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Post by cnote on Mar 16, 2023 6:33:34 GMT
Alas.
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Post by cnote on Mar 16, 2023 6:35:49 GMT
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Post by tonyhancock on Mar 16, 2023 21:48:55 GMT
The Americans, certainly benefited from the war on every level.
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Post by tonyhancock on Mar 16, 2023 21:56:29 GMT
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Post by tonyhancock on Mar 16, 2023 22:08:29 GMT
Thank you. You don't have to be pro Putin to acknowledge when he's right.
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Post by cnote on Mar 17, 2023 5:20:25 GMT
Smedley Butler, is the reason why I look at war differently to what I did before. He once thwarted a coup in the USA believe it or not that would have seen America, firmly under the influence of the Germans in ww2.
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Post by tonyhancock on Mar 17, 2023 14:01:21 GMT
Smedley Butler, is the reason why I look at war differently to what I did before. He once thwarted a coup in the USA believe it or not that would have seen America, firmly under the influence of the Germans in ww2. Interesting.
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Post by cnote on Mar 18, 2023 11:29:06 GMT
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Post by cnote on Mar 18, 2023 11:33:02 GMT
Roosevelt, was given all the names of the said plotters, but for reasons known to him he didn’t imprison any of them.
That’s when you know who is really running the USA.
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Post by cnote on Mar 18, 2023 11:40:29 GMT
I saw an estimate of the death toll yesterday and they have Ukrainian dying at 10:1 ratio to the Russians.
I believe this stat is now being recognised by our own western outlets.
At the beginning of the war Ukraine outnumbered the Russians.
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Post by cnote on Mar 18, 2023 11:41:37 GMT
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Post by tonyhancock on Mar 23, 2023 22:14:49 GMT
OK. Following China getting Iran and Saudi Arabia to kiss and make up, I understand Russia & China have made military & economic agreements.
I don't know what these agreements are, but at the moment I'm more worried about the economic ones. Worried, and pleased in a way, but more worried.
As already covered I think the petrodollar is toast. It should be, which is what I mean by pleased in a way, but it is very concerning, because of how this is coming about. The US should have started to reverse what they have done, but now others are going to do it for them, it seems to me.
fcuking idiots are going to drag us all down.
Things aren't going back to how they were. I'm more interested in what people think will happen, as opposed to what they think should happen. So I won't bother with what I think should happen.
I've said all along, Russia simply can't lose this war. I don't think they will I don't think the US will lose in the best way possible. Least damage. I don't think there will be WW3, but there again I don't think about it much, because if that happens, I won't be around to reflect. Certainly possible though. I don't know at which point the US will concede, but it won't be pretty. We will be in a very different world, when this concludes. The West has shot it's bolt with the BRICKS and the Middle East and probably a lot of African countries
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Post by cnote on Mar 25, 2023 7:09:09 GMT
Read somewhere yesterday that China, is leading the way in 37/44 most important technologies. They are financing more and more major research in so many areas and it’s why the USA, is trying desperately to slow them down.
As for the petro dollar it’s doomed as you quite rightly say especially now that the Saudis and Iran are now working out their differences.
Gold will be the commodity that secures the future of oil trading. It’s why both Russia and China, have stockpiled it because they both know any country trading outside of the petro dollar needs assurances. Gold provides it.
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Post by tonyhancock on Mar 25, 2023 13:25:29 GMT
Read somewhere yesterday that China, is leading the way in 37/44 most important technologies. They are financing more and more major research in so many areas and it’s why the USA, is trying desperately to slow them down. As for the petro dollar it’s doomed as you quite rightly say especially now that the Saudis and Iran are now working out their differences. Gold will be the commodity that secures the future of oil trading. It’s why both Russia and China, have stockpiled it because they both know any country trading outside of the petro dollar needs assurances. Gold provides it. The Americans have brought it upon themselves. They had a protection racket which enabled them to produce as many dollars as they wanted, to exchange for real goods. Then, they just cancelled Russia's dollar holdings. The whole world could see this. For good measure, they insulted the Saudis for not slagging off Russia. The Chinese (and others) are sitting on massive stacks of dollars. They exchanged real goods for them. They took those dollars and bought treasuries. This enabled the US to piss more money up the wall. If you were the Chinese, what would you start to do on the quiet ? Probably not roll over treasuries. The US is going to get it. Gold may well resume it's position. In which case, we'll see if the gold at Fort Knox is there - and personally, I don't think Germany would get theirs back.
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Post by BillyNoMatesformerlyTheMadFrog on Mar 25, 2023 13:46:05 GMT
The Ukrainians will start their counteroffensive soon and it will slowly ground down and come to stalemate then the talks will start.
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Post by tonyhancock on Mar 25, 2023 17:32:18 GMT
The Ukrainians will start their counteroffensive soon and it will slowly ground down and come to stalemate then the talks will start. I don't think that's possible, and the million man army seems to be still keeping it's head down. I've suspected for a while, the Ukrainian forces contain a lot of professional, trained, 'volunteers' from NATO countries. If that's the case, and their numbers grow, then maybe. Anything other than complete regime change in Ukraine / no chance of them joining NATO, will be a loss to the Russians. I don't see 'em giving up
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Post by cnote on Mar 26, 2023 12:01:41 GMT
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Post by tonyhancock on Mar 26, 2023 12:26:06 GMT
Not so much working due to habit since WW2, more so the Western Europeans have been pretty much dominions since WW2. The US having a much bigger GDP than the Russians, is irrelevant. GDP is pretty much a measure of spending. Pissing money up the wall, does not make you stronger, quite the opposite.
The self destruction of the west.
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Post by cnote on Mar 26, 2023 13:32:20 GMT
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Post by tonyhancock on Mar 26, 2023 18:23:01 GMT
"Turn other nations into facsimiles of us" (the US)
Yep, got that a while back
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Post by cnote on Apr 2, 2023 7:01:16 GMT
Did you see that the Russians, are claiming they took out a NATO, command centre. It was an underground bunker. This was on Thursdays but nothing on our news channels. 100’s of Brits, Americans and Polish, injured or killed. Can’t verify but the source that first put it out there is said to be reliable. www.youtube.com/live/2EqVQ9tdc68?feature=share
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Post by tonyhancock on Apr 2, 2023 11:15:20 GMT
It's hard to say with the truth being the first casualty. Very early on, I suspected there are NATO troops involved. You can give conscripts rifles and body armour, and train them fairly quickly. Tanks and weapons systems are another matter entirely.
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Post by BillyNoMatesformerlyTheMadFrog on Apr 2, 2023 11:22:26 GMT
You'd be mad not to think any troops of ours arent there somewhere. Either right behind the lines directing stuff or if they do get captured they can say theyre on holiday doing a computer course.
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Post by cnote on Apr 10, 2023 3:17:46 GMT
I do find it laughable when I see people critiquing the Russians, slow but steady advances in Ukraine.
It’s mostly Americans so I shouldn’t be surprised at all. Imagine the outcome in Afghanistan, if Russia, was supplying and arming the Afghans? Training and offering all kinds of help.
I doubt many American soldiers, would he here today that served in Afghanistan. Thinking about it again the Russians, have done much better than expected. Russia, is fighting the Ukrainians and Nato.
We need to recognise this when analysing how well or how bad the Russians, have done thus far. I’m as guilty as anyone because I keep thinking Russia, should’ve rapped this up by now without acknowledging the help the Ukrainians are getting.
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Post by cnote on Apr 12, 2023 3:46:22 GMT
Think it’s reaching its conclusion when even our news reels are citing the end is nigh.
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Post by tonyhancock on Apr 12, 2023 12:34:14 GMT
Roosevelt, was given all the names of the said plotters, but for reasons known to him he didn’t imprison any of them. That’s when you know who is really running the USA. The president does not control the money, education or narrative. Who does, controls the president. It's obvious with Biden. Biden's a piss take, or demonstration. The next president might be able to string a sentence together, but it won't matter whether he's blue or red.
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Post by cnote on Apr 14, 2023 7:58:50 GMT
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Post by tonyhancock on Apr 14, 2023 13:07:47 GMT
No great surprise to us, and luckily, probably no great surprise to the Russians, so not so likely to escalate on the 'news' I expected the whole thing to be settled within about 10 weeks. As it dragged on, I was pretty sure there were 'ex NATO volunteers', involved. They simply wouldn't have had the trained personnel, to use all their presents from the west effectively.
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Post by cnote on Apr 24, 2023 16:37:25 GMT
You see this?
Richard Medhurst…….Tucker, has left Fox News. 😯
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Post by cnote on Apr 24, 2023 16:38:38 GMT
You see this? Tucker, has left Fox News. 😯
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