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Alert: Apparently the ruble really is collapsing. Now at 110.98 and rising steadily almost 1% per hour. Something wrong.

Biden and the EU greatly upped the ante by allowing long range strikes into Russia. Now, word from the new administration: BREAKING: Counterterrorism Adviser nominee Sebastian Gorka, says that Trump plans to end the Ukraine war by threatening to flood Ukraine with military aid, making current U.S. support look like “peanuts” This is called peace through strength. https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1861239932670312859 I will make a prediction: By or before Valentines day, the end of Putin's Russia and maybe Putin himself will be in sight. 3, 2, 1, ... "Do you want nuclear war? WW3? MAD?!"

All factors in the Russian economy are worsening at an accelerating rate. Below is a summary. Remember, the head of the Russian state bank has repeatedly said in public that the broad economy cannot take the strain past 2024. Putin (and a few folks here) talk about Russia's GDP. That's meaningless because it comes from making bombs and weapons that blow up in Ukraine contributing zero (zip) to the economy. IOW, Putin is bragging about throwing money down the drain, as propagandist depots do.

Wow. Ruble continues to drop throughout the day, This was an hour ago. The rate of fall is unprecedented for a currency.

After investigation, it now appears that both the 2 undersea communication cables cut and gas pipeline cut last year in the same area by Chinese ships was Russian sabotage. Putin being Putin. The scheme, buy and control ships registered by shell companies in China and have Russians control them. The analysis Anton Gerashchenko is long so I provide a link. https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1859933985444446489

Not a squabble between neighbors, never was. Remember the cold war and the fall of the USSR? In 1994, Ukraine agreed to give up their nukes and became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for assurances from Russia (<== this is Russia), the United States and United Kingdom to respect the Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in their existing borders. [WIKI]

Confirmation is coming quickly. If not enough, soldiers took close up images of his face and exposed teeth that leave little doubt.

Rinse - Repeat until: There are many reports but currently being verified.

One more closeup from SpaceX control

Some shorts if the landing.

One small step for a madman, one giant leap for mankind. No one ever would have considered trying such a crazy thing, Truly unbelievable. Why did he do it? To save the extra weight of landing legs.

Many studies hove found similar results. COVID is a nasty virus, this was known from the beginning. Here's one. He addresses the vaccine issue in posts below. [Link to paper in Nature] "the increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis reported in this study is significant in people who were not vaccinated and is EVIDENT REGARDLESS of vaccination status." I.e. vax status doesn't matter for that.

Holly Molly! You didn't even read the abstract! From the abstract: "Data from the UK Biobank was used to identify COVID-19 cases (n=10 005) who were positive for polymerase chain reaction (PCR+)-based tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection (n=8062) or received hospital-based International Classification of Diseases version-10 (ICD-10) codes for COVID-19 (n=1943) between February 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. " There were no vaccines! And then you call the study trash...

He is addressing the hypothetical question of what if Russia attacks Lithuania, again. NATO has never threatened Russia. NATO is a defense organization. Lithuania is a NATO member because they have been attacked by Russia before, as have so many countries. Occupation of the Baltic states : The initial Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic states began in June 1940... During the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation many people from Russia and other parts of the former USSR were settled in the three Baltic countries, while the local languages, religion and customs were suppressed in an "extremely violent and traumatic" occupation.[6][7]

Meanwhile in the West.