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ben ski
Posted: 06 March 2025 19:21:13(UTC)
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Robert D;336658 wrote:
ben ski;336647 wrote:
The criticisms I'm hearing are typically vacuous. Just vague disapproval and insinuations – and all spoon-fed by a media trying to come up with negative spins.

Remember, I'm a globalist. I'm for UBI. I think manmade climate change will be the greatest struggle of this century. But that was a great speech, and gives me huge faith in the US economy for his term. I'm hearing 77% approval ratings from the US public following the address.

For all the empty criticism of his tactics, he's getting wins. He's certainly done more in 40 days than Biden did in 4 years. If only we had a few years of that kind of pragmatism and leadership in the UK. I also think he's proven a point about Zelensky – and that we're supporting a war in which Ukrainian citizens are being dragged off the streets and thrown into the frontline to get chewed up by bullets, for as long as is necessary, so long it doesn't look like the wrong side got the better deal.



It's early in St Petersburg. As can be seen from the above, the morning shift has started.


"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous .. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” – Orwell

The people of Russia are no more your enemy than the people of Norfolk. This would be the view of a globalist.
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ben ski
Posted: 06 March 2025 19:35:22(UTC)
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Daz;336648 wrote:
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The best book, for me, is probably Hedge Fund Market Wizards. I think it has Stan Druckenmiller, Michael Platt


Thanks, I started reading it.

I already picked up one great nugget:

"In a bubble, sell on the way down, not on the way up, because who's to say how far the bubble will go? (Colm O'Shea)"


The whole Market Wizards series are probably my favourite books on "investing". Certainly the most fun. And they give you a real grounding in the mechanics of markets.

But as a warning: you could copy what anyone in those books is doing today, and it won't work. Markets are always evolving. What's interesting is the understanding you develop, the historical context, and principles (rather than rules) among successful traders that seem a bit universal.
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ANDREW FOSTER
Posted: 06 March 2025 19:36:50(UTC)
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ben ski;336754 wrote:


The people of Russia are no more your enemy than the people of Norfolk. This would be the view of a globalist.



Well this is partly true.

It's the leadership of Russia that are an enemy.

As is anyone from 'the people' who is prepared to fight aggresively on behalf of that leadership.
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ben ski
Posted: 06 March 2025 21:55:49(UTC)
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ANDREW FOSTER;336758 wrote:
ben ski;336754 wrote:


The people of Russia are no more your enemy than the people of Norfolk. This would be the view of a globalist.



Well this is partly true.

It's the leadership of Russia that are an enemy.

As is anyone from 'the people' who is prepared to fight aggresively on behalf of that leadership.


We're only an enemy to Russia's leadership because our leadership's sending missiles and aircraft to be used to attack Russia's land, people and infrastructure. It's not our war, and we may not agree with taxpayer money being used in this way when people are waiting 6 months for a doctor's appointment here. So who's our enemy?
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ANDREW FOSTER
Posted: 06 March 2025 22:54:05(UTC)
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ben ski;336772 wrote:
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We're only an enemy to Russia's leadership because our leadership's sending missiles and aircraft to be used to attack Russia's land, people and infrastructure. It's not our war, and we may not agree with taxpayer money being used in this way when people are waiting 6 months for a doctor's appointment here. So who's our enemy?




Quite an idiotic idea to think that some how the war has a geographic border. I suppose you also think that 1939 was 'Poland's War'..?

Ben Ski by name

Comrade Benski by nature

War is once more coming to Europeans. It can be fought in Ukraine or it can be fought in Warsaw and Berlin and Brussels. If Ukraine folds, who will stop Putin? You can be in denial, but it's coming.
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ben ski
Posted: 07 March 2025 00:17:42(UTC)
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ANDREW FOSTER;336781 wrote:
ben ski;336772 wrote:
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We're only an enemy to Russia's leadership because our leadership's sending missiles and aircraft to be used to attack Russia's land, people and infrastructure. It's not our war, and we may not agree with taxpayer money being used in this way when people are waiting 6 months for a doctor's appointment here. So who's our enemy?




Quite an idiotic idea to think that some how the war has a geographic border. I suppose you also think that 1939 was 'Poland's War'..?

Ben Ski by name

Comrade Benski by nature

War is once more coming to Europeans. It can be fought in Ukraine or it can be fought in Warsaw and Berlin and Brussels. If Ukraine folds, who will stop Putin? You can be in denial, but it's coming.


There's no evidence Putin has any intention of invading a NATO member country. In his own words it would mean instant annihilation.

So why do you believe that?
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Johan De Silva
Posted: 07 March 2025 07:31:27(UTC)
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Can we all agree that being accommodating to an aggressor like Putin will encourage him to be more aggressive going forward? This is why Trump stopping this war in his way is short sighted...

With this in mind, and inflation, military spending and areas of low stock valuations in "value" the start of new trends. One trend I am not exposed to is mining... all this kit will need metals.

I honestly think the chance of a leadership change in markets is very much stronger than ever because of Trump and other factors.
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Peter61
Posted: 07 March 2025 18:12:46(UTC)
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The US government (whether Trump's or any another future Republican leader's) have no appetite for either providing further funding to Ukraine or to putting US military assets on the ground. Europe (other than apparently our glorious leader) have no appetite for putting boots on the ground and, other than Germany, are broke. Ukraine is running out of able bodied men. Russia is already running a war economy and is going to be able to produce armaments much faster than Europe can supply Ukraine. Russia has many more able bodied men (some are Korean!) to call on than Ukraine. There isn't a hope in hell of this war being won (in the sense of expelling Russia from territory they have captured) by Ukraine. In the meantime Ukrainian soldiers and civilians continue to be slaughtered and Russia makes incremental territorial gains.

Trump's attempts to force a settlement seems to be the only rational action being taken. Continuing "as is" will cost lots of cash (which we don't have) and lots of lives and will ultimately end up with Russia in control of the land they currently occupy. Maybe it's a lesson to Europe to sort out their own defence capability and to stop relying on the US (which to be fair, many previous US presidents have suggested, Trump is the first one to look like he'll call Europe's bluff).

Pete
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ben ski
Posted: 07 March 2025 20:48:37(UTC)
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Johan De Silva;336787 wrote:
Can we all agree that being accommodating to an aggressor like Putin will encourage him to be more aggressive going forward? This is why Trump stopping this war in his way is short sighted...

With this in mind, and inflation, military spending and areas of low stock valuations in "value" the start of new trends. One trend I am not exposed to is mining... all this kit will need metals.

I honestly think the chance of a leadership change in markets is very much stronger than ever because of Trump and other factors.


The war's proven that Russia doesn't have the military or economy to start invading Nato members. And it's far from clear they have any real intentions – that we haven't invented to justify a proxy war.

Is it worth sacrificing endless Russian and Ukrainian citizens, and risking escalation to a global conflict or nuclear attack, on the basis that we think Russia needs to be punished more?

I don't think either side is good in this – but Russia has the stronger hand, and the west's certainly got the sketchier reputation when it comes to invading foreign countries on questionable grounds.
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