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…. or $ in the cesspool called the Ukraine.
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Throw in not one more dime to the EU or any of their corrupt shadow banking system OR NGO’s, which are tied directly to Ukraine.

Most are not aware during the 2008 meltdown, the Fed sent over $7 trillion plus, plus (the low side) to bail their banks out. The record was disclosed in Paulson’s book and a FOIA disclosure a few years ago.

Europe is doomed.
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That was evident when the US blew up their energy life line ( Nordstream pipeline) under senile Joe.

Why are they so committed to suicide?

Western boots on the ground coming to Ukraine in 1, 2, 3....
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EU boots, not US boots. That move will be the end of the EU, the final nail in their coffin.

President Trump is a sly one, using Witkof and Kellog as good cop bad cop. Kellog has been coming up with plans that Russia will never agree to, Witkof making inroads.

Russia will not be “ bullied” by the old war dog Kellog, and has going the way of Rex Tillerson. In any case, Putin will ultimately decide how the Ukie war ends.

All eyes should be on the EU, which is still sending over $$$ billions and war mongering,derailing President Trump at every opportunity.

The EU is a bigger threat than Russia.

I find it hilarious the corrupted little beggar Z is excluded from the world’s Ukie Peace talks…..but after all, he is still an illegitimate unelected President.

Vlad will not sign anything illegitimate deal. I don’t blame him.

Zelensky aint going nowhere, there will be no elections and he’ll do everything he can to prolong this war indefinitely until the money spigots dry up
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The Ramstein conference yesterday just gave the corrupted little beggar another $$$ 21 billion. War they want, war they will get….the EU is a ship of fools.

Arestovych, the next President? He speaks Truth. He is the only hope left for Ukraine’s survival.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-presidential-adviser-arestovych-resigns-dnipro-comment/32227233.html

“ Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukraine's presidential office, has tendered his resignation after comments he made on a deadly Russian air strike sparked a public outcry. Arestovych announced the move on January 17, three days after he said on YouTube that a residential building in Ukraine’s eastern city of Dnipro was likely hit by debris from a Russian missile after it was struck in the sky by Ukrainian air defenses. Russian media seized on Arestovych's statement, angering Ukrainian authorities who have said the building was hit by a Russian cruise missile...”

Consider purchasing Goldbacks….
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I am not a fan, the Premiums are huge. Lately, premiums for fractional ( 1/10th oz/t US Eagles, Sovereigns, etc) Gold can be found as low as 5 percent above spot.

Granted, the Goldbacks are 1/1000 th of an ounce, but still nothing like the real thing. Physical Gold in one grams and 1/2 grams are now being manufactured.

You contradict yourself. In a podcast you said that worker productivity only
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Now I know you are a certified nut job. Go back to your Bitcointalk forum where the nut jobs stated FR poster “ 917601 is actually Marin Armstrong”……

The Bitcointalk boys forum are crazy loons! You obviously have a lot of idle time on your hands.

Carry on looking like a fool.

You think in short term, Gold thinks in long term.

Pull up Gold vs S&P since 1971 and you see Gold clearly outperforming the S&P.

https://topforeignstocks.com/2019/09/26/gold-vs-sp-500-long-term-returns-chart/

Pres Trump had it right demanding Ukraine pay back with mineral rights, or a % at least
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Agreed. However, remember our failed military adventure in Iraq? We never received a penny from the Iraqi oil which was supposed to pay the bill.

President Trump is correct in demanding payment, but when dealing with such a corrupt nation like Ukraine, good luck….same, same with Iraq, history repeats.

PRODUCTIVITY creates wealth.
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Without natural resources, there is no production.

Our military can’t do much in countries that are unstable.
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As our Founding Fathers stated, Do not get involved in foreign entanglements ( wars), rings truer every day.

Proving yet again that physical possession of stuff does not make for wealth.
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I guess by your opinion, with the ENTIRE world’s Central Banks buying historic amounts of physical Gold means nothing and the US should sell off all its Gold reserves? Foolish, as 5,000 years has shown.

Note: The Basel III Agreements go into full effect 1 July 2025. Back to “ equal weights and measures “…..

It is too bad politicians like Graham and McConnell are not held to bear for the true disastrous ramifications of their greed.
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When senile Joe weaponized the USD and confiscated a sovereign nation’s assets ( Russia) it started the world’s de- dollarization. Suicide.

https://goldnewsletter.com/go041425/

Selling America...

Whether the rest of the world can do without the U.S.A. is an open question.

However, one thing is certain: They’re trying their best.

The world is worried. And typically in such an environment, investors across the globe rush to three safe havens: the U.S. dollar, U.S. Treasurys and gold.
*This time is different — because they’re dumping the greenback and Treasurys...and buying gold hand over fist.*

This dynamic isn’t just unusual, it’s unprecedented...and illustrated in the chart below.

In this chart, the Dollar Index is in green, the 10-year Treasury yield is in red and gold, of course, is the gold area in the background. The bottom panel is the 20-day rolling correlation between the dollar and Treasury yields.

In normal times, the dollar and yields are positively correlated, with the correlation line above zero. That brief dip in the correlation in late March merely reflects some back-and-forth, trendless action earlier in the month.

Now note the sharp divergence over the last week when, counter to the Trump administration’s hopes and plans, their harsh tariff policies sent the world running from the U.S....and toward the one remaining safe haven of gold.

The dollar sank, Treasury yields jumped and the gold price soared.
Put simply, the rest of the world is selling America.
Importantly, as the chart also shows clearly, that flight from U.S. safe havens into gold ended the metal’s brief correction and sent the price skyward, wiping out much of its overbought status in the process.

Today, gold was slammed on the U.S. open, as investors flocked back to U.S. equities after President Trump delayed his reciprocal tariffs and exempted electronics exported from China from his most onerous levies.

The steady-state demand from central banks along with investors and institutions around the world is still in place, though, and sparking a rebound from the early-session price lows.
Mining Stocks Take Off
A soaring gold price is nothing new — we’ve seen this kind of action over and over since February of last year.

What’s different this time is that Western investors are now coming to the party...finding the move in gold far advanced...and deciding to play the trend via gold mining stocks.

The result is that, even with gold rocketing higher, the gold stocks have been doing even better. This chart of the GDX gold mining index/gold price ratio shows the dramatic outperformance of the miners.…”

They have already let the enemy in, and it is not the Russians.
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The EU is more of a threat to us than Russia is.

Just the facts. President Trump needs to drop senile Joe’s sanctions and embargo’s against Russia. They are a fool’s game.

Re-establishing trade with Russia and the entire global economy benefits. The EU is being strangled, but then that may be the plan?

A group of five small businesses sued President Donald Trump
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Five small businesses? Five small businesses trying to play the Democrat law fare card. Why is it Democratics always run to crooked judges when they don’t agree with Trump’s policies?

They will fail, and hopefully piss away their holdings paying huge legal fees. They never learn.

Make them pay President Trump’s attorney fees when they lose.

More and more States are recognizing the huge losses of purchasing power of the Federal Reserve note.

As President Trump stated “ this is Biden’s war”, it started with deep corrupted Ukie ties, everything about this war , Zelensky and Ukraine stinks.

President needs to wash our hands of this entire Biden/ Zelensky mess…..lest he to wants blood on his hands.