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Reposting the best of: BTC, Gold/Silver & Geopolitics.

[Sabrina F. @itsmeback_]

Perché Mosca non ha ancora chiuso la guerra?
La risposta che nessuno vuole sentire.

Mia riflessione personale.

Continuano a ripetere la stessa domanda da anni: “Se la Russia è così forte, perché non ha ancora vinto in Ucraina?”

E subito dopo tirano fuori la conclusione che gli fa comodo: allora è debole, allora basta ancora più armi a Zelensky e l’Ucraina vince. È il copione di Meloni, del PD, di Guerini e di tutta l’élite atlantista.

Partono da un presupposto sbagliato.

Se “vincere” significasse radere al suolo l’Ucraina, Mosca avrebbe potuto farlo il primo giorno. Un Sarmat su Kiev, o un Oreshnik, e la guerra finisce in pochi minuti. Colpire ogni grande città ucraina è perfettamente alla sua portata. Credete davvero che Washington, Londra o Bruxelles si farebbero cancellare per difendere Zelensky? No.

Allora perché non lo fa?

Perché per la Russia quella non sarebbe una vittoria. Sarebbe una sconfitta storica e irreversibile.

La Russia nasce dalla Rus’ di Kiev che stava in quella che oggi è l'Ucraina.
Un russo su tre ha sangue, parenti, radici e ricordi lì.
Non è l’Iraq per gli americani. Non è la Libia per la NATO.
È casa.

Per questo non ha nemmeno distrutto tutti i ponti sul Dnepr. Potrebbe farlo in una notte.
Non lo fa.

Non applica la dottrina americana dello shock and awe: radere al suolo tutto, civili, ospedali, infrastrutture, senza lasciare niente in piedi.
Gli Stati Uniti lo fanno sempre, ma sempre lontano da casa loro.

La Russia non sta combattendo per annientare l’Ucraina.
Sta combattendo per non perderla.

E qui finisce la prudenza.

Putin, Lavrov, Peskov e Medvedev l’hanno detto chiaro più volte: se un Paese europeo attacca direttamente la Russia, la risposta di Mosca sarebbe senza esitazione e senza pietà.

Perché noi non siamo l’Ucraina.

Testo di ✒️ Sabrina F.

[SilverTrade @silvertrade]

🔥MOAB: The MOTHER OF ALL BULL FLAGS in Silver⁉️

[Phantom_Defi @0xPhantomDefi]

🚨 GOLD IS SETTING UP WHAT COULD BE THE BIGGEST BUYING OPPORTUNITY OF 2026.

And I believe 99% of investors will completely MISS IT.

Everyone is preparing for another massive crash.

I'M PREPARING FOR WHAT COULD COME AFTER IT.

Gold has already suffered a brutal correction from its $5,600 peak.

Fear is spreading.

Traders are calling for even lower prices.

And almost nobody is paying attention to the long-term support structure.

HERE'S MY EXACT ROADMAP FOR $XAU:

$3,800–$3,900: Final capitulation into weekly support.

$4,900: First major recovery target.

$5,600+: Potential breakout into NEW ALL-TIME HIGHS.

THAT'S NEARLY 50% UPSIDE FROM $3,800.

And here's the part most investors won't understand until it's too late.

I'M NOT BULLISH ON GOLD AT EVERY PRICE.

I believe one final violent selloff could happen BEFORE the next major rally.

That's the trap.

The market convinces everyone the bull run is over.

Late buyers panic.

Stop losses get triggered.

Weak hands surrender.

And if long-term support holds, that capitulation could create the foundation for the next major move higher.

LOOK AT THE WEEKLY CHART.

Gold is approaching a long-term support curve that has already attracted buyers before.

I'm watching that area closely.

Not because support is guaranteed to hold.

But because the combination of extreme fear, a major support test and exhausted selling could offer the kind of setup I've been waiting for.

MOST PEOPLE WILL DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE.

They'll buy the bounce.

Panic during the final flush.

Then chase gold again above $4,900.

I DON'T WANT TO CHASE THE RECOVERY.

I WANT TO IDENTIFY THE BOTTOM BEFORE THE CROWD RETURNS.

I've spent more than 12 years studying market cycles and identifying major turning points.

And this is one of the most important gold setups on my radar.

My targets are a scenario, not a guarantee. I still want confirmation before entering.

SAVE THIS CHART.

Follow + turn notifications on.

When my next major BUY signal appears, I'll post it here FIRST.

THE NEXT GOLD CRASH COULD BE THE VERY THING THAT CREATES THE NEXT MASSIVE RALLY.

DON'T CONFUSE THE FINAL SHAKEOUT WITH THE END OF THE CYCLE.

[Tim Hack @realTimHack]

Silver has formed the MOAB of all bull flags, yet people are selling like there's no tomorrow. In a few weeks, the herd will look back and realize how stupid they were for mistaking this consolidation for a silver crash/ bear market. The strongest corrections do misled people the most and peak the fear, that's why they always lead to the strongest melt-ups. People chase after those breakouts especially hard because their brains flip late still soaked in fear. The jiggle in the middle.

[NickN @NickN]

Albanians are settlers in Kosovo. 👇

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Roman slaves ate bread, olives and porridge, washed down with vinegar.
Roman senators ate boar, dormice and peacock.

Egyptian labourers raised the pyramids on bread, onions and beer.
The pharaoh ate beef.

Spartan helots ate barley and figs.
The Spartans who owned them ate a black broth of pork and blood.

Chinese peasants ate millet and rice.
Genghis Khan's horsemen rode over them on mutton and mare's milk.

Indian lower castes ate rice, lentils and flatbread.
The Mughal emperors ate lamb off gold plates.

Japanese peasants ate rice and pickles.
The samurai ate fish and game.

Medieval serfs ate pottage and black bread.
The lord ate venison, and blinded a serf for touching a deer.

Tudor commoners ate bread cut with chalk.
Henry VIII's court went through thousands of cattle a year.

Irish cottiers ate potatoes, and in 1847 they ate grass.
Their landlords ate beef, and shipped the rest to England past the dying.

Plantation slaves ate cornmeal and a weekly scrap of fatback.
The planter ate ham, oysters and cream.

Victorian mill hands ate bread, tea and jam.
The Victorian aristocracy ate beef, game and butter.

Soviet collective farmers ate black bread and cabbage soup.
Stalin served his inner circle roast meat and caviar until four in the morning.

Every civilisation. Every century. Every continent.

The poor got the plants.
The powerful took the animals.

Nobody in five thousand years ran a trial on it. They watched which men grew tall and which men obeyed, and kept the meat for themselves.

Then in 1977 a wheat-state senator, a Harvard professor on sugar money and a reporter with no training told the world the slave's plate had been the healthy one all along.

No pharaoh ever fed the pottage to his own son.

They fed it to yours.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

"Students" in France vs students in Serbia.

[Jeff Swanson @theswansjr]

"I can't buy anything with Bitcoin."

I get it. We're early.

Hardly anyone prices in BTC yet because fiat still has 100 years of network inertia. But here's what you're missing: unit of account is the last function money adopts, not the first.

Money evolves in stages, not all at once:

Phase 1: Collectible
Bitcoin becomes interesting. People accumulate it because it's scarce, novel, and smells like freedom.

Phase 2: Store of Value
Bitcoin becomes undeniable. The 21M cap hits differently once you realize the Fed printed 40% of all dollars in 24 months. People stop trading it and start hoarding it.

Phase 3: Medium of Exchange
Bitcoin becomes functional. Lightning Network enables instant, borderless, near-zero-fee payments. El Salvador adopts it. Strike, Cash App, and River start routing real commerce.

Phase 4: Unit of Account
Bitcoin becomes inevitable. Enough people hold it that merchants stop asking "how many dollars?" and start asking "how many sats?"

We're in Phase 2.5 right now.

But let's talk about real-world usage, because you clearly haven't been paying attention:

• El Salvador: Legal tender. You can buy groceries, pay taxes, and settle debts in BTC. McDonald's takes Lightning payments.

• Lightning Network: Already processing millions of transactions. Strike lets you send sats to anyone, anywhere, instantly. No bank. No Swift. No permission.

• US Retailers: Home Depot, Whole Foods, GameStop, and thousands of merchants accept BTC through Flexa, BitPay, and BTCPay Server.

• Global Remittances: Migrant workers are using Bitcoin to send money home without Western Union taking 8% off the top.

• Peer-to-Peer Commerce: Bisq, Paxful, LocalBitcoins. People are buying cars, houses, and freelance services in BTC every single day.

• Corporate Treasuries: Strategy, Tesla, Block, MicroStrategy.

And yes, you're right. It's hard to use Bitcoin everywhere right now.

Good. That means you're still early. Every revolutionary network starts clunky:

• The internet in 1995? Dial-up screeching and 10-minute page loads.
• Email in 1998? "Why would I use this instead of a fax?"
• Smartphones in 2007? "I'm fine with my BlackBerry."

Bitcoin in 2025 is awkward, unfinished, and mathematically inevitable.

The network is growing. Lightning is scaling. Adoption is accelerating.

Give it time. Or don't. Your choice.

But don't confuse "I can't spend it at Target" with "Bitcoin doesn't work."

Bitcoin works.

You're just not ready for what it's replacing yet.

[SlavicPatriot @infantserbian]

NATO bombed Serbian tobacco factories in 1999.

Sounds strange. Why bomb tobacco? Not military targets. Not critical infrastructure. Just factories making cigarettes.

Then Philip Morris showed up. Rebuilt those same facilities. Modernized the equipment. Brought them up to international production standards.

Today you can buy cigarettes made in Serbia under Philip Morris brands in Australia, Europe, everywhere. Serbia became a major exporter.

So let's think about this. NATO bombs the factories. Philip Morris rebuilds them and profits from the production capacity.

Who benefited from that bombing?

Same pattern with Microsoft. Right after the bombing stopped, big Microsoft headquarters opens in Belgrade city center. I remember walking past that building and seeing their logo up there. Didn't take long.

The bombing was illegal under international law. That's not opinion. No UN Security Council approval. Violated the NATO charter itself. But they did it anyway.

Then Western corporations moved in while the rubble was still being cleared.

I lived through it. I watched it happen. And 25 years later I'm still asking the same question: who were they really fighting for?

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Things people aren't realizing:

Most SILVER mining is a byproduct of copper and zinc mining. There's almost no silver mining that happens on purpose as a primary target.

Copper and zinc mines use SULFURIC ACID to strip those elements out of raw ore. (The acid dissolves the metals into solution, where they can be poured off, living the raw ore behind, essentially.)

The war on Iran has collapsed the world's sulfur flows out of the Persian Gulf.

Without sulfur, copper and zinc mining nearly collapse. Without copper and zinc mining, silver production plummets (obviously). This is where we are right now in late 2026.

The main reason silver isn't exploding in price right now is because the same war that impedes sulfur flows is also impeding the energy flows used by manufacturing industries that demand silver as an input. (Simplified explanation, but largely valid.) Plus, of course, paper manipulation of silver markets by governments / central banks.

When industry does come back online at full speed, sooner or later, the above-ground silver supply will be drastically thin. What do you suppose will happen to silver prices at that time?

Almost nobody realizes that silver production depends on sulfur shipments out of the Persian Gulf.

Now you know.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

FWIW: I don’t believe the Serbian people will ever abandon Kosovo, turn against Russia, join the NATO that bombed them, adopt the EU agenda - from smoking to LGBTQ - throw away the advantages they enjoy with China etc.
The spirit of the Partisans remains. Serbians are a unique people and they like it that way. I like it too.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇿🇦 In South Africa, a father kills three carjackers in a shootout while protecting his children

He and his two children were leaving their yard when a white vehicle blocked them.

One attacker held a gun to the son’s head at the gate while another opened fire.

The father returned fire from the car, killing one on the spot. The other two fled but later died of their wounds.

[Aleksander 🇵🇱🇷🇺 @dhulqarnayn786]

I am Polish and Russia is NOT my enemy.

PASS IT ON.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.”
—Turkish proverb

[Powdered Khamenei @DiabeticKankles]

Ratko Mladic is a White Christian 🇷🇸☦️ defender of Europe, the other a roma-looking muslim ☪️ who fought Christians and imported islamists into Europe.

Guess which the West 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ supported?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Europe's leaders are pushing the continent toward WAR WITH RUSSIA, and there's a much darker reason behind it.

Historian and broadcaster Neil Oliver argues that war gives governments the PERFECT EXCUSE to print money, expand their powers, declare states of emergency, restrict movement, and even FORCE citizens into military service.

He accuses Brussels and Ursula von der Leyen of relentlessly pushing the idea that a direct confrontation with Russia is inevitable, despite what he sees as ZERO appetite for war among ordinary Europeans.

“War is an excellent mechanism for laundering money.”

Governments can use the threat of war to justify extraordinary powers, while the people expected to fight it may have no desire to go anywhere near the battlefield.

@thecoastguy

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

THIS IS INSANE!!!

A San Francisco startup says it just turned mercury into real gold.

The company is Marathon Fusion. This week they announced they'd made stable gold using fusion neutrons, at 10x the record CERN set in 2025.

CERN's record was 29 picograms over four years. So nobody's pouring bars yet.

The method is what got me. You hit mercury-198 with a fusion neutron. It loses a neutron, becomes mercury-197, and over the next few days decays into gold-197. The exact same gold sitting in central bank vaults.

Their 2025 paper says a one-gigawatt fusion plant built this way could make around 2 tonnes of gold a year as a side product, while it's selling electricity.

I've said it for years. Gold is a shiny rock. It's valuable because there's only so much of it and pulling it out of the ground is hard and expensive.

If this holds up, gold's scarcity turns into an engineering problem. And you can only delay technical progress. You can't stop it.

To be fair, the gold comes out mixed with radioactive isotopes and would need to sit for well over a decade before it's safe to touch. Nobody outside the company has verified the result yet, and commercial fusion is still years away.

Peter Schiff has spent years telling everyone Bitcoin has no intrinsic value.

This week a startup says it made gold out of mercury.

There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin. No reactor on Earth can make one more.

[Zane @zanealb04]

Ukraine was murdering and raping Russian civilians in the Donbas for 8 yrs. The Russian invasion was a humanitarian intervention.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

Incredible! Zelenskyy Spits On The Feet Of Swedish King After Handshake Refusal.

Unbelievable scene as Swedish King Carl Gustav allegedly refuses a handshake with Zelensky.

The elites are finished with Zelenskyy.