildup of Russian forces along the border, potentially positioning Russia for a so-called humanitarian or peacekeeping intervention in Ukraine," deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken said last week.
Those quotes by US officials make it sound unreasonable for Russia to be considering a "so-called humanitarian intervention" into Ukraine. And most in the West might agree with that assessment because the western press is virtually unanimous in its failure to cover the actual humanitarian crisis that is happening over there right now.
But other countries are not ignoring it. For instance, as reported by the Japanese press, we find that entire cities, packed with hundreds of thousands of civilians, are under constant bombardment by Kiev forces:
East Ukraine city dying under siege
Aug 5, 2014
ONETSK, Ukraine —
Residents say the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk is dying. The power grid was completely down Monday, the city government said, and fuel is running dry.
Store shelves are emptying fast, and those who haven’t managed to flee must drink untreated tap water. With little medicine left, doctors are sending patients home.
As Ukrainian government forces slowly tighten their ring around the city — one of two major pro-Russian rebel strongholds — traveling in and out has become a perilous undertaking.
In an impassioned statement released over the weekend, mayor Sergei Kravchenko described a situation that is becoming more unsustainable by the day.
“As a result of the blockade and ceaseless rocket attacks, the city is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe,” Kravchenko said. “Citizens are dying on the streets, in their courtyard and in their homes. Every new day brings only death and destruction.”
Luhansk, a city of more than 400,000 people at peacetime, now has seen its population dwindle as citizens flee violence and deprivation. Located about an hour’s drive from Russia, which Ukraine insists is supplying rebels with weapons and manpower, Luhansk is being fiercely fought over by all sides of the conflict.
What would the US, the UK, Germany or Japan do if several million of their native-tongued people living right along their border were under siege by a possibly illegitimate government force that had openly expressed its desire to kill as many of those people as it could?
I think we all know the answer to that: they'd already be in there with humanitarian and possibly also military support. Heck, the US invaded an entire country 7,000 miles away under the pretext that Iraq might have WMD's that could someday, possibly, be used against American interests. And Iraq never once openly threatened the US.
But to top it all off, there was a second recent news item which was the most frightful bit of news that anybody in Europe could ever hope to hear. And if it happens, it will be an open act of war against Russia by Ukraine:
Ukraine Open to Halting Gas Flows in Russia Sanctions
Aug 8, 2014
Ukraine said it’s open to halting Russian gas supplies to Europe through the country as it plans sanctions on President Vladimir Putin’s government as part of its battle against pro-Russian separatists.
The list of possible sanctions includes a “complete or partial ban on the transit of all resources,” Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk told reporters in Kiev today in response to a question about halting gas flows.
Measures may also include a ban on Russian planes overflying Ukraine, he said, while defense-industry cooperation will be reduced. A draft law, which requires parliamentary approval, also proposes restrictions on ships entering Ukrainian waters.
Good grief! If Ukraine halts the gas flows, Europe will be in big trouble and very quickly. I have to assume that EU ministers are reading the Ukraine leadership the riot act.
But this news is also a very strong sign of escalation, not de-escalation. And so the 'market' response to the statement by Russian Security Council Sec?retary Nikolai Patrushev is really grasping at straws. For my money the gap between the news events and the 'market' reaction is so huge that I have to wonder if there isn't a different explanation that makes more sense, such as a Plunge Protection Team intervention at a critical moment as US stock futures were headed over a cliff (which they seemed to be before the miracle reversal).
However, even if such interventions are occurring, they cannot change the tide. Something has been put in motion that cannot be easily undone, And Russia is furiously signing deals that are a far greater risk to the US than anything happening in some remote corner of eastern Europe.
In Part 2: The End of Dollar Dominance? we look at the reason that suddenly makes the US' reckless aggression towards Russia much more understandable: Russia is pivoting from West to East, and in the process, seeking to diminish the dollar's supreme regime as the world's reserve currency. When viewed through this lens, Russia's prodigious string of recent trade and energy deals with eastern nations suddenly looks very calculated, and the US' itchy nervousness in response makes more sense.
What are the implications if we are entering the Peak Dollar era? One we know for sure is: today's "markets" are vastly under-pricing, if not ignoring altogether, that risk.
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you're a fraud mate.
from the name on down.
Chris
If Russia is offending the USA by it's currency swaps..what about the China/Euro agreements of October 2013?
The whole world is just preparing for th dollar collapse. Not really all that odd. It is coming, it is obvious and all the CBs know this.
The idea that the US is making war is obvious, I just don't think that the Saddam/Qadaffi meme carries over to Russia.
The US is stuck on the thoughts of the last century. The rest of the world seems to want to move on.
The dollar finale will be huge but the US can no longer prevent it.
I agree the US is making nasty with Russia and maybe they see Russian action against the dollar as threatening but that means they have missed the fact that China, the BRICS, Japan, The EZ and damn near the rest of the planet (but not the USA) is preparing for a new currency system. Can they be that blind?
Yes, they are that blind. They think the party can continue forever, because there has always been that party going during thier adult lives.
The objective is not a hot war.
Its a cold war .
This will reduce the size of the Euro entrepot and therefore make extraction more sustainable.
The guys in London simply want to restart the euro scarcity engine - however its sometimes hard to tell if Germany is to the west or east of the line.
The Uk may be prepared to destroy the German added value economy in the interests of more basic imports from France and Spain.
A. I see the gas getting shut off.
B. I'm feeling kinda vulnerable without those LGM-118 MX missiles we foolishly decomissioned.
Here is the plan:
Russia is still communist:
War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. But today we are too weak to strike. Our day will come in 30 - 40 years. But first we must lull the capitalist nations to sleep with the greatest overtures of peace and disarmament known throughout history. And then, when their guard is dropped, we will smash them with our clenched fist." Dimitri Manuilski — In a speech to the Lenin School for Political Warfare in Moscow in the 1930s.
But at the heights, the sides are managed by the same people.
"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."
- Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets
The world be be communist in 5-8 years - because it has rejected its (Catholic) God.
...and secretly Germany is working with Russia behind the scenes. Russia and Germany will invade Europe!
"because it has rejected its (Catholic) God."
used to hear this in grammar school 60 yrs ago. lol
didn't work then either. lol
the original Thomas A. was more original
Gawd, what a bonehead
The same oligarchs who are killing millions of Russians and MiddleEasterners would not give a second thought about killing you and everyone you've ever known.
like so many here, you obviously are prone to wild hyperbole and/or disinformation. "Millions" of russians and me'ers are getting killed? Start w/ how many millions of russians do you think have been killed?
dup
American bombers have been killing men, women and children in the Middle East since 1945 in the name of democracy. We put in murderous tyrants, all over the world, whose only objective is to steal countries' wealth. American politicians do this for lobby money, for their masters. Of the estimates of the dead, all are in the millions.
Victoria Nuland bragged that the coup in Ukraine only cost $5 Billion. The number if dead in Ukraine is, probably, less than a million but those numbers are rising daily. To be more informed about that, go to vineyardsaker.blogspot.com The reason America is at Russia's front door is to steal their wealth. How would you feel if Russia were in Canada or Mexico? We are NOT the exceptional people. Inform yourself at paulcraigroberts.org or Greg Hunter on YouTube.
Years ago, when a friend tried to inform me about all of this, I did not believe it. Then I did my own research. Do your own research and stop believing everything your corrupt government tells you. Inform yourself.
duplicate. Sorry
Putin is as much of a posturing clown as Obama.
You know how that goes, either they fall in love with each other or they fall in hate with each other.
Usually the later.
Shouldn't you be off somewhere shilling for your murderous friends in Israel?
couldn't find a place for the antisemite in your post. you must be disappointed acne brained idiot
Seems I don't have to, they just show up anyway, LOL.
lol ha that was YOU looking in the mirror not him you gay fart inhaler
UK trade deficit likely to be a bit larger this year.
Y2013 : £107,890 million
Q1 2013 : 26,042
Q2 2013 ; 25,434
Q1 2014 : 26,483
Q2 2014 : 27,389
Could it get past the 110 Billion Sterling mark ?
Thisn is real money baby.
Not hyperinflated claims on stuff.
THIS IS THE REAL STUFF
If 110 billion sterling was spent on local village consumption in euroland the locals would have to be rolled out of the bar each and every night.
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_371804.pdf
Don't believe Martenson.
As far as I am aware I think he is a bankers son.
There is a shitload of surplus out there to be consumed.
No magic tricks needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgKIk7ujxvw
Fuck I need to get my bar stocked back up.
These people at the top are fucking nuts!
is anyone familar with what has happened to the drone deal israel had with russia? is israel still supplying drones to russia?
http://en.itar-tass.com/economy/743727
thank you, socialbeach. always enoy your insights.
you bet-ANYTHING for a buck
Unless the psychopath-in chief and his reptilian handlers got some secret place on a far away planet there should not be any real war....but then again, maybe they're all immortal vampires who can eat nuclear mushrooms for breakfast...
If this editorial were a "patient" talking to his/her doctor, the patient would be in a strait jacket surrounded by vulcanized rubber walls. We wouldn't have seen schizoid news headlines like this even 1 year ago. The United States of America and it's handlers are truly out of their minds... Somebody kill this patient before it's too late!
To the guys and gals in uniform in the United States Armed Forces:
If you happen to be reading the likes of Chris Martenson, Ron Paul and Paul Craig Roberts and believe what you are witnessing and what your leaders are continuing to ask you to do for the 20th year is insane, the good news is you are still normal, human and there is still hope that you can de-escalate with that other nuclear super power your 3 and 4 stars are chafing at the bit to start a war with.
My advice is that you get a cadre of the best snipers among your outfit(s) and pay a little visit to Washington D.C. along your CEOs at the 5 sided "puzzle palace" after Labor Day!
Your country needs for you to do the only rational and sane thing that is left to do!
God Help All of Us -if you don't
has that fleet of black Escalades surrounded your house yet? Do you hear a helicopter in the distance? Before morning, expect a concussion grenade, not a knock on the door.
Before morning, expect a concussion grenade, not a knock on the door.
db
still here.
Considering where we are at this point. We better be willing to make those kinds of collective sacrifices if we are "to stay alive". If we don't start thinking beyond out own noses expect it only to get worse.
How many more of our men and women must die to fulfill the greed and lies of the US Oligarcy?
"Peak" dollar happened a very long time ago, what is left is only supported by threats, violence, smoke and mirrors, and the financial ignorance of the American electorate.
The news is that the Ukraine, Australia, the Netherlands, and Belgium signed an agreement on August 8th to keep the results of the Malaysian airplane crash investigation secret.
Link please?
Not quite:
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/218045.html
"Ukraine, the Netherlands, Belgium and Australia have agreed that details of the inquiry into the causes of the Boeing 777 crash will not be announced before the inquiry has been completed..."
(Translation: "We won't say what we're doing, until we've done it.")
Russia will be able to trade food for gas anytime it wants. There is nothing the US can do to stop it. Does Obama think Germans are going to freeze this winter just to support an insane US agenda driven by psychopaths with an endless lust for (other people's) blood and money? Sooner rather than later this US madness is going to end in global disaster - I only hope that DC, Wall street, the Hamptons, and Palm Beach are the first to go in a blinding flash.
Or maybe just uncontrolled bleeding from the eyes and anus - even better.
Russia has endured untold hardship and horror-there is NOTHING the US or EU can do to really hurt Putin without cutting their own jugular.......lol
PPPFFFFFFFFTTT!
I just farted. All over the dollar. And, I'm encouraging everyone else to do it too.
Go ahead - sanction me - I dare you!
Soooo, Putin's been planning this for years - I think so, very credible. And that means China's been right in the planning mix all along too.
It was 1999 when Russia and China had enough of U.S. hegemony - the 78-day bombing of the Serbs was the last straw. They then began to hold repeated summits on creating a more balanced world order, and we now know what the content was.
If you want to castrate the U.S., you have to castrate the dollar. And not in 25 years, or even 5 years from now. Nope - this year and next.
Bend over. The Fed pump is here
Al pimps where planing to invade other nations and take more power.
USrael planned start WW3 with Iran or at least create terorists state in Syria - well that didn't come to life, but at least they managed to do it in Iraq & Libya
Israel simply killing people in Gaza and annexing West Bank - who do **** cares, right?
And than Putin regime told - wait I also have gained some pimp power and soon started to invade other countries - starting with Georgia where took a little piece of it, than invaded Crimea with green man that boutgh tanks in shops and took to it's self from Ukraine, now expanding this occupation tries the same in Easter Ukraine - bad luck there - ukranians has waken up and fight against occupation.
It's a pimp war and there are many bit**** who are cheering for their favorite pimp.
That Ukraine is threatening to close transit of Russian gas did not make many headlines in the MSM but this is big. The EU might push for more sanctions against Russia but individual European countries already feel the cold of winter and are not happy with this at all. This policy of Ukraine in 'normal' conditions would signify economic suicide and the EU and European countries in 'normal' conditions would drop the country like a stone in favor for Russia. What is going on?
will germany be pressured to turn the nuke plants back on , this winter?
The EU according to yesterdays reports, is standing at the brink of the precipice......the USA cant afford to help them-and if Russia looks at them cross eyed, we may see EU collapse---Russia has dealt with MUCH WORSE conditions than the kindergaten sanctions thrown at them and come out on top-doing very well thank you
France is in ruins.....they are not gonna turn away Russian business....such as building Putin several new battleships, while Oblama wets his pants
i just love these immature analyses.
it's as if some guy just wakes up and says wow something ain't right and then regurgitates everything he has read on seen on MSM for the last few days. This so called analysis is one of those puke things. There is nothing new here. It is a remake of last months news. in other words, 'same shit different wrapper'.
i can't imagine what part 2 of this garbage could be except more garbage.
OK then do better, put it on the table
>>>i just love these immature analyses.
===
LOL! YOU would know alright
The US is an arsehole. Period
How come the UK can't stop licking it?
re The US is clearly now pushing Russia towards war
...and an all too possible Global Nuclear Conflagration.
THAT makes the USSA - by any definition - a ROGUE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.
Ditto its complicit Euro Bootlickers and - of course - IsraHell.
I for one am glad that Russia stands up to US and Jewish terrorism
"On the one hand, Russia and China, together with the rest of the BRICS, are trying to get rid of the dollar and form their own currency system to gain complete independence, on the other, the neocon banking-corporate puppets in the US are in panic and seek desperately a pretext to come to war with Russia and put an end to this threat for their plans. This explains their agony to drag Russia into a warm conflict."
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/08/the-dominant-elite-ready-to-b...
Markets stopped functioning during the dot.com boom.
When the dot.com boom bust the FED picked up the tab.
So with the FED guaranteed to pick up the tab since 1999, keep blowing bubbles and collecting bonuses and let the FED clear up afterwards.
Other nations such as China recognise they will be treated the same way if they don't do what the West decrees.
This is helping to push together Russia and China in particular, but other non-Western nations as well.
With 50% of world trade now occuring outside the old West, the tide is turning and the balance of power shifting East.
The Uk had to discover the hard way that it was no longer a dominant world power.
The US will go through the same process.
The future is in the numbers (population):
China 1,366,130,000
India 1,247,890,000
United States 318,554,000
Russia and China = 1.5 billion
Suddenly the US looks like a 7 stone weakling.
Glomming Russia and China together is asinine at best...
The Fatherland....by the numbers....has shrunk precipitously for decades....
No "recovery" there...at all.....population-wise.
Those enormous populations are actually a hindrance if they aren't productive.
"Russia has been preparing for exactly this outcome for many years."
Of course. America has been provoking Russia time and again for ages, long before the dedollarization process. It seems the USA can't leave well alone. What's wrong with its sanity, one wonders.
Great article by Noam Chomsky,
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175877/tomgram%3A_noam_chomsky,_why_nati...
Great article, thanks.
Stalin offering to relinquish East Germany in 1952 was a real eye opener.
Fuck Mr.Polonium. As evil incarnate he is incapable of good intentions. His supporters are goulish heñchmen. Ready the nukes
Thank You, John McFuckingCain....now fuck off
I read that you do not think it makes any sense for Russia to pass a law banning European food for a year and wondered if you had thought deeply enough on this issue. What is clear is that the US is pushing the EU into ever more severe sanctions against Russia. Given that this means that even stricter sanctions are being planned, Russia's response in introducing the food ban becomes easy to understand. What Russia is doing is providing compelling reasons to EU member states to refuse to agree to harder sanctions in future. Will US puppet Poland agree to more sanctions when key agricultural industries are facing collapse because of the last sanctions?...Russia moving to make EU states understand there will be negative consequences in supporting the US while the sanctions are still relatively moderate and not affecting Russia too much is a very clever move.
Had a talk with people who works in Russia company connected to goverment/regime.
Well, things are not so rosy as Putin media propoganda delivers.
Yes, there is de-dollarization happening, but it means that companies ar lacking currencies - those that actually other companies need, like USD, EURO, etc. No-one wants those yuanj, rubels - so that is a major problem for company that works global. Next thing is all grants that this company had is gone, because all goes to Crimea investments just to keep that region going. That is a expensive occupation.
Real entrepreneurs are not happy with Putin - they say that he has went mad and that's all.
This specific company will go bust soon, thousands of people will be layed off - that is only beggining.
I don't think that Putin is mad and doesn't understand this - but maybe he really is mad. I don't know.
But when this will hit simple people in Russia - consequences can be unpredictable.
MARTENSON ONCE AGAIN YOU HAVE ASTOUNDED US WITH YOUR IDIOCY
USA WANTS WAR WITH RUSSIA?
HELLO WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
A THEORY FROM LIBERTARIAN HELL?
A WALL STREET WET DREAM?
ALL THE LACK OF WAR(S) SINCE 2009
IS THE PATH WE ARE ON...
INVEST IN MIDDLE CLASS NOT IN BOMBS
Russia and China buying and mining gold as fast as they can.
The day Russia delare it will no longer support Syria and Iran will be the day the USSA (Tel Aviv) stops this Ukraine nonsense. If I were Putin and if I have the heart for the good of mankind, I would disperse the Russian population into 10000 small units each sufficient for self support, then empty all nukes on Israel and the US.