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Zelenskyy can insult the President to his face in the Oval Office, and all Trump does is keep inviting him back. Relying on false intel about Russian casualties, the Russian economy, and the Russian polity, Trump keeps trying self-defeating, self-sabotaging escalatory tactics with Russia, playing Russian roulette but mistaking it for American poker.
Trump threatens 500% sanctions on Russian-oil purchasing nations today, threatens long-range missiles into Moscow that Russia could think are nuclear-armed, and sends arms to Ukraine laundered through NATO. All this does is enrage the Russian populace and get us closer to triggering a world war between two nuclear powers. As a Russian once advised me: “we’d rather eat dirt than surrender.” Russian history proves it, whether in dealing with the Mongols, Napoleon or the Nazis. Just revisit the history of how the people of St. Petersburg held out during what they called The Great War.
At the same time, Russia holds escalatory dominance in Ukraine, and see the war as existential for their self-defense and survival. While Russia could be a critical ally in rare earth access (to balance leverage against China in the trade war), keeping energy costs down for an inflation-scarred American economy, open up the Arctic for economic enterprise in a resource rich region, utilize their mediation skills to deescalate Mideastern and other global conflicts, pursue meaningful nuclear nonproliferation and weapons de-escalation, and ally two culturally kindred, Christian conservative, gun-and-truck, anti-woke nations against the globalist empire, all is sacrificed in the delusional belief that the weaker party is Russia and Trump just needs to find the magical leverage to induce their full surrender. He just needs to blow up rapproachmont, send Russia into the welcoming embrace of the Big Panda out of necessity, and risk World War 3.
-- Robert Barnes
Digital currency replaces physical means of payment such as cash and checks. The handling and managing of physical transactions is more expensive as it requires people rather than a program to manage transactions. As the five big banks control 90% of all deposits–essentially a monopoly– their adoption of digital currency would impose it on all banks.
A digital currency means your money is no longer in your hands. It can be denied you intentionally or accidentally. You no longer will have a cash hoard as a backup. Possibly, if they are permitted to exist, you could collect anonymous debit cards preloaded with specific amounts, but if digital money is to be used for control, their existence is unlikely. Moreover, hackers are as likely to be successful diverting digital money as everything else.
The main destructive element of digital systems is that they remove humans from human contact. Scammers have eliminated the usefulness of a telephone as a device for speaking to another person....
You would be more distressed to know that governments were deliberately covering up the true extent of morality, hoping that the issue would go away over time.
A UK judge has just ruled it will not release the mortality statistics it has on deaths by COVID vaccination status because of the distress the data would cause. Would the distress cause more harm than the lethal vaccines themselves? It might, if millions of gullible citizens suddenly realized their governments forced a genocidal bioweapon on them and their families.
Orban met with Trump at the White House on Friday, masterfully handling a long agenda of items crafted to take both nations and the world closer to peace and Christendom.
Both governments reiterated their commitment to promoting peace efforts in Ukraine. Orbán noted that discussions about hosting a peace summit in Budapest remain ongoing. ‘Hungary offers its capabilities to assist in ending the war in Ukraine,’ he said, repeating his long-standing view that ‘Ukraine cannot defeat Russia militarily’.
Orbán characterized the meeting as ‘a day of Hungary in Washington’, noting that multiple ministerial-level discussions were held alongside the leaders’ summit. He described the talks as those of ‘two allied states with shared interests’, adding that no major disagreements emerged.
‘We identified no issue where our two nations’ positions conflicted,’ Orbán said. ‘There are no strategic differences between Hungary and the United States—only shared goals and cooperation.’
