Who cares what Putin thinks

[badger2]

Michael Hudson's recently made the claim that when the US seized Russian reserves, the global economy fractured into a pair of (unequal) parts:

The End of Dollar Hegemony

"And all of a sudden, this means that other countries can no longer safely hold their reserves by sending their money back, depositing them in US banks or buying US Treasury Securities, or having other US investments because they could simply be grabbed as happened to Russia.

"So, all of a sudden this last week, you’re seeing the world economy fracture into two parts, a dollarized part and other countries that do not follow the neoliberal policies that the United States insists that its allies follow.

"We’re seeing the birth of a new dual World economy."

Yes, I briefly came across it yeasterday, will have to read in its entirety.

 

[Thunderbird]

Let’s deescalate before it’s too late.

 

[francoHFW]

Let’s deescalate before it’s too late.

Yeah, President Putin/Trump, corrupt lying scum who believe their own propaganda....

 

[badger2]

Lol. The sanctions will have little effect on Russia. Russia is a self sufficient nation.

We can’t have an effective debate if you’re uninformed.


Washington’s Massive Miscalculation:

I am shocked at the miscalculation in thinking economic sanctions on Russia would bring them to their knees. The opposite is true. Russia is self-sufficient and is not dependent on imports. Its exports are critical to the economic well-being of the West. If they withhold wheat, potash, gas, oil, palladium, finished nickel and other key minerals from the West, the European and US economies will be savaged. And this attempt to coerce Russia with sanctions has now made it very likely that the US dollar’s role as the international reserve currency will show up in the dustbin of history
Washington Is Delirious With War Fever For No Reason of Homeland Security - Antiwar.com Original

Yes and we're paying attention to their self-sufficiency. If climate-change predictions pan out, the Chinese will be getting evicted from their financial center, Shanghai, which will be flooded and their agricultural heartland scorched. This may prompt northward migrations.

 

[Thunderbird]

Yeah, President Putin/Trump, corrupt lying scum who believe their own propaganda....

Why aren’t you fighting Putin? You are a coward who wants the Ukrainians to do all the fighting?

Why don’t you want to die for Kolomoisky and Xi Jin Ping?

 

[francoHFW]

Why aren’t you fighting Putin? You are a coward who wants the Ukrainians to do all the fighting?

Why don’t you want to die for Kolomoisky and Xi Jin Ping?

too old to start lol. I help by voting Democrat. I'm not a gd idiot! Where did all you Russian idiots come from? lol

 

[francoHFW]

Why aren’t you fighting Putin? You are a coward who wants the Ukrainians to do all the fighting?

Why don’t you want to die for Kolomoisky and Xi Jin Ping?

I wouldn't be above fighting for democracy...American weapons are so much better! Putin should go home and become a reformer, the jerk...

 

[francoHFW]

Let’s deescalate before it’s too late.

only if trump was reelected omg...what a cretin...

 

[Thunderbird]

too old to start lol. I help by voting Democrat. I'm not a gd idiot! Where did all you Russian idiots come from? lol

How old are you? Are you sure you’re not scared?

Many Republicans are gung ho about this stupid war.

Republicans demand Biden stop funding Putin's war with oil purchases

Congressional Republicans blasted President Biden for putting restrictions on domestic oil production while paying millions for Russian oil imports.

www.foxnews.com

The idiots are the ones provoking WW III.

 

[badger2]

By some accounts, Harry overreacted when the US became the first nuclear power. His attitude towards Stalin changed virtually overnight.

In Korea of 1945 when Truman refused to allow a free election, the US was the sole nuclear power, but five years later, when the Korean conflict got hot, the Soviets also possessed "atom" bombs, and conservatives in both camps argued strenuously to use the WMDs.

DECEMBER 31, 2002

A Pop Quiz on Korea​

BY GARY LEUPP

"6. In August 1945 defeated Japanese forces formally turned over authority in Korea to the broad-based Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence, led by Lyuh Woon-hyung, which in September proclaimed the Korean People’s Republic (KPR).

"When U.S. forces under Gen. Reed Hodge arrived in Inchon to accept the Japanese surrender, they

This is a portion of a Truman excerpt from the historian McCoy:

'While industries in Europe, Russia, and Japan were damaged or destroyed, the US had doubled the size of its economy during the war. By 1945, it accounted for 60 percent of the world's industrial output. With just 6 percent of the world's population, the US had 46 percent of the world's electrical power and 95 percent of its proven oil reserves.

Much of Europe and Asia were suffering from serious food shortages, but American agriculture was producing swelling surpluses to feed a hungry humanity. At war's end, its military had grown to more than twelve million troops, its Navy ruled the seas with more than a thousand warships, and its Air Force commanded the skies with 39,000 military aircraft. The United States was, as President Harry Truman put it, "the most powerful nation, perhaps, in all history." '
(McCoy, To Govern the Globe, p. 215)

 

[badger2]

Michael Hudson's recently made the claim that when the US seized Russian reserves, the global economy fractured into a pair of (unequal) parts:

The End of Dollar Hegemony

"And all of a sudden, this means that other countries can no longer safely hold their reserves by sending their money back, depositing them in US banks or buying US Treasury Securities, or having other US investments because they could simply be grabbed as happened to Russia.

"So, all of a sudden this last week, you’re seeing the world economy fracture into two parts, a dollarized part and other countries that do not follow the neoliberal policies that the United States insists that its allies follow.

"We’re seeing the birth of a new dual World economy."

Hudson's article is eye-opening and he correctly addresses climate change. Because this is happening from within capitalism in an age of cynicism, low-IQ automatons will fail to see the correct implications of climate change: whether or not its going to happen, preparing for it to happen will be a decision of the powers. China's Belt and Road is an answer to Washington.

'To investigate Washington's accusations that China was using debt "to hold slaves in Africa captive to Beijing's wishes," researchers at John Hopkins University studied one thousand Chinese loans worth more than $140 billion, concluding that most of the criticism was unfounded. Despite inevitable problems with such a massive scheme, it remained the world's largest development program, dwarfing all competing efforts. Not only did the rival US BUILD Act have just $60 billion in capital, but its conditions for infrastructure projects in Asia and Africa were burdensome for borrowers.'
(McCoy, ibid. p. 272)

 

[georgephillip]

On the east side of the Kharkiv line, rumor has it that Ukrainian forces are out of fuel and food, exhausted and cannot retreat. In the meantime, the Kharkiv battle line is stealing the show from the Kharkiv biolabs investigation by the Russian Parliament. One wonders what happened to the actual cultures from that lab. For the video footage, the Frenchman says that Ukrainian top brass were killed.

How much time will pass before we can know how many of the claims from all sides in this conflict were accurate?

China demands answers from US for ‘26 biolabs in Ukraine’

"China asked Washington on Tuesday to release 'relevant details as soon as possible' regarding alleged US biological laboratories in Ukraine.

"'According to the data released by the US itself, the US has 26 biological laboratories and other related facilities in Ukraine which has indeed attracted great attention,' Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a news conference in Beijing."

 

[Nostra]

Morning Joe | MSNBC Morning Joe Live with Joe Scarborough Putin is going to do what Putin does, and he already has.

Critics of Biden for calling Putin out for what he really is, are people afraid to call a spade a spade, or they support Russia.

I mean seriously folks, at this point, do you think appeasing Putin with soft language is going to stop him from bombing children's hospitals or any civilian living quarters? The guy is a mad man. A war criminal. A genocidal maniac. He's no genius like Trump has called him. If he were really a genius, he wouldn't be bogged down with his military right now.

Ukranian's aren't fighting to steal land like Putin. They are trying to keep there's. In the mean time, Putin commits mass murder. You tell them Joe. Don't be afraid to call him for what he is. We have your back. We don't support Putin's imperialistic massacre like some of these Trump stooges in this country.

Your Vegetable Messiah cares what Putin thinks.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t be holding up giving Ukraine MiGs.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[excalibur]

Shades of Bosnia c.1999. And all the supposed mass graves that really weren't.

The first victim of war is the truth.

 

[georgephillip]

While industries in Europe, Russia, and Japan were damaged or destroyed, the US had doubled the size of its economy during the war. By 1945, it accounted for 60 percent of the world's industrial output. With just 6 percent of the world's population, the US had 46 percent of the world's electrical power and 95 percent of its proven oil reserves.

Noam Chomsky was the first to open my eyes to the US Grand Area:

What Uncle Sam Really Wants

"During World War II, study groups of the State Department and Council on Foreign Relations developed plans for the postwar world in terms of what they called the 'Grand Area,' which was to be subordinated to the needs of the American economy.

"The Grand Area was to include the Western Hemisphere, Western Europe, the Far East, the former British Empire (which was being dismantled), the incomparable energy resources of the Middle East (which were then passing into American hands as we pushed out our rivals France and Britain), the rest of the Third World and, if possible, the entire globe.

"These plans were implemented, as opportunities allowed."

 

[georgephillip]

Hudson's article is eye-opening and he correctly addresses climate change. Because this is happening from within capitalism in an age of cynicism, low-IQ automatons will fail to see the correct implications of climate change: whether or not its going to happen, preparing for it to happen will be a decision of the powers. China's Belt and Road is an answer to Washington.

I believe many elite Americans are too greedy to ever treat the climate crisis as an existential threat; hopefully, I'm wrong.

Climate Deniers Shift Tactics to ‘Inactivism’

"The plutocrats who are tied to the fossil fuel industry are engaging in a new climate war—this time to prevent meaningful action.

"Over the past few years, you’ve seen a lot of conservative groups pulling their money out of the climate-change-denial industry and putting it instead into efforts by ALEC [the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative lobbying group], for example, to fund legislative efforts blocking clean-energy policies."

 

[badger2]

How much time will pass before we can know how many of the claims from all sides in this conflict were accurate?

China demands answers from US for ‘26 biolabs in Ukraine’

"China asked Washington on Tuesday to release 'relevant details as soon as possible' regarding alleged US biological laboratories in Ukraine.

"'According to the data released by the US itself, the US has 26 biological laboratories and other related facilities in Ukraine which has indeed attracted great attention,' Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a news conference in Beijing."

It's not estimable. Russian Parliament supposedly meets for the second time on Russian 4 Ap (today). We are writing in parallel Russian so that Russian-language readers can transmit what we're posting in the Conspiracy forum, no less.

 

[badger2]

I believe many elite Americans are too greedy to ever treat the climate crisis as an existential threat; hopefully, I'm wrong.

Climate Deniers Shift Tactics to ‘Inactivism’

"The plutocrats who are tied to the fossil fuel industry are engaging in a new climate war—this time to prevent meaningful action.

"Over the past few years, you’ve seen a lot of conservative groups pulling their money out of the climate-change-denial industry and putting it instead into efforts by ALEC [the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative lobbying group], for example, to fund legislative efforts blocking clean-energy policies."

Yes, Hudson's reasoning about blocking Allies and Europe from buying oli from Russia, means that these elite are focusing on their investment profits. The world economic split does seem to be happening as the dollar declines. Climate change would influence Chinese if they believe that Shanghai will be flooded and their agricultural heartland will be burning up, no matter who else believes it. Thus, partnerships such as Siberia-2 pipeline makes sense.

 

[Richard-H]

Except for one very BIG THING

As I said, Russia is a bully. France, Pakistan, India and the U.K have nukes too, but they don't assume that they're a world super-power just because they have nukes.