re: The Official Thread: Russia invades Ukraine

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I'm kind of curious about what legal right any country has to seize the assets of a foreign national just because his home country did something the EU and the US don't like.

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think you own your property? Try not paying your property taxes and see what happens.

Here’s a decent explanation on the trucks having to stay on the road.

Apparently they did not exercise (rotate) the truck tires every month and when they go low pressure for soft ground the tires fail. Add in the mud and they can’t do much off-road around Kiev.

Twatter link LINK

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This is a thread that will explain the implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices based on this photo of a Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile system's right rear pair of tires below & the operational implications during the Ukrainian mud season.?? 1/

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For the sin of being the new guy, I was the DCMA quality auditor in charge of the US Army's FMTV "vehicle exercise program" at the contractor manufacturing them from the Mid-1990's to the mid-2000's Then we got more new guys. Short form: Military trucks need to be... 2/

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That guy fails to note the wheel is missing on the vehicle he uses for an example. It is also on fire. Was it hit? Would seem so since it's burning.

The video in his thread shows no flat tires. The truck is just stuck in the mud.

Then he posts a pic of the convoy claiming that they are staying on the road because of bad tires while also admitting going off road means going through endless mud.

Guy is trying to increase his followers by being an "expert" while failing to have any facts to back him up.

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Russia will have trade just like that have in the past. Maybe different partners but he won't be isolated.

Hell, North Korea exports coal and they've been a pariah state for decades.

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I'm certain they will have some rough waters ahead if nothing else just from the total shake up of all their Western deals. I agree they will find buyers for their products & other countries that will sell them what they need. Hell by this time next year there will be some other big arse distraction and deals will start being made with us again like nothing ever happened.

TLR has some thoughts

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TheLastRefuge
@TheLastRefuge2

(1) Facts people avoid discussing.

BRICS was created during Obama term as the trade bloc realized Obama was serious about selling out the U.S. and they needed a foil against corporate driven globalism.

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(2) Our econ adversaries realized Obama's intent to kill the U.S., the fundamental change part, would mean massive bleeding into a pool of corporate piranhas'...

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(3) BRICS realized the result would be a monster unleashed into the world. Yes, BRICS do not align with the U.S. ideologically (Wall Street driven), but the monster when matured would be too big for them to battle.

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(4) The nations who assembled BRICS, saw Obama giving the U.S Commerce Dept to Wall Street via the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The US CoC would write the trade deals [TPP (transpacific, and TTIP (transatlantic)] to the benefit of the multinationals.

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(5) Obama Inc were cool with that because it was in line with the ideology, the overall plan to weaken the U.S. and get us knocked down. O-Inc also knew kickbacks would forever maintain their elite status.

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(6) But a totally corporate driven transpacific trade pact and a totally corporate driven transatlantic trade pact, meant the multinational corps would have more power and control than the government's involved.

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(7) This might be okay for Davos and WEF crews, but some nations, specifically some types of leaders, do not like corporations having more power than the govt.

Ultimately, BRICS was formed as a counterbalance to this dynamic.

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(8) After the 2016 election, the BRICS group essentially dissolved, they didn't even have their annual meetings, because Trump was viewed as breaking the corporate influence. Trump's America First program was a wrench in the TPP/TTIP machine.

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(9) It was the totality of the multinational corporate interests who were impacted by Trump that aligned against Trump, to get rid of Trump, because he was fricking it all up with his economic nationalist agenda.

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(10) As soon as Trump was removed, literally within days of the 2020 election, the BRICS group were back on the phone together planning their first meeting in four years on the back of the 2021 G20 summit.

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(11) In the BIGGER PICTURE that no one in media is allowed to discuss, you find this economic dynamic.

BRICS -vs- WEF/EU/NATO

It's clear as day in the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

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(12) India didn't abstain from the Security Council vote because of a lack of sympathy for Ukraine.

India abstained because the BRICS relationship is ultimately more consequential to India, and strategically much more important than Ukraine, or NATO, or anything else.

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(13) As Putin deals with all facets of this Ukraine issue, harshly or not, you will not see Brazil, India, China or South Africa act, vote, or do anything of substance against him.

The bigger issues are way bigger than Ukraine.

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Man that’s VERY interesting!!

Things usually are not so simple as they seem on the surface.

I looked through that UN vote list earlier today and noted some interesting abstentions that are now more easily explained.

I thought the Russians were there to save the old Russians? I guess they decided not to? And I’m sure that’s exactly what the Russians are planning on doing to Zelenskyy and his peeps.

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Things starting to come into view

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BRICS payment system
At the 2015 BRICS summit in Russia, ministers from BRICS nations, initiated consultations for a payment system that would be an alternative to the SWIFT system. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stated in an interview, "The finance ministers and executives of the BRICS central banks are negotiating ... setting up payment systems and moving on to settlements in national currencies. SWIFT or not, in any case we’re talking about ... a global multilateral payment system that would provide greater independence, would create a definite guarantee for BRICS."[citation needed]

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) also started consultations with BRICS nations for a payment system that would be an alternative to the SWIFT system. The main benefits highlighted were backup and redundancy in case there were disruptions to the SWIFT system. The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia, Olga Skorobogatova, stated in an interview, "The only topic that may be of interest to all of us within BRICS is to consider and talk over the possibility of setting up a system that would apply to the BRICS countries, used as a backup."[81]

China has also initiated the development of their own payment system called CIPS, that would be an alternative to the SWIFT system. The Cross-Border Inter-Bank Payments System (CIPS) is a planned alternative payment system to SWIFT which would provide a network that enables financial institutions worldwide to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardized, and reliable environment.[82]

The 5 members of BRICS have 42% of the world's population. Definitely strong enough to push back hard against the US/Euro globalists.