Nice (or maybe not) reading:
http://www.jsmineset.com/2015/05/19/in-the-news-today-2198/"A few months back I theorized the rest of the world led by a Chinese/Russian alliance might let loose with a "truth bomb" or a series of them. It is clear the U.S. has been on a pathway in the desire to start a war. We have pressed in Syria and the Ukraine but so far to no avail. From the standpoint of the U.S., it is my opinion that a war is "necessary" to point at and blame for the financial collapse surely coming because in no way can "policy" be blamed.
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How long can someone repeatedly poke a sleeping bear before it wakes up in a really bad mood and bites them where it don't grow back
Is fortunate that so far, Putin happens not to be a war loving psychopath taking the bait, I heard he has evidence about the twin towers in this so called 'truth bomb'.
Am also hearing that retail gold is drying up in Europe, perhaps this is an early sign that the old school oligarchs are losing their grip, hard to tell really as there is so much disinformation, it looked like a collapse was imminent 5 years ago!
Reality is rarely that simple. It really depends on want the bear wants and what Putin wants is the be a superpower/rebuild a USSR. This has been a recent shift as previously Putin was moving towards closer relationships with the west, until this crazy fanatic scholar/writer showed up. Anyway the point is that his methods of going about this are really clever. I mean he began modernizing the Russian army(as a deterrent), using Russia's economic clout to bully satellite countries into his version of a European union and creating a proxy war in the Ukraine after bribes\threatening to cut off the gas in winter failed.
The best part is that with a minimal expenditure on a country level sense of the word he stopped Ukraine moving to closer ties with his enemies and can enmesh the entire country in a prolonged civil war as long as he feels like it. Which sends a message to nearby countries of follow me or else and that they are on their own as evidence by the lackluster help given to the Ukrainians.
I mean yes his decision to destabilize the region was based on the large amount of currency reserves (now mostly spent) Russia had and upon the price of oil remaining high, which has changed things significantly. For a start Crimea's oil is worth a lot less and those sanctions are going to hurt him longer term, but now he cannot change course from the frenzy of xenophobic nationalization he started to go down. So he is in an interesting position now but all out war is stupid would not achieve his goals.
As for gold and oligarchs, firstly 97% of mega rich families go from rags to riches in 3 generations and as soon as the gold price goes up another 200 mines will be reopened. This happened with oil, look at how many god damn reserves they kept finding and innovative ways of getting to the oil. Hell the fact is that we have a glut of oil and the Saudis know this, which is why the recently increased production in order to push the price of oil down and flush those innovative yet marginally productive companies away.
What they are hoping is to find a price point where companies continue to produce oil, but have no reason to find new reserves or develop extraction technologies. Since everyone knows that oil is on the way out. Not tomorrow definitely, but its on the horizon and the Arabs want to milk out as much money while they still can, while Putin is betting otherwise.
