This explains the brief bump in Gold and Silver I saw today.
The Democrats have created a perfect scapegoat in the form of Putin by pushing the Ukraine situation to the brink of WWIII. They have decided that their best chance of maintaining power and forming a new “world order” is to create an extreme crisis either in the form of WWIII and/or complete economic collapse. None of this is an accident, or even bad judgement; it is a strategy.