First of all, my comment was not about the headline so much as all the comments talking about Russia not being ready, so not sure what “reacting” I was doing yo the headline (can you read?) Secondly, the headline does not “seem like” Putin is threatening Europe with war. Thirdly, your “opposite” line at the end is basically the exact same thing as the headline you are criticizing (“we are ready” = “Putin says Russia is ready”)

You’ve wasted my precious electrons thank you

Push Russia out of Ukraine. No need to cross the border into Russia. Totally justified, no threat to Moscow. Sets precedent.

Why would that be so risky? If the answer is because nukes, my point stands.

What indicatiors are those? All the third party analyses that I can find show that Russia is still the second most militarily powerful nation in the world, with a huge reserve of tanks, planes, missiles and manpower to fight with, with production only speeding up.

It’s not all peachy for Russia by any means, but to assume they are weak because of their failures in Ukraine is disingenuous. If they wanted to sacrifice their readiness against NATO, they could absolutely take Ukraine. But no one is going to make their homeland vulnerable for land expansion, it doesn’t make sense.

No one is using nuclear weapons.

But let’s say I’m wrong. We should still not fear them. The reason being that accepting nuclear blackmail destines the human race to even more misery and pain than it experiences now.

Rip the bandaid off. Call the nuclear bluff. Then once it proves toothless and we don’t have fascists at the helm, work on nuclear disarmament so we don’t have any accidents.

To everyone saying Russia can’t go to war with Europe because of their failures in Ukraine: this is just not true, and a dangerous assumption.

Their economy has been on a war footing for some time now, and they don’t sacrifice preparedness for war with NATO to support the war in Ukraine. That’s why they’ve thrown all their old inventory at Ukraine. Use it up to soak up ammunition, shift the economy to build new equipment.

Does everyone really think all this hesitation from Europe is because they think Russia has been neutered?

Won’t be the last time he issues that command

Takes time to clean the ceiling

LMAO

Honestly, it’s getting really enjoyable watching these guys flail.

It’s hilarious to see the curtain falling down today on all these chuds.

I think most people at least expected, but now it’s basically confirmed, these kinds of comments are either from malicious actors or people dumb enough to fall for the schemes of malicious actors.

Typical, boring Maple MAGA tripe. Yawn.

That’s the most important one. Unfortunately it’s almost impossible to compel compliance from major economies.

Our best chance is what Carney is doing, move on without them in as many domains as possible and wait for the US to collapse or reform, then invite them to the big kids table again.

I’ve been saying it for a while now, until proper action on climate action is taken, the social contract is broken.

Take back what you can from the capitalist class where you can safely and without harming anyone innocent. It’s morally acceptable. This shouldn’t be controversial.

HEY LOOK OVER HERE

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

Ah, but if you can find the book in thousands upon thousands of libraries spread all around the world, has anything been lost?

Bitcoin is crypto. Crypto is not Bitcoin. I strongly encourage you to look into the history of money. What has been used as money in the past, why it was used as money…rai stones are my favorite example.

Bitcoin, if you are able to understand the mechanics of it, is the “hardest” form of money that has ever existed. History shows money always flows into the hardest asset available. It also shows what happens when that asset loses its hardness. This is why gold has been king for a long, long time.

Then along came Bitcoin (NOT crypto, there was crypto before and crypto after), and it used game theory, the internet, math, cryptography and programming to become the most elegant store of value ever invented, which is also the hardest form of money ever created.

I actually loathe Bitcoin, even if I admire it and buy it. It’s an energy nightmare. No one will ever convince me that it’s “green” in any meaningful way. And I’m a huge environmentalist. But I’m not an idiot. It’s inevitable. It’s already started. Fiat currencies are going to start inflating uncontrollably and the money is going to go somewhere. If Bitcoin is superior as a store of value to gold, and more importantly is harder than gold, it’s got a long, long way to go.

OOHHHHHHH there’s no physical Bitcoins, THAT’S why it’s a scam!

Shit, I wish I had figured this out before. Thank God you came along to open my eyes 🤣🤣🤣

All this time I thought Bitcoin Inc had my real bitcoins safely in storage. How could I be so fucking stupid?

I won’t be replying as I’m now going to jump off a bridge given how badly I’ve been intellectually bested. I simply cannot go on any longer now that the truth behind Bitcoin has been revealed to me.

Never mind, I found one but I had to look way back.

You said crypto has no utility. Which is awfully naive and I’m not even sure you really believe it. But you’re not really making a strong case. You’re just…saying it has no utility.

What arguments? You haven’t made a single argument, you’ve just been bloviating at random.

Tell me, what arguments have you made? Or is “crypto scam you dumb” the argument?

WHY is all crypto the same?

Uhhhh ok if you want to be pedantic, crypto is not immaterial as it exists as matter (the hardware holding the blockchain).

I guess I was under the impression you were using it to mean “without physical value” even though that’s not the definition. I figured you couldn’t possibly be trying to argue that there is no physical matter involved in Bitcoin…

Oh my god you don’t even know what fiat currency is.

Okay I think we’re good here

Just because you say it doesn’t make it true, and if it were true you’d expect me to be invested in other “cryptos” surely.

Do you think I’m invested in any non-Bitcoin crypto? Why would I draw such an arbitrary line between one and the literal rest of them?

Maybe, just maybe there is a difference.