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2022-03-01 Europe
'You should not fail to understand the danger of the consequences': Russia's latest threat to the West and its citizens as Moscow promises a 'harsh response' for supporting Ukraine and warns the EU against supplying weapons to Kyiv
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Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-01 06:42|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top

#1 Do we really know what we're doing?

Ken Rogoff of Harvard is the former top economist at the International Monetary Fund. When the IMF's chief economist warns that the West's moves are going to threaten dollar dominance, you know you're in trouble

They didn't go full blast in SWIFT in freezing the central bank, but they've ramped it up radically. And, you know, again, the question is, you know, what's next?

But it's a major thing. I mean, if you want to look at the long-run picture of dollar dominance in the global economy, believe me, China's looking at this. They have, I don't know, $3 trillion in dollar reserves. And someday they may well do a similar thing in Taiwan. And they're thinking about how to shield themselves. And it could have very big, longer-term ramifications for the global economy, dollar dominance.
Posted by Hupusoper the Bunyip1094 2022-03-01 08:43||   2022-03-01 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 That's not because we insisted on doing stuff about Ukraine.

It's because the elites in the West decided to spend the last thirty years tearing down US heavy industry and manufacturing to the benefit of people like Vladimir Putin.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-01 09:33||   2022-03-01 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, Putie, keep pounding on the table.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-01 10:28||   2022-03-01 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 By all means let's listen to Ken Rogoff:

"Putin is a pariah. I have many Ukrainian friends and Russian friends who are utterly distraught. They look at being cut off from the world for a long time," the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund said on Yahoo Finance Live. "He is going to be looked at as a mass murder. People are going to be looking at again genocide charges. They are suddenly trading in North Korea. He has painted himself into this corner. It's a very dark place for where we are. I am not sure how we get to an end of it until Putin and his cronies go."

Posted by Matt 2022-03-01 10:55||   2022-03-01 10:55|| Front Page Top

#5 How worried should Putin be? After all, the USA buys lots of phones and bassetbaw shoes made with slave labor in China.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-01 11:02||   2022-03-01 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Is Putin becoming the next North Korea. Danagerous nukes and rhetoric, large military, but no real friends when it hits the fan (beyond loyal Belorus).
Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-01 13:10||   2022-03-01 13:10|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by Black is a form of dirt  2022-03-01 13:48||   2022-03-01 13:48|| Front Page Top

#8 So we're paying to send arms to Ukraine.

Simultaneously, we're financing Putin's attack on Ukraine by obliterating our own energy production and instead buying from Russia. Wait, what?!

Simultaneously, we're financing Putin's attack on Ukraine by an obscene trade deficit with China Communists, who in turn use their bounty to offset any sanctions we put on Russia. Wait, what?!

Radical CIA anti-American morons running our country.

Restore American energy independence. Repatriate industry from China. Cancel the FBI CIA and execute the criminals in their leadership. This is not rocket science. The BIG impediment is you have to start out wanting what is best for America.
Posted by Ichnusa aka BIAFOD 2022-03-01 14:53||   2022-03-01 14:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Is it wise to provoke Putin and not do something to secure our southern border from infiltration? I'm starting to think our President isn't all there.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-01 19:31||   2022-03-01 19:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Slow Joe's sign language interpreter's groovin'
Dat fly-ass bitch can rap fo realz
Posted by Greaque Omish8954 2022-03-01 21:16||   2022-03-01 21:16|| Front Page Top

#11 WERE COMIN' AFTER YOU - and the Biden Crime Family, you corrupt cowardly piece of shit

"We're not sending our forces to fight Ukrainians.." LOL

if you give this walking corpse an enema, it would fit into a shoebox
Posted by Clavise Bluetooth7522 2022-03-01 21:19||   2022-03-01 21:19|| Front Page Top

#12 No you shitty wanker - you're only going to make your own country weaker and your people poorer
Posted by Craitle Prince of the Welsh9929 2022-03-01 21:20||   2022-03-01 21:20|| Front Page Top

#13 "Uranian people" LFMAO

like from Uranus? From your shitty diapers you stupid fuck?
Posted by Glaque Munster2761 2022-03-01 21:22||   2022-03-01 21:22|| Front Page Top

#14 You talkin' bout yer Pop? Or Corn Pop?

Quit lying you daft prick
Posted by Caesar Anginert6060 2022-03-01 21:23||   2022-03-01 21:23|| Front Page Top

#15 blinky winky stutter stammer

Call in the medics - shoot him up

You take jab now, Yankee puppet. Come wit us please
Posted by Galactic Coordinator Jones5310 2022-03-01 21:25||   2022-03-01 21:25|| Front Page Top

#16 That sign language chick's got a wicked sense of humour. She represents "Xi Jinping" with a finger-pistol gesture pointed at her temple
Posted by Zorba Huping3997 2022-03-01 21:27||   2022-03-01 21:27|| Front Page Top

#17 "We'll buy America" LOL

.. for a song? On the sly? While we slap and tickle your little girls?

"Averge jobz a hunnerd an thirty five dollars a year" LOLZ
Posted by Slavirt Gleper9203 2022-03-01 21:31||   2022-03-01 21:31|| Front Page Top

#18 ITS TIME TO BURY THE ...
the blblbl
the uhhhhhhhh
thuh aaaahhhhhhhh

Bury that embarrassingly corrupt incompetent lying stupid fuck who's running America into the ground
Posted by Lampedusa Hapsburg4361 2022-03-01 21:34||   2022-03-01 21:34|| Front Page Top

#19 Worst SOTU ever

what a fucking embarrassment
Posted by Jung Ebbinter1043 2022-03-01 21:35||   2022-03-01 21:35|| Front Page Top

#20 "Happy birthday, buddy! Where's your little sister? She ever seen a grown president naked?"
Posted by Flenter Smith4422 2022-03-01 21:37||   2022-03-01 21:37|| Front Page Top

#21 This was a complete complete disaster
NBC journalists Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell are bashing Biden

"We all expected a little more... the next week will be (gasp) horrifying ... 'Go get'em' -- what did that mean?"
Posted by Dino Black7052 2022-03-01 22:23||   2022-03-01 22:23|| Front Page Top

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