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On February 28 2022 07:36 plasmidghost wrote: My limited knowledge of the financial markets tell me that this move is going to make things worse for everyone, right?
Wouldn't this cause even a bigger panic, also isn't this basically asking Russian traders to not get commissions for however long?
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People not being able to sell securities means the price will not go down. This is an attempt to preserve their bottom line. Not sure how legal this is. (I guess it is legal, you just ruin reputation)
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This really lays bare how fragile the pax apocalyptica is. Everyone understands that if they launch nukes or invade a great power, everyone else will launch nukes and we all die. That much was fine.
Nobody has a rulebook for what happens now that one of those powers has tried to extend their umbrella over their own mad offensive. Putin appears to be juuust insane enough, and his grip on power juuust shaky enough, that there's a chance he'll end the world because his invasion fails. We are headlong into a game of nuclear chicken with a guy who might not even care if he crashes out. It's scary as hell.
You have to just hope that there are enough people between Putin and the suitcase that if he decides to take the world with him, someone in the chain will refuse.
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On February 28 2022 08:48 plasmidghost wrote: Lots of extremely knowledgeable people are sounding the alarm. Monday for all of us might be one of the most consequential days in human history depending on how Putun and the Russian citizens react to their economy collapsing
"It could get very scary and not have the outcome you suspect." Is vague doomsaying meant to be a sign of knowledge?
To me it's a sign of being incapable (or too scared) of making proper predictions
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On February 28 2022 09:20 Sbrubbles wrote:"It could get very scary and not have the outcome you suspect." Is vague doomsaying meant to be a sign of knowledge? To me it's a sign of being incapable (or too scared) of making proper predictions I assume his point is that its hard to predict how Putin would react to the complete self destruction of the Russian financial market and that how hard it plummets is not up to world leaders practicing diplomacy but the whims of traders
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I really hope the peace talks go well tomorrow. I hope its not just more escalation. I think this is the most nervous ive been in my life.
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United Kingdom13775 Posts
Finances are kind of global and intertwined in a way that nobody really understands. Don't forget that we once had a global recession because some banks in the US made bad loans for buying houses, which doesn't feel like it'd have that kind of effect until you see how much of the rest of the market depends on these things.
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On February 28 2022 09:37 LegalLord wrote: Finances are kind of global and intertwined in a way that nobody really understands. Don't forget that we once had a global recession because some banks in the US made bad loans for buying houses, which doesn't feel like it'd have that kind of effect until you see how much of the rest of the market depends on these things.
That's a good point. Probably going to be major ripple effects even if it all seems targeted at Russia. And things were already fragile because of covid.
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On February 28 2022 09:31 Gorsameth wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2022 09:20 Sbrubbles wrote:On February 28 2022 08:48 plasmidghost wrote:Lots of extremely knowledgeable people are sounding the alarm. Monday for all of us might be one of the most consequential days in human history depending on how Putun and the Russian citizens react to their economy collapsing https://twitter.com/PaulSonne/status/1498075412194332673 "It could get very scary and not have the outcome you suspect." Is vague doomsaying meant to be a sign of knowledge? To me it's a sign of being incapable (or too scared) of making proper predictions I assume his point is that its hard to predict how Putin would react to the complete self destruction of the Russian financial market and that how hard it plummets is not up to world leaders practicing diplomacy but the whims of traders
I don't have a problem with doomsaying itself, but if someone is going to do it, they should at least paint a minimal picture. Something like "a plummet of the rubble will force banks to write down loans to russian companies which will create a financial meltdown", for example
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It's twitter. That literally doesn't fit in the tweet.
I agree it comes across like the guy is pretending to know more than he actually does, but this is such a weird nitpick when the world is on fire.
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What do you think is going to happen at peace talks on Monday? I have a feeling that there would be outrageous demands not in Ukraine's interest, kind of like NATO rollback to 1997. I doubt there would be mutually good proposals.
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The most "neutral" one would be a rollback to start of 2022 or so, immediately before the invasion. Russia gtfo's of Ukraine. Positive for ukraine is the return of Crimea, and all other territories, negative is Russian control of Donetsk/Luhansk (whether russian controlled regions, or in entirety).
The spectrum of outcomes is somewhere in there, and I'd lean towards the Ukraine favoured outcomes rather than the neutral/Russian favoured ones. I'm pretty biased though, and I don't know what the diplomats know that we don't. I don't think that Ukraine will give up 10% of its population lightly, especially when so many are willing to fight for them.
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My hope is ceasefire and an agreement for mediated talks at a more established location (i.e. an actual major city rather than a neutral zone on a conflict line). I give it 50/50 on that actually happening; the fact that the talks are happening at all is from what I saw a pretty significant breakthrough over the empty posturing of the last two days.
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The "easiest" solution that would be feasible is status quo ante bellum, which would look like withdrawing troops to the DNR/LNR lines of pre-conflict, all troops withdrawn, recognition withdrawn, and return to the Minsk process. I don't think that's the best answer but it's the one that is easiest to negotiate if there just really, truly isn't any path forward.
My hope is something that more permanently resolves the actual concern. DNR/LNR incorporated back into Ukraine with several security concessions on both sides. That'd be the best way to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Of course, this is all contingent on that both sides are actually sufficiently ready to negotiate that a ceasefire is on the table. I am not convinced that that is yet the case, and if it isn't then it's just more combat.
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Well the futures just posted and it's red, more than likely due to Belarus removing non nuclear status.
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On February 28 2022 09:37 LegalLord wrote: Finances are kind of global and intertwined in a way that nobody really understands. Don't forget that we once had a global recession because some banks in the US made bad loans for buying houses, which doesn't feel like it'd have that kind of effect until you see how much of the rest of the market depends on these things.
If there's one lesson from both covid and now this I think it is that the 'markets rule everything' era is over. There's seems to be a shift now, very quickly that security and political goals take priority and that if you need to make resources available it can be done, and what finance has to say about it is secondary.
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Seems the second battle in the area of the Irpin river has started.
Said area is the place where the mechanized convoy was wiped out yesterday.
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It's really tough to think of something that would satisfy both sides.
There is value in giving Putin an out, but he's put himself in such a terrible position that I can't see how any offer short of accepting his demands from a few days ago would satisfy his ego. And that's obviously out because... *waves vaguely at everything*
The midground position is probably something like recognising DNR/LNR as independent in exchange for Ukraine coming under the umbrella, but that's simultaneously far more than Putin deserves and far less than he would accept.
I feel like these talks won't be very fruitful. It would take huge internal pressure from within Russia for Putin to back down, and if that pressure did materialise he is probably gone anyway. It's a break-but-don't-bend situation.
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On February 28 2022 08:19 Acrofales wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2022 08:02 KwarK wrote:On February 28 2022 07:33 mahrgell wrote: Supposedly the EU is also sending fighter planes as part of the new support package and I'm really wondering which planes that could be. Since it would require planes Ukraine is familiar with, I would probably guess they are talking about Polish Mig-29. With new F35 being on the way, they would probably be available.
Oh, and I would really love to know how those values in those decisions are computed for outdated equipment (which, be honest, is most of the equipment sent...). E.g. those Polish Mig-29 were gifted by Germany (they were former GDR planes) So value = 0, add them as a tip! Or do they look at the most recent sale on Ebay? Obviously, it is much easier for stuff like Stingers or rifles.. Probably not super helpful to send Ukraine jets they don't know how to fly and have no infrastructure to support. Makes more sense to send them more of what they already know how to use. isn't that exactly what mahrgell said? I misread it. Sorry.
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