Being senile and bed ridden, and then botching a withdrawal from Afghanistan resulting in 13 US service members dying because Joe Biden decided to lie to the public about the power the Taliban had and how quickly Afghanistan would have fallen is weakness. Greenlighting Nord Stream 2 when the U.S. congress wanted sanctions last year is weakness. I notice you happened to ignore the Reutors source, so I suppose it is easy to see Joe Biden as a success when you merely stick your head in the sand at anything that might be perceived negatively. Joe Biden decided to become a Russian oil advocate and work against his party when they wanted to impose sanctions. Russian spy, perhaps?


See above. A competent monkey would do a better job as long as they took a hands-off approach and did nothing. I don't imagine you would be making excuses for Biden had Trump been in charge of this, or had Trump been responsible for getting US service members killed.



EU countries don't want the sanctions, they just want the oil. It is in their interest to ignore Russian aggression because they have things working their way - meaningless sanctions and oil/natural gas sources.

It won't look like an invasion, it never does. Just pro-Russian politicians that will normalize relationships with Russia and cut off ties with the west. Invasions don't have to be two countries launching nukes at each other to see who's left standing. This isn't the Middle East. I distinctly remember for the past 5 years the claim that the Russians have infiltrated the U.S. with Donald Trump being some sort of Russian spy with intent to destabilize the west. I suppose it's not fair to cite conspiracy theories, but you get the idea.


Unfortunately for the world, the US forces themselves into global affairs they can't handle. So the "Brandon" administration should actually apologize. I guess it was right wing media that forced Joe Biden into greenlighting Nord Stream 2: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-waive-sanctions-firm-ceo-behind-russias-nord-stream-2-pipeline-source-2021-05-19/

If you wonder why so many countries do not care about Russian aggression, it is because they understand U.S. sanctions will do nothing, and the control of natural resources Russia has is far too great. Surely Nord Stream 2 didn't help.

As long as they can plant pro-Russian politicians it makes things easier because it will be under the guise of a sovereign nation making its own foreign policy decisions. It won't look like an invasion, it will just look like what Viktor Yanukovych did and his attempts to establish closer ties with Russia. Of course, he was oust after riots and fled to Russia so things did not work out, but Putin is a very evil and sadistic man that is willing to risk global conflicts to restore Russia's reputation, so the bar is set very low.

So Putin's plan is now just to annex Russian speaking regions and declare them as part of Russia, seems logical. No resistance from NATO because the regions are already pro-Russia, and Putin can declare victory by having new proxy regions to Ukraine. The sanctions the US announced are a joke, it's mind boggling that people believe these sanctions will do anything. Latvia and Lithuania are some of the countries that will be next, Putin will implant pro-Russian politicians and stir up conflict within the countries so that they can be declared pro-Russian territories and become annexed without military intervention. The invasion was never supposed to be a physical war, just Russia inching closer to gaining control over disputed regions that will not put up any fight, and won't receive any support from the international community.

CDC withholds data regarding boosters among 18-49 age demographic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/health/covid-cdc-data.html

Non-pay wall'd: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10537161/CDC-refusing-publish-data-collected-booster-effectiveness-aged-18-49.html

Listen to the "experts" they say, who will hold hostage critical data regarding booster efficacy because they're afraid of the conclusions people might draw regarding their purpose. CDC director cites the reason as to withholding the data the fear that people might suggest the boosters weren't such a great idea after all. I'd advise anyone that is waiting on government bureaucracy to prescribe COVID policy review the data that is published already for Omicron on their own, particularly out of Israel. You will find study after study shows limited efficacy of the vaccines for Omicron, particularly among the <50 age group. That wouldn't be a bad thing, normally. Except for the fact that booster recommendations were given out before the efficacy data came in. They were recommending you get boosted before they even knew it was necessary or that it worked. This isn't part of a larger conspiracy, just more of the mass formation psychosis and group think that has plagued the medical community where politics are prioritized.

On another note - land of anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists, Sweden, advise against vaccination of 5-11 year olds: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-decides-against-recommending-covid-vaccines-kids-aged-5-12-2022-01-27/

The sanctions will be minor, won't target major financial institutions of Russia, and then the American politicians can go back to their citizens and tell them they're being tough on Russia as the Russian army slaughters Ukrainians. The Russians control a lot of the oil exported to European countries, the incentive exists to not make them upset.

The economic impact is minimal, a few billion dollars worth of crypto could manipulate the market short term, but the larger economic ramifications won't be anything that someone should worry about. Software is fallible to human hackers, so it goes without saying that you carry the risk of losing your coin if you decide to not retain control over your private keys. Government doesn't have any place regulating because of hack, it should just serve as a costly lesson when people entrust these exchanges.

And what would government do anyways? Bitfinex has a financial incentive to secure people's coins, government doesn't need to be involved.

They already know what number of taxes would discourage crypto use, every country does.

ie - A tax on stock trading at 30 percent, hypothetically, would objectively be lower than a crypto tax that the government decides to be at 50 percent. You are paying more in taxes on crypto gains than you are on stock gains in relative percentages, so the incentive is for investors to dump their funds off of crypto instead of trying to game the market and make more off crypto to offset the taxes. I've long said the way government can feasibly ban Bitcoin is by taxing it to pieces and forcing people to not want to invest or use it as a day-to-day currency. Most businsses already pay too much in taxes, they have no reason to further take on a tax burden that might be associated with Bitcoin use.

They're both one in the same. Tiktok will heavily censor information depending on how controversial it is, but it's also a chinese backed app. Youtube would be better had it not been for COVID censorship, but they have a monopoly on the video uploading platforms and their competition sucks so it's all we're left with. I'd advise you drop both of them for your own sanity.

Why is that an issue?

Younger people are lower on the economic ladder due to lack of education and experience, and as their live progresses, they gain more education/experience, and therefore are able to gain more wealth over time worked. Bitcoin disrupts this by giving younger people more economic freedom, but even in a Bitcoin based economy, wealth inequality will exist with the wealth disproportionately attributed to people that are older and have worked more. Again, that's by design.

Yes.

Germany isn't out of step, they are in line with all the other NATO countries.

NATO countries/the West made it clear they don't have a vested interest in Ukraine. By virtue of that fact alone, it is not their war to fight. All the talk about a "swift" response from the U.S. is just that, talk. It's rather unfortunate for the Ukrainian people that they are being left to the wolves, but their sovereignty is their own business.

Understandable why Putin would be okay with Bitcoin and crypto mining, article mentions the electricity costs in Russia being low which supports large mining operations. Considering the access to oil they have, Putin would be a fool to restrict his economy and make all crypto mining farms illegal.

I don't see an issue with the current "crypto crash," let's be honest - the growth that happened earlier this year was unsustainable and highly speculative. A correction was needed. Consider what a crypto recovery would actually look like, though, then compare it to the housing crisis. The recession the U.S. faced was prolonged because the government decided to interject themselves in the recovery. You can look at quantitative easing and how it related to the housing crisis and come away with the fact it was damaging. Too much money printing, high inflation predictable result. Crypto doesn't have this issue, so any regression can be returned back to whatever "normal" state it was at without the government driving it into a ditch.

You don't need to protect investors from a crypto crash, just let the recovery happen hands off. Krugman thinks the government needs to be in charge of crypto to save people from themselves...funny.

So nice of Putin to tell Biden, how polite 

Is this the video you're talking about? https://twitter.com/OlgaNYC1211/status/1494787928022781960

Clearly faked.

Mass coordination by Russian media to report the story instantaneously, check.

No casualties reported, check

Excuse for Putin to invade, check.

Additional Ukrainian troops will be on standby in response to the false flag, and Putin will then further blame escalation on Ukraine. He's quite an evil man.

BLM "peaceful protesters" get to be bailed out by Vice President Kamala Harris herself.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/alleged-domestic-abuser-released-harris-170800337.html

Perhaps the most impacting legacy of Saint Floyd dying from cardiopulmonary arrest after ingesting a bit too much fentanyl and meth for the evening is BLM rioters being bailed out by a future Vice President, under the guise of social equality or some such nonsense. A freedom convey against tyrannical mandates, that have thus far remained peaceful, are written off as the fringe radical. The demagoguery of BLM affiliated political candidates gets the praise of the media, of course. Peaceful protestors on the other hand get their bank accounts frozen.

I am not so supportive of individuals blocking public roadways, but only under the new norm of protesting, relative to BLM, I'd take that over burning down apartment buildings over a career criminal.

Canadian conservatives have it tough, but so do many others in the new era of wokeism.

That study is before omicron from August-September 2021.

There is more and more evidence that the transmission of omicron is independent of vaccination status, which further proves any mandates or passports are useless gesturing by politicians who want their constituents to believe they are following the science. I don't dispute that a vaccine is useful for preventing hospitalization and death, but only in those who are not previously immune. Natural immunity has by far been more robust than any vaccine has been able to offer.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1494681937402900484

Some activity happening in Donetsk, sirens ringing out ordering an evacuation of citizens to Russia. Indicates that Russia is expecting an attack on Donetsk (clearly a false flag operation, Ukraine has no intention on military intervention unless they are attacked first), or this could be done preemptively in case Russia were to conduct an invasion. Putin making his intentions clear that he is willing to invade Ukraine, many countries have already ordered their citizens to evacuate, embassies are being cleared.

NFT's aren't currencies, so their economic impact is minimal. It's like asking whether the fine art market would have any sizeable economic impact. NFT's are just the next speculative market. I understand you have an ambitious project within the field but IMO your market niche is small. Positioning yourselves within crypto investors is the only target audience that works, general music and sports fans don't care nor understand NFT's.

Also, produce price index for the U.S. reaching new records.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/producer-price-index-january-2022-.html

Energy prices can fluctuate so some measures might exclude energy indicators, but even setting that aside, everyone is paying more for goods than they were pre-COVID. The supply chain issues only explain part of the issue, I've been paying attention to the PPI because you can make some broader conclusions about the direction of inflation -- the money supply works too.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

https://tradingeconomics.com/euro-area/money-supply-m1

The justification for endless printing due to COVID was that it was necessary. I don't believe their lies.

Isn't that quite something -- Protestors peacefully displaying their frustration on government overreach through nonsensical and anti-scientific mandates, and the solution Trudeau comes up with is to delegate himself even more power by freezing bank accounts associated with legal protests.

Keep in mind, I have yet to see any evidence that these funds are being associated with illegal activity. Canadian PM is preemptively withholding legally obtained funds for the sole reason he disagrees with the protestors.