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Democracy’s Fiery Ordeal: The War in Ukraine 🇺🇦


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44 minutes ago, Demongyz said:

I have found a ton of common ground with posters that I never see eye to eye with here.  I think many others have as well.

 

We can agree, disagree, get along, and throw shade all at the same time.  This thread isn't totally toxic, it actually gives me hope for the republic. 

 

Also, not 1 single person on here has said anything pro Putin.  0 zilch nada

 

 

He's just big mad he's been wrong about everything and the senile old man they supported has been a complete disaster. 

 

The party of permanent covid, masked kids in schools (part of November was parents had now seen what 18 months of their hysteria so Trump would lose did to their kids), inflation, gas prices soaring, the embarrassment and disgrace that was Afghanistan, and now after telling you for years Trump was going to start WWIII and will roll over for Putin - nope they did that.

 

 

 

So what they want to do is distract from it all - and Putin is a proxy for Trump.  They are do delusional that's what they think they are "creating" that's the narrative.  That they are nobly supporting democracy and Trump people hate it.  

 

The thread title is flat out telling you all this.  

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What’s cool about war, apparently: CNN found their big boy pants and are giving TV time to actual reporters on the ground during a world event rather than to d-list personalities in an sterile NY office

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More on Tuckers concern over our greenbacks and how Russia has almost completely moved away from them:

 

 

"The nation slashed its dollar reserves to just 16% of the central bank’s stockpile in 2021, down from more than 40% just four years prior. That’s meant aggressively hacking its holdings of U.S. Treasuries, shrinking ownership by almost 98% from a peak in 2010 and removing dollar assets from its sovereign wealth fund.

 

These moves will now help insulate Russia from some of the worst fallout of escalating U.S. and European sanctions after President Vladimir Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While sanctions so far prevent the nation from tapping international investors, with the U.S. prohibiting new purchases in the secondary market from March, efforts to make Russia less dependent on the dollar could blunt their impact and potentially buy Putin time to withstand even more stringent sanctions, at least for a while."

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/russia-s-years-long-quest-to-quit-dollar-is-blunting-sanctions

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28 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

 

 

 

More on Tuckers concern over our greenbacks and how Russia has almost completely moved away from them:

 

 

"The nation slashed its dollar reserves to just 16% of the central bank’s stockpile in 2021, down from more than 40% just four years prior. That’s meant aggressively hacking its holdings of U.S. Treasuries, shrinking ownership by almost 98% from a peak in 2010 and removing dollar assets from its sovereign wealth fund.

 

These moves will now help insulate Russia from some of the worst fallout of escalating U.S. and European sanctions after President Vladimir Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While sanctions so far prevent the nation from tapping international investors, with the U.S. prohibiting new purchases in the secondary market from March, efforts to make Russia less dependent on the dollar could blunt their impact and potentially buy Putin time to withstand even more stringent sanctions, at least for a while."

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/russia-s-years-long-quest-to-quit-dollar-is-blunting-sanctions


Cutting them off from SWIFT would almost certainly speed this along and would likely signal the inevitable end of the dollar as the dominant global reserve currency. 
 

Though now it appears as though Russia will still have SWIFT access. I doubt Germany ever gets on board. 

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As war breaks out in Europe, China blames the US

 

China's Assistant Foreign Minister Hua Chunying

was quick to point the finger at the US, implying that Washington was a "culprit" for "fanning up flames," referring to US warnings in recent weeks of an imminent invasion.

 

Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily highlighted comments from China's Foreign Ministry pointing to how the US had been "increasing tensions and hyping up war."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/china/china-reaction-ukraine-russia-intl-hnk-mic/index.html

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