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Mike Tyson, NOT Ali!

“everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face”

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I’m not yet convinced Putin is losing anything but the propaganda war. I guess we will see.

The saddest part of all this is it need not have happened. Putin voiced his concerns for many years, and was constantly blown off. The west ignored the ethnic cleansing in E Ukraine because they were Russians. No discussion at all.

Russia is not prosecuting an Iraq “shock & awe” war. They appear to have ONE major target, Azof battalion. When enough of them are killed and enough military hardware is destroyed, they’ll go home.

The US created this mess hoping to draw Russia into a trap one day. Ukraine was the “bear bait”. Only we got caught in a different trap on the “road to victory”.

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As always, exceptional.

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and you spelled Ali's name wrong. Really undermines your credibility. If you want to opine on truly complex geopolitics basic fact check would help

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hey, a great article. but a slight correction Neon is made in Ukraine, specifically Odessa which supplies 90% of the worlds neon. Odessa is being shelled by RU navy right now. If that one factory gets hit the result will be crazy for the world for a year as we try to start up a new Neon suppliers.

There's also a lot of strange airline activity in Moscow in the past 24hours. Something is going on in Russia and Putin may be nearing the end game.

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Excellent summary, except you left out the single biggest factor: China. Everything you said that was going to hurt the West will hurt China even more. I wonder why you didn’t mention them?

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Gr8 article and love the poem in the end

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Damn. Very good

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Ah those clever Anglos have it all worked out......how come BREXIT "fits" SO nicely with what are now future events?

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Beautifully stated, terrifying news.

We are all preppers now.

I bought 75kgs of flour, meats, etc.

Preppers on YouTube have made some amazing videos on food preservation.

I live in Japan and given that it comes from friendly countries, should be fine, but as the poem says, "Things fall apart ..."

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Thought provoking. Putin is toast, let’s hope he doesn’t nuke us on the way out. For your next boxing quote😉 “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see”

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Uh, I think your idea of "winning" is a bit disconnected from reality. Sure, the corrupt West is "winning" on UK/US TV & that's about it. This has been a showcase of US/Western own-goals.

If there's any "winning" in the US, it's about promoting optics to allow further retreat from the failing petrodollar system & re-shore ahead of the escalating conflict with China. Luke Gromen has given an excellent explanation of the above. Encourage others to find it & reconsider what's really happening. Tom Luongo has also added useful context to this discussion.

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Pippa, respectfully, do you proofread?

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Thank you Pippa! Great read as usual. I have to say that in my opinion the theoretical risk of financial contagion from Russia is less than the effective risk. Given the "war mentality" and the "moral superiority" of the West, I don't think that allowing any type of financial contagion that can be attributed to a Putin victory is allowed. By this I mean that should counter party A need to be bailed out, they will (Western assets will not be allowed to decline on account of Putin, not while we have a perfectly fine tuned QE machine)

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