Stop escalating it and work on de-escalating. I have not seen anyone except Turkey trying to de-escalate.
It's warmongers everywhere without any regard for potential outcomes.
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Stop escalating it and work on de-escalating. I have not seen anyone except Turkey trying to de-escalate.
It's warmongers everywhere without any regard for potential outcomes.
The problem is that Putin has isolated himself with yes men, former KGB comrades and isn't beholden to the oligarchs. he needs the generals to push back against him for this failed war and citizens to rise up like they did in the 90's.
Do you think you’re going overboard with killing the average Russian? Was Hitler the only person to blame in WWII and the German people are innocent? Yes, the sanctions hurt the average Russian but will prevent Russia from attacking another country after Ukraine.
Putin appears that he doesn’t care about Russian people as well as Ukrainians. Another reason to punish the Russians is because 70% approve of Putin before the war and most believe he is in the right,
Turkey send the drones. Three or four meetings trying to negotiate peace isn’t trying to de -escalate the war. Putin wants them to surrender. Ukraine is now willing to not enter the NATO but Russia wants to demilitarized Ukraine. Give up all weapons so they can invade again without a fight if they feel like it.
FOX news today said US and NATO started the war. Ridiculous
Peace negotiations aren't trying to de-escalate a war? What a ridiculous thing to say.
Yes, it's not our war.
You want to fight the Russians over Ukraine, go sign up. Don't ask other Americans to do it.
No Americans are fighting now. If Ukraine give up, yes Americans will be fighting when Russia goes after another country. Russia will think twice before attacking another country especially when their military depleted from fighting in Ukraine.
If you took a poll in Iraq, 98% of the population would have wanted Saddam gone. He terrorized the population and nearby countries. But he controlled the military and the media. That was the problem. To remove him and his threat to world peace, we had to kill many innocent people who didn't have a voice. Putin claimed that Ukraine was a threat to attack Russia. What rubbish. But the Russian, and Chinese, people are subject to non stop propaganda. They have no idea what is true and what is false. They cannot possibly remove Putin. Even in the US, the media is not exactly fair and push political narratives. Trump is in bed with Putin yet he provided defensive anti-tank Javelins to Ukraine while anti-Putin Obama refuses to provide any military support. Trump walks away from the Iran deal. The sponsor of terrorism and attacks on Israel. A real threat to world peace. Biden, hat in hand, approaches Iran and suggests removing sanctions in return for greater petroleum output. No restrictions on their support of Hezbollah. None. Take the money and buy bombs. We don't care.
If Trump wins the 2024 election and the war continues in Ukraine with insurgents in 2024, I can see Trump claiming peace in Ukraine by stopping shipment of weapons. Didn’t we walk away from Syria and gave it to Russia? Who calls Putin a brilliant genius knowing he killed millions?
There are now 40,000 Syrians ready to go to Ukraine to fight for Russia. I guess for helping the Syria dictator.
Over 40,000 Syrians reportedly register to fight for Russia in Ukraine
A notice was sent out to members of a militia that has been sanctioned by the U.S. for serving as an intermediary between the Assad regime and ISIS, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
www.cbsnews.com
Putin has been at war ever since he has been in office, Chechen War, Syria, Crimea, and now all of Ukraine killing millions on the way.
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Perhaps you forgot, Obama drew a line in the sand that if Syria used chemical weapons, the US would step in with its full force. They did and we did nothing. Russia stepped it up. So, who exactly, walked away from Syria? That was lost far before Trump. In fact, he massacred a bunch of Russian mercenaries in Syria. Warned the Russians that if they keep moving forward, he'd give the military the green light. Can you imagine Biden approving that? Or killing the Iranian military chief responsible for untold US deaths in Iraq?If Trump wins the 2024 election and the war continues in Ukraine with insurgents in 2024, I can see Trump claiming peace in Ukraine by stopping shipment of weapons. Didn’t we walk away from Syria and gave it to Russia? Who calls Putin a brilliant genius knowing he killed millions?
There are now 40,000 Syrians ready to go to Ukraine to fight for Russia. I guess for helping the Syria dictator.
Over 40,000 Syrians reportedly register to fight for Russia in Ukraine
A notice was sent out to members of a militia that has been sanctioned by the U.S. for serving as an intermediary between the Assad regime and ISIS, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Putin has been at war ever since he has been in office, Chechen War, Syria, Crimea, and now all of Ukraine killing millions on the way.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/battle-of-khasham/
What I find interesting is that Biden has basically been MIA since he announced that we were cutting off Russian oil. Since then, crickets…not sure if that’s part of his de-escalation strategy?
I predict that if Trump wins in 2024, we will stop all weapon supplies to Ukraine. Trump was also going to quit NATO in his second term according to Bolton. That’s fine with me if that what America represents. Russia, China and US will be on the same page under Putin. Of course the old Soviet Union will be put together.
Should come as no surprise…these guys are a joke:
www.cnbc.com
Fundstrat's Tom Lee admits he's been too bullish on stocks, but likes the risk-reward from here
"Going forward, I don't think investors can get hurt. I mean, the risk-reward is just too strong," Lee said Tuesday.
Trump's issue with NATO was that none of the European members were complying with the minimum defense spending. So, in effect, the US taxpayer was defending Europe while they spent on social programs. Great deal for them. Trump said either you pay us for defending you or you need to step up. Finally, in the aftermath of Ukraine, they have stepped up their spending. Fair is fair.
Probably means there a good chance of a recession.Should come as no surprise…these guys are a joke:
Fundstrat's Tom Lee admits he's been too bullish on stocks, but likes the risk-reward from here
"Going forward, I don't think investors can get hurt. I mean, the risk-reward is just too strong," Lee said Tuesday.
BTW, I sincerely hope that we have better choices than DJT and Hillary in 2024.
I hope so too. I want Romney now.
In private speech, Romney warns of "extraordinary challenge" to preserve American democracy
His stark message came at a fundraiser for Congresswoman Liz Cheney Monday night.
www.cbsnews.com
Senator Mitt Romney, of Utah, offered more than 200 Republican donors a stark message on the fragility of American democracy during private remarks on Monday night at a fundraiser in Northern Virginia.
According to five attendees, Romney told the crowd that he has a chart in his Senate office tracing the history of civilizations over the past 4,000 years. He said it is a reminder of how they can rise and collapse, and of how unusual American democracy is in global history.
From the Mongol Empire to the Roman Empire, Romney said, autocracy is the chart's "default setting," with authoritarian leaders at every turn.
We are really the only significant experiment in democracy, and preserving liberal democracy is an extraordinary challenge," Romney said, according to the attendees, who gathered at the Hilton Hotel in McLean.
Attendees described Romney, the GOP's 2012 presidential nominee, as delivering the remarks as a warning for the group, which included many longtime members of the Republican establishment, as the U.S. confronts Russia's invasion of Ukraine and as former President Donald Trump continues to exert power inside the Republican Party.
Trump wasn’t invited to this Republican event.
Media and "experts" are doing an awful job concerning Putin's standing in Russia
Putin has massive 70% approval at home - has for years
The USSR collapsed and society was a mess through 90s/Yeltsin
It was Putin who made Russia come back together and function
Russians see Putin as hero
Even Solzhenitsyn - a friend of Putin - admired Putin
Solzhenitsyn also wanted Ukriane to be a part of Russia again
Ukkraine to Russia is like CA to Americans but media make it out to be more like Cuba
If America fought to get CA back the people would cheer - Cuba hardly at all
That's how Russia sees Ukraine
"Putin, Solzhenitsyn said in an interview shortly before his death in 2007 at age 88, had brought “a slow and gradual restoration” to Russia. The admiration was mutual... After praising Solzhenitsyn at the Kremlin ceremony for devoting “practically all his life to the Fatherland,” Putin visited the writer at home, telling him how much of his program for Russia was “largely in tune with what Solzhenitsyn has written.” And recent political developments show that Putin indeed has followed many of Solzhenitsyn’s ideas, particularly in the area known as “the near abroad,” or the former USSR.
It is one of history’s ironies that the No. 1 internal enemy of the Soviet Union has now become a spiritual guru to a former KGB officer who repeatedly voices nostalgia for Soviet times. For years before his death, the fiercely nationalistic Solzhenitsyn suggested that post-Soviet Russia must include Ukraine. Solzhenitsyn did not see the Ukrainians as a separate nation: “All the talk of a separate Ukrainian people existing since something like the ninth century and possessing its own non-Russian language is recently invented falsehood,” he wrote in a 1990 essay, “Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals.”
Putin likewise sees Ukraine as an artificial state: At the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest, he told then-President George W. Bush that “Ukraine is not even a state. Part of its territory is in Eastern Europe and the greater part is a gift from us."
What Putin’s Favorite Guru Tells Us About His Next Target
Russia’s Soviet-style leader is following the advice of the USSR’s most famous dissident.
www.politico.com
Vladimir Putin's Approval Rating Gets Boost: Poll
Vladimir Putin is seeing his highest approval rating from Russians since 2018, according to a Levada-Center poll.
www.newsweek.com
Thanks Tucker.Media and "experts" are doing an awful job concerning Putin's standing in Russia
Putin has massive 70% approval at home - has for years
The USSR collapsed and society was a mess through 90s/Yeltsin
It was Putin who made Russia come back together and function
Russians see Putin as hero
Even Solzhenitsyn - a friend of Putin - admired Putin
Solzhenitsyn also wanted Ukriane to be a part of Russia again
Ukkraine to Russia is like CA to Americans but media make it out to be more like Cuba
If America fought to get CA back the people would cheer - Cuba hardly at all
That's how Russia sees Ukraine
"Putin, Solzhenitsyn said in an interview shortly before his death in 2007 at age 88, had brought “a slow and gradual restoration” to Russia. The admiration was mutual... After praising Solzhenitsyn at the Kremlin ceremony for devoting “practically all his life to the Fatherland,” Putin visited the writer at home, telling him how much of his program for Russia was “largely in tune with what Solzhenitsyn has written.” And recent political developments show that Putin indeed has followed many of Solzhenitsyn’s ideas, particularly in the area known as “the near abroad,” or the former USSR.
It is one of history’s ironies that the No. 1 internal enemy of the Soviet Union has now become a spiritual guru to a former KGB officer who repeatedly voices nostalgia for Soviet times. For years before his death, the fiercely nationalistic Solzhenitsyn suggested that post-Soviet Russia must include Ukraine. Solzhenitsyn did not see the Ukrainians as a separate nation: “All the talk of a separate Ukrainian people existing since something like the ninth century and possessing its own non-Russian language is recently invented falsehood,” he wrote in a 1990 essay, “Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals.”
Putin likewise sees Ukraine as an artificial state: At the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest, he told then-President George W. Bush that “Ukraine is not even a state. Part of its territory is in Eastern Europe and the greater part is a gift from us."
What Putin’s Favorite Guru Tells Us About His Next Target
Russia’s Soviet-style leader is following the advice of the USSR’s most famous dissident.
Vladimir Putin's Approval Rating Gets Boost: Poll
Vladimir Putin is seeing his highest approval rating from Russians since 2018, according to a Levada-Center poll.
Turkey is a clown country as well and hardly an arbiter of peace.
Erdogan is a carbon copy of Putin. He engineered his own false flag coup in 2016 to consolidate power and purge undesirables. He killed a few hundred of his own countrymen, jailed tens of thousands of intellectuals, purged the military, threatened to repo our nukes at Incirlik Airbase, and blamed all of it on the CIA operating out of the Poconos. How they were allowed to remain in NATO after this stunt boggles my mind.
Tom Lee is the man! One of the true Alpha Bulls and was dead on right about 2021.Should come as no surprise…these guys are a joke:
Fundstrat's Tom Lee admits he's been too bullish on stocks, but likes the risk-reward from here
"Going forward, I don't think investors can get hurt. I mean, the risk-reward is just too strong," Lee said Tuesday.
In other news, I missed the entire trading day due to my first offsite work event in 2 years. LOL! Didn't miss out on any buying though. Tomorrow should be interesting with the first rate increase. Let's see how it goes.
The Fed dodged a bullet on this one. The other 4 nominees including Powell should move forward now.
thehill.com
Raskin withdraws Fed vice chair nomination
Sarah Bloom Raskin, who President Biden nominated to serve as Federal Reserve vice chair of supervision, withdrew from consideration Tuesday after three moderate senators effectively blocked her pa…
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For those who have been short the market, we are now reaching a technical turnaround. Time to slowly turn those shorts into longs. Lots of bargains out there. NVDA is definitely a long term buy and at this point should be a buy and hold for the long term, but it is still a $500+ billion market cap. The ones to look at are the really beaten down stocks. Time to start shorting the SARK? maybe. I would suggest starting to buy all your high beta stocks on your watchlist and build up from there.
How about you buy it because it is crushing earnings and is growing at a ludicrous pace for such a big company? And demand for their products are increasing.
#earningsmatter
There are a lot of no-brainer buys. Buy as much as you can and put them on shelf for the next 10 years. NVDA leads the way on this list (and so does GOOGL).
Hoping for some softness tomorrow morning prior to the Fed announcement.
Similar to AMZN, AAPL, and GOOGL during their rapid growth and expansion phase.
PE ratio doesn't matter as much when you are that far ahead of the competition. Look at TSLA for another example.
Big market cap tech is definitely a longterm hold and possibly add as well, but if you are looking for big time alpa (like I always do), then you have look elsewhere as well.
Of course it’s up another 6% because I sold end of day yesterday after a quick 5% gain…LOL…whatever had I held on it would be down 10%
I’m guessing it will be a short-term turnaround unless Ukraine crisis is resolved. There are so many headline risks hanging around such as potential Russia default in next 30 days, commodity prices, etc.
