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makes camomile tea

checks fedi

makes g&t

wait what

@7 @dubh i.e. a run and it turns out that oops we don't actually have all the gold we said we did

@7 @dubh gold that is held in custody but in his name

I get it, 99.9% of the time it's fine but a good chunk of golds value prop imo is that it dodges that 0.1%

@dubh @7 bitcoiner friend owns some paper gold and has never grokked why I think he's an idiot

@7 if you don't gloat over battlefield causalities you're basically landed nobility at this rate

step one (1)

buy bitcoin

step 2 (two)

try not to get nuked

@7 on a long enough timescale (10-20 years) I don't see how it's gonna go anywhere but up

whether your investment reflects that with all the CBDC bullshit is another matter, I agree

@7 there's a good piece by Rothbard, Wall Street, The banks and American Foreign Policy that's very germane to the discussion - spoiler, investment in China makes wwiii a bit of a nono

@7 like, Ukraine could kick Russia out. OK. What's US gonna do, unfreeze their funds? That ship has sailed and everyone knows it has.

@7 it's more financial I think, US can't support the EU and I can't really see the US forcing anything upon China or Russia except nuclear war

commodities beats printer, AWACS or no

skells boosted

@skells I’m done even feigning sides in this matter, I’m in it for studying the military strategy and geopolitics. I want BRICS to break away for all the positive and negative reasons, and I want the US to make it’s death rattles, and I want to see the patriots rally for exactly what they were against a few years prior, and I want to see what comes of it all. The US has done such an amazing job at crippling itself that it’s six-to-five and pick-‘em what would happen if a world war broke out; it’s no who is stronger, it’s can the Americans reinvigorate a national war industry given the last 40 years, and can they do it before the Chinese and Russian junk-heaps are able to do what little they would need to do? And that’s if a declaration of war didn’t crack the country into pieces and leave a far bigger mess to clean up for any invading force.

@7 also good fucking luck invading the US lol no one would try it

@7 my hope is that neither sides have it in them for a world war and a relatively peaceful, natural devolution of centralised state power occurs

tbh I think most everyone other than the upper echelons (and their respective NPCs) of US and EU are hoping for that outcome.

If it came to it both could swing hard - the historical precedent (read Franks/Crusades) is for the West to sweep all before it in decisive battles while bleeding out strategically

@7 Russia doesn't need the commodities Japan did, what it wants is BRICS to break from the West/multipolar world

US wants Ukraine to be another Afghanistan

Russia wants to show cajones in resisting US hegemony

place your bets

@7 we're in 1930 not 1938 and Ukraine is China, if I had to guess

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