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[spottybrowncow]

Thomas (or CB),

Please explain to me how digital currencies will be viable, in a dog-eat-dog east-vs-west scenario such as has been proposed, when countries don't want them used? The internet can be controlled, satellite transmissions can be blocked, and, if all else fails, laws can be passed prescribing the death penalty for anyone caught conducting business with unapproved digital currencies.

What am I missing?

[thomasglee]

Thomas (or CB),

Please explain to me how digital currencies will be viable, in a dog-eat-dog east-vs-west scenario such as has been proposed, when countries don't want them used? The internet can be controlled, satellite transmissions can be blocked, and, if all else fails, laws can be passed prescribing the death penalty for anyone caught conducting business with unapproved digital currencies.

What am I missing?

All they need to do is make the use of digital currency necessary to buy any products. You’ll only be paid using digital currencies. If you want to participate in the economy you can will be forced to used a digital wallet. We aren’t that far from that reality now. We just call them bank card or peer to peer payments. The use of digital currency will need a robust network. Hence the reason for pushing 5G and IoT.

[Tom Mazanec]

Biden Calls Putin a War Criminal for the First Time
Kremlin calls remark 'unforgivable rhetoric'
By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff
Posted Mar 16, 2022 4:25 PM CDT
https://www.newser.com/story/318173/bid ... gn=rss_top

[Cool Breeze]

Thomas (or CB),

Please explain to me how digital currencies will be viable, in a dog-eat-dog east-vs-west scenario such as has been proposed, when countries don't want them used? The internet can be controlled, satellite transmissions can be blocked, and, if all else fails, laws can be passed prescribing the death penalty for anyone caught conducting business with unapproved digital currencies.

What am I missing?

Do you mean what is currently referred to as "crypto"? For example, bitcoin? I think that's what you are asking.

What happened when alcohol was banned? Aren't most drugs illegal? Do most super rich investors have or use drugs, though?

[Cool Breeze]

Do you not see what is going on? Do you honestly believe that all the “America hating” protesters are suddenly now “America loving” freedom fighters? It’s not a rebirth. First, they didn’t let a good pandemic go to waste to exert their authority. Now they are taking advantage of a country being invaded to pull the wooly over your eyes. This whole Ukraine situation is a diversion to the problems (crime, food and goods shortages, inflation, Chinese/border entry fentanyl, etc.) here in the US. Ignoring these problems will only make them worse. When they get worse, there will be chaos. When chaos erupts, Martial Law will be declared. Martial Law will allow the powers in charge to declare that there will not be an election in November (because they know they will lose this election). No election means they will have complete power. Period. Stop. It all ends there.

You can't have these kinds of ideas around here. Don't you know that America is going to come back and it has great leaders and the "rule of law"???

[Cool Breeze]

However that’s a loner term play. I believe Xi and Putin both are basing their strategies in short terms gains.

Yes, thomas gets it again.

I think John agrees with this though, too.

[spottybrowncow]

Thomas (or CB),

Please explain to me how digital currencies will be viable, in a dog-eat-dog east-vs-west scenario such as has been proposed, when countries don't want them used? The internet can be controlled, satellite transmissions can be blocked, and, if all else fails, laws can be passed prescribing the death penalty for anyone caught conducting business with unapproved digital currencies.

What am I missing?

All they need to do is make the use of digital currency necessary to buy any products. You’ll only be paid using digital currencies. If you want to participate in the economy you can will be forced to used a digital wallet. We aren’t that far from that reality now. We just call them bank card or peer to peer payments. The use of digital currency will need a robust network. Hence the reason for pushing 5G and IoT.

No, I mean if East & West splits into two mutually exclusive systems of trade, how will digital currency enable trade between the systems to continue?

[DaKardii]

If the global financial system breaks into two, the powers that be in Washington will want the heads of the countries responsible on a silver platter. And in their rage they may well succeed in pushing into China's camp not just Russia, but India as well.

[Tom Mazanec]

U.S. Adds ‘Kamikaze Drones’ as More Weapons Flow to Ukraine
March 16, 2022, 9:40 p.m. ET3 hours ago
3 hours ago
Julian E. Barnes and John Ismay
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/p ... ogin=email

Zelensky Defines Courage in Our Time
The Ukrainian president asks Biden and Congress to ‘keep justice in history’ and help against Russian aggression.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/zelensky-d ... opin_pos_5

[Navigator]

** 16-Mar-2022 World View: Navigator's analysis

> Russia has always had trouble with war UNTIL there is a
> psychological trigger for them. I would call this the "Mortal
> Threat to Mother Russia". Until this is triggered, the Russian
> Army in its history, has been pretty poor. But once this is
> triggered, they become a different animal. So far, this has only
> happened 3 times, the war with Sweden in the 1700s (Poltava being
> the culmination), Napoleon, and then Hitler's invasions. Once this
> happens, the Russian military, and people, react quite
> differently, as Napoleon and Hitler learned.

Thank you for this analysis. I'd like to build on it.

The interesting thing about the three wars you mention is that they
were all non-crisis (Awakening Era) wars for Russia, fought in
conjunction with a crisis war for Europe (War of the Spanish
Succession / Great Northern War, French Revolution / Napoleon's
invasion, WW II / Hitler's invasion).

As you point out, they all follow the same pattern: the Russians are
incompetent with a foreign invader, but they win in the end -- often
because the invader can't tolerate the cold Russian winter -- when the
war becomes an existential crisis for Russia.

Russia's crisis wars for the last few centuries were internal
rebellions -- the Razin's peasant rebellion in the 1600s, Pugachev's
Rebellion in the 1770s, the Crimean War in the 1850s, and the
Bolshevik Revolution in the 1910s.

In other words, Russia has never had a successful expeditionary crisis
war. And let's not forget the the Mongols conquered Russia in 1206
and imposed the hated "Mongol Yoke" that lasted two centuries.

So when you say that the Russian army only becomes competent when it
is "triggered" by an existential threat to Russia, I would say exactly
the same thing in a different way: The Russian army is only competent
inside RussiA, and incompetent outside Russia. In other words, the
Russians don't have the skills to fight an expeditionary war.

I would say that the Russian Army is only good once an outside power has triggered the threat. This could come from invasion, if it goes far enough, and gets into core areas. For example, the German Army leadership in WW1 knew not to trigger this, and they never went far into Russia, and never against a large "Russian" city (they took Riga, but avoided moving on Minsk, as Riga is Latvian, while Minsk is core Russian).

Once the "trigger" occurs, the Russian Army is still good past its borders as it goes after whoever "pulled" the "trigger". Hence the Russian Army was competent in the pursuit of Napoleon outside Russia, going as far as Paris in his pursuit. Same with the Russian Army moving across Eastern and Central Europe in pursuit of Hitler and his armies.

Ukraine had been part of Russia for so long that Russians probably view what is going on there as a semi-internal matter. The "trigger" could be Putin telling his domestic audience that the West (NATO) is to blame for the fiasco now unfolding, for all the soldier deaths (due to the weapons they supplied) and that they are in "mortal danger".

He will certainly blame them for the economic turmoil they are about to suffer. Then they can play on the "look at your smug neighbors in the Baltics, Poland and Germany. They have everything we should have. They only have it because they are 'putting us down'". Then all those other Russian psychological instincts (as someone else put it, they will burn down their neighbor's house if its a lot better than theirs) will come into play too.

Also, don't forget the example of the Winter War. Everyone at the time thought the Red Army was hopelessly incompetent. Then look at what happened a year or two later. Stalingrad was neither Russians being incompetent nor "surrender monkeys".