I don’t fully understand it but BRICS gets around the reserve currency problem. The whole idea is to bypass the current system’s problems of mismanaged and/or weaponized currency scenarios like how the dollar has become. This thing will be hard to stop and will make a mess of the US economy for a long time to come.
09/05/2024 11:17:15 AM PDT
· 8 of 24 DonaldC
to NoLibZone
This article would seem to be great news. Unexpected deaths has remained high and this could possibly address that as more mRNA jabs are being proposed.
Churchill was blinded by his hatred of Germans. Much of the spiral of WWII can be laid at his feet. Germany was going to war up Europe and Russia wanted to sweep in during the chaos to spread communism while FDR was more than willing to see old empires dissolve away. Nobody has the high ground morally in that mess.
08/15/2024 11:17:43 AM PDT
· 33 of 44 DonaldC
to ChicagoConservative27
I read recently Russia was quickly moving to a wartime economic footing and elsewhere they were trying to build up a 600,000 man army or something like that. If true I’d expect the Ukraine move is temporary. Time will tell I guess.
During a conflict true numbers are hard to get. Listening to a talking head on YouTube, he is putting casualties at 35k Russians and 10x that for Ukraine. The bigger issue is infrastructure damage in Ukraine and how Russia is ramping up man and material. Sooner or later, Ukraine will be out of meat to sacrifice.
06/20/2024 3:39:09 PM PDT
· 8 of 10 DonaldC
to libstripper
Russia must think they are about ready to move in with that 300k force they were calling up a while back. That with the Nork ammunition will bring on interesting times.
06/20/2024 3:28:00 PM PDT
· 5 of 5 DonaldC
to marshmallow
Most of putin’s moves recently and statements like this are a clear sign he doesn’t want conflict with NATO . I can’t say the same about NATO. Western leftists want a war, I believe, as they think it will somehow solve their economic issues. A real mess is coming.