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Ooh, did you sell USA when Libya was taken out? Get some perspective…

Sorry..Macron is a pranet…great negotiator France has been, just kicked out of Mali effective , immediately…Macron has an election coming up, he has to look efficient having F’d up his African adventures. His big speech started withFrance is not at war with Russia…// USA: no USA boots in Ukraine…or did Joe mean Iran?
Russia and USA are both shockers when it comes to allies. Europe is being led by the nose and Macron is facilitating this by posturing as the great negotiator. We have to start looking at all this objectively and with the benefit of history…WW11 didn’t end because they saved Private Ryan. Have a look at history of Ukraine…oops I think Poland has a claim or two in waiting. This is a war we do not understand without any East European history and I don’t mean since the fall of the Iron Curtain. BTW USA can take their sanctions and look for the sun…wheat sanctions v. Russia: in Middle East and North Africa will lead to political instability..at least Debbie will be able to drive to Dallas cheap.

Dangerous precedents being set with knee-jerk reactions…as I’ve said before,London Stock Exchange as place to raise capital will be destroyed.

Sanctions on Russian exports like wheat will cause big problems in North Africa and beyond, potential cause for political disruption as bread prices rocket. USA doesn’t need wheat but does need oil. Attacking oligarchs..OK so UK doing something but ominously silent from EU esp Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta…self-interest is what it is all about ..as always.

Spread brokers’ ads say clearly that roughly 80% or more retail customers lose money on spread bets

Economist 26 Feb Lexington article …interesting read. Emotive public! absolutely on the money, Clued. It looks like both USA and Putin have been preparing for this for sometime…prefer they took their toys somewhere else.

Plenty of aggrieved migrants from all over the world in Europe: Afghanistan, Mali, Iran to name a tiny sample…plenty of oppressors, invaders, interferers etc. and their property in Europe to target …that was the point. Or is it because they is white, Ukrainians have a get out of jail free card?

Re Swiss….is this a move to stave off being forced to divulge the rest of the kleptocracy cash they are sheltering?

Hmmm… commercial insurance policies can/do have war provision type clauses…it’s mainly personal stuff like house etc that don’t. I foresee lawyers fresh from Covid cases looking forward to Ukraine/Russia cases…

Would have preferred a fatter dividend…all the logic about buybacks is fine on paper but practically it never seems to be that great.

Bet the insurance the company doesn’t. Strange reaction from Spanish justice…should have found him guilty and given him a peppercorn penalty….by acquitting him, they have given any Ukrainian the right to attack any Russian…so what happens when some Spaniard attacks a UK citizen because they are angry about Gibraltar?

I read somewhere weeks ago that Russia had been selling off its US treasuries holdings for some time and buying gold instead….did anyone else see this and when was the article published? I thought at the time it was odd and tried to guess why. I think it’s pretty obvious why now.

posting on the internet 24/7 is environmentally harmful...when Extinction Rebellion start communicating by carrier pigeon, I will listen to them, until then they are as guilty as the rest of us of overusing resources to get their pennyworth heard...it's all bo77ocks

We don't know how many people catch 'flu every year because our GP service tells us to bugger off if we have 'flu...wise man David Spiegelhalter said at the beginning of this pandemic we will not be able to analyse anything accurately until 5 years have elapsed... so, please chill out and hope you are around in 2025 to comment then.

I fear for Moldova...another non-Nato country. Ex-Iron Curtain countries are all pretty much the same...largeish percentage of population Russian forebears..this cross-fertilised population is similar across all of Europe...really do not understand why the USA, country of immigrants doesn't get this. My hairdresser is Lativian, mother's side all Russian , fiancé Azerbaijani (half Russian) guess why she is living in London.

Oil exporters with blood on their hands??? Sanctions I guess depending on whose blood...not those nice Saudis surely? Um, does the USA count?

Supposedly , all this USA sabre-rattling over Ukraine was meant to demonstrate to the Chinese how USA could collect its allies to defend a state USA supported.. ie: USA would react aggressively over Taiwan. Not sure Chinese care

saw Hordern and Tom Keene on Bloomberg TV this lunchtime

Biden has said no US soldier etc will be sent to Ukraine...he will send services personnel to support Nato...translation: US soldiers turn up in Belgium, thereby freeing Belgian soldiers to be sent to Ukraine????

Have stuff I know/suspect is in HK/Taiwan and rest of Chinese zone of 'influence'...I meant in Taiwan/HK in person.
Always found Go more challenging than chess...not sure of Biden's skills in either