My pondering over Sunday morning coffee.
Re the interview piece you cited, below, is interesting, and premised on a belief that the rest of the world is as idiotic as DNC / RNC w/r to own interest. Let us see if true, per time shall tell.
The interviewee (Alexander Vindman) is already to go to work per call of duty, zooming from his study next to bedroom, and said, in effect
- War in Europe is almost inevitable, because US, EU, and Ukraine have no flexibility, and Russia must use off -ramp- War shall be big - American people best get ready - Geopolitical & economic consequences large , and whatever
My 12 bits of pondering,
- Wonder which EU fellows & fellowettes wish to go against Russia for Ukraine - ... and do a big war as EU is already infused with enemies within - What is it to any Americans to do war in Ukraine, where none except the Russians had really ever won - How is war in the Ukraines going to be limited to simply Europe - What would the Russians do to anyone who supports the American / Nato war effort during what would be an existential crisis (i.e. N Korea, Persia, Japan, ME, etc etc) - What can anyone do should the Russians simply do de-capitation move on the Ukraines, and if necessary make an example of any of the Baltic city states - What would one accidental missile strike on a TSMC factory in Taiwan, and another mistake attack on whatever semiconductor equipment plant in the Netherlands do to the war effort - Does the interviewee Alex truly understand what Nasdaq going to zero would do to the boomers everywhere except Russia - EU's friend would advise the EU to seek independent foreign policy and stop being a stooge - Russia's friend would counsel Russia re standing firm, because doing nothing would lead to existential crisis - America's friend would observe that perpetual-war / forever-enemy likely cannot last when proxies need to be tee-ed up against their interests - Friend to all three would intone, fix your respective internal issue and fissures, whilst there is still time, and if you need to do internal regime-change to tee off the effort, do it, now, and thoroughly, and whatever the doings, do not follow people who advise war-to-end-all-wars
IOW, I shall believe the inevitability of war in Europe over the Ukraines after the war gets going, as in, yeah, failed in Afghanistan, try Russia, and no, do so without the help of China as Team China shall sit-out the initial 4 years by being actively neutral & strategically procrastinating. On that pondering red bold stratagem, yeah, go to it :0)
Would advise Alex Vindman to best relocate from study to bedroom and have a think after good nap.
Just the threat of war, temperatures up, would and is likely already doing substantial damage.
In the mean time I just did my morning routine, checking on overnight news flow as fed by the various interested parties behind the scenes and noted what caught my attention
A few flavours of Bloomberg home pages for different continents bloomberg.com
Re above, takeaway be, 'the system is wobbly, and can be wobbled more'
Re above, takeaway be, there are some misunderstandings re a Germany that can easily opt out, and as far as China goes, what the states do amongst themselves can be ameliorated but should not be kinetically countered as long as civilisation-state security not on the table.
Re above, yeah, show the Russians how many ways they can be threatened. Worked predictably often enough throughout history. Russia possibly an easier foe than Afghanistan, N Vietnam, N Korea, ...
Re above, negative yield is not likely sustainably supportive of war effort where people cast votes about whether their young should be sacrificed for the careers of other people who zoom from their comfortable study.
Re above, yeah, better to have EU dependent on faraway gas supplier with own interest elsewhere than on close proximity nuke-armed and ready neighbour looking out for neighbourly relations.
Usually a good giggle from ZeroHedge zerohedge.com
Re above, hints of something not quite right at many levels
My crypto go-to cointelegraph.com
Re above, crypto doing the high-volatility 'thing' - what a surprise.
My Hong Kong go-to scmp.com
Re above, hmmnnnn, some inklings actually sensible, even if for awhile longer, per 'wait for it'
My USA market go-to seekingalpha.com
Re above, there might still be profit left in the QQQ put options expiration March series.
My nonsense go-to edition.cnn.com
Re above, CNN must not have gotten its daily spin script, and so focusing on nothing.
My deep-state go-to bbc.com
Re above, ditto CNN missing script page from the UK authorities
My China go-to english.news.cn
Re above, do do do, build build build trade trade trade, as usual and all-good
My Russia PoV go-to rt.com
Re above, "ante up"
My alt-go-to aljazeera.com
Re above, events happening outside of the region that might splash back within the region; 'wait for it'.
My lib-card go-to economist.com
Re above, yeah, for the EU, to tee up China to support Lithuania at the behest of USA, as advised by island Britain, and do not forget the Ukraine matter.
My alt-deep-state go-to ft.com
Re above, gas-gas, gas everywhere but from Russia, too make sure China gets enough gas from Russia, and EU ends up as existential enemy of same Russia, such that as good ideas go, counselled by FT, that which is allied with WSJ must be sound advice.
My lib-tard comedy page nytimes.com
Re above, tale of three locales, Beijing, Chernobyl (Ukraine), and NYC, per a picture is worth some number of words.
... and why it might be a good idea for America to go up against Russia over the Ukraines, by proxying EU, because the Europeans after so many times of going against Russia are excited to have another GO.
My USA market alt-go-to seekingalpha.com
Re above, QQQ short still has profit in the trade
My Neo-con go-to wsj.com
Re above, yeah, listen to island Britain on what is best for the EU and America, so as to leave Team China focusing on next generation technologies.
... and re below, wobbles beget more wobbles, and potentially hit natural rhythmic frequency setting off collapse sequence, that which is a process and not an event.
My multi-tasking background-play video site realvision.com
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