Eric Downes

Let’s re-arm 🇪🇺. I am 🇮🇪🇺🇸 & I support 🇺🇦. Non-emergency activities: Blockchains, math, tracking.
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[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

Very proud of this work, and looking to follow it up with an empirical study on reinvestment rates.
https://t.co/F4Pk7wxV2d

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

There was never any such thing as a “pivot to China”, it was always an excuse. https://t.co/5VpQ4NOla6

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

The Wall Street Journal alleges that the real motivation behind Trump’s eagerness to force Ukraine into an ugly surrender is the idea that a lot of people close to him can make a lot of money doing business and deals in Russia.

If this is true, beyond the disgusting morality of this and the huge geopolitical risks that it creates, none of these people salivating over their future riches are going to make a penny, and perhaps do a lot worse.

I was once the largest foreign investor in Russia and I can say with certainty that the Russians aren’t going to let anyone profit in any way. They will talk nice at the outset to attract the investment, but once it’s there, they will steal, defraud, arrest, torture or even kill to make sure that no American makes any money. I’ve seen it so many times it’s almost universal.

So, this shocking initiative is not only terrible policy, it’s spectacularly stupid business.

https://t.co/2RvCkY1iGb

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

Yes. This. Everything said here.
https://t.co/WGcLzIm0hl

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

There is a glaringly obvious message for Europe in the 28 point plan: This is the end of the end.

We have been told repeatedly and unambiguously that Ukraine’s security, and therefore Europe’s security, will be Europe’s responsibility. And now it is. Entirely.

If you are a European leader asking your team to book you on the next flight to Washington to go talk to Daddy, please don’t.

Not without a plan, not cap in hand, not humiliating us all in front of the cameras at the Oval office.

Europe is our continent, our future is decided here, not there. We aren’t poor, we have options, we can finally decide to assist Ukraine to the full extent of our very extensive capabilities, restore European dignity and defend Europe.

Or we can continue to wait for the miracle we now know is not coming.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

Trump back to his betrayal of USA, Ukraine and civilized values. This is not a “peace plan” — it is “WW3 in 2-5 years plan”. Worse dishonor even than Chamberlain. Disgraceful. https://t.co/C7fWM7upZL

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

🚨U.S. THREATENS TO CUT INTEL, WEAPONS TO PUSH UKRAINE TOWARD PEACE DEAL

The U.S. is pressuring Ukraine to accept a U.S.-brokered peace framework with Russia, warning it may stop providing intelligence and weapons, two sources told Reuters. One source said Washington wants Kyiv to sign the framework by next Thursday.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

Re the community note… we’ll see. Maybe all the names will be redacted to protect the guilty. Your move DOJ.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

Sounds good to me!!!

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

🚨#BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson says that releasing the Epstein files without redactions could lead to the imprisonment of many prominent Republicans and Democrats - CNN.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

@juliet_turner6 I don’t think that person is engaging in good faith; it’s a troll, attempting to harass you, but your response is smart. Just don’t let these people drag you down.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

Thus it came to be that he descended to Elonuman the Fool and the Foul, covetous of the Ring of Power, eager to use it for his own ends, and servant of The Dark Lord. Though even here, deluded, Elonuman saw himself a competitor or even a master.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

Elonuman The White was accounted among the wisest of the wise for a time.

But this wisdom was bent through his arrogant refusal to listen to his children, and especially through the use of the ketamintir.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

When Tolkien wrote about the hobbits, he was referring to the gentlefolk of the English shires, who don’t realize the horrors that take place far away.

They were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor.

What happened to the nice man who was brutally murdered while walking his dog will happen to all of England if the tide of illegal immigration is not turned.

It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all perish.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

The ketaminitir he used to see beyond sight of mortal man. But what was shewn him was twisted and limited by forces beyond his ken. For Elonuman had Amdir in abundance, hope founded upon mere fact, but in his arrogance he lacked utterly Estel: hope founded upon faith and humility.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

Every time Moscow trots out some new terrifying weapons system, or does nuclear saber-rattling in general, please understand this in the context of the history of *very effective* psychological warfare on the part of the USSR. Old dog learned a trick. https://t.co/SAF7sznB7R

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

Szczęśliwego Dnia Niepodległości!

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

This clip will live in my head rent free forever.

The smile and joy as he says "NO RUSSIANS" is so infectious 🥰

#Kherson #Liberation

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

@Fidias0 The problem with nordstream isn't that it was blown up, it is that it was every built in the first place.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our Foreign Intelligence has located specific addresses of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

We are providing our partners with lists of children who must be returned.

This is a sensitive issue, with a great deal of quiet diplomatic work underway.

To foil any Russian attempt to claim they supposedly know nothing about these children, we are ensuring that addresses are included as well.

The first such list – containing over 300 surnames, first names, and addresses of abducted children – will be on the desks of all the leaders assisting in this effort.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

@AdrianP_doc This is very important to document and catalog. Russia’s self destruction toward itself. And yes, as Dzokhar Dudayev said “Russia will disappear when the Ukrainian sun rises”.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

Coffeezilla has a nice (and ofc highly caffeinated) summary of why Binance’s CZ was pardoned. Unlike CZ’s explanations (including Trump is Satoshi lol) this is … considerably more believable. https://t.co/HLZtn7QDX7

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

My opinion unchanged. IMO Trump would be happy to carve up the world with RU + CN but he wants Putin and Xi to play ball with his ambitions, so far they just play *him*. Sanctions are a temporary negotiating tactic. As democratic decline accelerates this will get worse.

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

It's pretty clear at this point what Trump and Putin (or his doppelganger) talked about in that car-ride in Alaska: spheres of influence. They will open an embassy in Minsk, end sanctions on Russia, and leave Europe to itself. https://t.co/CUkrgUF1YM

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

“Absent organized resistance by institutions, civil society, and the public, the United States is likely to continue along a path of accelerating democratic erosion, risking further consolidation of executive dominance and a loss of credibility as a model of democracy abroad.”

[Eric Downes @eric_m_downes]

US Intelligence officers apply to USA metrics assessing foreign democratic decline.
https://t.co/7CGhGku9I1