There is a deep history between Russia and Ukraine - Russia’s Black Sea Fleet have been stationed in Crimea since 1783 [1], but many people do not look past 2014 when discussing the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Those who have been conditioned by the mainstream media will tell you that Crimea is Ukrainian through-and-through, and that the Russians brutally annexed this region in 2014, completely unprovoked. Of course, those same people are the ones who are spoon-fed prearranged Western narratives through the pixels of the propaganda machines in their living rooms, and proportionally the same people who seem to have no interest in finding out the truth, or bettering their own knowledge on an important world topic.

Crimea was never 'Ukrainian through-and-through' - following the Russian Revolution in 1917, Crimea became an autonomous republic within the Soviet Union. The region was a part of the Russian SFSR until 1954, when it was transferred to Ukraine, as a 'symbolic gesture' by the Soviet Union [2]. Viktor Yanukovych, the President of Ukraine at the time of the 2014 coup d’état, was ousted from power by the Ukrainian Parliament in February that year - an operation headed by Western officials who wanted Ukraine to become just another shill for the United States and the European Union. This was similar to their proposition to Armenia in September 2013 - Armenia rejected the Armenia-EU Association Agreement [3], after they found out that the deal wasn’t about easing trade restrictions, but in fact, to antagonise Russia [4].

You can choose to start from the Orange Revolution in 2004, or the 2008 Ukrainian Financial Crisis, or in 2010, when Ukraine scrapped a law that would lay out a roadmap to joining NATO [5], or from 2013 - Euromaidan. The Yanukovych government at the time had rejected a trade agreement with the EU which would bring about “closer integration” between Ukraine and the West. Yanukovych favoured strengthening trade relations with their neighbours Russia, whilst the Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), wanted a trade deal with the EU instead.

Protests subsequently erupted particularly in Western Ukraine, where there has always been a lean towards more EU and collective West integration - essentially the anti-Russia parts of the state. The rejection of the agreement did not sit well with the Western oligarchs or the EU, or for that fact, the United States government, at that time under the Obama Administration. Violent protests ensued which eventually led to the appointment of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister, and Oleksandr Turchynov as President, to power - Yatsenyuk himself, was handpicked by Victoria Nuland who at the time, was the US ambassador to Ukraine. “The two officials also discuss frankly the merits of the three main Ukrainian opposition leaders - Vitaly Klitschko, Arseniy Yatseniuk and Oleh Tyahnybok. The female speaker [Victoria Nuland] says that Mr Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxing world champion, should not be in any new government. 'I don't think it's a good idea.' She adds: 'I think Yats (Arseniy Yatseniuk) is the guy who's got the economic experience'” [6]. The protests became so violent, that there are videos and testimonials that have surfaced that indicate that the snipers assassinating people during the protests, were hired by Maidan leaders themselves [7] - they were the real Ghosts of Kyiv.

3 weeks after the 2014 coup d’état, and amidst the rising aggression against Russian-speaking Ukrainians, Crimea, a majority ethnically-Russia region, held a referendum to determine whether they should remain a part of Ukraine, or to become part of sovereign Russia [8]. “97% of voters backed breaking away from Ukraine and joining Russia”, and so it was that Crimea was once again, deemed part of Russia. Those of who succumb to the relentless Western mainstream media that actually bother to recognise the Crimean referendum, usually outright ignore or struggle to fathom the reasons as to why Crimea voted against Ukraine in the first place.

Following the 2014 coup d’état, the anti-Euromaidan activists petitioned campaigns to allow local provinces to elect their own governors, hoping that this would provide some protection for themselves against the increasing tensions fuelled by the Euromaidan and the Rada. This demand, was one of the main factors that led to the fascists ganging up on Odessa, another area with a high population of Russian-speakers, shortly after.

The constant antagonisation and bullying that the Russian-speaking Ukrainians [9] endured from Western Ukrainians was encapsulated on May 2nd 2014 [10] [11], with the now-dubbed Odessa Massacre. Notice the difference in narrative and wording between the partisan Western propaganda machine that is the Telegraph in [10], and the truthful analysis in [11]. 46 Russian-speaking Ukrainians were burned alive in the Odessa square, when a fascist-Nazi led mob of Euromaidan activists chased the 46 into the House of Trade Unions in Kulikovo Square, and then set it on fire, purposefully. Under Yanukovych, Russian was designated the second language of Ukraine, and rightfully so, given the large ethnic-Russia population, particularly in the south and the east. However, as soon as he was ousted, the dynamics changed, which may have added fuel to the fire that was heading in the anti-Russian direction. Some of the 46 died from the flames, others from smoke inhalation, others being shot and beaten to death when trying to leap from the windows of the 5-story tall HoTU building. The progressive activists and Ukronazis that conducted these killings, remain unpunished, in fact glorified and labelled 'patriots', whilst many of the victims who managed to survive the fire, now rot in prison, still, after 8 years, many of whom have never been charged with a crime, similar to '1/6' in the United States.

[14]: “On the left - the pogroms of Jewish business in Nazi Germany under Hitler. On the right - the pogroms of Russian business, Russian banks in modern Ukraine. On the Windows of Jewish shops nationalists wrote "death to Jews", in modern Ukraine on the Windows of Russian banks write "death to Russians". Many decades have passed, several generations of people have changed, but the handwriting of fascism has not changed!”

As you scroll further down [14] …

[14]: “Left - the pogroms of the synagogue in Nazi Germany. On the right - vandals in Western Ukraine destroy monuments to Soviet soldiers. In the Third Reich, synagogues were destroyed, in modern neo-fascist Ukraine monuments to Soviet soldiers, military men, leaders are destroyed, arson and robbery of churches of the Russian Orthodox Church subordinated to Moscow are carried out.”

It continues …

[14]: “On the left - mass executions and murders of Jews and Russians in the territories occupied by fascists. All these executions were carried out in public in order to intimidate the local population in order to suppress the revolt in the root. Many decades later descendants of Banderovites, neo-fascists arranged actually public mass execution of people in the trade Unions Building in Odessa on May 2, 2014. The Odessa events call the second Khatyn as the purposes and methods of action of fascists and modern patriots of Ukraine were identical: mass murder for the purpose of intimidation of the others.”

You get the idea. There’re many more photos on that website. This is the country that the West are supporting right now - at the time of writing, Ukraine are suffering heavy losses in the Donbas [15], and the Nazi Azov Battalion, recently surrendered in Mariupol, have now 'rebranded' [16]. I would recommend giving [15] a watch for a more in-depth analysis of the Azov Battalion and the hypocrisy of the Ukrainian government & Zelenskyy regime.

The image in [16, 17], shows Zelenskyy’s official Telegram account (the image was also briefly posted on Instagram & Twitter before being taken down [17]), and what he posted on Victory Day - a day signifying Russia/Europe’s victory over Nazi Germany. It shows, in the main image, a Ukrainian soldier, with a Totenkopf/SS-Totenkopfverbände badge on his chest [18]. The Totenkopf were an elite Nazi division in World War 2, responsible for the Le Paradis massacre of 900 British and American troops, who had surrendered, as well as many other war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Totenkopf were responsible for administering the concentration and extermination camps for Nazi Germany [19], and now the West are supplying arms and moral support to the same insignia(s) that killed their own troops in World War 2.

The .pdf [20], show a 2019 Congress letter asking the US State Department to label the Azov Battalion, as a terrorist organisation - an FTO. I wonder why there has been such a change of heart from 2019’s Congress, to 2022’s Congress. It’s an interesting train of thought.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_Fleet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea#In_the_Soviet_Union

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93European_Union_relations

[4] https://chycho.blogspot.com/2014/03/whats-really-going-on-bahrain-vs.html#UkraineRecap:

[5] https://www.cleveland.com/world/2010/03/ukraine_to_pass_law_scrapping.html

[6] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26072281

[7] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-05/behind-kiev-snipers-it-was-somebody-new-coaltion-stunning-new-leak-reveals-truth

[8] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26613567

[9] https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-one-economic-reason-russias-invasion-of-crimea-pulls-in-europe-2014-3?r=US&IR=T

[10] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10805412/Ukraine-crisis-dozens-killed-in-Odessa-fire-as-violence-spreads-to-countrys-south.html

[11] https://popularresistance.org/may-2-remembering-the-odessa-massacre/

[12] https://crimes-of-ukraine.ru/terror-betrayal-and-genocide-in-odessa-on-may-2-2014.html

[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsangel

[14] https://crimes-of-ukraine.ru/photo-facts-of-neo-nazism-in-ukraine-historical-parallels-third-reich.html

[15] https://youtu.be/gmwCs70o9K4

[16] https://youtu.be/sR7g7uQV2fA

[17] https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/zelensky-fights-alongside-nazis/

[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf

[19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-Totenkopfverb%C3%A4nde

[20] https://www.scribd.com/document/564207042/LETTER-TO-MIKE-POMPEO-40-House-Democrats-Signed-A-2019-Letter-Asking-The-State-Department-To-Designate-Ukraine-s-Neo-Nazi-Azov-Battalion-As-A-Terroris#download

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Facts, Putin should be awarded a Nobel Prize for essentially killing COVID. Half the people obsessed with Ukraine have probably never even heard of the Nagorno-Karabakh war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, or the current civil wars in Ethiopia, Libya, Mexico, to name a few. Every human life is equal, but apparently Ukraine's borders are more sovereign than the rest of the world right now.

These politicians and radical-left media outlets like CNN talk about diversity, but they talk about the wrong diversity. Diversity is not solely employing those who account for only 12% of the population. Diversity, especially in a court room, should be diversity in terms of philosophical ideas and premises. All politicians, CNN speakers etc, are not diverse, they come from the same affluent neighbourhoods with Ivy League degrees and six figure salaries. They find new ways to try and be oppressed, whilst tweeting from their luxurious condos at the top of the newest buildings in the metro areas.

The fact that Ketanji Jackson, a person elected solely because she's a black woman, couldn't define what a woman is when questioned.

Imagine earning a high role and your dream job because of your appearance, not because of your talent and hard work, I don't know how she sleeps at night.

Meritocracy is dying in the US and it's alarming that not many people recognise this. One idea I was thinking about the other day is that the US could consider offering asylum to high-skilled Russian and Chinese students, was just a thought.

A Deeper Look Into The Ukraine War, And Conflict In General

Why did Russia invade Ukraine? You can point to many reasons - some concerning politics, history, culture, and territory, in addition to preventing NATO's expansion, and Putin wanting to reinstantiate the Soviet sphere of influence.

However, people hardly mention that Ukraine contains approximately 5% of the Earth's natural and mineral resources, including coal, oil, natural gas (2nd most in Europe, behind Russia), lithium (for batteries), iron ore (for industry), titanium (around 20% of proven world reserves, for aerospace), and gallium (2nd most in the world, used for electronics). In addition, Ukraine is also an incredibly rich country in agricultural terms - 1st in Europe for arable land, as well as containing 25% of the world's volume of black soil. This agricultural prowess has the capability of meeting the food needs of an estimated 600 million people. You can see how this could be a resource war, as well as a geopolitical conflict.

By knowing this, you can see why Russia would want this "ethnic Russia" land to be under their control, and also could provide explanations as to why the US in particular have been so bothered about Ukraine's borders, even more so than their own borders. The Biden family have a very long history with Ukraine, Hunter Biden did plenty of odd business in Ukraine, as well as China. There are many conflicts around the world, including the brutal Nagorno-Karabakh war between Azerbaijan and Armenia which ended recently, the Ethiopian, Libyan, and Mexican Civil Wars currently ongoing, but all the attention has been penned on Ukraine, maybe the resources there point to one of the reasons as to why the US are so bothered about it.

Immense resources translate to immense wealth - and power. Russia wants this, and so do Western nations and TNCs - including energy, mining, agricultural companies etc. Ukraine are not a rich or well-off country, it is not a democracy and has a long corrupt history, which is why Ukraine do not qualify for NATO in the first place, but the Ukrainian territory boasts excess resources that could be tapped into.

US military contractors - Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin corporations, are telling their investors that tensions are good for business, while the General Dynamics corporation boasts that past such disputes, the Orange Revolution in 2014 for example, have expanded their bottom line. This is not a coincidence, US officials have been stockpiling shares in fossil fuel and defence companies since January in anticipation of the Russian invasion - war and conflict makes money, and that is the precedence for these people. When a system benefits from war, you could argue that that system is pro-warfare. Whether you like it or not, large organisations and governments got much wealthier during the pandemic, whilst the middle class struggled. Governments love to give themselves and exercise emergency powers to respond to crises that they themselves created. Does pointing this out make me a conspiracy theorist and "Pro-Putin", or instead someone rational, and logical?

The US has committed more than $3 billion in military assistance to Ukraine since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, including $350 million worth of weapons recently authorised by President Biden. This is always seen as an aid package, but have you ever stopped to think about where those weapons come from, who pays for them etc? Is this more of a case of profiteering from arms supplication? Lobbying and political campaign contributions by the weapons industries will surely be a factor in continuing the flow of arms, to the degree that energy, mining, and agricultural corporations believe that they can eventually grab a piece of Ukrainian resources, they too will use their never-intended First Amendment corporate constitutional rights to press Congress for more funding. After the Iraqi war, loads of energy companies were offered reward contracts - companies made loads of money from a war that we later learned was dubious and duplicitous. Different situations of course, but something to think about - the current US Government are the same radicals that bought you the Iraq War, and those who led the horrendous evacuation of Afghanistan.

Surely it shouldn't be allowed to have people in Congress who are invested in the weapons industry - this would remove any outside motivation to drive a conflict, such as we are seeing today - the West and NATO have been dangling NATO membership over Ukraine's heads for decades, even though they do not even qualify for the alliance. Russia did/do not want US and Western missiles on their border, a border which used to be under the occupation of the Soviet Union. This conflict and its modern history goes all the way back to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Financial corporations (part of the largest single sector of campaign contributions to federal campaigns and parties) profit from war. They facilitate the selling of US Treasury debt bonds to foreign nations (since most military spending increases the nation's debt). They also provide loans internationally to rebuild war-torn nations ("nation-building"), and domestically to communities (via purchasing municipal bonds with high yields), to fill the gap of declining public funding. Past and current military spending equals 48% of all spent federal tax dollars - almost half of your tax money has gone to military expenditure. This is not an inherently bad thing of course, but this money isn't going into the pockets of soldiers and care, the money ends up with Lockheed Martin, in addition to funding 36 biowarfare laboratories in Ukraine. To repeat, the same country, the US, who funded the Wuhan Virology Lab, are funding 36 biolabs in Ukraine, an inherently poor European country with no biomedical engineering prowess, and for what reason? Why of all places, did the United States fund these labs in Ukraine, a country coincidentally right on Russia's border?

Constitutionalising the "rights" of military contractors and other corporate entities (as separate entities apart from any individuals) and political money as free speech represent a different, but no less lethal, war against the right of We The People - all the people - to self-governance. (This is one of the reasons why to me, cryptocurrency gets more attractive by the day.)

Our sole focus should be on the people of Ukraine, those who have lost family members etcetera, but every human life is equal. A conflict in Ukraine, is no more tragic than a conflict in Azerbaijan-Armenia, or Ethiopia, or Mexico, or Libya, or Nigeria, or ughyur China, or Venezuela - each deserves attention, analysis, scrutiny, and consideration. People should challenge themselves to alternate perspectives and think logically as to why a conflict is happening, what the ramifications are, in contrast to narratives that you are spoon-fed through mainstream media.

To anyone who has served, did you consider what the real objectives behind the conflict could be? My family members certainly did.

You think you die for your country, but you die for the industrialists.

However, as long as Amazon & ASOS keep delivering the parcels, most people do not and will never care about these things. As long as they put BLM fists, MasksUp hashtags, rainbow and Ukrainian flags in their social bios, they think they've done their bit.

You are further proving my implied points. Anyone who even questions the United States and the West is "disloyal" and "pro-Putin" apparently. I never once mentioned Ukraine's sole intentions in terms of their relationship with Russia, I was questioning the US themselves and what they seek to gain from this conflict, and their other policies.

My dad's side of the family are Moldovan, I've seen and heard first hand what the fear of a Russian invasion/incursion looks like. I spent my younger school years in Belgium, but whenever I visited Moldova or Romania, you were always told that if you heard the phrase: "Au sosit rușii, aveți grijă", which in essence means "The Russians are coming for us, protect yourself", then you should seek shelter immediately, because Moldova has always been a conflicted state in terms of whether they should join the EU, or remain under Russian influence, as they were until 2009.

If you want to take my posts out of context that's fine, but do not insult and attack people because their views are different to yours. I am not Pro-Putin, but I am not in favour of the way the West has/have handled this situation. I have seen its ramifications first hand, Moldova is a pillaged state.

The Russia-Ukraine situation really brings to light a few questions; why did NATO continue to exist after the fall of the Soviet Union, despite the downfall of the USSR being the goal of establishing NATO in the first place? Now, the same people who cooked up the Iraq War, are now driving another war, this time in Ukraine - apparently now the US' greatest ally, by the way the media have portrayed this. Give thanks to Putin, as he has ended COVID-19 - you don't see it on the news anymore.

Ukraine don't even qualify for NATO, nor do NATO even want Ukraine to join in the first place, because of Ukraine's corrupt history. Ukraine joining NATO would be more of a liability than a military asset to the United States and NATO. Yet Congress and the US seem(ed) pretty intent on wanting Ukraine to join NATO, not because it would be a strategic advantage, but just to spite the Russians.

In other words, the whole situation is a mess. It serves no strategic advantage to the United States whatsoever by pursuing defence of Ukraine, whilst simultaneously igniting economic warfare with Russia. Joe Biden at his State of the Union speech bragged about how the Ruble lost 30 points in a single day, and that it was a moral victory. This was not a victory, it was a sign of how the USD can be used a weapon. Everyone in Russia, 99.99% of those in the population had nothing to do with this conflict, suddenly became much poorer in a single day - they impoverished an entire nation, yet you are told this is a moral victory. It begs the question, are the US actually trying to ignite all-out war with Russia?

It is yet another manufactured crisis. As we have seen over the past few years, the US Government love to give themselves emergency powers in response to crises that they have sensationalised and created. Power-hungry neocons in Washington DC want another war. War makes money.

Clint Erlich, recently said that a former Obama Administration official wants the United States to invade Crimea to drive Russian forces out of there. What exactly do the US want in Ukraine?

We now know that they house military-funded bio(warfare) laboratories in Ukraine, which in itself is suspicious. Ukraine are one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in Europe, and are not known for their biomedical engineering prowess, so why have the United States set up "research facilities" there, and why did they not secure them in anticipation of an invasion, which they themselves knew was going to happen? A few years ago, you could freely view a US "research facility" based in Odesa, Ukraine, on the State Department's website. Now though, that link is undefined and the page was taken down - interesting.

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Alexandra Chalupa | @AlexandraChalup | 18/01/22 | : "This isn't journalism, it's an ongoing FARA violation. Tucker Carlson needs to be prosecuted as an unregistered agent of the Russian Federation and treason under Article 3, Sec. 3, Clause 1 of the US Constitution for aiding an enemy in hybrid warfare against the United States."

Couple things odd about this:
1) He did not take a pro-Russia stance, he merely questioned the US Government and their intentions. So much for free speech.
2) "Hybrid Warfare against the United States"? Keep in mind, this tweet was on the 18th of January, long before Russia stepped into Ukraine. Does this elicit that the US planned and wanted this?

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It seems as though the Biden Administration care more about the sovereignty and border integrity of a poor Eastern European country bordering Russia, compared to how much they care about their own borders back home. Someone might want to tell Joe Biden that opening up the borders and ridding Title 42 may not be such a good idea, as there is a violent Civil War occurring as we speak in Mexico - more than 100,000 young men disappeared in Mexico last year. Automatic rifle fire was exchanged in Texas last week, courtesy of an immigrant who crossed the Mexico-US border, who did not want to be arrested for carrying lethal fentanyl across the border. There was a violent war between Azerbaijan and Albania that ended approximately half a year ago, but I bet you didn't hear about this, all you've heard about is Ukraine. You have probably not heard either about the Ethiopian Civil War, nor about how the United States practically contributed to human slavery now occurring in Libya.

Question them or speak the truth, and you'll be labelled Pro-Putin, and subsequently censored.

Are the US trying to destroy themselves?

News has recently come out that Saudi Arabia are contemplating an offer from China in order to accept (Digital) Yuan for Saudi oil. Oil is currently traded globally and exclusively in USD - petrodollars, a fact that greatly benefits the United States. In doing this, the United States have avoided Venezuela-scale hyperinflation by sharing the inflation and debt with the rest of the world - this is what made the United States a global superpower to begin with. Countries such as Iran or Venezuela, who faced the consequences of the dollar hegemony, have been too small or irrelevant for the world to care about enough in order to take swift actions towards.

Losing the petrodollars and seeing the world transition away from USD as the global reserve currency would be the worst possible scenario for the United States. If the global reserve currency were to be changed, for example, Digital Yuan or Bitcoin instead of USD, the United States would have no method to share their debt and inflation with the rest of the world, thus, would be liable to pay up their currently $30t debt. This would mean a major economic recession in the United States - sky-high taxes and potentially more money printing, the integrity of the USD would tumble.

It becomes clearer and clearer each day that Putin & Russia may have planned and foreseen these ramifications from the start. If you want to disband NATO, coerce and target the main country behind it, the US. The sanctions don't hurt Putin, they actually help him in many cases. All the sanctions have done, is allow Russia to leverage their natural gas and oil, as well as show the world how America has used the US Dollar as a weapon against other countries - why wouldn't Saudi Arabia etc move away from USD to protect themselves from such threats in the future? There're even some rumours that Russia may start trading their oil in gold, or even Bitcoin.

We may/probably are witnessing a global shift in power unfold before our eyes every day - one has to ask at this point, is Biden trying to destroy the United States? Either way he is not mentally equipped to be President, and to think that there were national celebrations when he was inaugurated. Trump was, and still is, the best candidate America right now could ask for.

Just look at what happened in England/UK when the reserve currency of the world shifted from Pound Sterling to the US Dollar. You're about to see a repeat of that, but with more modern and globalised consequences.

America deserves this for using the USD as a weapon.

In the future, I wonder if historians will ever look back on this particular point in time and recognise the remarkable 'coincidences' in time. At exactly the same time that the emergency powers they granted themselves due to COVID started to fade away, Congress and the United States Government are now pushing for all-out economic conflict with Russia.

I. US - RUSSIA

No American had/has been killed, yet the Biden Administration, without hesitation, practically declared all out economic war on a sovereign nation. No meaningful debate or Congressional consideration required, the United States 'destroyed' the Russian currency, then removed Russia from an international banking system, and then impoverished its population. Then, the Administration began seizing the property of anyone who was deemed 'affiliated' without due process or a trial of any kind, without bothering to explain what crime had been committed - this has never happened before, the integrity of the system has always been the upmost important. Since the target is Russia, very few Americans/people in general have bothered to take notice of this or ask simple questions such as, 'where is this going?'. How long until they do something similar but instead to their domestic enemies in the US itself - accuse you of a hard-to-define crime, seize your assets and declare you an enemy of the state and then confiscate your economic identity, we saw it in Canada in reaction to a peaceful protest after all. Then they'll tell you that you shouldn't use Bitcoin or crypto. Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden are the greatest advertisements that the cryptocurrency and web3 industry could ever ask for, and they don't even know it.

II. CENSORSHIP

All you're allowed to think about instead is Ukraine, but not too deeply, they don't want you asking questions about the bio-labs there. Why do the US have bio-labs in Ukraine, one of the poorest European countries, not known for their biomedical engineering prowess - it's a curious question to any sane mind, but you're not allowed to think about that or you'll be censored and your posts will be removed. Fight "tyranny" with tyranny itself.

The tech monopolies now exert vast control over public opinion - that has no precedent in public history. A medieval church now has less command over a society's emotions and beliefs than Twitter and TikTok. These companies define who you are allowed to hate. Depending on the narrative at that time, people dutifully change their avatars and bios to BLM signs or #MasksUp, and now Ukrainian flag emojis. Each crisis is now stage-managed. This current situation is the greatest advertisement for the concept of decentralisation that anyone could ever put forward, and it's being done by the US Government and the tech monopolies themselves, those who would be amongst the biggest losers of mass crypto adoption.

Putin should be awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine as he has essentially ended COVID, as well as the current US crisis on the Southern Border, you don't hear about them anymore. It's one 'crisis' onto another. The US population are being so skilfully manipulated in a way that has never been seen before.

III. INFLATION

Inflation is so bad right now that even affluent members of society are worried about the consequences - those who earn £250k plus are now fearing for the future. What about those who earn £50k, or even £30k for example, as most American and British people do, they're probably terrified. Again, the Biden Administration are practically free advertising for crypto, but they just don't realise it yet. They'll probably address that in the future, give themselves emergency powers again to ban crypto transactions and freeze your accounts. The America COMPETES Act of 2022, a bill designed to blueprint economic competition with China, was recently modified. A particular article was edited, one that would give the head of the Treasury, an un-elected member by the way, overwhelming authority to block and ban any cryptocurrency transaction on a centralised exchange under the pretext of 'suspicious activity'. The Treasury would not be required to explain themselves, or take the matter to court, they would have overall power to ban you, and that's that. See Charles Hoskinson (founder of IOHK & Cardano) talk about this in a video on Youtube for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2IP9ApZuUU (Charles Hoskinson - America COMPETES, another dumpster fire).

When Joe Biden became President, the supply of USD hit a record high, and kept rising, month after month after month. Despite what the US Government may tell you, inflation is in fact dependent on the monetary supply. In the months after the 2008 financial crisis, the Government & Fed assumed themselves emergency powers to respond to the collapse - notice a theme, emergency powers in response to crises they created? The Fed cut interest rates and started printing money in an attempt to avert the crisis. This would've worked if it had ended, but it never did, it's still going after 14 years. What was designed to save the economy, has actually tarnished it. Asset inflation has become the basis for the upper end.

IV. ENERGY

From a recent video made by the White House - I'm very grateful that the intern running the page kept the comments open: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sArRHq4e6_k , Jen Psaki recently said that "gas prices going up ... are because of Vladimir Putin" and that there are "9000 approved unused permits not being used by oil companies", implying it's their fault. Apparently oil companies don't want to make money.

The woman who majored in Gender Studies, has appointed the blame to the oil companies, for not using permits on pieces of land that are not fruitful at all. Why not tap into Alaska? Hundreds of millions of barrels just waiting to be extracted - the US would become energy independent and could start exporting oil and natural gas to allies in Europe. Adopt crypto, use the $1.5 trillion of tax money collected in the first 5 months of fiscal 2022 for something productive, fund the drillings in Alaska and become, as they would have under Trump, energy independent. Seems like a good plan, but no.

V. ENERGY CRISES & USD

Putin invading Ukraine caused some market changes yes, but the reaction by Biden and Congress has ruined the economy.

The White House just banned Russian oil imports, for example, oil prices recently rose, which is what happens when you shake up a market like that - Americans immediately suffer. But you're supposed to be okay with this, because it's a "moral victory against Putin". If we take a second to consider every angle, you come to realise that Putin actually emerges as a winner from this situation. Russia are a major oil producer, Jen Psaki said this and everyone knows this, it's factual. That would mean that higher oil prices, would help Putin. They make Putin, the Saudis, Iran, and Venezuela much richer, because Russia can still export in global markets. This tells you that Putin is not the loser, he's the winner, the United States are the losers.

It's not just oil, thanks to the mismanagement of the Administration, commodities are up dramatically, nickel went up 250% in 2 days - those are shitcoin numbers. Fertilisers (Russia and Belarus are the two largest exporters of fertiliser in Europe), wheat etc, all sky high in commodity terms. In other words, it's the best tax increase of your life.

It can get worse, oil is traded in USD - 'petrodollars'. Why would the world continue to trade oil in USD, a fact that greatly benefits the United States, when there's market uncertainty imposed by political forces on oil markets? There is/would be a huge incentive to trade oil in other currencies - the Digital Yen, Euro, Pound Sterling, or even Bitcoin. There would be newly emerging and competitive markets.  When you attack the global financial systems to restate, you're attacking the United States. The Biden Administration's response to the Ukraine invasion, may quite possibly be the single most damaging reaction to a crisis that we will ever see.

In the future, if the USD was ever replaced as the world's reserve currency by say Digital Yen or Bitcoin, the United States would then be entitled to pay the $30trillion debt they currently find themselves in. That is a major economic winter waiting to happen in the United States.

6% inflation, economic war with Russia, ignition of the 3rd Gaza War, proxy wars, a border crisis, Afghanistan now back in control of 8th century barbarians, a Congress willing to sacrifice a $2t crypto industry in apparent order to compete with China economically, censorship, etc. Electing Joe Biden over Donald Trump might be the largest mistake we have ever seen, and to think that radicals were celebrating in the streets when Biden was announced.

All of these are supposedly not a problem to you though, as long as you're putting Ukraine flag emojis, rainbows, and made up pronouns in your Twitter bio, you'll be fine.

Sec Warren recently said that "crypto is the hole. Crypto, you have to choose, either do business in Russia, or do business in the US, but you can't do both."

She wants to fight 'tyranny' with tyranny itself. Ridiculous.

Exactly, after the WW, the EU should've taken that opportunity to become neutral between the West and the East. NATO, a North Atlantic security organisation by definition, have no business in Eastern Europe, hundreds and hundreds of miles away from the Atlantic. A lot of my family are Moldovan, and I would like us to join the EU, but if we joined NATO, I would be very worried.

I don't get how people expected Russia to react. NATO have been conducting ops far away from the Atlantic for a long time, in Serbia and Libya 2011. Why wouldn't Russia 'fear' for their security? In addition, Biden is the weakest US President potentially in history, why wouldn't Putin take advantage of that as well? It's not a coincidence that Russia didn't invade during Trump's reign, but they did during Bush, Obama, and Biden's. If Trump isn't re-elected or a Republican candidate isn't the next President, you can say goodbye to the US being 'the largest power' for definite.

Putin is at fault for the current situation but the West are at fault for the context.

The US are known for 'nation building' and igniting proxy wars. Apparently modern patriotism means prolonging a bloody war in Ukraine, until millions are either dead or refugees. We've seen it before, look at Iraq. That's true patriotism. Disagree and you're 'Pro-Putin'.

Just some thoughts I've had about society as a whole. There's no particular structure, just expressing some things I've been thinking about. Would like to hear others' thoughts on these.


(1) People nowadays will go to extreme and perverse lengths to try and find new ways to be considered as 'oppressed. As a result, our society has basically been split into two hypothetical categories; 'victimisers', and 'victims' - and no one wants to be considered a victimiser. This has resulted in extremely minuet and borderline sociopathic 'oppressed' groups being formed.

(1.1) Those are who most sensitive about 'politically incorrect' terminology are not the average African-American, Asian immigrant, abused or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to a traditionally oppressed group, but come from a privileged strata of society.

(1.2) I'm young myself but I'm afraid for the next generations. If things continue like this, they'll likely be raised by parents who have taken no accountability or responsibility for their own discrepancies in life. Those particular children are going to be raised in households where they are taught that society as a whole are at fault for their own personal problems and failures in life, not themselves.

(1.3) Along the same lines, school boards in the US are trying to push CRT (Critical Race Theory) into the curriculums for young children, in addition to trying to teach children that they "can be any gender they want". You are not sane if you think it's okay for children to be taught about sexual identity. They should not be learning about this stuff whilst they're still learning how to join their handwriting and pass their spelling tests. Referencing CRT, if this is taught in school curriculums, it'll essentially mean that entire generations of white children will be taught that they are evil, that they should be guilty for their ancestors' actions 24/7, and that they can never be oppressed or victimised.

(1.4) I'm multicultural, I am not wholly 'caucasian', but the fact is I can do anything I want in Western society with no difficulty. Personally, I wouldn't be okay with some teacher telling my future children that they're somehow oppressed based on the pigmentation of their skin. If you believe in CRT, you are a liar, because it essentially means that you look at your black neighbour and say that they're oppressed, and you look at your white neighbour and say that they're evil, regardless of any prior experience you may have had with them. Anti-semitism, in contrast, is largely unnoticed in society today.

(1.5) Referencing the LGBT stuff, I support gay rights of course. The education and 'radical' belief is where I have an issue. When I eventually have children, let's say a boy and a girl for argument sake, I will not even let my own son rough up my daughter/his sister, do you think I want someone else's son roughing up my daughter in a football match, just because they suddenly declared themselves a woman? Being a biological man or woman is more than just your genitalia, it is your chromosomes, your bone density, bone structure, muscle density, aerobic capacity etc etc. These people that tell you that you can be any gender you want, they reduce being a woman down to essentially just a costume. I guarantee if you ask any person that believes this to answer the question, 'what is a woman?', that they will not be able to give you an answer without contradicting themselves or being outright wrong.

Any comments or thoughts about these points are appreciated, I'm curious as to what other people think.

Appreciated, nice to converse with someone with functioning brain cells for once. Politics is gambling, but with human lives instead of money. I used to be more left-leaning as well, but the radical leftists turned me away from that - I agreed more with the economic policies of the right wing anyway.

Western Governments fight supposed tyranny with tyranny itself. It's so backwards. Sec Warren in the US recently said that crypto should either do business in Russia, or the US, but not both. Shows how uneducated she and the rest of that Government are.

Except he was being serious and lauding up applause for what he was saying. Didn't seem like a 'skit'.

I would like to preface this by saying that I live in the UK, I do not live in the US. I am an onlooker, and just expressing my thoughts. My dad's side of the family are Moldovan, not Ukrainian, so I'm not an expert, again, just my thoughts here.

The US' actions will likely dictate the UK's actions, since we are just a mini suck-up to the US - this is why I'm talking about this.

Biden recently announced a ban on Russian oil and natural gas imports, continuing his attack on the middle class. He didn't phrase it this way of course, but when have Democrats ever spoken their true intentions? In this case, it's about Vladimir Putin. Biden is going to make it illegal for Americans to use Russian oil and energy. This, he said, will amount to a massive moral victory, and a devastating defeat for the Russians. Every constituency loved it, the Democrats for once could talk about something other than COVID on the Southern Border. Republicans were loving it too, finally an excuse for them to sound tough and decisive without making CNN angry. Unity is very rarely seen in a city so divided like Washington.

However, no one seemed to ask the most obvious question - how is this benefitting us? Is Biden trying to bankrupt Putin? Good luck with that, considering he has a reserve of $200 billion spread across allied countries like China, India, Turkey etc. Is it to force Russian troops to withdraw? Even Biden didn't claim that sanctioning Russian energy would help deter Russia in Ukraine.

So who are these 'sanctions' aimed at? If you want to identify the target of a penalty, identify who will suffer the most from it. In this case, it's the middle class, i.e, people who earn incomes per annum of sub-$100k. The middle class were the ones affected the most by the COVID restrictions, and now they're about to be pummelled by these energy bans. It's not Putin who's being punished, it's you.

You are about to get a lot poorer, everything that needs to be transported more than 10 metres is going to go sky high in prices. Food, electricity, energy, basically everything in existence. Couple this with the current inflation rates, Biden's reckless spending, and the autocratic nature of the Western central banks, and you start to see how Russia are practically exporting hyper-inflation. This is the one thing that Biden will not/hasn't mentioned during his speeches.

A couple of quotes from Biden's recent speech:

- "The American people have dealt another powerful blow to Putin's war machine."
- "It is simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production, it is simply not true."

It is demonstrably true. Within days of inauguration, Biden single-handedly killed the Keystone XL Pipeline. Just days before Russia invaded Ukraine (strange right?), Biden's administration shut down all new energy leases and permits on federal land.

Jen Psaki, a woman who majored in "Gender Studies", came out to say that 'preventing domestic energy production' is not the same as 'holding it back'.

A quote from her speech:

- "Let me give you the facts... There are 9000 approved drilling permits that are not being used. So the idea that we are preventing companies to drill, is inaccurate. The suggestion that that is what is hindering gas prices, is inaccurate."

So, because oil companies are not using all the permits they've received, this is all their fault. They're not drilling because there is no oil below the permitted land, not because they're lazy or want to tank the market. These companies want land that flows, but they can't get them, because of the Green new deal lobby that controls the Administration, if you doubt it, ask anyone in the energy sector. \

Jen Psaki and these people just lied to you, but if you bring this up, you're unpatriotic, pro-Putin, and disloyal. Apparently, caring about Ukraine means prolonging a bloody war in Ukraine, until the entire country of Ukraine has been destroyed and that there are millions of refugees. We know they can do it, they did it in Iraq. That's patriotism.

Steven Colbert said he would "pay $15" for gasoline, because it is in "good conscience". He then goes on to say he drives a Tesla. Take this in, a presenter who earns $60million a year, thinks that $15/gasoline is good, because it is in good conscience, and it's the right thing to do. He drives a $150,000 electric car, but he wants you to pay more for your gasoline.

Bottom line, the elites do not want a self-sufficient, proactive middle class. (Look at what Trudeau did recently for another example.)

This is encapsulated by Sec Warren's recent comments on cryptocurrency. She has suggested a major crackdown on cryptocurrency due to Russia potentially sidestepping sanctions. 'Let's punish Putin by crippling crypto.' Ridiculous. She was quoted: "We need to crackdown on crypto. We are only sanctioning the oligarchs through the traditional system. The hole here is crypto. You've got to pick it crypto. If you want to continue to provide the wallets, exchanges etc, then you can do it in Russia, or you can do business in the United States, but you can't do both."

Wild idea, let's keep these demented r***** away from our financial system and the power grid, let them take the sociological roles. Stay away from the fundamentals that keep the country running. You must submit total personal control, or you serve Russia, is what they're saying.

CNN looked into higher gas prices. "People we have spoken to, they are okay with paying higher gas prices, if it means holding Russia accountable". Americans are apparently okay with going into poverty, if it means 'holding Putin accountable'.

This statistic tells you everything you need to know:

"
 "If a wider war breaks out in Europe, should the US military be involved?"

  All Voters - Yes - 49%

  - Yes by Income -
  Under $30k: 37%
  $30k-$50k: 48%
  $50k-$100k: 51%
  $100k-$200k: 52%
  Over $200k: 62%
"

Notice how the answer varies by income?

Apologies for the long post, this situation is just insane.

Bitcoin is the flagship asset, so of course the market will follow its path. Ethereum will probably achieve 'complete' separation in a few years, same with other assets like Cardano etc, once their mcap and # users reach much higher levels. Mass adoption will lead to separation.

This situation is the fault of the EU/NATO/The West. After the WW, these countries could have taken the opportunity to become neutral - favour neither the US nor Russia/Eastern Bloc. 

Instead, NATO took the opportunity post-war to expand Eastward, whilst conducting military ops in Serbia and Libya - countries far away from the North Atlantic. NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, yet they've been continuously expanding East over the last few decades, conducting ops in Middle Eastern & Eastern European countries, countries that used to belong to the Soviet Union.

Ukraine are a long way from the North Atlantic, yet the US and Ukraine are so adamant in joining forces - why wouldn't Russia see this as a threat? Russia have a second-rate economy, the only scope they have is aggression, so I don't understand why people are surprised. Putin has been very clear about his intentions - he wants to revivify the Soviet Empire at the distaste of NATO. Whilst I obviously do not agree with Putin's actions, I am part Moldovan which is a very pro-European state, I can't help but think that the West have been 'gaslighting' Russia and the 'East' (Iran, China, etc) for decades. The West underestimate Russia and these Eastern countries so much to the extent that we've been dealing with Russia, made deals with China, Iran, the Taliban, and then we're surprised when those deals aren't adhered to?

We as the West have this belief that everyone wants to live the way we do - freedom of speech, equal rights, etc - this is why we are so gullible when dealing with these Eastern countries.

Putin has been very smart when you consider all sides, Biden pulling out of Afghanistan for no reason was essentially a green-light for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and potentially/probably Taiwan by China. China are probably licking their lips looking at this situation - after all, they invaded Hong Kong last year and no one batted an eye.

Sanctions imply that military action is off the table. Putin knows this, but the West don't seem to understand that Putin can absorb basically any sanction you give him.

The West are weak, the US Government under Democratic leadership are weak - it's no coincidence that Putin has invaded during the last 3 Democratic offices, but not during Trump/Republican offices. Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the UK where I live, is delusional. Justin Trudeau is tyrannical. Macron is not sane and Germany are stuck on the fence. 

People calling Vladimir Putin a madman etc don't seem to understand that he has been very clear about his intentions from the start. He wants to reconstitute and reglorify the Soviet Empire - this is why he's made aggressive moves in Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine, Kazakhstan - he has said it over and over again.

By stating his intentions over and over again, he is revivifying the belief in the Russian people, because the fact is, ever since 'the end' of the Cold War, there has been a tremendous amount of nostalgia in the former Soviet Union for the era of the Soviet Union. However much we may not understand it as the 'West', Stalin remains extraordinarily popular in Russian polls. In the early 2000's, Russian civilian approval for Stalin's regimes was low, as it should be - people saw Stalin as the hallmark of a bloody past. Since Putin's inauguration however, the approval rating for Stalin shot up to 70% as of 2019, with only 19% citing disagreement with Stalin. 70% of Russian respondents believe(d) that Stalin had a POSITIVE impact on Russian history. Long story short, Putin has revived the 'weird' Soviet ideology and 'dream' that is 'Russian greatness'.

When you look at the big picture, these respondents who cite 'Russian greatness', what else do they have to substitute that for? A backwater economy? The entire GDP of Russia (~ 1.3trillion USD) is practically the same as the GDP of the State of Florida (~ 1.2trillion USD). Russia are not a major economic power. What do patriotic pro-Putin Russians actually have to dream about? Glory and the reconstitution of a Soviet Empire. The dependence on Russia for natural gas and oil is the fault of the EU and the US themselves. After the Cold War, the 'West' started shifting focus to renewable/green energy, and basically severed their own ties with natural gas and oil.

If you don't understand the intentions of evil, you won't know how to stop it. The West seems to be under the grave misimpression since the end of the Cold War that everybody wants the same as what the West does/has - freedom of speech, nice clothes, cars, etc. This is why the West has been dealing with Iran, we've made deals with China, we've made deals with Russia, we've made deals with the Taliban, and then we're surprised when those deals aren't adhered to. We spend all of our time blowing out the welfare state, destroying our own national energy independence, on behalf of Swedish teens who lecture us on how terrible we are for wanting a functional global economy.

The last 20 years have been a slow roll for what we've seen in the last few years. In 1997, we (The UK) turned over control of Hong Kong to China, and in 2020, China invaded, and now have their sights set on Taiwan. We handed Hong Kong over with the 'deal' that Hong Kong would be treated with autonomy, and then in 2020, China rolled right in, and there were no sanctions, or meaningful reaction. 2021, Biden turning over Afghanistan for no reason. Americans are still stuck there. And a few months later, Putin has rolled into the Donbass region, and set his sights on Kyiv.

A quote I heard a while ago seems appropriate here - along the lines of:

"The downfall of the 'West' and their so-called power over the world will deteriorate, not because of Russian & Chinese aggression, but because of the incompetence from within."

Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan for no reason, the EU/US severing energy ties in the search for green energy, the gullibility of the West when dealing with the 'East' - if these things did not happen, we would not be looking at Russia paratroopers gliding into Kyiv with no resistance at all.
 

None of this would be happening if Biden didn't sacrifice Afghanistan to a bunch of 8th century barbarians.

Trump was the only recent President that stood up to Putin & Russia - it's not a coincidence that every time a modern Democratic party in the US wins the majority, there is a subsequent Russian incursion that happens under that Administration.