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  1.  @MetaView7  Russia as well.... In the states the biggest percentage of the increase is because big companies are taking profits...
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  2.  @Lorenzo-ew6so  Free trade with russia wouldn't impede the american people... Putin, like Yelstin was expected to give all of those assets to americans that 'count' When he reversed that process he was public enemy number one.... Don't you know that putin installed trump?
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  3.  @RatieM64  It is hard to say anyone knows that much about africa.... I am not even in africa... I went to an AU meeting where I didn't even find that much out about africa but I am sure even those in active in the AU [i am not] will admit that they don't know all that much about africa... My understanding is that the IMF don't want anywhere in the world to get food sovereignty.. My understanding is that the fish in the congo could feed half the world, which has a huge apatite for sea food but their ain't no fish industry there....
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  4.  @hansdekorver7365  So eat more if you don't want to disappear.
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  5. The US can just make the foreign dollar reserves come into being.... They ain't going to pay it 'cause they don't want to... So it is in the rules based order.
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  6.  @stevenginn5352  There was a big push for sanctions before the invasion of Ukraine... They included the nord stream piplines and chinese IT... Nato had been arming Ukraine and Ukraine had been shelling their citizens who spoke russian at the border of russia for the past eight years, stepping up shelling in those provinces ten fold leading up to the invasion.. The stated reason for the war and the sanctions is to weaken russia... To be sure there are many references to the proxy nature of both the sanctions and the war. It is also apparent that the sanctions and the war don't weaken russia. Blinkin, after the destruction of the Nord stream piplines that it was a tremendous opportunity for american firms. While these facts arn't all evidence that the war is about sanctions in a new cold war, proposals for sanctions predated the invasion and the invasion strengthens the tendency for the EU to strengthen the sanctions...
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  7.  @johanstinson  Look up Natasha and Boris Bandinov.... They got the goods.
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  8. I predict US marines in Moscow by March.
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  9. Someone in nato thinks the sanctions are worth the war.
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  10. He must be a very good comedian to play such a joke on the west.
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  11.  @ilovethisworld3059  It is a bit confusing that the US stated goal of this conflict was to weaken russia when what it seems to be doing is weakening the US position and growing the Russian postion... I am not sure who is winning this conflict in the US.... I find it difficult to believe that we would continue on when no one was benifitting here.. Perahps we will see who wins in the years to come.
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  12. ​ @dontworry6795  Those are US service members... No! we aren't going to give them to the russians.
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  13. If there is a conflict that the americrans care about that would change radically.
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  14.  @willia3r  But the US is so good at empire colapse as well as a decent into feudalism....
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  15. They are THE SAME...
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  16.  @ponkepeter7848  I like the way trump gets static from the media for everything.... It is possible that he will have the power to stop wars if he appeals to the people to act...
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  17. If the democrats stood up for their brand name and supported the people, they would win handily.... The problem is that they are the same neolibs as the republicans..
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  18. Anything you feel is apealing is good.
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  19. The USA is playing cop with their own people.... The most interesting example is the war in Ukraine where there are two narratives in the US: CIA talking points and 'russian disinformation'
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  20. The west is based on protecting it's dollar and economic hegemony They are quickly deindustrializing and need other places to pick up the slack.... Yeltsin cooperated with that process and deindustrialized as well.... Gave everything away to the west... Putin stopped and reversed that process and that is the reason they put sanctions more on europe than on russia... A conflict with china is in the works as well.
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  21.  @satishidury7114  I also chose my news sources... My group is a kind of echo chamber... 'Tends to agree with my biases and the facts they present tend to closely align with the truth... ... Just like most who are interested in the news...
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  22. The oligarchy is putting these clowns in office... We don't have a voice in the matter.
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  23.  @tomdziczek9676  Much of american football is a curiosity to me.... My collogues at the pub have experience with football but I am clearly fascinated... Some of them have owies. It is a crying shame.... It's football day today...
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  24.  @taoboxer7  A lot of people think that the europeans are going to experience the same kind of economic deprivation that much of africa has experienced.. The argument about who is in power in germany is who feels the east is the enemy.. Annalena Baerbock directly challenged Shultz about doing business with china... This after the west bombs german infrastructure.. The german moto: "We haven't begun to wimp out yet."
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  25.  @briancarno8837  Sad... As a US citizen and a mechanical designer, I think I will profit personally from the millatary build up and the energy intensive industries that will most likely create a mini industrialization here in US in the short run.
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  26. Half of america believes that trump was installed by putin... ... Not said in sarcasm.
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  27. It does seem as the collective west is tired of the war. The sanctions are the main point of the war and it may be a year or more before europe wakes up to find it has been destroyed by sanctions... When that happens, europe will look completely different and they won't be united against russia in this war. Meanwhile russia has achieved a goal they have been taking for several years: Demilitarization of the border of russia. Ukraine's considerable build up of military has mostly been destroyed.
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  28.  @stone420  If I can invent money, there has to be a reason it is valued.... The US dollar will be valued for a very long time and the US can print it.
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  29. What about other sources, Norway, Garbage Burning?.... How is everything else in Sweden?...
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  30.  @robertmarsh6673  That they are a dictatorship makes them vulnerable to some nasty P&C when people are freezing, not eating and without any house.
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  31.  @ridwanrabiukano6973  Perhaps it should be a french tradition with a lot of P&C.
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  32.  @harrytorrealba2655  I am quite sure they have a lot of millatary junk that they need to process.... Maybe they can turn over the turret heads and keep them for hutches for preditors like small wild cats, foxes or ccoyotes.
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  33.  @barbmartell7901  The steel plant was Azov headquarters... They were holding many non combatants there and they surrendered those Azov that survived as well as the non combatants... The query was more about how they are rehabbing the steel plant than that event... My understanding is that on the other side of the black sea, Terky, is tends toward Russia and Russian buisiness. That is where all of the prossessed steel has to go out through ships... Needless to say trade and wall street world domination is the real war. This hot war that is killing 250K plus within a year is a side show.
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  34. Putin's ultimatums: Denazification and Demilitarization are far from compleate....
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  35. There was an attack on Crimea....
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  36.  @Patt12  Reports of the demize of stupidity in europe are greatly exagerated...
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  37.  @rogerleonard5351  There really is no way to get rid of the MIC without replacing it with some other form of income redistribution in the states.... The dollars in your pocket are made by decree meaing they can just be created out of thin air by the US goverment... Yes money DOES grow on trees.
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  38.  @tuck295q  Do bots get paid? I want to know where to pick up the checks.
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  39.  @Ossie786  After negotiating for peace for eight years, you really think that the russians will play the same game that the UK played with the Suez canal that lost them hegemony? The thing with extractive economics is that it deindustrializes and outsources all of it's resources and production... This was tried in the 7'th through the 4'th centuries BC where there was fierce imperials competition between the athenians and the spartans... That ended in going into a kind of dark ages because the people with the land holdings were not able to produce much...
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  40.  @RajVivek  I share your predciton that the US dollar will follow standard valueation laws in the future, perahps in my lifetime. It doen't right now... The Korean war was faught because the US wanted dollar hegimony and needed the alies to pay off their war debt, specified in dollars... My meantor in these things is Michaeil Hudson... Who went to work for the CIA in the seventies explaining his book 'Super Impiralism"Another is Stepany Kelton and her book 'Deficit Myth" .... I should probably re-read that... It is written at an eighth grade readling level and has many of the basics. There is a Youtube lcture series in Geopolitical Economy Report with Professors Michael Hudson and Radhika Desa that we can get in the states. It just starated but I tend to think they will be covering currency valueations as well.
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  41.  @RajVivek  You are correct that I don't have a basic understanding of currency valueations... I was reading Supper Impirialism and I don't understand how currencies were valued and the dynamics of 'the dutch desease'... What is clear is that the Korean and Vietnam wars were because the US needed to deficit spend and that up until now all countries would take US 'printed' dollars for anything gladly.. Not understanding something clearly doen't make any of my staments not true...
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  42.  @watcher805  All of the dollars in cerculation were printed by the US goverment. That is exactly how much debt there is.... The dollars that are printed go to wall street and they are pumping up rich peoples asset values which is causeing rent inflation... If the money goes toward other things that create value it can cause the money to be worth more.
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  43. So that the industry that they have built up over a long time can be relocated to the US so that the US can have a mini industrialization. Thanks, suckers.
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  44.  @damiancitobarbanis7575  They were the most effective army Nato had... They were effective to a point.
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  45.  @anshukumar-dn3hx  Even so...one of the biggest compontents of the arms industry is employment in the US.
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  46. So now we outsource our millatary production... ???
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  47.  @rommelcorbito808  Arguably russia will be in the most powerful economic/military block in the world, along with China and Iran, within the next ten years... The US has set the pace for how the game is played and that the chinese block will probably follow many of those rules for a time.
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  48.  @jozseftakacs2649  I think we are talking about people who 'matter' ... Only people who donate copious amounts to the politicians and make the laws count.... They are making some short term profits.
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  49.  @margiemontgomery3528  The US chopped up the nord stream one and two, Isolated europe from russia and china, stopped russian food distribution, raised the price of oil.... They are relocating industries that were in europe to the US, stepping up military production, selling food at increased prices, selling LNG at inflated prices... When european economy folds they will be able to buy european assets at rock bottom prices... It is not like the PEOPLE of the US will be doing any better... This is a game for the elites.
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  50.  @adamhartley3482  Those queries were exactly the kinds of queries I was asking. You done found what I think is the 'wisdom' of the west's actions: To leave everyone in debt to US interests in dollars... Via Michael Hudson... Where that 'wisdom' breaks down is that the western modal of neoliberal speculation, a form of feudalism, of the zero sum game where either you win or I win.... That wisdom doesn't take into account the creation of capital.... That is happening outside of the western sphere of influence and the west is trying to capture that creation through ownership [debt] of those capital creating processes... The west is entitled for others to be in debt to the west, otherwise there will be war... It is a big game of risk to them.
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