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Here’s ZeroHedge: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/you-know-things-are-bad-when-saudi-state-tv-mocks-biden You Know Things Are Bad When Saudi State TV Mocks Joe Biden You know things are bad when Saudi television mocks the president of the United States in a SNL-style spoof. A state-run TV station featured a comedy sketch depicting Joe Biden attempting to address the Ukraine crisis, but he’s seen wandering awayContinue reading “Live! From Riyadh – It’s Saturday Night!”

Probably the most current metric for how Russia is doing is the Ruble. So far, it is holding its own even as Biden sanctions are destroying the EU economy and crippling the US. We’ll summarize what we know about principal military attack vectors, share Russian/DPR perspective, and end with Scott Ritter’s analysis. We’re not cheerleaders.Continue reading “Phase 2: The Donbass Cauldron and South Front”

Courtesy of ZeroHedge: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/shocking-us-consumer-credit-numbers-savings-long-gone-credit-card-debt-soars Shocking Consumer Credit Numbers: Credit Card Debt Soars With Savings Long Gone BY TYLER DURDEN THURSDAY, APR 07, 2022 – 03:21 PM While it is traditionally viewed as a B-grade indicator, the February consumer credit report from the Federal Reserve was an absolute stunner and confirmed what we have been sayingContinue reading “Yikes! Maxed out and Tapped Out”

‘ The city map below highlights the Steel Plant where the last of the “really out there” Azov Battalion (more like a division) and other units of the dwindling Ukrainian forces are using their American weapons to the last round duking it out with Chechen, Russian Marines, and LDPR units. Before a few of today’sContinue reading “Azov Steel and the End of the Azov “Battalion””

Here’s RT on the case for the Ruble: https://www.rt.com/business/553281-russia-record-capital-inflow/ Russia to see record capital inflow this year – reports Skyrocketing oil prices and falling imports are the main factors, experts say Russia’s balance of payments surplus could hit a historic high this year, amounting to $200-$300 billion, business news outlet RBC reported on Monday. EconomistsContinue reading “Long the Ruble – the case based on balance of payments”

US EIA oil import data through week of 3/25/2022 Note Russian-source oil was 6th among all US imports last week, per US EIA data. As EIA observes (https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51838): President Biden banned U.S. imports of crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas, coal, and coal products that originate in Russia. The President’s executive order, however, does not restrictContinue reading “Current US Oil Imports From Russia”

Ronan Manly (BullionStar): https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/russian-ruble-relaunched-linked-to-gold-and-commodities-rt-com-q-and-a/ Russia has pegged the Ruble to gold. How do you think that will play out v. the USD where Bideninflation is running hotter than 8%/year? For now, here’s the pairtrade: Currently, a gram of gold trades at $62.40. At 5000 rubles per gram, that’s says 1 ruble has a hard deckContinue reading “Gold-backed Ruble v. Debt-backed USD”

The question here is what Russian troops can we account for in Ukraine. What’s missing? Where are they? And where are they going? Presently, there are ~280,000 on active duty in the Russian Ground Forces. ~150,000 were mobilized for action in Ukraine following US and Ukrainian refusual to negotiate a security treat proposed by RussiaContinue reading “Russian Order of Battle – April 2, 2022”

We know the United States has long engaged in dangerous experiments offshore. Under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s direction, the US government enriched his corporate and research cronies with grants to conduct dangerous gain-of-function experiments offshore. More likely than not, related experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology set loose a murderous pandemic. So, should we beContinue reading “What is Truth: Biolabs”

https://dailyreckoning.com/rickards-ive-never-heard-so-many-lies/ I’ve had the good fortune to have been exposed to enough defense and national security matters in my career to learn at any early age (and reinforced along the way) the role of information in conflict. “Believe everything and believe nothing.” Always remember what Kenny Ortiz famously said: “There’s a war going on forContinue reading “Rickards: I’ve Never Heard So Many Lies”