There’s a financial asset that grew 17% over the last month, while another financial asset moved mostly sideways.
One of those assets is bitcoin, and the other is gold.
If you guessed that it was gold that grew 17%, congratulations, your brain is working properly.
I just read a crucially important piece of news:
NATO-Labelled Laptop With Intelligence Found at Ukrainian Nationalists’ HQ, DPR Head Says
A laptop with intelligence data has been found at one of the headquarters of the Right Sector* (Ukrainian nationalists). The computer allegedly has a licensed NATO registry number, Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) head Denis Pushilin said on Sunday.
“The militants of the nationalists battalions have a special level of security clearance from the North Atlantic Alliance. This laptop contains a detailed map of the area with the location of our units,” Pushilin said at a press conference.In addition, he said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine planned to attack Crimea and Donbass in the spring of 2022.“According to our intelligence and the testimony of prisoners, an offensive operation was supposed to begin on 8 March of this year. The facts indicate that the invasion was planned simultaneously both on the territory of the republics of Donbas and in Russia’s Crimea,” Pushilin went on.
The head of the DPR showed a map of Crimea with the locations of troops marked on it.
Edit: there’s more.
“Russian MoD Makes Public Documents Confirming Preparation by Kiev of Offensive Operation in Donbass”
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“In the course of a special military operation, secret documents of the command of the National Guard of Ukraine came into the possession of the Russian military. These documents confirm covert preparation by the Kiev regime of an offensive operation in Donbas scheduled for March 2022,” said official representative of the Russian Defence Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.”
Edit2: and more:
Let me formulate a geopolitical hypothesis.
In 2008, American strategic planners performed a stress test of the oil production capacities, and they found out that the production had peaked in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. This triggered an alarm, because if the markets kept growing, this would result in a mass panic when others found out in “free market” ways, and the result would be an exponential rise in oil prices, which would greatly enrich Russia and Venezuela, which had the greatest reserves. This could not be allowed, since those countries are America’s political rivals.
For this reason, they triggered an artificial and controlled market deflation, and they also started the anti-hydrocarbon propaganda in form of the global warming panic which demonized the CO2. Also, they pressured Venezuela into destruction, so that its oil reserves would remain mostly untapped, and America could trivially invade them and take those by force at a later date. Furthermore, they started the process of international isolation and pressure against Russia, because such a technologically advanced country could not be allowed to funnel the profits from its vast oil and gas reserves into advancement of their industry and influence in the world.
Since the Arab countries basically ran out of petroleum reserves, they were prodded into internecine wars which are meant to consume all of their financial reserves.
Ukraine was intentionally kept in a state of depleted, impoverished, decivilized, corrupt shithole in which openly fascist gangs control the political scene, like a festering wound in Russia’s underbelly, where America introduced increasingly provocative elements in hope to make Russia invade and introduce order by force, which would trigger international sanctions, and the situation would be kept in perpetual Afghanistan-like war by helping the resistance movement while Russia would bleed resources, which would cause its demise. This is why the Americans now look like a cat that ate a canary, because they think everything went according to their plan. If Russia didn’t invade, they would actually invade Russia from Ukraine. If Russia invaded, it would trigger a trap.
This morning I wrote a lengthy article about preparations for the incoming shitstorm, but then I paused, reconsidered, and deleted the text. You see, if you waited until now to prepare, it’s too late. In theory, you might still manage to do something, like buying some food, cosmetic consumables, medications, filling up the car, stocking up on toilet paper in case you shit yourself, and so on, but things like that radiation dosimeter I bought – I don’t think you can buy it anymore, because it’s Russian, and Russia is blocked. I’m afraid that’s a sign of things to come – back ordered, not available in your country, not available at all, not accepting payment in your currency, not accepting crypto, website not accessible, website error, payment provider not working, bank closed due to excessive demand, bank not working because it fell below minimal legal requirement for reserves, and so on.
My message to Russians: your enemies hate you, but they hated you yesterday and the day before, and now at least you understand why your President and your government embarked on this course; don’t for a moment believe all this hatred and malice has anything to do with Ukraine, other than Ukraine being one of its minor instruments. It is now time to stay the course, and to pray.
I’ve been reading an article about, among other things, all the hate for Russia “spontaneously” outpouring from the people of the West, on the slightest provocation of CIA-controlled media. The author said this:
The civilized and winning West is showing that it really knows the score: Russian students are expelled from EU colleges (a similar idea is now floated in the USA), even neutral countries like Switzerland have closed their airspace to Russian carriers (which Switzerland really did not have to do since all the countries neighboring Switzerland already did that), and Russian citizens can’t even fly across Canadian airspace on their way home to the EU from the USA (just happened to a friend of mine). I fully expect “Russian Standard” vodka to disappear from US stores (we bought all the last ones we could).
Maybe we will soon be treated to YouTube videos showing (US or Ukie) Nazis machine-gunning Russian “matrioshka” dolls followed by thunderous cries of “Glory to the Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!“?
Russians are being expelled from sports clubs, musical events, cultural events and pretty much from everywhere where something “Russian” can be treated with hate and contempt.
These are Orwell’s two minutes of hate, but drawn out over days.
This is an russophobic Kristallnacht, but officially organized and praised.
I want to add one more thing about all this: nobody, absolutely NOBODY, is forcing the folks in the West to act the way they are. No Gestapo, no SA/SS patrols – nothing. Just the US PSYOPs and the eager willingness of these folks to “show Russia” in some way.
I thought: indeed, how would I explain this? And then I remembered something I heard long ago, regarding leftover minefields from the war in Yugoslavia. In some village, children found a “live” landmine, and started throwing rocks at it. Fortunately, someone ran to get an adult in time to stop this expression of hatred for a bad and dangerous thing they saw. Unfortunate, in this case it’s the adults that are telling the children to throw more and bigger rocks at the landmine, because, what’s the worst that can happen?
