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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (198004)	4/7/2023 11:41:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218074

For years, dependency on a single system that will fail sometime has seemed to be a bad idea. The Domain Name Server system for example. And a single internet system. And single GPS system. And government-run fiat money systems though at least there are many that are sort of independent so when one blows up, the others can continue. With US$ going belly up, we can switch to any number of other money systems. US has great incentive to Make $ Great Again = $trillions in profits of control. Fortunately, the cost of duplicating systems in the Cyberspace realm is tiny compared with the value that people create using the systems. It seemed a very unwise idea to blow up the Nordstream pipelines. It would be simple to sail a fleet of ships around the oceans with grappling and cutting hooks at the end of very long cables so that any fibre cables in the way get cut. I don't know why Russia wouldn't cut US fibre cables now that such damage is considered a good idea by USA. Tit for tat is a standard response to such attacks on gas pipelines. Or, for added fun, use a 1 kiloton atomic bomb to do the fibre cutting out in the ocean. A nuclear bomb and tsunami attack! Raise the ante. Come to think of it, I guess atomic bombs make good mines for ships. "We lost one somewhere near the Straits of Hormuz. Would you please help us look for it as it's locked, loaded and out of control?" "Another fell off the back of a submarine somewhere near San Diego harbour entrance too - unfortunately, that one is triggered to go off if approached so we'll have to sneak up on it." Insurance companies would stop ships sailing even if the threat was probably fake. It would be much better to be civilized. Such as, for example, offering to buy stuff from Russia instead of forcing them to sell to China, buy from China and become dependent and subordinate to China. Even being made into a province of China, or a suzerainty, protectorate, dominion, or what have you. China will no doubt have a million or two million soldiers who could use some training, such as for example in Kaliningrad, in Crimea, Vladivostok, on Sakhalin, in the Caucasus, in Belarus, next door to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania. Russia could teach them well. There might even be some live fire training exercizes available since NATO is foaming at the mouth and keen to go. Pelosi and co visit Taiwan. Xi and co could visit Crimea. Mqurice