Posts by dustyowl29

Donna Harris11 said:Is it actually true that the dollar is pegged to gold now?

Maybe—kind of like how the Reichsmark used to be tied to Jewish gold in Switzerland...

Joshua Myers432 said:They can't do it legally, and they weren't doing it legally before either. 😁

Exactly. Both Russians and Ukrainians have basically pioneered the art of piracy. Though, honestly? A much smarter move might be to just block every single phone in Russia from accessing Google servers entirely. Just wipe all the Google accounts, ban access to iCloud, delete every Apple ID, and brick every iPhone, iPad, and Mac out there. It would cost the Americans a fortune in lost revenue, sure—but man, imagine how satisfying that would be...

People living in Moscow have everything they could possibly need—but then again, Russia is absolutely massive...
Out in the sticks, though? It’s basically like living in the middle of nowhere in rural Alabama...

Nancy Gomez26 said:Putin should have factored that into his calculus before launching the war in Ukraine.

The guy isn't exactly known for his deep thinking—zero strategy here. He clearly didn't account for any of this... or how long it would actually drag on. Just your typical delusional dictator, I guess.

Not to mention that Russia has basically doubled their results...

We’ve been letting Putin off the hook since 2014, and frankly, it's way too much. He’s personally responsible for the deaths of probably over 100,000 soldiers and civilians in this frantic, misguided "liberation" of Ukraine from Nazis.
He deserves either a death sentence by hanging or ten consecutive life terms—nothing less. And don't even get me started on the economic fallout; the material damage he’s inflicted on Ukraine and the rest of the world can be measured in hundreds of billions of dollars...

The guy is a total savage—you can't give him an inch.

Kazakhstan has gone ahead and joined the party with the sanctions and the fight against Russian expansionism...

Lithuania has been in NATO for 18 years now—if Putin actually decides to start sending troops there, we’ll finally see if NATO is a real military alliance or just a glorified social club for a few specific countries..

Lisa Jackson7 said:Why??

I know this guy—an American who spent decades working in Russia as a construction expert, basically a top-tier master of his craft. Back around 1987, he was with some firm out of the former America doing projects over there. Along the way, he fell for a local woman, married her, and they have two kids. He ran his own business with a few employees until about 2014. But once that wild aggression against Crimea kicked off, everything in Russia flipped upside down. From then on, the Russian construction mafia wouldn't let anyone else breathe—especially not a foreigner trying to run their own shop. He could only work for Russians, and even then, there were threats and all that nonsense.

He ended up fleeing back home to save his own skin.
Now he’s living in a coastal town, doing odd jobs here and there while eyeing retirement... does Russia actually pay pensions to foreigners?

He’s not going to pull the trigger because there’s zero incentive for him to do so. Honestly, he’s just running an experiment—much like the EU and the US are doing—where they throw something at the wall just to see what sticks.
Putin isn't even weighing the consequences, whether for Russia or everyone else. He’s making moves that could be incredibly risky for every single player involved.
The stakes are massive, yet Ukraine is relatively small—he’d have to achieve a hell of a lot just to actually wreck the global economy.
The guy has been unpredictable from day one. He isn't some master strategist; he just makes moves and waits to see what happens. Same deal with the EU.
The worst part is he's destroying his own people while leveling Ukraine to the ground. That’s the playbook of a terrible player. Instead of dusting off 200-year-old history books, maybe he should have spent more time playing war games—he might have actually learned something about strategy.
He looks like a fool, even if he thinks he's outsmarting the West. It really isn't that simple. Cutting off the gas supply to Europe is basically just shooting himself in the foot.

It’s just how the world works. Globalization over the last few decades has brought its own set of perks and headaches—it's a double-edged sword, really. And let's be honest, Americans acting as the world's police force has been a given since basically World War I.
If we hadn't slapped all those Russia sanctions on them, along with the restrictions on Venezuela, Iran, and Libya, gas and oil prices would probably still look like they did back in 1995.
Instead, they're sitting at about five times higher right now.

hollowdriver13 said:https://mobile.twitter.com/TpyxaNews...32532080959488

It looks like all this gear is already breaking down out in the fields because nobody actually knows how to maintain it without that Western technical expertise...

Well, obviously—but if that's the case, why did an American LNG terminal just blow up a week ago?

German manufacturing? Please.
Everything is being outsourced to the Far East anyway—even Siemens gas pumps are manufactured in Canada now.
Production follows the raw materials and, whenever possible, cheaper labor. If some idiot hadn't been running Russia for the last 25 years, they could have actually outpaced China in the industrial sector. They have the resources, they have the people, and half of the major European firms would've happily built factories right there in Russia... but when faced with two evils, they chose the lesser of them: China, India, Bangladesh, or Vietnam. It’s like buying a high-end laptop only to find the processor was made in Malaysia.
Not even the US is immune. Certain Tesla models are produced in China...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Shanghai

The American dinar was basically an artificial construct...
And honestly, the kuna is following the exact same path.
The real question is who you’re actually trading with—because if you're just trading with yourself, sure, fine...
But nobody else is going to touch it. In the long run, you're just stuck being dependent on foreign currencies, much like how the dinar was tied to the Deutsche Mark, or how the kuna is tethered to the Euro today.

Sanctions always end up hitting the middle class and the poor hardest—on both sides of the fence—while the wealthy just find new ways to get even richer...

Let’s be real here—politicians are all thieves, plain and simple. That said, there’s definitely a hierarchy of criminality among them; Putin is sitting right at the top of that list, alongside Kim Jong Un and his whole crowd...

SpaceX is basically the shuttle program for the Russian space program.

Any serious missile industry can build a Sotona 3—it’s not just a two-player game between the Russians and the Americans.

Over the last 20+ years, everyone has become completely dependent on everyone else—Western tech meets Eastern energy. Who actually saw this coming? That this guy would pull off a land invasion in Europe unlike anything we've seen since the 1940s?

But hey, after what happened when Los Angeles got rocked by an earthquake after over a century of peace, I guess anything is possible.

If there wasn't a massive payout to get them back home, then it’s just a flat-out lie.

Oil smuggling is absolutely booming right now—it’s basically the modern-day version of bootlegging during Prohibition..

https://www.logicno.com/politika/sad...og-goriva.html

Pepper said:Russia is making its own smartphone called the Ayya T1—you can look it up online if you don't believe me.

As far as chip manufacturers go, they've got Micron Technology, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon.

It's basically just a Chinese phone.
The chip inside is a Chinese MT6771T from back in 2019.

It’s kind of like those American brands—think of them like an old local startup that just assembled phones using cheap parts imported from China...

https://www.gizmochina.com/product/umidigi-f2/