If the price don't touch this trendline, I will never post any TA ever on bitcointalk. That chart and trendline is ridiculous..  You are seeming to show that you have not learned anything... even after some recent promises that you made that you would try harder.. blah blah blah. Regarding your promise to go away if the trendline is not touched.... many of us have heard those kinds of vacuous promises from disingenuine troll twats in the past.. and they are not always true to their promise.. but sometimes they do end up going away.. just because their track record is just filled with so much incredible ridiculous bullshit that they end up losing any kind of meaningful credibility... so I will believe it when I see it.. hard to prove a negative.. right? A little confused... I see: If the price don't touch this trendline, I will never post any TA ever on bitcointalk. I don't see anything about "promise to go away"... just no more TA... Right!?! And as to this so-called TA- ImThour, are you seriously betting your TA privileges on a touch down to $25k territory? Because with no wordenings to go with your chartening, that's what it looks like to me. Bold Bearish call that! I'll miss your attempts at TA. -Cope |
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The part that is really starting to worry me is the fact that so many Canadians (and Americans) are supporting this, and even more that the majority of people (everywhere) do not see that this is not about a protest. This is a planned action. A takeover. And it is probably just the opening act of the plan in this hemisphere. Joe Biden famously said that the second amendment does not protect you if you are fighting the Nuclear weapon wielding US military. What’s happened is that there have never been — if you wanted or if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/06/23/remarks-by-president-biden-and-attorney-general-garland-on-gun-crime-prevention-strategy/Well, Mr. "President". You will need to send one of your jets to my home then. Where he is wrong is the fact that some of us have decided that if it comes to it we will call that bet, and we will die fighting. I am one of those. I would rather be remembered by my descendants as someone who fought against the tyranny than as a coward that stood by as evil men tried to take control of the world. I have begun preparing for this possibility, and will be as ready as possible. My biggest hope is that there will be members of the military and police of western democracies who will also stand up. That includes any of you three letter people reading this. And I have no desire to die or even fight, but I will. I also hope my state considers taking a stand if the time comes. Currently, personally I have only met a very few of my GenX brethren that see it... the boomers are too busy trying to suck up as much new money as possible, and the Millennials and Zoomers are rolling out the red carpet for the communists. Hopefully it is not just my nihilist generation that is left to save the west... lol. Chin Up there Cowboy! There's a LOT more Boomer support than you think and even a decent sampling of underfunded and still a bit Green Millenials... but the Zoomers are likely lost. So yea, X is the front line. Just know that the "Blue Ridge" is a formidable (and not so thin) Blue Line. Lots of resources, both Natural & Stockpiled... I think we'll be Aight... but it won't be pretty. "May you live in interesting times..." |
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What if you paid USD $3.75 for a US gallon of milk and inadvertently picked up an imperial gallon of milk for USD $4.70 at the end of the year? Dude... Milk ain't supposed to be kept that long! When it start getting chunky & chewy, you really should throw it out, and maybe focus on smaller carton sizes. Maybe try a pint for $2.89? |
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cant wait for fusion plants to come on line. go tokamak!
It will be very interesting to see how the delivery of fusion energy might change the whole energy/political landscape. In theory, this should allow us to have access to very cheap, almost limitless electricity. Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and removing the stranglehold other countries have on us due to the abundance of natural fossil fuels within those countries. Also what will happen to Bitcoin when energy becomes cheaper? Will there be a need for US war machine to protect the petrodollar? Perhaps the production costs of these new nuclear plants might be too prohibitive to build enough of them to change the reliance on fossil fuels? Will there be the political will to change the status quo? Electricity is only one input, production of many things will still be limited by available commodities. It will certainly be a massive game changer though. But fusion is still decades off at best and most likely closer to a century. I have no knowledge about fusion myself and when my knowledge in a certain area is lacking, the discussions on hackernews are always pretty enlightening. Most there seem to think it is not really a breakthrough at all, more of just a benchmark being hit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30271677And they worry about global warming caused by dinosaur farts!!! "Hey, Let's build a sun on the earth's surface! That'll fix that pesky slow rise in global temps!!!" "We all gonna die..." |
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But wait 'till you hear my flip side theory. Hehe... It's a doozy.
Next post.
We (perhaps royal) need that like we need another hole in the head.  cAPS: Flip side theory.
Shit!!!!!! I'm too late. This is not a new theory, but I have never taken it seriously until today. But I also give it very little credence. It's a wild ass crazy thing.
Central Banks have been rushing around trying to figure out how to make a digital currency for a decade now. They are getting closer to a test that I would have thought possible. But they are super far behind. And you KNOW they know they are fucked.
What if... the most powerful central bank hired... uhh... I dunno, say the inventor of SHA256 to develop a viral, unbeatable new world currency that they would control to the extent it would be possible considering the fact that one reason that it would be viral is that it is TRULY a decentralized system. Or, even better the FED did NOT hire them, but instead it was launched by a secret (possibly even rogue) element in our intelligence world.
Say they just released it on the cypherpunks mailing list under some pseudonym Nakamoto, SAtoshi and did everything they could surreptitiously to help it catch on? How would they control it, you ask? Well they wouldn't once it was launched. But they would be able to virtually "premine" more of it than anyone else. And then someday after it gained worldwide traction and the price of it stabilized they could come clean (or not? I am not sure about this part) and introduce a plan to monetize the USGvmt with the Satoshi coins?
Sorry to interrupt you in the midst of your seemingly detached fantasy - but it seems to me that several of the fall outs of the 2017 forkening attempts and the various subsequent failures have already negated the possibility of any supposed decentralized coin to displace bitcoin - absent a clear an unequivocal 10x plus improvement over bitcoin, and surely what you describe is not even close to having a chance. By the way, what you wrote kinds of reminds me of several of the conspiracy theories regarding what bitcoin "really is", which there are pretty decently sized contingencies that presume that the USGovt or various status quo TPTB have backdoors into bitcoin - so surely you seem to be describing one way to overcome bitcoin is to have a back door into it. At another time, you had mentioned that you thought that pumping Ethereum's success could be another kind of backdoor way to conquer bitcoin.. which seems to be a more convincing angle than anything that you have so far presented today in your part 1 and part 2 attacks of these undermining bitcoin questions. Don't get me wrong. I am not even asserting that some of these might not be tried or that they may already be in the process of being tried.. USGovt siding with faketoshi for example could be one of them.. but still, there is no real evidence that anything they are doing so far is even close to successful and part of the reason that some of us (inckluding yours truly) have been considering bitcoin to have been and likely to continue to be successful way beyond our even most wild of our imaginations of bullish scenarios. This would be the perfect way to launch the worlds dominant CDBC. And ahead of all the competition. And it would be done in a way that would be both a gift to the world, and a great benefit to the creating country.
Ok.. this part is a bit better. How would this government act during the first 20 years of it's existence? Well they would act disinterested. They would slow play their hand. They would act like they did not really SEE the risk. And most of them would not know because it would be ultra-argon-xoomax Top Secret. They would not make it illegal... and they would wait on OTHER COUNTRIES, perhaps even their enemies to take it up first and embed their economies with it. Some of them would bitch and scream, but over all they would just go on printing dollars like usual. Well more than usual. They would be printing them faster and faster. They saw this coming too after all.
Then after Russia, and perhaps China, and some other economies adopt it... after it is safe to do so, they could begin to pull the curtain back, and though this might cause all kinds of temporary instability the game theory here works itself out pretty fast as well.
*Sigh*. I can only wish that the US government, or ANY of them for that matter was wise enough to think up a thing like this...
But the result will end up the same no matter what. This monetary avalanche is well underway and unstoppable at this point. There will be winners and losers, of course, but it will not be stopped. At least I do not think so.
Well, at least you come to the right punchline conclusion, and I am not even disagreeing with the idea that they are trying things and they have "things up their sleeves." At least we are in agreement that they are too little too late, even though you want to speculate regarding ways they might be working on supposed projects. Anyway... I said it was crazy and do not claim it to be original... I mean I have never read anyone else really try to flesh it out, but I know people have theorized it.) But all the things that have happened? They can actually fit a theory like this fairly well... lol. An obviously I have Americentricized this. It could be many other world powers that did it...
I agree with this part too.. .Various countries and status quo institutions are trying various things.... and that is likely to continue as ongoing and perhaps as severe as they can get away with from time to time.. even while they are getting called out and having to back down at various times when they are found out. [edited out]
Dude they already did it BTC is the name of it.  Exactly!!! That's the already existing theory. You beat me to it philip. For the record, I was right there with you and smirked at Phil's :facepalm response... Then when J1G joined in I started to rebut, but, but you beat me to it. |
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 There's the making of a haiku in there.... Making a haiku "I think, therefore I bitcoin" Tyler Winklevoss #haikuTrying too hard bro... The Words are all included. Just typing it out: Tyler Winklevoss "I think, therefore I Biltcoin." Twitter for iPhone #haiku#haiku |
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Keep it going, i will have to support and replace my wife in our household in the next few days because she is about to get to the peak of her Omicron infection (tested positive today).
Cheers!
Easy there! No need to replace her just yet, I'm sure she'll recover nicely. 😜 |
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When the bill came, he was ready to split it. I was like, "no worries, I got this brother."
That puts me in mind of a TV show worth watching, since the thread has had some of that recently. "Inside No 9". The episode I'm thinking of in particular is S03E02 "The Bill". Never heard of inside no 9 so I checked out a utube vid on it and am downloading first season right now. ) since the thread has had some of that recently. I really think you should start your own modded thread on this off topic shit. I am thoroughly triggered and insist that everyone requesting topics being removed to another thread should use another thread to do so! This thread is for discussion of THIS THREAD only!!! And all others should take it elsewhere! |
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I have not always been much of a Cruz fan, and I swear it's not JUST the Bitcoin stuff that has won me over. Ted has an uncanny ability to come across as wonkish & unlikable, But if you can get passed his random reptilian facial expressions (which is helped by the beard) and his often overly rehearsed preachy tone... you start to realize he really does have a deep understanding of founding principles and history and he makes most of his decisions based off of his knowledge and his love for liberty. I am super stoked to hear this message is starting to get out! The ability of Energy Providers to monetize excess/waste energy in more remote areas, then instantly send that money anywhere in the world to bolster/subsidize energy production in areas that are overwhelmed or overtaxed can act as a buffer to smooth out the high-cost bubbles. Having capital & resources to mitigate changes is a far better strategy than trying to stop all the freight trains at once to mildly slow the change. So, we are in the middle of another North Texas Ice storm. (Hope everything is good at the farm Bob... you're getting a decent stress test for your plumbing!  ) And the people here have been experiencing PTSD from last year's "icepocalypse" as we called it. I have kept this old part of my ~100 year old house as a good luck totem.  When it happened last year there was SO MUCH structural damage ALL OVER Texas that I am sure some plumbers are STILL WORKING a year later from damage that happened during that storm. Our structures are not really built for the combination of 12f/-12c weather and power outages that basically cause the whole damn state to freeze at once. We are built, rather for 9 month summers that go to >100f/40c (I am translating from the sensible fahrenheit to the non weather sensible celcius for you Europeans and lovely brave Canadians (HONK), although I agree the US are cavemen as far as the metric system goes F is just better for weather, while C is great for science or cooking.. anyway never mind that). The grid failures were actually caused by a greed explosion during the cold snap last year, but the whole state has been trembling over the last couple weeks preparing for THIS storm. And the news has been very fear based over the last week until the last couple days where both local and national media has switched over to the "bitcoin miners are saving the grid" narrative. It is a sight to be seen. On top of that we have several gubernatorial candidates (including the incumbent) making Bitcoin a plank in their campaigns. Including a couple challengers saying one of the first things they will do is make Bitcoin legal tender. Still the most mind boggling thing is the amount of "normie" media talking about Bitcoin saving the grid this time... AND the clarity and extent to which they are GETTING IT. The articles are not as stupid as Bitcoin articles usually are. Unfortunately I cannot see this lasting forever... The powers that be in government and the media will not take well to this amazingly sensible narrative and will shift back to their "boiling oceans"/"more than Norway" bullshit pretty soon, I am sure. But Cruz, and several other TX politicians are GETTING IT. They see why Bitcoin is important. Even some of the nuanced stuff like how it will help the energy sector. With TX being the energy capital of the USA it makes perfect sense that we will also become one of the mining meccas. We have such expansive space for large solar/wind farms that can be justified by a base demand of Bitcoin mining. This is going to be explosive growth here. As a synergistic corollary the amount of Bitcoin Illuminati that have descended on Austin (for some reason??? but it has been a Bitcoin locus since ~ 2011) is also helping push this as the government also realizes that Texas is becoming one of the states that is attracting the industry in multiple ways. Mind boggling for me to be watching this happen, frankly. I have to admit, I have often thought TX would be a good place to settle if the Leftist loons continue their slow progress towards making this place another high tax high crime shithole. Just have trouble with the lack of trees & seasons and the fact that so many of your highways are 100ft off the ground! At least it seems like recent moves are going in the right direction as far as seasonal weather, but that makes it even more urgent that you address those highways! It's disconcerting to see the road waving in the wind as you're merging into traffic, but add in icy conditions and flying cars will quickly become an unfortunate reality! You have so much space! Why the hell must you have 5 overpasses stacked vertically? Buckle up and stay warm down there cAP! Looking at the Weather forecast, I'm not seeing any problems on the horizon in your area... are they actually calling for something or is this just noise based solely on last year's "once in 100 years" storm? |
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 https://twitter.com/btc_archive/status/1489599183636025347?s=21Just had a small discussion regarding this tweet with one of my friend and it went very interesting so I thought of sharing it with my WO bros. So, In above poll although at first i selected “NO” without much thought, but when I saw 26% saying “YES” I gave a little thought and I realize may be this is an option too and after discussing with my friend it looks like yes this is an option too. Ok so there could be two basic scenarios: 1.Let say bank accepts your bitcoins investment and promises you a certain interest rate let say 1% in BTC annually. This will be a great option indeed, your bitcoins are actually increasing and without any fears of inflation. But if you keep it with you, let say you invested 2 btc, your 2 bitcoins will be 2 bitcoins after a year but in bank case it will be 2.02 BTC. 2. In second scenario let say bank accept your bitcoins but wants to pay you interest not in BTC but fiat like $ and let say it’s 5% (5% of your equivalent fiat investment). Still in this scenario you are safe. Your bitcoins are safe, not increasing but not decreasing too and on top of that you are getting some cash which you can spend on any thing and your original bitcoins remains same. 3. Third scenario is you don’t invest but you just store it, and yes you can access it through your banking app similar to any wallet and you can easily convert it into your desired currency on the go and withdraw the money when needed. Yes some fee in fiat is applicable. Well please don’t bring “not your keys, not your bitcoins” into this because that’s a different concept and I totally accept it. But in this case bank promised you it’s your bitcoins and on your demand you will get it back. What you guys think? I think Crypto.com is already offering almost everything you described there. |
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It is funny that most peeps think that eth team consists of skilled and high level programmers. In reality they are just a bunch of enthusiasts. So many hacks, forks, bugs, high fees, sidechains, testnets failures, etc. And Vitalik mocking the high fees of Bitcoin is the cherry of the cake. The only good thing is that the hash functions are relatively asic resistant, which allows mining Bitcoin with gpus. No wonder they hate the miners and since the creation of eth devs promise the switch to POS. Which someone noted here stands for proof of shit. Funny, I'd always heard that acronym stood for "Point Of Sell"But then again, I think we're well past that point... |
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I am Turkish/Muslim born and living in Germany and get called rightist Nazi in the German media for not agreeing with this BS for 2 years now. They used this method for decades to put people who do not obey in the "rightist" corner. Unfortunately Germans believe it once again and they will be one of the last (Asia seems even deeper into this) who wake up to this. I hope the spark of hope we get from Canada will spread throughout the whole world anytime soon, before it is too late. I cant believe people agree to live like this for the next centuries. Because if we do not end this, it will never end.
The problem, very similar around where i live, is that they mix up too much. There is a demonstration against the vaccine mandate, but anti-vaxxers, action refusers, mask refusers, covid-deniers, conspiracy theorists, human rights organisations among others, BUT also known rightists and their affilated organisations (shouting for freedom). So the media and politics can perfectly use the presence of the latter to condemn the whole demonstration and reframe its theme to something that makes all others also look bad. Many of them were sent to "riot" areas to "turn up the heat" into violence & property destruction. Many were sent to DC on 1/6 to instigate the breach into the Capital rather than a strategically more effective large crowd protesting peacefully outside on the grounds. And many are now being sent to mingle with the crowds of protestors in Ottawa wearing ridiculous WW2 NAZI uniforms. I first saw this tactic used in the original TEA Party movement, and was personally involved in identifying and ostrasizing a handful of them along with their camera crews on tax day April 15, 2012. They have since gotten more sophisticated and A LOT more funding. It was effectively used in Charlottesville, VA to turn a peaceful protest against destruction of historical statues into an "Alt-Right" White Supremacy movement and in Jan. 6th 2020 to create the "insurrection". All of the sudden everybody walking in a group of people demonstrating against vaccine mandates is a nazi. The "mode of war" has to change drastically, or its all lost. It would also be better not to march against something but for the opposite of something. "FOR freedom of choice of vaccination" vs. "AGAINST vaccine mandates". In successful communication, you always bring an alternative to the table and don't really care about the position of your opponent(s). This is a complete miss in all those anger-based demonstrations. EDIT: The main reason: Emotions on == astuteness off This highly funded Globalist Movement is taking on very sophisticated elements that frankly scare the shit out of me, and our own CIA & FBI are involved up to their necks in many of these operations world wide. Be very cautious and always be sure your logic keeps your emotions in check! It's important to understand the PsyOp tactics of Colour Revolution and how it is now being deployed globally to control and instigate the Great Reset. People are being effectively controlled by emotions and you can't really blame them as this is several levels beyond next level psychological warfare tactics. The best we can do is expose the counter productive elements and help people to see they are being manipulated. The division is intentional. |
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You don't mean the placement of the pocket is off center (vertically)?
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Off center.... correct! ....But in reality, its offset about 2 mm in the X-axis (horizontal), not the Y. But without that top view I can see that it does appear off in the Y. ........
Barely noticeable. But what's that dent/chip on the upper lefr corner rounding on the first photo, with the coin pocket is facing upwards? Just a reflection?
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Ha! I forgot about that and didn't even notice it showed in photo till you mentioned it. Indeed another fubar. And I didn't make a big enough chamfer to clean it up.  I understand you are talking about the case, and not the coin... BUT! One of these things is not like the others...  OCD Was Invoked... Jest Sayin'... |
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Here's a little puzzle for all you OCD folks out there. There is a subtle error on this piece. (hint....front) It's a sold chunk of polished steel with a circle pocket milled to house a 1oz silver coin in a capsule, with side set screw to captivate. Signed on the back. After noticing it myself, I analyzed the Mastercam cut file, and there it was. Stupid effing me. Can anyone guess what it is? Come to think of it, maybe this error will make it copy proof (unless you have access to cut file and know the error.... within a micron, lol) Then again, who dafuk would wanna copy it anyway?  front  back GO BITCOIN  The FAT 1 looking thing on the upper left under the arm of the BTC logo ?? Very nice piece though Yea, that 0 is looking pretty fugged... but I thought he was talking about the display case rather than the coin itself. In which case I would point to the appearance of a chip in the middle of the front edge. |
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[Edited Out] Dweeb!I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you may well have posted before my two above edits... so you are largely fighting the hypothetical in the first paragraph.. and in the meantime calling me names (overly bullish if that could be an insult?... hahahaha) Not MY fault you type so slow... What is that, an IBM Selectric??? |
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How much UP movement in BTC price does it take before you personally are going to start to believe that the bottom for this particular correction is "in"?
By the way, if you have not looked at the BTC price charts recently (out of fear, detachment or for whatever other personal reasons) our current bottom is at $32,951 - nearly 4 days ago as I type this post.
Yesterday (or was it the day before? the days all mix together sometimes, no?), I had already provided my tentative answer to this question, but I would not mind hearing what other WO posters consider a sufficient UPpity BTC price threshold in order to start to feel a wee bit cocky that the bottom for this correction may well be "in" (sure your might want to account for time, too.. but mostly I am trying to focus on price in this here question with a kind of presumption that the threshold could get crossed in the next 1 hour to 6 months).
Here are the response options:
1) Already enough UPpity to proclaim the bottom is "in".
2) Getting above $38k for more than a few hours will be enough
3) Getting above $40k
4) Getting above $42k
5) Getting above $46k
6) Getting above $50k
7) Getting above $55k
8.) Getting above $62k
9) Getting above some other price level not listed above (and perhaps some additional criteria?)
Pray tell. Opinions matters, especially the opinion of uie pooie (I won't even make any exceptions here.. for the sake of inclusivity.. hahahahahaha)
I think your natural bullish bias (I can't blame you and completely understand) seems to be clouding your vision of general sentiment. I'm seeing a lot of peeps who were quite Bullish in August '21 now saying "it's crypto winter, buckle up for the long Bear cycle." Granted sentiment is not EVERYTHING, but it certainly a significant factor! I'm afraid we're going to see a bit lower numbers than $32,951... but I am also pretty certain that there are a lot of Dollar$ waiting to jump in at the high $20k to low $30k mark. So I expect we'll see the price retest the $28k support and find an unexpectedly strong level of new money entering in that area. Then if the right Hopium drops at the right time, we could see a sudden bounce to the low $50k's which could be enough to trigger a FOMO surge combined with a short squeeze. If not, we may drift along sideways a bit more and retest down to $24k-$25k arena. At which time I would certainly hope we'd get enough bounce to trigger a 2x daily candle leading into ano5her Bullish scenario. So I guess if I was forced into the framenings of your specific (possibly misguided) question, my answer would be somewhere between 6&7... but I just think there are many more factors involved than your scenario allows for... Dweeb! |
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Very rarely have I ever heard so many words used to say nothing at all.
TL;DR
We're doing nothing today but might do something soon.
Side Note:
In light of so many words used in saying nothing...
OpSec - I noticed J1G has been completely absent through this press conference and it's run-up.
Should we start using the abbr. J1P???
Just asking...
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I don't think Putin is that stupid. And Russia's current Military capability is nothing like those of the Soviet Union. And the Soviet Unions Military might was grossly overstated as well.
Are you sure that Russia is not strong enough to conquer Ukraine in less than 14 days, even with the alleged military aid that Ukraine receives from some countries? The Russian Armed Forces are one of the world's largest military forces, with around a million active-duty personnel, which is the world's fifth-largest, and at least 2 million reserve personnel. It is mandatory for all male citizens aged 18–27 to be drafted for a year of service in the Armed Forces. On the other hand, the EU as a whole has less than 2 million people in active military forces, which means that the EU would not have a good time if Putin decided to repeat what the Russians did during WW2 - the question of coming to Berlin would not be questionable at all, it would only be a matter of time.  SourceDon't forget the apparent alliances forming with Iran & China. Game theory this... simultaneously Russia moves on Ukraine as China takes back Taiwan and Iran launches into taking over large swaths of Iraq & Syria to create a direct front against Isreal. Shuffle & regroup a bit, and these 3 forces could unite their territories to drastically reshape the world map & power structures. For years Russia has been hesitant to rush headlong into Ukraine for fear of damaging the oil pipeline. But now that the Biden administration has wilfully abandoned the sanction/blockade against the Nordstream pipeline Russia has no fear of breaking things to reclaim former dominance. It's getting a bit dicey, and with Biden administration's apparent compromised past with China, Iran, & Russian sympathies in Ukraine... I'm just not convinced that the world can depend on the US as an ally in this episode. Also have my concerns about Germany's position. WWIII is a possibility, but I'm somewhat concerned that it may just be a massive powershift with no real resistance. |
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Did somebody feed the Ants?
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