In his election promises, Trump will say whatever he wants as long as it increases his rating. He used to speak poorly of cryptocurrency, but recently he has changed his attitude towards it in a positive direction. However, in this regard, it will be necessary to see what his attitude towards cryptocurrency will be if he again becomes President of the United States. After all, he is quite unpredictable and can again change his mind.

At the same time, his conviction of a criminal offense lowered his rating by an estimated only ten percent and therefore the likelihood of his re-presidency is high.

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If the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already been almost destroyed and they are on the verge of collapse, then the Russian occupiers will soon be in Kyiv? Or at least in Kharkov, which is located relatively close to the border with Russia? Taking into account the fact that the Russian army is now actively storming the Kharkov direction, then in a month or two Russian soldiers should at least capture Kharkov, right? But I think that even by the end of the year Russia will not be able to capture even Kharkov.

As for Russia’s possible war against NATO, everything depends on the aggressive appetites of Putin’s Russia. After all, Russia is currently attacking, not NATO countries. Russia, as a nuclear superpower, cannot lose a war? But the USA and France also have their own nuclear arsenals and then they also cannot lose?

NATO has not yet lost a single soldier in this confrontation. At the same time, Russia’s losses in manpower and military equipment are simply colossal. A few more years of such a war and NATO soldiers will be able to simply march and enter Moscow without any resistance.

The US and European countries tried to use peacetime methods to solve wartime problems, and now they see that it didn't work. Putin’s Russia continues its aggressive war against Ukraine, increases military tension in Europe, threatening to attack many European countries, especially the Baltic countries, which it considers most vulnerable to attack, and also deliberately creates provocative conflict situations that could well end in a direct military clash with NATO countries as a whole.

At the same time, Ukraine’s allies admit that they are not doing enough to ensure that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have the opportunity to push the invaders out of their territory. Therefore, it is no coincidence that 11 states have already recognized Ukraine’s right to strike Russian military targets with their weapons. An opinion is also emerging that if Russia manages to achieve significant success on the Ukrainian front, then the army of European countries will be forced to openly help Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression. Therefore, indeed, Russia’s continuation of the war with Ukraine increases the likelihood of direct military clashes with NATO.

Putin’s Russia still has a choice: continue military aggression against Ukraine and increase the likelihood of war with NATO, or gradually wind down military operations, admitting that the initial plans to seize Ukraine have completely failed. So far, we see that Russia is frivolously moving towards its own catastrophe with disintegration into several parts.

Apparently, by nationalism, and especially Ukrainian nationalism, you understand something very bad. To hang up unclear labels, let's first figure out what they mean.

Wikipedia defines that nationalism is an ideology and policy direction, the fundamental principle of which is the thesis about the value of the nation as the highest form of social unity, its primacy in the state-forming process. As a political movement, nationalism strives to create a state that covers the territory of residence of only a certain nation and defends its interests. It is further stated that nationalists believe that each country should govern itself without outside interference (self-determination), that the nation is the natural and ideal basis for government, and that the people are the only legitimate source of political power. Nationalism advocates the creation and maintenance of a single national identity based on common social characteristics such as culture, language, religion, politics...
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Since nationalists value their language and culture very much, Ukrainian nationalists cannot use another language, much less consider it their native language. These concepts are simply incompatible.

Nationalism is a political program built on a feeling of patriotism. Almost all liberation movements of oppressed peoples were formed and acted under the banner of the ideology of nationalism. Where national freedom is at stake, the ideology of nationalism is inevitable.

So do you have something against nationalism, in particular Ukrainian nationalism? Then tell me why...

In the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on May 2, 2014, people died solely as a result of a fire that broke out there due to riots. Several people jumped out of windows and died, the rest from carbon monoxide, which resulted from the burning of plastic and other flammable substances. If you have facts that they were killed, especially by Ukrainian nationalists, and even at the instigation of the CIA, you can present them here.

And the Russian army is now launching missile and drone attacks on Odessa, and on various residential areas, also because of some kind of revenge? After all, at the same time, the Russian-speaking civilian population, which you are trying to protect here, is dying. In addition, the Russian army is now intensively attacking all areas of Kharkov with missiles and gliding bombs weighing half a ton every day, trying to completely erase this city and its inhabitants. Also, after the Russian army launched an offensive in the east of the Kharkov region on May 10, the city of Volchansk and its residents, who did not have time to evacuate, were almost completely destroyed. Every day, Russia shells from 100 to 120 settlements in Ukraine with all types of weapons, killing civilians, who are predominantly Russian-speaking. How can this be assessed if this is not genocide of the Ukrainian people, regardless of the language they speak?

I opened with interest and read the article you suggested, which has the title: “Eight years of terror: how the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions exterminated the population of Donbass.” But the article itself very briefly talks about the events of the mass riots on May 2, 2014 in Odessa, which I wrote about earlier. The article clearly states that “Odessa residents who disagreed with the actions of the Kyiv regime encountered radical football fans who came to the Ukrainian championship match taking place on the same day.” Well, where is the terror of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ukrainian national battalions? What, the residents of Odessa have already begun to be called the population of Donbass? In addition, the article does not contain a detailed description of the essence of the events, and it is worth noting that the football fans were also Russian-speaking.
But you still provide the facts that the Ukrainian Armed Forces massively killed and terrorized the population of the DPR and LPR, that is, the population of the Donbass region, as you stated earlier.

Natural gas flowed from Russia to European countries in large part through Ukrainian pipelines and through the territory of Ukraine. Such gas is still delivered to the EU in limited volumes, since some EU countries need some time to completely abandon Russian gas. The treaty, which was concluded between Russia and Ukraine even before the full-scale attack on Ukraine, expires this year 2024. Ukraine continues to fulfill the terms of the agreement on the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine in order to avoid possible lawsuits and not lose the image of a reliable partner. But the Ukrainian authorities have already made a statement several times that after the expiration of the agreement on the transit of Russian gas on December 31, 2024, they do not intend to extend its validity. Therefore, the situation with Russian gas supplies is changing and will continue to change. The main thing is that EU countries are looking for ways to completely abandon Russian gas, and this time will come anyway.

Norms governing the civilized rules of warfare exist. This is the UN Charter. But in Russia’s war against Ukraine, it is not observed by the current permanent UN security member, the Russian Federation. Conducting wars of conquest with the aim of arbitrarily changing the internationally recognized borders of states is prohibited by the UN Charter. Russia also ignores absolutely all the rules of warfare, including not allowing representatives of international bodies to enter the territory of Ukraine it occupies, as well as to prisoners captured by Russia.

In addition, the Russian Federation is generally illegal in the UN and illegally occupies the place of its member, since no one has ever accepted the Russian Federation into the UN organization. There was no such decision and there is no such solution. After the collapse of the USSR, the representative of the Russian Federation simply informed at a UN meeting that instead of the USSR, the Russian Federation would now be in the UN. However, the Russian Federation did not have any authority to do this from the former republics of the USSR and the UN did not make any decisions on this matter.

After the full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, Ukraine raised the issue of the illegality of the Russian Federation’s presence in the UN, but the relevant UN officials do not want to discuss this issue, and any decisions regarding violation of the rules of war by the Russian Federation are vetoed by the Russian Federation itself as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

Let me remind you that in order to end this war any day soon, Russia only needs to withdraw its troops from the illegally occupied territories of Ukraine.

Don't tell us stories. The best thing that awaits Ukrainians who have fled the war to other countries if they come to Russia is forced mobilization into the Russian army, as is already happening in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

It is not Biden who wants to kill more Russians and Ukrainians, but Putin and his entourage, who gave the order for the Russian army to invade Ukraine and are sending their soldiers to their deaths in Ukraine. Also, it is Putin who can stop this senseless bloodshed any day if he decides to withdraw his troops from Ukraine.

In Russia, as in Ukraine, there are a lot of people who fled to other countries from this stupid and bloody war. But defending your country is the duty of every citizen of any state. At the same time, participating in an attack on another state is complicity in the crime of their leaders and this is condemned by international standards.

I recently read information that in the United States, congressmen have filed a bill to suspend the development of CBDCs precisely because CBDCs will infringe on the rights of Americans to confidentiality and privacy. Even from this it can be understood that CBDC is far from being a cryptocurrency in the classical sense of the word, and even more so, there is no trace of decentralization. CBDC is a digital fiat using blockchain that is tightly controlled by the government. Different states have different approaches to the functional features of CBDC, while adding or reducing the degree of its confidentiality for citizens. But anyway, they cannot be considered cryptocurrency.

Until 2014, almost all residents of Odessa spoke Russian. More precisely, it was a mixture of Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish and other languages of the nationalities that inhabited this city. But at the same time, the overwhelming majority felt and still feel like Ukrainians. Therefore, in this regard, those who died in the House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014 can be considered Russian speakers. And now the situation there with the language, I think, has not changed much. But regular missile attacks from Russia on the Russian-speaking population of Odessa and the slow destruction of this city, as you yourself should understand, are a good argument to switch to the Ukrainian language and consider yourself a patriot of Ukraine.

On May 2, 2014, an attempt to impose the “Russian world” on Odessa residents and proclaim the “Odessa People’s Republic” failed. Putin’s Russia interprets these events in Odessa not as a confrontation between Euromaidan supporters and anti-Maidan supporters, in which the Euromaidan supporters turned out to be the overwhelming majority, but as Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking. Please note that in Odessa even now many people still speak Russian and there have never been any problems with this. All waves of confrontations and conflicts come from Russia.

Do you think that it would be absolutely normal for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to be under fire from the separatists and Russian military from the territory of the DPR and LPR and not respond to fire, because there could be civilians there? Your ideas about military operations are interesting. This then is not military action, this is the execution of one side. And responding with fire to fire is, in your opinion, murder. Interesting logic.

Tell me then how this logic was applied in two Chechen wars, when, as you write, the province tried to break away from Russia. And Russia didn’t fire at all on the cities of Chechnya? May I remind you how Russia practically turned the central city of Chechnya, Grozny, into ruins? So which side in this war were the killers on? Or if regions “break away” from Ukraine, this is normal, but at the same time such regions are subject to destruction if they want to secede from Russia?

Trying to present you and other pro-Russian individuals who support Russia’s war of conquest in Ukraine with evidence of Russia’s plans to start a new war in Europe that would satisfy you is futile. After all, even in Russia itself, these plans are constantly changing depending on the situation on the Ukrainian fronts.

But I would like to draw your attention to the recent report of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Gerasimov to Putin, which indicates that the likelihood of a war between Russia and NATO countries has now greatly increased, but this is most likely to happen in 2025-2027.

In particular, in this regard, he recommends urgently mobilizing from 200 to 400 thousand people into the Russian troops, and this event must be carried out in the next 2-4 months and no later. Otherwise, as Gerasimov points out, “Russia may lose territory.”
Source:
https://www.dialog.ua/russia/295668_1716827817

We may consider this information unsubstantiated. But NATO countries are closely monitoring the Kremlin's actions and are preparing to take appropriate response measures.

You again have incorrect information about the actions of the Ukrainian government and its people. The events of the end of 2013, which took place mainly on the Independence Square in Kyiv and were called the Revolution of Dignity, were exclusively directed against Yanukovych’s entourage, who abandoned Ukraine’s previously taken course of joining the European Union. It was because of this that people took to the streets in outrage. But since Putin saw that Ukraine would escape Russia’s control if it joined the European Union, he decided to forcefully turn Ukraine away from the European Union, and at the same time from possible accession to NATO in the distant future. But the Russians were practically indifferent to the pro-European positions of the Ukrainians. That’s why the Kremlin came up with the myth that Ukraine is becoming anti-Russian. Otherwise, the Kremlin would not have been able to mobilize Russians for war against Ukraine. The hostility towards Russians is now increasing only because Russian soldiers are now trying to destroy Ukraine and Ukrainians, and the remaining 70 percent of the Russian population still supports this war.

And now about the bombing of the “breakaway provinces”. Putin’s initial plan was to return the DPR and LPR to Ukraine after some time, but on the basis of autonomy, in which these pseudo-republics would have their own police, courts, army and representation in the legislative body of Ukraine - the Verkhovna Rada. If this happened, this autonomy with the full control of Russia would strictly prevent Ukraine from joining the European Union and NATO. But Ukraine, understanding this, could not accommodate such plans of the Kremlin. Then they decided that they would encourage Ukraine to make such a decision by constant shelling of Ukrainian territory from the demarcation line. For some time, understanding the essence of these provocative attacks, Kyiv did not give permission to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to return fire. But the soldiers at the demarcation line began to be indignant: they were under constant fire, unable to hit enemy firing points. Therefore, after some time, such permission was given.

And now about the shelling of the LPR and DPR, and in particular, Donetsk. You claim that from 2014 to 2022, Ukraine constantly bombed these territories, destroying cities and their populations. The positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Avdeevka were only a few kilometers from the city of Donetsk and cannon artillery could freely reach there. What would have happened to Donetsk in eight years if all this time the Ukrainian Armed Forces had been constantly shelling and bombing it? Let me remind you: Russia is now turning large populated areas of Ukraine into ruins in just a couple of months. But even now there is no major destruction in Donetsk. From time to time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces only carry out targeted strikes against concentrations of enemy personnel and equipment. In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces could return Donetsk under its control many times over. Periodically, they drove into Donetsk in armored vehicles and noted the almost complete absence, not only of defense, but even of enemy troops. But if the Ukrainian Armed Forces had done this, then Donetsk would definitely have been turned into ruins, as Russia is now trying to do with the liberated Kherson.

Do you want to say that Russia’s war on the territory of Ukraine is a war on the outskirts of Europe? Actually, in the Ukrainian Carpathians there is a sign that says that this is the geographical center of Europe.

Yes, Putin wanted to go down in history as the great collector of the lands of the former USSR and the creation on their basis of something similar to a new empire. But all his plans were disrupted by Ukraine, which offered strong resistance to Russian aggression. The bloodiest large-scale war since World War II is already in its third year. Putin has already been prepared for the role of the second bloodthirsty Hitler, who will be cursed not only in Europe and other civilized countries, but also over time in Russia itself, which he brought with his war to economic collapse and impoverishment, and possibly to its collapse.

Well, let's count how many years Russia has been waging war against Ukraine. If we consider the chronology of the development of events, everything falls into place.
Since the summer of 2013, various action plans for the seizure of Ukrainian territories have begun to be worked out in the circles of the Russian authorities. In September 2013, during Russian-Belarusian exercises in the Kaliningrad region, “operations to protect compatriots allegedly oppressed on the territory of a foreign state” were practiced. According to the scenario of these exercises, “unrest and attempts to seize power occur on the territory of a neighboring state, illegal armed groups are created,” and Russia and Belarus, as neighboring countries, “come in and restore order.” Does this remind you of anything? There was no Maidan yet, and the plan to seize Ukraine was already being worked out by Russia. Subsequently, Russia actually used Euromaidan as a justification for the annexation of Crimea and the subsequent hybrid war against Ukraine in the Donbass.

  By February 23, 2014, Russian special forces received their first orders for Crimea and within a few days the initial covert transfer of troops to the peninsula took place, where, meanwhile, civil confrontation continued.
On February 23-24, under pressure from pro-Russian activists, the executive authorities of Sevastopol were changed.
On February 26, supporters of the Mejlis and the new Ukrainian government tried to seize the building of the Crimean parliament and blocked its work.
  Early in the morning of February 27, the active phase of Russian actions in Crimea began - Russian special forces seized the buildings of the authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, after which deputies of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, who gathered in the parliament building, dismissed the government of Anatoly Mogilev and appointed the leader of the Russian party as the head of the new government of Crimea unity" by Sergei Aksenov. He declared non-recognition of the new leadership of Ukraine and turned to Russia for “assistance in ensuring peace and tranquility in the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

So, in February 2014, Russia captured the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and after that in March, at gunpoint, it held the so-called “referendum” on independence. From that time to the present day, it is already the 11th year since the Crimean peninsula was illegally occupied by Russia.

  Now about the events in Donbass. After the events on the Maidan of Independence in Kyiv, rallies of opponents of the new government established in Kyiv after the removal of President Yanukovych are taking place in the cities of eastern Ukraine. Some activists come out with pro-Russian slogans, in particular, calling for the annexation of the eastern regions to Russia according to the “Crimean scenario.”
On April 6, 2014, rally participants seized the buildings of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, as well as the building of the Lugansk Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine.
On April 12, several dozen people under the command of former Russian FSB employee Igor Girkin (Strelkov) seized administrative buildings in Slavyansk, Donetsk region.
  After Petro Poroshenko took office as President of Ukraine, Kyiv launched a large-scale counter-offensive. Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lisichansk come under the control of the ATO forces. But the offensive of the ATO forces was interrupted by their severe defeat near Ilovaisk. The course of the military operation was turned around by eight tactical groups of regular troops of the Russian Federation, who crossed the border in armored vehicles and took part in the hostilities. After this, the separatists acquire armored vehicles, which were allegedly found in the mines of Donbass. The Russian military had a significant influence on the separatists, supplying them with weapons and carrying out shelling at their requests. It was under the direct influence of Russian troops and its armored personnel in Minsk that an agreement was concluded that established the demarcation line between the DPR/LPR and Ukraine.
By the way, at the beginning of 2023, the ECHR made a decision according to which the territories of eastern Ukraine controlled by the DPR and LPR were de facto under the control of Russia.

You have already mentioned several times the murder of Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Odessa in 2014. I don’t know what kind of information you have on this matter (I hope you will provide it later), but in this regard I will dwell on these events in more detail. In short, then in Odessa there was an attempt by pro-Russian forces, not without the participation of the Kremlin, to prepare the ground for the creation of the Odessa People's Republic following the example of the DPR and LPR that were then created by Russia. But in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in Crimea, it was easier for the Russian occupiers. In Crimea, having a naval base near Sevastopol under a lease agreement with Ukraine, they simply went beyond the boundaries of this base and occupied Crimea. The Donetsk and Lugansk regions are directly adjacent territorially to Russia, and from there a detachment of former Russian FSB employee Girkin entered Ukraine and provoked unrest, after which Russia sent in regular troops. Such scenarios could not happen in Odessa. But there was something else. Mass riots were provoked there, which pro-Russian forces wanted to use to separate from Ukraine and create the OPR. They started in the city center, on Deribasovskaya and continued in the House of Trade Unions and on Kulikovoe Pole Square.

Since the end of April, pro-Russian anti-Maidan activists have set up tents on Kulikovo Pole Square in Odessa where they held rallies calling for federalization. The authorities of that time understood that this threatened the safety of the city, but no one raised their hand to simply demolish it. After all, this is not Russia. And then they decided to do it purely in Odessa - with the help of an “agreement”. The liquidation of the tent city on the Kulikovo Field was planned in advance by representatives of government agencies and agreed upon with individual leaders of the opposing forces - Anti-Maidan and Euromaidan. According to the initial unspoken plan, the demolition of the tents was to be carried out by the hands of football fans, ultras, after the end of the football match Chernomorets - Metalist late in the evening of May 2, 2014. Police officers were supposed to detain and isolate Anti-Maidan activists, preventing excessive use of force. But due to the disagreement of some of the leaders of one of the Kulikovo Field groups, this plan was thwarted. An hour and a half before the match, mass riots were provoked in the central part of the city. The first victim on May 2 was a Euromaidan member, foreman of the Odessa Right Sector Igor Ivanov. He was mortally wounded at 16:10 and died an hour and a half to two hours later in the hospital on the operating table. Ivanov was killed by a bullet from the weapon of Vitaly Budko, nicknamed Bosun, the head of the so-called combat wing of the Kulikov Field. He is still wanted. It was after these deaths on Deribasovskaya and Grecheskaya Square that the factor of spontaneous anger turned on, when people, no longer understanding who killed whom, went to destroy the tent city of the anti-Maidanovites. In this chaos, some people took refuge in the House of Trade Unions, where a fire later broke out due to the use of Molotov cocktails.

  According to official data, 48 people died, six of them were killed with firearms in the city center - on Deribasovskaya and adjacent streets. At least a hundred people were injured there - gunshot wounds, bruises, fractures. 42 people died in the House of Trade Unions, eight of them fell out of the windows and crashed to the ground, the rest died in the building itself from fire, exposure to carbon dioxide and gases released during combustion. There were also many wounded - burned, beaten.

There are a lot of questions about the inaction of the police, who did not take proper response measures to prevent unrest. The deputy head of the Odessa regional police, Fuchedzhi, was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison; back in 2014, he fled from Ukraine, first to Transnistria, then to Russia.

But what does this story have to do with the murder of the Russian-speaking population of Odessa?

If you look at this problem on a global scale, then yes, the current wars have not yet had a significant impact on the cryptocurrency market. Your opinion as a person living in a country that is not affected by war is understandable. But imagine that your country is attacked by the army of a neighboring country. The front is approaching, and the enemy’s artillery is gradually destroying, almost to the ground, populated areas located on the path of the invaders. If you decide to flee so as not to come under fire, maybe you have time to take the most valuable things with you, but sometimes you don’t have time. In this turmoil, you can forget about taking with you the secret keys to your cryptocurrency wallets on any media or losing them later during evacuation. And without them, all your years of work to accumulate cryptocurrency mean absolutely nothing. After some time, you return to your previous place of residence, and instead of your home there are a bunch of ruins and construction debris. This suggests that wars greatly affect cryptocurrency from an individual's perspective. Yes, during this time the cryptocurrency market has remained virtually unchanged. But at the same time, you lost your cryptocurrency.

I don't see a table of participants here. Or did I miss something?