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Crimea and Kyiv Were Russian First
Vlad 1 ruled Kyiv, fought Khazars in 920 BC, as Vlad 2 does now
President Joe Biden talked to Vladimir Putin at any time in his life; he would have been more sociable than during negotiations. Putin is a hard man.
But Biden needs a war because COVID is winding down, and he cannot make the leap to digital ID and central bank digital currency from where he is now.
So he was in a tough guy persona during negotiations.
From where he will be in a few weeks or months, he can become a “wartime president,” and pretty soon, perhaps there will be a cyber attack. Everybody can see the scarcity and supply chain problems headed this way.
We know a random thing will happen; then, dollars will lose all purchasing value. Folks will walk off the job. Bribes won’t stick. The leaders will blame the nearest thing preceding the blowout.
Yet we knew about this for years.
We might beg for bugs before the end. And in the meantime, we have to act as if it’s so crazy that Russia decided to retake the parts we took from it when the Wall fell.
We have to pretend we learned nothing from World War I when Germany began plotting rearmament the very day the ink was dry on the Treaty of Versailles.
