Thanks. The zero-sum link has my head swimming … very thorough and well documented.
xerty
January 24, 2023, 1:39pm
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Ukraine corruption leads to top leaders departure, but no repayments of the millions taken.
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xerty
January 24, 2023, 2:56pm
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Ukraine looks like they’re going to lose with the huge Russian mobilization unless we’re willing to get in a hot war with them. Apparently we are.
Announcement on Abrams Tanks Could Come This Week, Officials Say
Germany Is Expected to Agree to Send Leopard 2 Tanks and Permit Other to Do So
U.S. Leans Toward Providing Abrams Tanks to Ukraine, Officials Say
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xerty
January 25, 2023, 1:27pm
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/25/germany-leopard-tanks-abrams-ukraine/
FIRST GERMAN LEOPARD TANKS TO DEPLOY IN UKRAINE IN THREE MONTHS.
RUSSIAN EMBASSY: THE GERMAN DECISION TO APPROVE THE DELIVERY OF LEOPARD TANKS TO UKRAINE IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, TAKES THE CONFLICT TO A NEW LEVEL.
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xerty
January 31, 2023, 7:12pm
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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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xerty
February 2, 2023, 2:47am
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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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xerty
February 5, 2023, 12:18pm
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So much for that oil price cap, plenty of buyers.
By Archie Hunter, Alix Steel and Grant Smith (Bloomberg) — The “shadow fleet” of ships that transport Russian oil around the world has expanded to around 600 tankers, according to trading...
Est. reading time: 2 minutes
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xerty
February 14, 2023, 5:51pm
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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
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xerty
February 15, 2023, 11:51am
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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 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??