Ukraine

[mks]

Sort of cryptic. He seems to be insinuating that civil war is inevitable unless some sort of uneasy diplomacy is achieved.

[nowaysj]

Well, I think he states with certainty that conflict is coming, the question is time, and acceleration.

[nowaysj]

But I haven't read anything by Kissinger in a long while. I'm curious about the reasoning behind his opinion that Ukraine shouldn't join NATO.

[nowaysj]

Just for perspective. Perhaps this is the new ww3 thread. No it is not. But:

The head of China’s sovereign wealth fund noted in 2009: “both China and America are addressing bubbles by creating more bubbles”.

He’s right …

Global credit excess is worse than before the 2008 crash.

The U.S. and Japan have been easing like crazy, but – as Zero Hedge notes [if you missed it when Tyler Durden first posted this] – China has been much worse:

Here is just the change in the past five years:

You read that right: in the past five years the total assets on US bank books have risen by a paltry $2.1 trillion while over the same period, Chinese bank assets have exploded by an unprecedented $15.4 trillion hitting a gargantuan CNY147 trillion or an epic $24 trillion – some two and a half times the GDP of China!

Putting the rate of change in perspective, while the Fed was actively pumping $85 billion per month into US banks for a total of $1 trillion each year, in just the trailing 12 months ended September 30, Chinese bank assets grew by a mind-blowing $3.6 trillion!

Here is how Diapason’s Sean Corrigan observed this epic imbalance in liquidity creation:

Total Chinese banking assets currently stand at some CNY147 trillion, around 2 ½ times GDP. As such, they have doubled in the past four years of increasingly misplaced investment and frantic real estate speculation, adding the equivalent of 140% of average GDP – or, in dollars, $12.5 trillion – to the books. For comparison, over the same period, US banks have added just less than $700 billion, 4.4% of average GDP, 18 times less than their Chinese counterparts – and this in a period when the predominant trend has been for the latter to do whatever it takes to keep commitments off their balance sheets and lurking in the ‘shadows’!

Indeed, the increase in Chinese bank assets during that breakneck quadrennium is equal to no less than seven-eighths of the total outstanding assets of all FDIC-insured institutions! It also compares to 30% of Eurozone bank assets.

Truly epic flow numbers, and just as unsustainable in the longer-run...

And

Hearing rumors of Russian/not Russian soldiers firing warning shots at Ukrainian soldiers and international observers. As well that the pipeline in the Crimea has been mined.

[wub]

The Chinese housing bubble induced recession is going to be truly breathtaking.

[nowaysj]

Perhaps all the people left in Detroit could be relocated to one of those modern amenitied empty Chinese cities.

Just heard a news report of a women in Detroit who called the police after a domestic abuse incident with her boyfriend. Policeman took her upstairs and raped her on the spot. Took a couple of months for the officer to be investigated even when the rape kit revealed his dna...

[test_recordings]

I can't see any bubbles in Japan right now though, only consumer prices are increasing and that's not a commodity bubble like housing etc. They'd freak out well ahead of something like the '80s happening again, probably do the inverse of what they were trying to do in the process....

[wub]

Surprised this took so long to show up on Facebook, TBH.

[nowaysj]

Supposedly/potentially blackwater operatives in eastern Ukraine.





Perhaps just private security?

[wub]

Monsanto protecting their interests.

[nowaysj]

Printed by your former compatriots.

[nowaysj]

Classic

"We’ll regain our status as a nuclear power and that’ll change the conversation. Ukraine has all the technological means needed to create a nuclear arsenal – which would take us about three to six months,” Svoboda party MP Mikhail Golovko said.

[test_recordings]

Surprised this took so long to show up on Facebook, TBH.

On opendemocracy.org there was some dude trying to make believe how the entire world is trying to destroy Israel and how it's okay to say bad things about the country when North Korea gets off scot free... I askedhim to show me about the website we were using holding this view and instead of putting his money where his mouth is, he tried to make out I was one of them, I was lazy, he didn't need to... I destroy everyone of his shitty replies, haven't read the latest yet though.

I was actually interested in his beef as well to start with!

[nowaysj]

What do you think dudes?

[wub]

Watched it twice through...where was the drone?

[nowaysj]

What you are watching is footage from the drone. Don't know if this is legit. But my thought is that it is not.

[wub]

What you are watching is footage from the drone. Don't know if this is legit. But my thought is that it is not.

ahhh I read that as video OF a shot down drone, not OUT. Gotcha.


Fucks sake, that's even less legit then. That video could've been from a helicopter doing the morning travel report.

[nowaysj]

Very well could be phony.

[wub]

If there had been a drone downed in the Ukraine and Russian forces had gotten hold of it, I'd have expected Putin to appear at a press conference holding it going "Well, well, well...looky what we got here!"

[nowaysj]