Florida Governor @RonDeSantisFL answers our Ukraine questionnaire:
“While the U.S. has many vital national interests – securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence, and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the Chinese Communist Party – becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them. The Biden administration’s virtual “blank check” funding of this conflict for “as long as it takes,” without any defined objectives or accountability, distracts from our country’s most pressing challenges.
Without question, peace should be the objective. The U.S. should not provide assistance that could require the deployment of American troops or enable Ukraine to engage in offensive operations beyond its borders. F-16s and long-range missiles should therefore be off the table. These moves would risk explicitly drawing the United States into the conflict and drawing us closer to a hot war between the world’s two largest nuclear powers. That risk is unacceptable.
A policy of “regime change” in Russia (no doubt popular among the DC foreign policy interventionists) would greatly increase the stakes of the conflict, making the use of nuclear weapons more likely. Such a policy would neither stop the death and destruction of the war, nor produce a pro-American, Madisonian constitutionalist in the Kremlin. History indicates that Putin’s successor, in this hypothetical, would likely be even more ruthless. The costs to achieve such a dubious outcome could become astronomical.
The Biden administration’s policies have driven Russia into a de facto alliance with China. Because China has not and will not abide by the embargo, Russia has increased its foreign revenues while China benefits from cheaper fuel. Coupled with his intentional depletion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and support for the Left’s Green New Deal, Biden has further empowered Russia’s energy-dominated economy and Putin’s war machine at Americans’ expense.
Our citizens are also entitled to know how the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being utilized in Ukraine.
We cannot prioritize intervention in an escalating foreign war over the defense of our own homeland, especially as tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year from narcotics smuggled across our open border and our weapons arsenals critical for our own security are rapidly being depleted."
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Last weekend, some of Asia's best-known politicians and corporate leaders gathered for the Trilateral Commission, which was created during the Cold War to steer the U.S.-Japan-Europe security partnership.
Inequality was a major topic of discussion: https://t.co/3g6kLWmmSn
Finance is an easy job, many can do it. So you cannot separate yourself on proficiency, you do it on commitment (100 weeks).
Tech is the inverse. Proficiency matters more than commitment. If your good, it takes less time to get it properly done.
.SWOOSH by Nike - a platform for Nike's virtual creations 👟
RTFKT will continue to be at the edge and work w Nike to onboard the next millions to web3 💻
Clones will get access for .SWOOSH ID, & Nike releases will be Clone digital wearables 🧬
More collab to merge worlds tog 🌐
Fed governor Christopher Waller on the October CPI report:
"The market seemed to get waaaa-aaaay out in front.... I just cannot stress this is one data point."
"We've still got a ways to go."
Crypto now enters the slow bleed of death. Confidence completely gone, no buyers left, no positive catalysts. On the flip side, probably no forced sellers… so the market will be low volatility, but also illiquid. It will sit and stair step lower Over long duration.
This is not unpopular opinion, it is, and has been, the overwhelming consensus the entire time (chart)
Transition, pause, pivot, step down, inflation peaked... All the same thing and the only narrative this cycle.
Very few believe in persist inflation... But Jay Powell does
"Heads down working" is great, but shipping is even better. We've got a couple of surprises for @moonbirds before year-end. Working on a video today for the first one :)
Everyone in DC knows TsySec Yellen is out after the midterms. Gensler wants this job.
He is a white guy. To overcome this "problem." he needs Sen. Warren's blessing. She hates crypto.
For personal gain, Gensler will destroy crypto to get this promotion.
He is a dangerous man.