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nivek

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This is not good... @wwkirk remember what I mentioned in another thread recently?...

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It's Official! Russia Central bank Announces Ruble Bound to Gold! 5000 Rubles per Gram

The Central Bank of Russia has officially announced that, as of March 28, 2022, the Russian Ruble currency is BOUND to Gold. The rate is 5,000 Rubles per gram of gold bullion. There are 32 grams in each TROY ounce. 32 grams times 5,000 rubles per Gram is 160,000 Rubles. Ya with me so far? The conversion rate of Rubles to U.S. Dollars is 100 Rubles, 90 Kopecs, to each US Dollar.

If Rubles are bound to Gold at 5000 Rubles per gram, and there are 32 grams per TROY ounce, meaning one ounce of gold would cost 160,000 Rubles, then converting that to US Dollars means Gold is $1600 per ounce when using Rubles, instead of $1,928 per ounce using Dollars.

Russia just wiped out about thirty percent (30%) of the value of the US Dollar, worldwide, when it comes to Gold Bullion.

Worse, because Russia will only sell its oil and gas in Rubles, and Rubles are now fixed at 5,000 Rubles per gram, anyone wishing to buy Oil or Gas will need to either pay in Rubles or pay in Gold, and they won't get the US Dollar value for the gold they tender as payment!

People around the world will be literally THROWING their money at the Ruble and DUMPING Dollars and EUROS to do it. What Russia just did is the financial equivalent of detonating a nuclear bomb.

FWIW, the last guy on this planet who tried to back a currency with Gold, was Muammar Quadaffi of Libya. NATO went into Libya, bombed the shit out of it, until the people of Libya grabbed Quadaffi on the street, beat him bloody, and put a bullet in his head.

As of this hour, 10:39 PM EDT, I suspect Bankers all over the world are on the phones with each other and with heads of state, instructing them that what Russia has done will totally smash both the US Dollar and the EURO, and those Bankers will be telling the heads of State that World War 3 must commence immediately.

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nivek

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nivek

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This is not good... @wwkirk remember what I mentioned in another thread recently?...

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It's Official! Russia Central bank Announces Ruble Bound to Gold! 5000 Rubles per Gram

The Central Bank of Russia has officially announced that, as of March 28, 2022, the Russian Ruble currency is BOUND to Gold. The rate is 5,000 Rubles per gram of gold bullion. There are 32 grams in each TROY ounce. 32 grams times 5,000 rubles per Gram is 160,000 Rubles. Ya with me so far? The conversion rate of Rubles to U.S. Dollars is 100 Rubles, 90 Kopecs, to each US Dollar.

If Rubles are bound to Gold at 5000 Rubles per gram, and there are 32 grams per TROY ounce, meaning one ounce of gold would cost 160,000 Rubles, then converting that to US Dollars means Gold is $1600 per ounce when using Rubles, instead of $1,928 per ounce using Dollars.

Russia just wiped out about thirty percent (30%) of the value of the US Dollar, worldwide, when it comes to Gold Bullion.

Worse, because Russia will only sell its oil and gas in Rubles, and Rubles are now fixed at 5,000 Rubles per gram, anyone wishing to buy Oil or Gas will need to either pay in Rubles or pay in Gold, and they won't get the US Dollar value for the gold they tender as payment!

People around the world will be literally THROWING their money at the Ruble and DUMPING Dollars and EUROS to do it. What Russia just did is the financial equivalent of detonating a nuclear bomb.

FWIW, the last guy on this planet who tried to back a currency with Gold, was Muammar Quadaffi of Libya. NATO went into Libya, bombed the shit out of it, until the people of Libya grabbed Quadaffi on the street, beat him bloody, and put a bullet in his head.

As of this hour, 10:39 PM EDT, I suspect Bankers all over the world are on the phones with each other and with heads of state, instructing them that what Russia has done will totally smash both the US Dollar and the EURO, and those Bankers will be telling the heads of State that World War 3 must commence immediately.

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Is this all planned?...Russia has been buying and hoarding gold for years and now binding their currency to gold...

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Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
This is not good... @wwkirk remember what I mentioned in another thread recently?...

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It's Official! Russia Central bank Announces Ruble Bound to Gold! 5000 Rubles per Gram

The Central Bank of Russia has officially announced that, as of March 28, 2022, the Russian Ruble currency is BOUND to Gold. The rate is 5,000 Rubles per gram of gold bullion. There are 32 grams in each TROY ounce. 32 grams times 5,000 rubles per Gram is 160,000 Rubles. Ya with me so far? The conversion rate of Rubles to U.S. Dollars is 100 Rubles, 90 Kopecs, to each US Dollar.

If Rubles are bound to Gold at 5000 Rubles per gram, and there are 32 grams per TROY ounce, meaning one ounce of gold would cost 160,000 Rubles, then converting that to US Dollars means Gold is $1600 per ounce when using Rubles, instead of $1,928 per ounce using Dollars.

Russia just wiped out about thirty percent (30%) of the value of the US Dollar, worldwide, when it comes to Gold Bullion.

Worse, because Russia will only sell its oil and gas in Rubles, and Rubles are now fixed at 5,000 Rubles per gram, anyone wishing to buy Oil or Gas will need to either pay in Rubles or pay in Gold, and they won't get the US Dollar value for the gold they tender as payment!

People around the world will be literally THROWING their money at the Ruble and DUMPING Dollars and EUROS to do it. What Russia just did is the financial equivalent of detonating a nuclear bomb.

FWIW, the last guy on this planet who tried to back a currency with Gold, was Muammar Quadaffi of Libya. NATO went into Libya, bombed the shit out of it, until the people of Libya grabbed Quadaffi on the street, beat him bloody, and put a bullet in his head.

As of this hour, 10:39 PM EDT, I suspect Bankers all over the world are on the phones with each other and with heads of state, instructing them that what Russia has done will totally smash both the US Dollar and the EURO, and those Bankers will be telling the heads of State that World War 3 must commence immediately.

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It's an act of desperation on Putin's side. What's he going to do the next? Sell oil for Bitcoins?

It means that he's selling oil at 30% discount to everybody else. How much profit is it going to be left after one cuts off 30%. With that price Russian oil companies will be running at loss, so they won't be running for very long.

With 30% oil price drop Russia is effectively helping EU and US to avoid incoming recession, while Putin should be doing exactly the opposite. Russia's rare allies like Venezuela and Iran will not exactly cheer to 30% price drop of their main export revenue generator. With such price OPEC might kick Russia out. Than what?

As one CNN editor said, "when Putin plays poker everybody looses".
 
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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Frankly I don't know what to believe anymore in regard to this war. As I've said, real history will be written a generation or more from now. Trying to find some truth in all this is like panning for gold. Or more accurately, like finding that Baby Ruth bar in the septic tank.

Warriors in Their Own Words is a podcast I like and has some fantastic first person accounts of people in combat. I may be mixing up shows but remember an interview recorded some years ago with a World War 1 veteran. He got angry when the interviewer asked him what trench warfare was really like. He said something like 'Here's my old trench knife. See my neighbor mowing the grass? Go jam this is his guts and kill him with it'

Eeeeeee.

I haven't finished this episode but got the gist of it. Ukrainian investment analyst who got his family to safety and volunteered to the local Territorial Guard. He has zero training but was a private gun owner and brought his AR to the checkpoint he was assigned to - and the episode was a call from that spot. Said some showed up with kitchen knives. Real or not - and it sounded real to me - imagine that.

We're sitting comfortably reading and chatting about this, amongst the Oscars nonsense and everything else. But just think about what you would have to do to put it in perceptive. Grab that trench knife or kitchen cleaver and disembowel someone with it. Do it when he's not looking to be safe.

I thought of me as a 57 year old man with bad feet who could load up my old ammo belt with enbloc clips and a bayonet and an M1 Garand. Maybe hang a .45 and spare magazines from it. I got all the kit. The go stand at a roadblock down by Home Depot, or one of the local bridges - and maybe have to actually use the goddamned things. The likelihood of me being obliterated from a distance without ever knowing what happened is far greater. But it does give some sense of perspective.

‎Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories: BONUS: A Volunteer Soldier in Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces on Apple Podcasts
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Could any of us do that? I honestly don't know if I could. I'd like to think I could if the situation were dire enough, but who knows for sure until the moment arrives?

This man did, actively sought the conflict and has useful skills to contribute. Probably much better feet than me .......
A Connecticut Yankee in Putin's Court

American in Ukraine says he's taken out 7 Russian tanks: "Long day, baby"

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American in Ukraine Says He's Taken Out 7 Russian Tanks: 'Long Day, Baby'
By Isabel van Brugen On 3/25/22 at 6:12 AM EDT


An American military veteran who left his home in Connecticut to volunteer on the frontlines in Ukraine claimed he helped to destroy seven Russian tanks with Ukrainian forces.

"Alright. So far, we took out seven Russian tanks, after a long fire fight we took control of the area," James Vasquez, a U.S. army veteran and building contractor, said in a video shared on his Twitter page.

"Right now we're going to just kind of sweep around and see what we got left. Some stragglers, take them out, call it a day, it's been a long day. It's been a long day baby," he said.

According to his Twitter feed, Vasquez left his home in Connecticut, arrived in Poland on March 15, and entered Ukraine the following day to help Ukrainian forces fight off Russian troops in Moscow's full-scale invasion, which began on February 24. On March 18, he was sent to the frontlines from Lviv, The Guardian reported.

"For those of you correcting me on tanks. I know some are armored vehicle. Just did not want to get into semantics but here's some tanks to make you feel better," wrote Vasquez.

In a separate post, Vasquez said that he is the only American he's seen in his area.

"I don't want the Russian propaganda machine saying there is a battalion of Americans which I've already seen. Here alone on my own accord in a complete voluntary capacity," he clarified.

"I kind of feel like I'm on an awesome very dangerous vacation," Vasquez tweeted after leaving the U.S.

In another tweet, Vasquez said he couldn't sleep in anticipation of fighting Russian forces.

"Every atrocity, every war crime, every innocent civilian being murdered on a day to day basis gets everyone here more motivated to fight," he said.

Vasquez's wife, Tina, told DailyMail.com that he served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan.

"He approached me, came to me after work and said, 'We need to talk, I can't watch this on TV, I need to go help these guys,'" she said.

"It's been a struggle for me, worrying every day," Tina said. "He tries to call me when he can but sometimes he can't and my mind goes a little worried."

"I'm super-proud of my husband, he's my hero and he's met a lot of great people over in Ukraine," she added.

"It's in his DNA" to join the fight in Ukraine, she told the news outlet.

More than 7,000 U.S. citizens have applied to join Ukraine's newly established foreign fighters' force, the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, according to Ukraine's embassy in Washington. The embassy told Newsweek that "not all of them are approved and not all of them are going to Ukraine."


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James Vasquez, a US army veteran and building contractor, left his home in Connecticut to volunteer on the frontlines in Ukraine. @jmvasquez1974/Twitter
 

Dejan Corovic

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first question I always is 'did this really happen?'

Well, guy was soldier, he didn't talk much and he didn't take part in any loose talk. According to himself, he came to Paracast forum in a search of explanation for what he had seen. He wasn't there to brag or anything. He only provided a minimum of the facts that described otherwise quite ordinary event.

If somebody's character leaves impression on me that he/she is a regular person, I don't really question the veracity of what they say. If they are engineers or other kind of professionals, I would double down on that trust. The only people I take exception are people who work in sales, marketing, media & politics. Wouldn't trust them even with weather report.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Well, guy was soldier, he didn't talk much and he didn't take part in any loose talk. According to himself, he came to Paracast forum in a search of explanation for what he had seen. He wasn't there to brag or anything. He only provided a minimum of the facts that described otherwise quite ordinary event.

If somebody's character leaves impression on me that he/she is a regular person, I don't really question the veracity of what they say. If they are engineers or other kind of professionals, I would double down on that trust. The only people I take exception are people who work in sales, marketing, media & politics. Wouldn't trust them even with weather report.

I hear you and understand, but at certain points my own mother and brother laid lines of total bullshit on me. Some of even about UFOs. Birth of a skeptic.
 

AD1184

Celestial
Ukrainians yell "Long Live the Queen!" when they fire LOW missiles at Russian tanks :)


It seems that interest in the war among British media has begun to dwindle with the pathetic pre-invasion 'Partygate' 'scandal' rising again to the top of the news agenda. Zelensky, speaking the other day, singled out Britain as Ukraine's greatest ally in its fight against Russia:

Johnson helping Ukraine more thanks to British public pressure, Zelensky says

Johnson helping Ukraine more thanks to British public pressure, Zelensky says
The Ukrainian president praised the UK for ‘helping more’ with the resistance of the Russian invasion than other allies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Boris Johnson is “helping more” than other leaders in the resistance against Russia thanks to pressure from the British people.

In an interview in Kyiv where he is resisting Vladimir Putin’s invasion, Mr Zelensky said France was being more hesitant in sending weapons “because they are afraid of Russia”.

He told the Economist magazine that Germany “are making a mistake today” as it tries to take a balanced approach due to their deeper economic ties with Moscow.​

I am wondering if the 'Partygate' nonsense has not had a significant influence on the British government's stance on the Ukraine invasion, and whether Johnson saw the conflict largely as a means to diminish media interest in the alleged scandal. The British press' stupid obsession with a few workplace parties, then, could have had a significant influence on the course of the war.
 
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nivek

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I saw this circulating in social media...

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Dejan Corovic

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Just so we don't too quickly forget that there is a war going on. I would agree even if this came from Greta Thunberg. This almost made me cry:

 

nivek

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Russia's war effort stalls as the Red Army can't get replacement weapons or spares for their crippled convoys because they're all made in Ukraine



Kremlin forces have run out of vital weapons and cannot now replenish their stocks, it emerged last night. Since the conflict began in late February, Russia has lost an estimated 143 planes, 131 helicopters, 625 tanks and 316 artillery pieces. The Daily Mail can reveal that Ukraine had previously supplied Russia with cruise missiles, helicopter engine parts and fighter jet components. It also produced the fire control systems used by Russian tanks. Now, when these systems fail, they cannot be replaced. Russia is unable to source these items or alternatives from other countries due to international sanctions. The revelations came as President Volodymyr Zelensky's forces drove Russia out of dozens of towns around Kyiv and the north in one of the most extraordinary days since the start of the invasion.

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nivek

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Zelenskyy says mines after Russian retreat threaten Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Saturday that Russian troops are creating a "catastrophic" situation for civilians by leaving mines around homes, abandoned equipment and the bodies of those killed.

"It’s still not possible to return to normal life, as it used to be, even at the territories that we are taking back after the fighting," the president told his nation in a nightly video message. "We need to wait until our land is demined, wait till we are able to assure you that there won’t be new shelling," he said.

Ukraine and Western allies have reported mounting evidence of Russia withdrawing its forces from around Kyiv and sending troops to eastern Ukraine.

Officials said Ukraine's fighters had reclaimed several areas near its capital city, including the city of Brovary. However, the shift does not mean the country faces a reprieve from the war.

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nivek

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