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Give him crimea, remove the dam, the areas under rebel control go back to Ukraine.
That at least gives him an out on Crimea.
Cuban missle crisis was resolved with a concession so both sides could take a win. I think we need to put something on the table unless we believe hell be removed from power before he can escalate to point of no return
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Russia has violated Canadian Airspace.
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Im extremely concerned about the sotu on Tuesday. The US government will all be in one place. If ever there was a time for Putin to pull some shit that would be it.
Im probably just being extremely paranoid. Has it crossed anyone elses mind?
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On February 28 2022 12:36 Sadist wrote: Im extremely concerned about the sotu on Tuesday. The US government will all be in one place. If ever there was a time for Putin to pull some shit that would be it.
Im probably just being extremely paranoid. Has it crossed anyone elses mind?
US intelligence seems to know Putin’s plans before Putin’s generals do. I’m not super worried.
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Air raid sirens going off in Kyiv.
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Russian markets are supposedly delaying opening until 3:00 PM after their initial delays to 10:00, to be formally announced at 1 PM. BIG disclaimer: this is a Belarusian source that is underground after conflicts with the government surrounding the Minsk protests in 2020 and is currently classified as an "extremist organization" by the Belarusian government because of their past coverage, so they have a pretty clear horse in this race; take with a big grain of salt. Seen it a couple places now but haven't found any direct confirmation.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1498158900054532101?s=20&t=cwGcDVO_tSmRjOJ88-7M6w
Not sure if delaying will actually help at all when it comes to the figurative bombs dropping on the market. Opening at 3:00 seems like it would just concentrate their force and panic selling even worse, so I'm not too sure about this one, but given the better documented delays already seen it is possible.
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or, by 3 PM the war will be over(they think).
Putin wants about half of Ukraine, he wants it split into east and west as Koreas'. who thinks he will settle for Crimea(which was his anyway) is living in another universe.
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I don't expect these talks to go anywhere, but they may begin soon
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Well seeing that theres reportedly a massive Russian convoy heading to Kyiv, i dont expect these talks to have any substance at all.
I get crazy anxiety thinking of escalation past the point of no return regarding the rest of the West involvement.\
Edit: Are we allowed to post news streams? Its DW News livestream, which Ive found to be the most informative on recent updates if youre like me and dont watch cable.+ Show Spoiler +
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I want that in Germany as well. We're money launderers paradise at the moment.
I watch the english DW news stream as well mostly, they also got banned in Russia earlier this year as a retaliation for us banning RT. Which is another reason for me to trust them.
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Canada would love that as well. Vancouver was basically ruined by foreign property owners. The entire idea of allowing foreign entities to buy property, residential property, is really bad for housing prices.
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I mentioned we should tackle this a week ago, but KwarK pointed out that our government doesn't really want to be fucking with our financial system. I think he was probably right, and that this is a symbolic move from London and nothing will actually come of it in terms of results.
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literally every first world country has a foreign investor problem lol
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On February 28 2022 15:55 Jockmcplop wrote: I mentioned we should tackle this a week ago, but KwarK pointed out that our government doesn't really want to be fucking with our financial system. I think he was probably right, and that this is a symbolic move from London and nothing will actually come of it in terms of results. I'm not sure about that. It's what people said about Germany and yet they've now supported suspending nord stream 2, disconnecting Russia from Swift etc. All things which hurt them (and my own country actually) a lot.
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On February 28 2022 16:08 RvB wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2022 15:55 Jockmcplop wrote: I mentioned we should tackle this a week ago, but KwarK pointed out that our government doesn't really want to be fucking with our financial system. I think he was probably right, and that this is a symbolic move from London and nothing will actually come of it in terms of results. I'm not sure about that. It's what people said about Germany and yet they've now supported suspending nord stream 2, disconnecting Russia from Swift etc. All things which hurt them (and my own country actually) a lot. Germany also makes things though. Britain just moves money for people.
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There's still lots of opportunity here imho. The last 7 days showed that nothing is carved in stone, the world is a different place compared to last monday. I'm not scared at all, i'm rather optimistic. I grew up next to the iron curtain under constant threat of total annihilation and you get used to it.
On February 28 2022 10:28 Nyxisto wrote:+ Show Spoiler +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.
As long as the nukes don't fly, the world may have changed for the better.
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On February 28 2022 16:22 r00ty wrote:There's still lots of opportunity here imho. The last 7 days showed that nothing is carved in stone, the world is a different place compared to last monday. I'm not scared at all, i'm rather optimistic. I grew up next to the iron curtain under constant threat of total annihilation and you get used to it. Show nested quote +On February 28 2022 10:28 Nyxisto wrote:+ Show Spoiler +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. As long as the nukes don't fly, the world may have changed for the better. Yeah, obviously this is horrible situation, but it it can have positive outcomes.
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Russian Central Bank just increased their interest rate from 8,5% to 20% and the russian Rubel tanked about 1/4th of its value The money printing starts I gues. I take that is a sign, that the sanctions against russia are working. With that I m hoping for more Protests among the russian people against the War of Putin. Source (in German): https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-krieg-montag-101.html
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Mariupol still holding out.
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The Nagorno-Karabakh War went for about a month and a half, so we might be seeing something along the lines of that. I have an Assyrian friend here in Australia whos family is in Nova Kakhovka (around 300-400 households of Assyrians). Some of her family have no water/electricity/network and have been stranded in their basements for 5 days so far. They are too scared to leave their house
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