For the third year now, Russia has been attacking Ukraine with all military means (except nuclear), but has not achieved its goals. Because of this, the international authority of Russia and Putin himself has been greatly shaken, and the Kremlin is looking for a way out of this difficult situation. After all, it was originally planned to capture Ukraine in a few days. Now Putin’s efforts are aimed at weakening assistance from other states to Ukraine and waiting for Trump to come to power in the United States. But if the situation does not change in Russia's favor, Putin will be forced to start other wars to divert the attention of his citizens from the failures in Ukraine.

Apparently, such preparations are already underway in parallel. One eloquent fact testifies to the preparation for war with neighboring countries. When Russia started a war against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin signed a special decree according to which Ukrainian citizens could receive Russian citizenship through a simplified procedure. And last December, he signed a similar decree regarding citizens of Kazakhstan and Moldova.

Kazakhstan is now almost openly moving away from Russia, and the Kremlin really doesn’t like this. Therefore, just as at one time, before the attack on Ukraine, Putin stated that Ukraine is an artificially created state and that such a nation as the Ukrainians does not exist, the same thing is now being announced in relation to Kazakhstan. In addition, as in the case of Ukraine, Russia also has claims to the northern territories of Kazakhstan, which were allegedly previously donated by Russia and where ethnic Russians live who will need to be protected.

If Russia does not attack the Baltic countries to measure strength with NATO countries, then an attack on Kazakhstan could lead to a covert or overt war with Turkey. After all, Kazakhstan and Turkey belong to the Turkic peoples and relations between them have recently been growing, including in military terms. The world is really on the threshold of the Third World War and there are a lot of options for starting it now, more than ever.

The laws of economics work equally for all countries without any exception. This means that no country can afford to unlimitedly print national money and use it to pay for the production of military products, which are then destroyed in the war, as well as for the deaths and injuries of soldiers to their relatives. This will cause any economy to fall and inflation to rise sharply.

The production of a tank and a civilian passenger car cannot cost the state the same. This is complete nonsense. As for Putin, he now doesn’t give a damn about anything except his reputation and saving his life after, on his initiative, Russia was mired in a brutal, bloody war in Ukraine, which has been going on for the third year and there is no end in sight. I think that in Russia almost everyone has already felt the cost of this madness.

Last summer, the Russian occupiers, in order to prevent the Ukrainian Armed Forces from recapturing their territories in the south of Ukraine and to prevent the upcoming expected offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, blew up one of the largest hydroelectric power stations in Europe - the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. According to the assessment of the Ukrainian government and the UN, the amount of direct damage caused to the infrastructure and assets of Ukraine due to the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station by the Russians is $2.79 billion, and the damage is more than $11 billion.

But the law of karma, although slowly, inexorably works.
The day before, on April 5, in the Russian city of Orsk, Orenburg region, a dam broke on the Ural River. Thousands of houses were caught in the flood zone, and several thousand local residents had to be evacuated. According to Russian media, more than 4 thousand houses and more than 10 thousand residents were in the flood zone. Directly in the city of Orsk, water flooded almost 2.5 thousand houses. About 4 thousand residents were evacuated from there.
https://zn.ua/amp/WORLD/bolshaja-voda-nastihla-rf-v-orske-prorvalo-dambu-uzhe-soobshchaetsja-o-pervykh-pohibshikh.html

Now the housing and communal services sector of Russia is on the verge of survival. This winter, residents of the Moscow region were forced to warm themselves outside by fires, since the heating did not work. Instead of improving life in Russia itself, they decided to direct hundreds of millions of dollars every day to exterminate Ukrainian citizens and destroy their homes.

The irretrievable losses of Russians in this war are already approaching half a million soldiers and officers. More than 20 thousand of their tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed. Ukraine destroyed about a third of the Russian Black Sea Fleet with its weapons. Now the war has moved onto the territory of Russia itself, where military installations and everything that helps Russia wage this war are being destroyed. First of all, this applies to oil refineries. Because of this, Russia has already lost more than ten percent of its capacity, and the price of gasoline on world markets is rising.

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We clearly underestimate the importance of agriculture in our lives. A person can give up many earthly goods, but not food, which is mainly provided by agriculture. Now that the climate on our planet is changing quite dramatically, the role of agriculture will increase, because the area of arable land will decrease. Soothsayers advise people to move from cities to villages and have a plot of land in order to survive in the future.

I completely agree with you. There will always be people who will be more passionate about farming, growing fruits and vegetables, pets, than engaging in other types of business and investing. But who ultimately wins more is a matter of specific case. But all people need to eat every day. Therefore, agriculture is actually the basis of everything. The demand for agricultural products will always be consistently high. If there are difficulties in it, this will lead to higher prices, but people who are employed in other areas will be forced to buy these products in order to survive. Everything is interconnected here, so there is no need to worry about the future of agriculture.

What Blackrock proposes, even taking into account the fact that you have exaggerated the picture too much, is still more acceptable for Ukraine than being swallowed up by the Russian horde, where the people of Ukraine will simply be physically destroyed. Of course, any foreign commercial company will offer its services for the restoration of Ukraine on favorable terms. But in Ukraine, even taking into account global warming, the climate will be quite comfortable for living, there are fertile lands rich in black soil, a well-developed industry, educated and hard-working people. Therefore, there should be many mutually beneficial proposals and Ukraine will be able to choose the best of them. It is more important here that officials in the Ukrainian government do not abuse their powers for personal gain.

Ukraine did not shell Russian territory until the full-scale attack on it in February 2022 and even in the first year of this war. But the Russian occupation forces cannot be stopped unless Ukraine destroys military factories, military units, airfields from which bombers take off and fly to Ukraine, oil refineries that supply troops with fuel and everything that helps Putin’s Russia attack Ukraine. Therefore, having established its own production of drones, Ukraine is now also actively destroying military installations on the territory of Russia itself.

Negotiate with Putin and his entourage, who have already included four Ukrainian regions and the Crimean peninsula as territories in their Constitution. which are part of Russia is meaningless. And even if Ukraine makes these territorial concessions, the war will not stop and there will still be no peace. Putin is accustomed to regard any concessions as a sign of weakness, and therefore he will want to seize all of Ukraine. Therefore, in Ukraine there is no other way than to defend our freedom and independence with arms in hand.

Anyone who wants peace in Ukraine through its territorial concessions to Russia can offer Putin the territory of their country. I think Putin will not refuse this. But whether he will stop after this is the second question. You can take his word for it, but he never kept his promises. This is evidenced by the experience of the ten-year war in Ukraine.

The civilized world has recently lost its illusions that Putin wants peace and is not trying to destroy Ukraine and Ukrainians. It's quite the opposite. Putin can stop the war he started any day. To do this, it is enough for him to withdraw his occupation troops from Ukraine and peace will come. Before Russia’s attack, Ukraine did not attack its territory and does not intend to do so in the future. The whole question is in Russia's territorial appetites. In the early days of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Putin tasked his troops to approach Kyiv on the first day and a victory parade over Ukraine was planned on the central Khreshchatyk street in Kyiv. Putin has not abandoned this intention to seize all of Ukraine to this day. All his plans were disrupted only by the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people and their armed forces. The only opportunity to achieve a just peace in Ukraine is the military defeat of Putin’s Russia. The people of Russia now are silent slaves who are not capable of much resistance to the aggressive intentions of Putin, who imagines himself to be the second Hitler and the conqueror of Europe.

The article that you attached as a link says exactly this, namely:
"Putin also does not want or need peace. Given the catastrophic consequences of war - for Russia, its army, economy and people - Putin knows that his political and physical survival directly depends on either a Russian victory (which is practically impossible) or a protracted continued bloodshed (which seems to be his strategy now)."

The cryptocurrency market has been growing since October last year, that is, almost five months without any significant correction. But without correction, further normal price growth is impossible. We are already seeing a decent correction. So, if Bitcoin recently rose to $73,477, now it has fallen to $63,152. Ethereum rose to $4,193, but now its price is $3,268.
Considering that there are still many interesting positive developments ahead in this market, there is no doubt that this year and next we will see significantly greater growth than what we have recently seen. Therefore, for those who have not yet bought a cryptocurrency with potential for growth, there is still a good chance to buy. At the same time, now is no longer a good time to sell our coins. But everything will depend on the depth of the correction that we see. It’s unlikely that anyone here can suggest the right solution.

I wonder how you are trying to establish peace if you are calling for an end to the support game. As I understand it, this is a call not to support a country that has been attacked by an aggressor. So what will happen then? Strong countries will capture the weak, the rest will only look at this and declare that they want peace. Meanwhile, the aggressor will do his job. In the future, there will be a lot of such aggressors, because in reality the international community will not help countries that have been attacked and this will encourage other potential aggressors to seize foreign territories. There will be chaos where the might will rule. Is this the kind of world you want?
Real peace is possible only when the aggressor, who encroached on someone else's territory, will immediately get hit in the teeth, so much so that his head will fly off and others will be discouraged from committing similar war crimes.

In this case, I would like to know your opinion about whether you would consider it necessary to capitulate if your country is attacked by a stronger neighbor? Do you simply agree to give up your country, your property, your wife, your children at the disposal of the occupiers and will not fight and defend yourself just because the attacking side looks stronger? If yes, then I can only feel sorry for you for such a slavish choice.

Ukraine has been fighting an enemy superior in strength for the third year now, and mind you, it’s fighting well. Have you seen what the Russian occupiers did and are doing in the occupied settlements of Ukraine? Mass extermination of the civilian population just because they consider themselves Ukrainians and do not renounce their nationality. Torture, murder and rape of civilians throughout the advance of the Russian horde. The conclusion of a truce and leaving part of the Ukrainian territories under occupation will make it possible to continue this genocide of Ukrainians. In this case there will be no peace. This will be a further systematic destruction of the Ukrainian people. The Russians entered Ukraine under the pretext of protecting the Russian-speaking population. But it was they who killed Russian speakers in Ukraine the most, because their goal is completely different - the destruction of Ukraine as a state and Ukrainians as a nation. Ukraine will fight in any case, because it has no decent choice. Russian occupiers will find only their death on Ukrainian soil.

According to the official version, the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the Japanese were fanatics and would not capitulate, and the only way to end the war without the entry of American troops was an atomic bombing. The alternative could have been an American invasion. President Truman wrote in his memoirs that this would have cost half a million American lives, and then he noted that it would also have resulted in the deaths of millions of Japanese. Thus, according to the official explanation, the bombing was not only justified, it was actually also humane because it saved so many lives.

  Until now, the United States has not only not been punished, but has not even apologized for the murder of Japanese civilians.

Donald Trump, while still President of the United States, said that it was thanks to this program that World War II ended and an “unprecedented era of global stability” began.

US President Barack Obama and his administration, who visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in 2016, said that there would be no apology for the nuclear strike in 1945. First of all, because Japan was the first to attack the United States when it attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, where the US Pacific Fleet was stationed and where 2.4 thousand Americans died.
The mayor of Hiroshima, Tomihisa Taue, when he conveyed an invitation to Obama to visit the Memorial, said: they say, the very fact that the American leader will visit a city that suffered from the American atomic bombing is important.
https://rg.ru/2016/05/24/pochemu-ssha-ne-izviniaiutsia-za-atomnye-bombardirovki-iaponii.html

Advice to an aggressor: Don't attack others and you won't have to mourn the death of your loved ones. No one knows what kind of weapon may appear in the hands of the one you have taken as your victim.
Before the attack on Ukraine, Russia threatened everything with its Black Sea Fleet, which was bulky and intimidating in sight. Now its remnants are hiding away from the shores of Ukraine, fearing the spread of Ukrainian-made drones.
I hope I have satisfied your curiosity. This will make the popcorn even tastier.

I agree that from a military point of view there was no need for the US to drop nuclear bombs on the peaceful Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and that these were, in fact, US war crimes.

In the current situation, Putin’s Russia, although they declare that they are open to negotiations with Ukraine, however, the precondition for negotiations is the consent of Ukraine to the fact that the occupied territories of Ukraine remain with Russia, and this is unacceptable for Ukraine and for the entire civilized world. More and more states are being drawn into this bloody and brutal war, and therefore the threat of World War III is growing rapidly.

What does it mean that the US does not allow France to increase its military power? This is exactly what is welcomed among NATO members. On the contrary, a scandal recently erupted in the United States when Trump said that many NATO members in Europe do not allocate two percent of their GDP to defense needs, hoping for US assistance in the event of a military threat.

In addition, the French Parliament on Thursday, March 14, approved a multi-billion dollar increase in military spending over the next 7 years against the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The draft military programming law, which includes 413 billion euros in spending for 2024-2030, received final approval from the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, on Wednesday by a vote of 244 to 37.
  President Emmanuel Macron has pushed to increase the military budget to 413 billion euros, the biggest increase in spending in half a century. The new budget is more than a third higher than the previous military spending plan of 295 billion euros for 2019-2025.
Do you think that in this case France received consent to increase its military budget from the United States?
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/rus/news/2023/07/13/7165723/

An interesting opinion, but it is not without meaning. Putin, from the amount of power he received in Russia, imagined himself to be a god and decided that in the 21st century he can make decisions and act as he wants, regardless of any moral values of our society and treaty obligations of Russia and go down in history as a great conqueror at the level of Napoleon and Hitler. Having massively introduced his spies into the power structures of Ukraine and invested a lot of money to bribe Ukrainian officials, he decided that with their help he would quickly seize Ukraine even before the United States and Western countries had time to react to these actions of his. Moreover, he got away with the forceful seizure of part of Ukraine in 2014 quite easily.

But Putin's plans were disrupted by the people of Ukraine and their armed forces, who put up unexpected and effective resistance to Russia's invading armies. The resistance turned out to be so successful that the United States and Western countries, which saw Russia as a potential enemy, decided that through the hands of the Ukrainians, providing them with weapons and financial support, they could at least weaken Russia militarily and economically and after that no longer consider it as a threat. But Putin is already too bogged down in Ukraine and retreat means for him not only the loss of power, but also his own life. Therefore, he began to raise the stakes and threaten European countries, including with the use of nuclear weapons. And this already affects the political and economic foundations of the powerful.

Therefore, we see that recently French President Macron has sharply changed the tone of his statements and stated that Russia must be defeated in the war it started and now does not even rule out sending troops into Ukraine if the situation at the front for Ukraine worsens sharply. It is unlikely that he would have changed his mind so dramatically if he had not felt strong support behind him. And this support may well come from the world’s money wallets.

To stop the war in Ukraine, Russia does not have to drop a nuclear bomb on its territory.  To do this, it is only necessary to withdraw Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine.  In addition, it must be taken into account that any use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine will have a negative impact on the environment and people both in Russia itself and in European countries.  And this will actually mean an attack on NATO countries.

No one here approves of the use of nuclear weapons against peaceful cities for any purpose and under any circumstances. The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was most likely a political step for the United States to demonstrate the capabilities of new nuclear weapons and an experiment to study their consequences of use in war conditions.

In the current conditions, Russia itself attacked the neighboring state of Ukraine, and so that no one would stop it from destroying Ukraine and destroying its population, it is trying to threaten and blackmail the whole world with the use of nuclear weapons. This is blasphemous and has no justification from any point of view, and also carries a direct and obvious threat of starting World War III.

Do you want to say that after the surrender of Germany in May 1945, the million-strong Kwantung Army of Japan, which was an ally of Germany and was armed with over 1.2 thousand tanks, more than 6.6 thousand guns, 1.9 thousand aircraft, over 30 combat ships and boats did not pose a threat to the eastern borders of the USSR at all? In fierce battles throughout August 1945, the irretrievable losses of Soviet troops amounted to 12 thousand people, medical losses - 24.4 thousand. Was this damage caused by those who were unable to resist? Why then didn’t Japan capitulate earlier than September 2 and fought stubborn battles with Soviet troops for almost a month? In a national radio address, Emperor Hirohito announced surrender to the Japanese people on August 15, but the Japanese army continued to offer serious resistance for a long time.

You have a slightly wrong idea about the chronology of the final stage of World War II.

World War II took place from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945.
Here's what Wikipedia says about it:
“The beginning of World War II is considered to be September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany launched its invasion of Poland...
The invasion of Anglo-American troops into Germany and the Battle of Berlin brought only Germany out of the war, which signed the act of surrender on May 8 (May 9 Moscow time), 1945. In July 1945, the United States sent Japan the Potsdam Declaration, which it rejected. This was followed by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the entry of the USSR into the war. On September 2, 1945, Japan signed the instrument of surrender. This ended the Second World War."
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80 %D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B0

In the period following the atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, and until Japan's surrender on September 2, large-scale military operations still took place. Thus, given Japan’s refusal of the unconditional surrender offered to it, the USSR made a statement to the Japanese government on August 8 that since August 9, 1945, it considers itself to be at war with Japan. On August 10, the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army (PRA) entered the war against Japan. The fighting took place on fronts stretching over 5 thousand km. Only on September 2, at 9:04 a.m. (Tokyo time), the Act of Surrender of Japan was signed on board the American battleship Missouri, which was in Tokyo Bay.
https://www.noo-journal.ru/sovetsko-yaponskaya-voyna-1945/

Prices have now fallen slightly in the cryptocurrency market due to the fact that the time of price correction is coming. Bitcoin has actually been continuously rising in price since October last year and there are now many whales, and ordinary investors, who are trying to lock in their profits.

As for the possibility of approval of Ethereum-ETF spot exchange-traded funds, they will most likely be approved, if not in May, then a little later. The SEC's approval of the Bitcoin ETF was largely forced by the courts, which ruled against its director's position. This process has begun and therefore the SEC will no longer have the opportunity to reasonably resist. Moreover, Bitcoin ETFs indicate increased demand for them from investors. Therefore, the approval of ETF-Ethereum is only a matter of time.