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ShivShankaran

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justpaste.it 3y ago

Google censors autocomplete. Try it out yourself

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spaceflightnow.com 3y ago

Soyuz rocket rolls out for launch of Russian-American crew to space station

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arxiv.org 3y ago

More than 90% of the bots are Pro-Ukrainian, with fewer than 7% pro-Russian

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www.oaklandinstitute.org 4y ago

The Corporate Takeover of Ukrainian Agriculture (2014)[pdf]

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unusualwhales.com 4y ago

“War and rumors of war is incredibly profitable”

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news.mit.edu 4y ago

Study: Immigrants in the U.S. are more likely to start firms, create jobs

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

US won’t rule out military action if China establishes base in Solomon Islands

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www.aljazeera.com 4y ago

Reparations in reverse: Afghanistan pays, Vatican prays, US preys

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www.aljazeera.com 4y ago

International Criminal Court condemns US sanctions on officials (2020)

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Biden may express concern over India-Russia ties in meeting with PM Modi

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www.aa.com.tr 4y ago

Mexico will not send weapons to Ukraine or sanction Russia

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digitallibrary.un.org 4y ago

Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism: United Nations voting tally

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www.statista.com 4y ago

Where Politicians Are Named in the Pandora Papers

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Indians reluctant to denounce Russian ‘brothers’ over Ukraine

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www.aljazeera.com 4y ago

Why is Europe suddenly so interested in helping refugees?

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www.mentalfloss.com 4y ago

Did Americans Call French Fries “Freedom Fries”?

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foreignpolicy.com 4y ago

There’s One Far-Right Movement That Hates the Kremlin

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www.aljazeera.com 4y ago

Refugee aid workers decry ‘hypocrisy’ of European governments

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www.aljazeera.com 4y ago

On the Ukrainian David, and the Russian Goliath

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qz.com 4y ago

Bangladesh will pay for its “support” of Russia in canceled vaccine donations

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia (2014)

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And most prime ministers and defence ministers of "allies" are resigning left and right. Something deeper is most likely that they don't want to be involved in this region conflict and be on leash of US.

EU made the mistake of following US into middle east and syria which blew up in their face with millions of refugees pouring in.

Getting involved in this RU-UKR war is the mistake to end all mistakes. There is no coming back from this. The world is polarized and EUR/USD is going to take a lot of pain.

EUR was created to offset some of the leash that US had on Europe and that's also tightening now.

Biden is not a spark of hope. There is a reason Obama didn't endorse him quickly. Note that he wanted to start the Russian war when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014 as a VP but Obama had to personally intervene and veto the war because he knew instability in that region would blow up.

Biden is nothing like Obama. He is an old timer who has zero mental cognitive ability beyond trying to save his son's investments in Ukraine.

China is planning to drop USD with Gulf countries today. and the US power rests on USD.

Future us will look upon Biden's era & foolishness as the death of American hegemony.

I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing.

He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market.

I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr

SBF will NOT go to jail. He is too politically connected and even his on/off gf is very deeply politically connected to MIT and other politicians. At this point its extremely naive to believe that he might get something more than a slap on the wrist, even if that.

He was on the same event with Janet Yellen whose signature will be on all US currencies.

You are right about yuan and it's also the reason why USD is hard to dethrone. Russia even made it amply clear that it won't use yuan for the reasons you mentioned. A proposal was to use basket of currency or a new currency backed by precious metals.

Pretty sure one of the above will happen over the next few years

Russia is not officially a terrorist state beyond some symbolical declarations. EU and US still have large imports and also declaring them terrorist would also mean sanctioning secondary buyers like china India turkey.

Also rubles don't have to be exchanged for USD, you can use that to buy Russian gas, oil, arms, nuclear, wheat etc

You are being heavily downvoted and you are closer to truth than anyone else. The afghan and russia fiasco has proven that USD floor can be yanked at anytime and most countries are desperate to get out of USD trades.

If BRICS launches their own basket of currency that will be the first major salvo at USD.

The further a society drifts from truth, the more they will hate those who speak it.

because it's not the case at all. de-dollarization is picking up rapidly across most neutral/anti-US countries and this is the start of it. China is trading with Russia in yuan and even India has allowed small players to bypass USD and trade in INR directly https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-allows-internation...

Something I have been shouting hoarse is that this war in Ukraine is going to have multi-generational effect on world order with USD coming under US pressure.

If Saudi drops USD, which now seems extremely unlikely, then it's truly a descent for the US empire.

I will lay out my views here

"who are the mysterious gold buyers who bought 300 tons of gold",

"who are the mysterious buyers of oil ships to keep russian oil float",

"is the rest of the world gradually dumping USD",

"does the Ukraine-Russia war have any chance of peace"

"Europe did not really want to be involved in the Ukraine war but did so only due to immense pressure from US"

"Why would Russia blow up it's own pipeline?"

"Are most of the non western world turning against IMF and USD global reserve"

I really don't need answers to these since the last time I asked one of this in here I was suspended for a week.