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I think Greg's analysis of the market reasons for the down turn today is a little off

as it wasn't Biden's considering raising capital gains tax at all! Even if Biden increases

capital gains that type of tax has to be approved by both the House & The Senate and

I'm sure they'll water down that increase. In the political realm, you have to ask for "more"

than what you'll think you get so that there is "room" to negotiate some type of increase.

There have been also talk about a financial transaction tax on every financial transaction

so the question of taxes is a no brainer in the sense that that has to be negotiated in both

House and Senate and then compromised on and everyone on Wall Street dam well knows

this and so to do the Republicrats and Democats!

No, the real story yesterday and today was Putin shoveling 100,000 troops, tanks, etc on

the Ukraine Eastern Border and threatening the use of nuclear weapons "if" the US, NATO

and other Allies cross his red lines! Now, if you haven't been in sync with international

politics you will find that neither Trump nor Biden would threaten the use of nuclear weapons

so Mr. FSB/KGB is playing the wild card in international politics. He's also stated he's going

to blockade the Black Sea so all the coast of the Ukraine at the same time which makes

Ukraine surrounded by the Russian Navy and Russian Military Forces on their border with

the threat of the use of nuclear weapons if red lines are drawn.

Okay, so your a fat ass Wall Street type making money on everything and suddenly you

have deja vu remembering in 2016 to 2020 the former President Donald Trump telling the

American People he was tearing up the nuclear treaty with Russia and "modernizing" our

US Nuclear Arsenal of Weapon Systems during this same time. In December 2016 he

espouted this new American Policy of Nuke Modernization. Did he or the US modernize

their nuclear weapons systems from 2016 to 2020 under the Trump Administration? The

answer is nope!!!! Did Putin say he would modernize his nuke weapons system from 2016

onward and did he? Yes siree Bob! Now, Russia has hypersonic nuclear weapon systems

jamming radar and missile systems, directed energy weapons(which they are using on

US Military in Syria) and surprisingly Fox News yesterday and today are bringing on

US Air Force Generals etc. stating for the record much of our nuclear deterrence weapons

systems are like 40-50 years old even after spending billions of dollars on defense appropriations.

How does Russia modernize their weapons systems and spend well below the US but

still have superior weapons systems to that of the US?

So, you're now a Senator or House Representative or bureaucrat or Wall Street Fat Ass

and you now have the uncanny realization your US nuclear deterrence is antiquated

except for the nuclear submarine leg of that triad. Your Minutemen are ancient dust

and your bombers can be shot out of the skies which means your naked ass is showing

in public and Putin is laughing his balls off at you and yours. The F-35 is a bomb that

should have been ditched and the F-22 Raptor was moth balled even though it was

the best kick ass aircraft we have made for air to air combat missions, etc.

So, while Mr. Trump put on his Act I, Act II, Act III and Act IIII Clown show the Russians

were building modernized hypersonic weapons and we here in the West were sleep

walking and watching our dam cell phone shows, etc.???

Now, you have Christians listening to their websites crying about how they could be

fried in one burst of nukes going off and I didn't see that same crying when the last

Administration left us endlessly helpless in a dangerous World.

Biden if he's smart will push Germany to cut off and end Nord Stream II to Europe

as we have seen the Beast in Russia, none of the West should be feeding it via buying

shit from Russia or China for that matter.

If Putin wants to blockade the Black Sea and do no fly zones, then I think we, the US

and other Nations should do the same. The US will create a no ship no fly zone inthe

Caribbean Basin by China or Russia within 72 hours and on the Atlantic and Pacific

2,000 miles out is our National Security Zone subject to US Navy and Military authority.

Putin claims he only protecting "Russian Speaking" People in Ukraine. This is the sort

of bull shit Hitler said as he plowed in Poland before WWII. I would suggest to Greg

and Wall Street we're in for some hot time in the old time and ps- we need a US Draft

of young men and women not only for national security but infrastructure, etc. domestically.

Teach technology and let them run with it.

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