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Interesting analysis from The Duran has just come in.  These guys tend to have excellent analysis on Russian issues in the alt media.  This episode makes the assessment that it's basically all about a silly plan from Brandon's handlers to make him look like JFK in some sort of cuban missile crisis re-enactment.  Instead he just looks like an idiot.
 

Saying such things might look good for the US domestic market, and it might cheer up the war hawks in the US media, but the rest of the world knows that the US is completely impotent when it comes to threatening dollar embargoes on Russia.  Russia has already sorted out alternative means and no longer needs to comply with trading in US dollars or the swift system.  If Russia wanted to take the Ukraine, there isn't a damn thing that the US or Europe could do about it.  Western powers started all of this mess in Ukraine by funding the overthrow of the government.  Russia is now in a position to stop further "progress" and will not allow this creep to continue.  It would be wise of Western powers to recognise the mess they've got themselves into and simply back off and "take the L".
A decade of pointless partial sanctions has hardened Russia into being virtually sanction proof now.  Not only that, they're also holding the whip hand, controlling the heating supply for Europe.  Years of decadent and whimsical fantasy about windmills and solar panels, means that Europe now has third world energy security.  They quite literally couldn't face a winter at war with Russia without their people freezing.
So in the end it's just a bit of bluster to make Brandon look tough while Blinken runs cap in hand to meet Lavrov and the UK defence secretary invites his counterpart for a meeting in London.  They overcooked it and they know it.

Based on percentage increase, my BUNC Black Bull and Red Dragon QBs are by far my best buys for appreciation!
I doubt they will do BUNC option for this

There is no chance Berlin will let them do this. 
Natural gas supplies to Europe would dry up quickly. 
Just headlines that they expect us gullible western folk to swallow.

Based on percentage increase, my BUNC Black Bull and Red Dragon QBs are by far my best buys for appreciation!
I doubt they will do BUNC option for this

US doesnt like Russia building gas pipelines into mainland Europe and essentially getting wealther. So Ukraine is the proxy. All Geopolitics to hinder Russian Oil and Gas profits and most Westerns believe its all about Putin being a dictator.
Germany is quiet… While it buys from Russia.

There is no chance Berlin will let them do this. 
Natural gas supplies to Europe would dry up quickly. 
Just headlines that they expect us gullible western folk to swallow.

There is no chance Berlin will let them do this. 
Natural gas supplies to Europe would dry up quickly. 
Just headlines that they expect us gullible western folk to swallow.

The French under de Gaulle in the mid 1960's had started telling the US they wanted to convert their US foreign currency holdings into physical gold....Some euro countries followed suit and so started the drain on the US gold reserves. Combined with money printing to finance the Vietnam war, the increased depletion of US gold reserves, the economic situation was getting worse in the early 1970's and that's when Tricky pulled the pin on the Gold Window and converted to full FIAT and did a deal with House of Saud to price oil in USD to maintain the USD as the reserve currency of the world. That when inflation became an ongoing issue for the US.

If it's like any of the other 10+ coin collector series, then my saving grace could be the availability of a £13 cupronickel bunc  

Picked up the 1/4oz gold. Couldn’t resist 🙈😩😊

I received my 1oz platinum today and the 50p platinum with COA number 1 🥳

Just received my sliver piedfort set looks quite good 

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have got the 1/4oz Gold, it looks a lovely coin. 
Hopefully I'll pick up a 5 or 10oz silver from a flipper in the coming weeks.
First World problems! 

BUNC 50p and £5 (both versions)
1/4oz Gold Proof
Happy enough with that 

BUNC set for me. Same as every year.

BUNC set for me. Same as every year.

20g BYB piece I got hold of earlier this year fulfills this role for me!

Look I respect your point of view, I don't want to wade into a conspiracy debate, and in actual fact I agree with many of your points, eg Chilcott, New Labour then Call Me Dave governments being intertwined with the Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks and co., and Russia being a prime example of how this works. Though they do it slightly differently by funding opposing campaigns such as both Family Values groups and LGBTQ+ groups, then let it be known that they are funding both sides, so that nobody knows what to believe. The Adam Curtis film Hypernormalisation explains it better than I just did.
However, where we differ is thus. I too have a heavy pedigree of life experience, and what I have learned is that where there is injustice, it is 99% incompetence and 1% conspiracy.
The BBC was the main employer of celebrity paedophiles for decades. I believe that's because the BBC didn't care who they employed, and they didn't really care about the victims. I don't believe there is or ever was a Pedo World Order running the government of this country or the USA or anywhere else.
The state of affairs we currently find ourselves in is such that the directors, editors and journalists at the BBC and elsewhere fundamentally do not understand what is going on in the world. So they can't seriously be capable of manipulating narratives in any meaningful way that would influence public thought. For better or worse, that power lies with the social media platforms, and those who use them to full effect in propagating ideas.
I do not credit the BBC with the aptitude or competence to control the minds of the population of this country. 
Rant over. In summary, I don't think you're wrong, more like, you're probably right but maybe for the wrong reasons.

I was on RM site for half8, patiently waited, did it all by the book. At 9am I was placed circa 1600 in the queue.
I wanted the 5oz silver but would have been happy with the 2oz.
By 9:30 it was obvious I wasn't going to get the 5oz, but I stayed on for the 2oz. I was still around 400 in the queue when people started to say it was a sell out.
Not my day for silver. 
I did treat myself to a 1984 sov (birth year). So all things considered, I'll go to bed happy.
Let's be honest, the fact we are all in the position to even contemplate spending these kinds of sums on coins, means we must doing something right!
Well done to the lucky ones today. I'll look forward to your photos!

I was on RM site for half8, patiently waited, did it all by the book. At 9am I was placed circa 1600 in the queue.
I wanted the 5oz silver but would have been happy with the 2oz.
By 9:30 it was obvious I wasn't going to get the 5oz, but I stayed on for the 2oz. I was still around 400 in the queue when people started to say it was a sell out.
Not my day for silver. 
I did treat myself to a 1984 sov (birth year). So all things considered, I'll go to bed happy.
Let's be honest, the fact we are all in the position to even contemplate spending these kinds of sums on coins, means we must doing something right!
Well done to the lucky ones today. I'll look forward to your photos!

I was on RM site for half8, patiently waited, did it all by the book. At 9am I was placed circa 1600 in the queue.
I wanted the 5oz silver but would have been happy with the 2oz.
By 9:30 it was obvious I wasn't going to get the 5oz, but I stayed on for the 2oz. I was still around 400 in the queue when people started to say it was a sell out.
Not my day for silver. 
I did treat myself to a 1984 sov (birth year). So all things considered, I'll go to bed happy.
Let's be honest, the fact we are all in the position to even contemplate spending these kinds of sums on coins, means we must doing something right!
Well done to the lucky ones today. I'll look forward to your photos!

I was on RM site for half8, patiently waited, did it all by the book. At 9am I was placed circa 1600 in the queue.
I wanted the 5oz silver but would have been happy with the 2oz.
By 9:30 it was obvious I wasn't going to get the 5oz, but I stayed on for the 2oz. I was still around 400 in the queue when people started to say it was a sell out.
Not my day for silver. 
I did treat myself to a 1984 sov (birth year). So all things considered, I'll go to bed happy.
Let's be honest, the fact we are all in the position to even contemplate spending these kinds of sums on coins, means we must doing something right!
Well done to the lucky ones today. I'll look forward to your photos!

I was on RM site for half8, patiently waited, did it all by the book. At 9am I was placed circa 1600 in the queue.
I wanted the 5oz silver but would have been happy with the 2oz.
By 9:30 it was obvious I wasn't going to get the 5oz, but I stayed on for the 2oz. I was still around 400 in the queue when people started to say it was a sell out.
Not my day for silver. 
I did treat myself to a 1984 sov (birth year). So all things considered, I'll go to bed happy.
Let's be honest, the fact we are all in the position to even contemplate spending these kinds of sums on coins, means we must doing something right!
Well done to the lucky ones today. I'll look forward to your photos!