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

To: TobagoJack who wrote (198956)	5/23/2023 8:21:02 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218633

I'm fairly shocked by ignorant people being so confident in their ideas. I too have had bung ideas. But if people point out defects in my thinking or lack of knowledge which they correct, I'm very keen to get the right idea because I have never found that having bung ideas is a good thing for my life. Matching my brain to reality is a very serious and difficult business. It's impossible actually. But I have no choice but to try despite my limitations. One can explain actual facts to the ignorant but they are usually wilfully ignorant. They seem to do dominance thinking = they refuse to consider facts or ideas others suggest because that would make them subordinate [I think that's how their thinking goes but I'm guessing based on them simply repeating stupid slogans]. As Churchill said, "Sometimes people stumble over the truth, but they quickly pick themselves up and hurry on as though nothing happened". It's soothing to see that there are people such as Armstrong, MacGregor, Elon Musk, John Mearshimer and many others who are not swallowing the laughable propaganda hook line and sinker. Reading comments sections of many posts across Cyberspace, there really are hordes of loons who hate Trump with full TDS and who hate Russia and want to go full scale war to beat them. I guess that the USA soldiers in Romania and elsewhere are primed and ready to go. I assume that USA is preparing Shock and Awe in Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, that weird Z name province, to defeat Russia in direct conflict. Eurostan's Fourth Reich is all for it. Russia will have to go nuclear to demonstrate how serious the situation is. Crazed Yanks will respond in kind, arrogantly thinking Russians will surrender. I watched Putin at the tomb of the soldiers before ordering the troops into Ukraine, when he stood for quite a lot of minutes, not the usual politician's perfunctory fake photo op. That body language reminded me of Irwin Jacobs in the Globalstar tent in Geneva at Telecom99 while Bernie Schwartz told him to produce millions of handsets - I saw that Irwin was NOT going to do so. Body language speaks volumes. It was an 1812 Overture pause in the process of time. The 4th Reich and German descendants in USA are ready to go Barbarossa II. The UK is ready for Charge of the Light Brigade II. I have lived through the glory of the USA empire. Now it's being invaded from the south with hordes swarming in. It's financially bust with hyperinflation and full Weimar/Zimbabwe/Argentina failure a real prospect. Virtuous Victorian Values in the USA are long gone as a lingua franca. In my early years, I thought of countries as lasting forever near enough. But I've become older, the life of countries' glory days seems shorter and shorter. The USA is notorious for not having a listen function when in discussions with Russia or China. I know the feeling as many people operate like that If they would listen, demonstrate listening by repeating back the points made by the other side, and then using extra facts and reasoning to show why Russia or China are incorrect in their understanding of the situation, then it would be possible to have a discussion and perhaps come to a sensible solution for the topics at hand. Unfortunately, that's how bullies operate = they are not interested in anything their victims have to say and they do not care what they think or feel or how they suffer. They do not operate from first principles of Virtuous Victorian Values. Fortunately, Russia has thousands of megatons of atomic bombing ready to go. After a dozen explosions, it will be interesting to see how much USA wants to keep on escalating. I'm hopefully they won't go full First Strike Let It Rip and Hope for the Best. Fortunately, USA has about 10 x as much to lose than Russia and is more concentrated so will lose a greater proportion. Add Eurostan and the Bad Guys 4th Reich has about 20x as much to lose than Russia. So it should be understood by USA/Ursula/Sunak that it would be a good idea to cancel the war now and have some sense for a change. Give up their Conquistador world domination ideology. Russia would be a great adjunct to Europe. It is a great adjunct to China = becoming a province of China. Mqurice