There are more Nazis attending a regular football match in Russia than exist in Ukraine.
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Ukrainians and Russians - I mean the people - are similar to the point of being more or less the same.
Much more so than, say, Germany vs Sweden or Italy vs France.
This stupid thing is entirely political.
The Ukrainians, when offered the choice, lean towards the EU more than towards Great Mother Russia.
My bet is the Russians, if given a choice, would do the same.
That's what hurts the Russian Powers That Be the most.
A short offtopic about this crazy internet money. It's called bitcoin. Have you ever heard of it? It's getting more and more popular, so I guess some of you might have heard it mentioned already. If not, check it out because it's cool. The offtopic is:
It seems like the oligarch(s) buying spot like clueless noobs and pushing the number up have calmed down a little. Exited the country already maybe?
Let's say some of the oligarchs in Russia, Ukraine, Canada or any other places that have been extremely (and surprisingly) disrupted are finding out that they are having trouble accessing and moving their money, and they are figuring out that bitcoin could serve as a decent storage and transportation mechanism for them.
Under such a scenario, it is likely going to take a decent amount of time for them to figure this out, even if they might have a cadre of financial persons that they can trust to set up such bitcoin wallets for them. .and if their current situation is a surprise, their entrance into bitcoin may well have some panic element as well..
How much value does it take to be classified as an oligarch? Entry-level oligarch could be in the ballpark of $100 million, no? And higher level oligarchs may have several billion, maybe even exceeding $10 Billion?
Then questions might be regarding how much of the wealth of such oligarch is liquid (how liquid?)? how much is accessable? Surely some of the wealth is hidden, even non-oligarchs do that, no?
(not speaking from personal experience, here)If one of us were an oligarch, how much would we panic under current circumstances? What kinds of circumstances would cause us (as oligarch) to panic? how much premium would we be willing to pay to cause our lil selfies to feel less like having any need to panic?
Does bitcoin fit anywhere into the making more secure picture, here? Would we even need to be an oligarch under current distress to get some feelings of possible panic from what kinds of central bank/government actions we have been witnessing recently?
What if we may well have been an oligarch who had never heard about bitcoin because we lived in a kind of bubble, or we had previously thought that bitcoin was a ridiculous way to hold or transport value, might some of the recent circumstances/events in the world have caused us an introduction to bitcoin from a different perspective? or would we rather go with doge coin, ethereum, some kind of a DEFI vehicle? or perhaps some NFTs? hahahahahaha.. just kidding regarding my reference to shitcoins.. ... nobody is really going to seriously consider the various shitcoins/projects for any kind of long-term wealth preservation solution, even though maybe in the short-term some of the various "crypto" (non-bitcoin) crapola might serve as temporary transitional/storage vehicles, no? When panicking there might not be enough time to clearly think through what are the best ways forward, no?
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