I do see the bigger picture. The Richest people in the world are the Saudi Arabian royals. Israel and Saudi Arabia are normalizing relations. Saudi Arabia is rich because of its oil reserves and its relationship with the USA. Russia is its first competition producing oil. China is now the largest consumer of oil, And the Saudis biggest customer. Russia can not fight a global war alone. China is playing the money game not the war game. The west is changing but not collapsing. Eventually after the poorer countries adopt bitcoin, The US will do the same and keep the dollar milkshake in place, Where the IMF prints the currency for 194 countries, All based on the value of the dollar at the Fed, And the fed will buy bitcoin to keep up the value of the dollar. Putin is just getting his wings clipped.
There are the oligarchs, And then there are the Russian people. A few hundred wealthy Russians vs the world. Russian people are very kind, Especially outside Russia, But powerless. The Muskovites kind of understand cosmopolitan ideas, But the people in the rural areas, Want out. The war is only good for Putin to project power, And Putin just represents the siloviki. The fledgling dreams of the old Russian imperial power that died over red October when the Bolshevik party killed the Romanovs. It is not coming back. Putin is killing all the progress the Russians made abroad since the fall of the USSR. Israel will not let Russia take over. The Jews were persecuted in Russia the same as in Germany. The Russian Jews will fight him to the end. The Ukraine, Poland, Russia Pale of Settlement were subject to the power of Catherine the Great. Israel is the political leader and the United States has the Nukes to match Russia at a moments notice. Putin is all hot air, The Russian Orthodox Church has no power over the state of Israel.
Ah yes. The Chinese vs Russian Super Bowl will be the dark night of the soul for every republican. Half time show of dragon dancing, Cut scenes of Putin drinking vodka with prostitutes and Donald Trump . Xi nodding in approval. 2050 is gonna be weird.
The main hot take was that Putin is ready to talk about peace negotiations. The rest was posturing about what America should do. Project power, Russia is strong blah blah blah. Trump goes to prison, Russia is labeled a terrorist state for siding with Iran against Israel, And the pecking order is clear.
Any western interview involves that person getting cucked by Putin. Any Russian outside Russia fucking hates Putin. Not like the west is so great, You won’t hear me towing the party line, But Russia has a literal “Theatre Politic”. Propaganda on all sides right now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ke600MgW1F0
Trauma Zone is a 6 part documentary of footage inside Russia from the fall of the USSR to the Rise of Putin. Tucker Carlson is a SoCal pussy. I think it’s best to see why Russia is how it is, From a Russian perspective. Believe me they are not your friends. They will lie straight to your face, And anyone defending them is gullible enough to think Russians would care about them. You only need the Russians if you need someone to enable your corruption. If you are from the west, And you start any real commitment with them, The intelligence services will tear it apart. The goal of Putin is to restore the Russian Empire, Before 1917, By force clearly. Bitcoin obsoletes the need for violent imperialism. Why take a country over by force when you can buy it? Russia might legitimately get richer than the United States, And Americans can have fun staying poor. But a corrupt rich person is not a better friend than a loyal poor person.
Also work. Doordash is a good Bitcoiner job. You can work when you decide, You get paid when you are done. You can buy even a little bitcoin every day if you want. When everyone starts getting fomo the urge is different because you are always buying, And it’s legit money. You are not scamming, The feds don’t fuck with you if you pay your taxes. It works. It’s not really a rich feeling, Most people don’t consider doordash a very good job, But it lets you have time to do what you need when you need to do it, And your boss is an app. As long as you do your job you don’t need to talk to anyone at work. I wish I had a bigger income but it would include more responsibility, And responsibility is generally expensive.
There is no need to fight, Bitcoin is the base layer of the CBDC. It will only strengthen the value of the CBDC if people can buy bitcoin with the CBDC, And besides, There is a swarm of shadowy supercoders that purposely find workarounds to this digital government system. You are trying to fight an obsolete system. Ever try to fight your grandpa?
https://www.dtcc.com/
If you wonder where the money for “The protected class” is parked, JPMorgan LIBOR Eurodollar the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation is it.
If the Trump presidency tells you anything, Putin looks for useful idiots. Carlson basically never left SoCal. Have you tried having an intelligent conversation with a middle class person from Los Angeles? The crossover of mainstream culture and Bitcoin is treacherous. Bitcoin is the Switzerland of money politics. Neutral.
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