Investment impact of Russia Ukraine crisis

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Nuclear arms control treaties falling apart due to the war. US blames Russia of course.

Meanwhile, we’ll smooth things over with 100+ tanks.

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I see they found some of our tax dollars

the woman leading the Kyiv tax authority was accused of massive fraud after a raid of one of her four homes

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So much for that oil price cap, plenty of buyers.

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and middlemen.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-16/india-now-buying-33-times-more-russian-oil-than-a-year-earlier

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Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.

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on the military front,

  • RUSSIA TO INCREASE TANK PRODUCTION IN RESPONSE TO WESTERN ARMS SUPPLIES TO UKRAINE - FORMER PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV
  • CHIEF OF UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL STAFF: THE QUESTION OF LONG-RANGE WEAPONRY AND FIGHTER JETS FOR UKRAINE HAS BEEN RESOLVED, GIVES NO DETAILS
  • RUSSIA’S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RYABKOV: DIALOGUE ON THE NEW START TREATY WITH US HASN’T STOPPED.

on the economic front,

  • EU’S MICHEL: ONLY FAIR THAT FROZEN RUSSIAN ASSETS SHOULD BE USED TO REBUILD UKRAINE
  • RUSSIAN WEALTH FUND TO HOLD ONLY YUAN, RUBLES, GOLD: TASS
  • RUSSIA TO SELL ALL EURO ASSETS FROM WEALTH FUND THIS YEAR: IFX
  • RUSSIA AND CHINA SIGN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT ON GAS SUPPLIES VIA THE FAR EASTERN ROUTE - IFAX
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Peace in our time. Seizing weapons that were opposing (the US backed) Yemeni genocide, send them to Ukraine.

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It’s ok if they’re SOBs as long as they’re our SOBs :frowning:

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and then selling the refined diesel to NY etc How India Is Turning Russian Oil Into The West's Fuel.

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Index providers ending their service for the Russia stock market, causing the corresponding ETFs to shut down.

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Russia is using Yuan/ Rs etc to trade oil now. Apparently at record highs. I wonder how this impacts USD long term.

Could be much more detrimental compared to our billions being spent on the war

If the war grinds on like this for years, it will be worth asking – are we letting Ukraine get destroyed in order to save it

our tax $ @work :frowning: Apparently there is one pentagon guy on the ground there

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Hmm … which is more surprising - that they’re doing anything about it, or that it’s getting any coverage on liberal/progressive/socialist networks? I know the coverage won’t last, or be in-depth, but that it’s getting 20 seconds on the air seems shocking.

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and now Yellen makes a secret trip. Why are we footing most of the bill??

Well Sam, ahem, her trip might be the easiest to justify. She has to figure out how to secretly print the money that we’re giving away. :smile:

Evil far right peace-mongers

the anti-war right views this debate as an either/or proposition: either Washington stops intervening in foreign conflicts and repairs our infrastructure, forces manufacturers not to off-shore jobs, breaks up Big Tech, ends progressive dominance of the social media algorithm, and restores sanity to our politics and culture. Or it keeps wasting blood and treasure overseas, and America continues down its path of decline.

No one summed up this choice better than Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri when he said last week: “I would just say to Republicans, ‘You can either be the party of Ukraine and the globalists, or you can be the party of East Palestine and the working people of this country.’ ”

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“If you paid your 10%, you don’t get sanctioned”, the oligarch edition.

Yevtushenkov and Baturina partnered with Hunter Biden while searching for US property investments while Joe Biden was vice president, according to communications from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop and witnesses who spoke with The Post.

Yevtushenkov allegedly expressed interest in courting the powerful political family for reciprocal “favors” and Baturina allegedly dined in 2015 with then-Vice President Joe Biden and a group including other Hunter Biden associates from Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

“I think it’s very fishy,” a source with firsthand knowledge of the relationship between Hunter Biden and Yevtushenkov told The Post — noting that the oligarch, estimated by Forbes to be worth $1.7 billion, is sanctioned by the UK and Australia but not by the US.

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Say it’s not so - even NYT now admits it wasn’t the Russians that blew up their own nat gas sales pipeline. Who would have thought?

  • NEW INTELLIGENCE REVIEWED BY U.S. OFFICIALS SUGGESTS THAT A PRO-UKRAINIAN GROUP CARRIED OUT ATTACK ON NORD STREAM PIPELINES LAST YEAR - NYT
  • U.S. OFFICIALS SAID THAT THEY HAD NO EVIDENCE PRESIDENT ZELENSKIY OR HIS TOP LIEUTENANTS WERE INVOLVED IN THE OPERATION- NYT

(re:Zelensky, i’m sure they didnt look very hard)

I guess the US Navy is a “Pro Ukrainian group”, ala Seymore Hersh’s investigation earlier, if you read this NYT article the right way :wink: .

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