I agree with Bill's pov that no nation should wage war against other but in a less than perfect world both Washington and Moscow have waged war for reasons that did not involved a direct threat to their national security but appealed to the political hardliners and generals.
Nine decades ago another dictator rose to power promising to unit all the German speaking under a new Reich and to right the wrongs of the Treaty of Versailles. France and Britain did nothing for 7 years until 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland. Had France and Britain acted sooner would Hitler have been able to wage war across Europe in 1940 - 1945?
Putin has stated that the fall of the USSR was the greatest geopolitical tragedy in Russian history and his goal is to recreate the USSR with all the Russian peoples living in the newly expanded Russian Federation. Had the world did nothing with the invasion of Ukraine would Putin be considering an attack on Eastern Europe or the Baltic states believing that Western Europe and the US would consider appeasement over WW3? What would be the global ramifications to world peace of such an event would occur?
For the sake of the Ukrainian people I pray that both sides will be able to agree to a cease fire and peace soon. If the war escalates beyond Ukraine/Russia our worst nightmares will not come close to the horrors that nuclear war will bring.
We mostly wage war to benefit the Military-Industrial-Complex. We haven't won a war since 1945 and taxpayers pay for weapons systems that are used in long, pointless, expensive conflicts that result in defeat. In the last 20 years taxpayers have spent about $14 trillion on our military without much to show for it except humiliating defeats and hundreds of thousands killed and maimed. It's important that they last a long time and grind up lots of military equipment so taxpayers can pay for more. It's a giant racket and lots of the money is borrowed, punishing future taxpayers. Exactly what did we achieve in Afghanistan, and even Iraq. And our meddling by the CIA and NSA in Syria ended up turning much of that country into rubble, just like Ukraine. And what about Libya...nothing but a mess there. Ukraine's a little different because that was a fledgling democracy that the American government promised to protect if they gave up their nuclear weapons to Russia. They unfortunately agreed and America betrayed them. If America had allowed Ukraine into NATO, we would not be looking at war criminals invading a free country. It was a giant foreign policy mistake and we'll be paying for that along with Germany, France, Italy and every other country in NATO as they "man up" with lots of exotic, expensive weapons in a new cold war.
Every so often the kings of Europe understood it was time to thin the herd. Start a war and rid themselves of some extra mouths to feed. This while the people gladly paid more taxes to support the war effort. Every so often an upstart blind sides the ruling elite. Treaties are made religions are reordered, heads are cut off, and the people gladly fall in line. The system restarts the elite families are strengthen by the new blood, as the seats at the table are reshuffled.
How do you figure that...won in Afghanistan, remind us of the cost, The Brits were they they lost so did the Russians, and so did the tax payers of the USof A.
In fact on army in history as been able to subdue Afghanistan inclusive of Alexander who learned he was not so great. He won the battle moved on, upon his return he went around Afghanistan. They are still living as he left them except they've been upgraded from camels and swords to Humvees and M16's.
Keep in mind, Bill, that ordinary Ukraine people are simply trying to live their lives without being bombed, shot, or whatever. They, like us, want to just get up in the morning and go to a job and earn enough to support their families. Well, that is not happening. Russia is killing Ukraine's citizens. They are bombing and using artillery barages to wipe out everything in their path. They are cutting off humanitarian aid shipments. They are cutting off water and medical supplies and food. These Ukraine people are not pushing to be in NATO. They were not Russian haters...until now. They are just in the way of a killer. Too bad, you may say. That is their problem. Yes, it surely is. But I can almost guarantee that Putin will not stop at Ukraine. Why should he? He wants it all. All the lost USSR states. All the EU. All period. Full Stop.
When it comes to all-out war, China will side wtih Russia. Why? Because Russia has resources that China wants/needs. And China had a war with Russia, remember? The Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared military conflict between the Soviet Union and China in 1969, following the Sino-Soviet split. Now they have a Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation (FCT) is a twenty-year strategic treaty that was signed by the leaders of the two international powers, Jiang Zemin and Vladimir Putin, on July 16, 2001.
WWIII and the Greater Depression? Connect the dots, Bill.
The world is not a safe place right now. Not for Ukraine and not for the U.S.A.
Bonner Private Research’s beat is money, right? And in terms of money, Ukraine shouldn’t matter much to Americans, especially compared to Russia, right? I’ll bet Poland, Lithuania, and several others don’t matter much (in terms of money) to Americans, either. And I can imagine Mr. Putin would be attracted to them for similar reasons as those for Ukraine, regardless of the destruction and human suffering involved.
The Russians are brutes? Perhaps. I’m old enough to have seen this show many times before. I had hoped that I wouldn’t see it again.
And if there are governments (like Ukraine’s?) that don’t warrant defense from invasion because elements of extremism or corruption exist within them, I can think of others, one much closer to home, that might crack under much less. Should we not defend it?
And the comedian Zelensky? Perhaps the media have painted him with a hero’s brush, but he had the chance to run and he stayed. He even seems to genuinely care about his country (perhaps Soros is paying him a lot?). Regardless, from what I’ve seen, I’d take 537 of his ilk over the political jokes we have in office.
I’m certainly not a member of the “EEE” and I don’t stand with, or believe in, the “liberal world order”. I must just be one of those folks who wants to be fooled. Thank you for pointing that out.
Yes Mark, the media is making another foreign liberal toad/puppet into a hero, as they do everyday for the American liberal toads that sits on stumps and croak about how bad America is, how bad Trump is, how bad Republicans, how bad whites, how bad Americans are...but how good Mr Biden is. Really?
What we are witnessing is a new form of reality TV. Yes people are dying, but maybe it's from the new Ukrainian variant of Covid? Or the Chinese variant or maybe the drug pandemic of overdoses, where you just kill yourself if not satisfied with what your government can give you! Darn, so many good folk dying. It's just not fair.....but life never is.
Yes war sucks, but so do the idiots who run our nations. How do you stop a war? Get the idiots in power, out of power by any means necessary!
Yes Mark, many good folk are being fooled, but many of us are not ;)
God bless America, and those who fight for her!!!!
LoL. I'm sure that was COVID destroying apartment blocks, hospitals and bridges. Maybe those were booster shots taking out the Russian armor too. Not sure what reality TV you're watching.
Yes Lucas, the show is real, with real lives being sacrificed. It's all staged for effect. How are the PsyOps working on you?
I know, it's all very disturbing...as are most issues affecting you right now. Do you understand what you are feeling? Yes Lucas, those feeling are real, because the media is drilling them into your conscience, relentlessly, every living moment.
It's ok to feel the pain, just don't let it corrupt your most intelligent judgement.
I have relatives in Ukraine. The bombs, the bloodshed, the bullets, the shitting into coffee cans and drinking water that you or I would think twice about stepping in, never mind drinking, is real. Try booking a flight into Kiev and see how far you get. Or better yet, a bus tour of Kharkiv.
Once again, unless you have relatives over there that are telling you the sun is shining and the only reason the Russians have rolled into Ukraine was to plant sunflowers, you might want to double check your intel.
Wow, Steve..the 'scorched earth' happening right now is NOT an act. I don't feel pain, I feel fury. That yet another megalomaniac has started another war. And, when I see pictures of once beautiful cities reduced to rubble and know that a lot of people no longer have a roof over their heads, they are hungry and tired - only a sociopath could remain neutral.
how sad is it that the country that saved the world from 2 world wars now only has one old grandpa to stand up and pretend to be a real leader of the one nation under God .. who's god and which one of the 50 states/nations? are we talking about .. we either get criminals running their own Mafia's or wannabe's and NO real men or women of character with the guts to stand up to Putin or Trump or Erdogan or Bolsonaro or Xi or where ever they are they just shi* on our self crucifixion of western degeneracy and pretend goodness because they know we're just a bunch of BS artist's like Trump pimping his daughter or anything else to make himself important like what Putin is doing now!
sadly they ignored Patton over Ike and MacArthur over Truman so now we have this bullsh** which was all avoidable except for the very Jackassery that is now reappearing only because we continue to be JACK asses when will they ever learn ?
Captain Billy Mitchell was Court Martialed for predicting the Jap attach on Pearl Harbor and attempting to do something about it but the "jackasses" of military intelligence and the govt BS artist are all smarter than the real people on the ground ..
You're not paying for Bill's political, wartime or neutral view points, Christian. You're paying for his expertise and wisdom when it comes to keeping your assets safe and growing, in dark and difficult times. The fact that we don't understand WHY Bill thinks that way, is perhaps fodder for a future newsletter.
I’m afraid his ranting and raving about what he calls “The Elite “
( himself constantly moving from one continent to another) is very political … I’m all onboard about the imminent financial crash / money preservation - and at 79 and a former refugee myself-I hardly qualify as a “ liberal “ - but these unqualified remarks about the Ukrainian Desaster are simply unacceptable and coming from a man of Bill’s intelligence incomprehensible
As I've posted earlier, Bill is merely protecting his ass as well as his assets. However, even in as big a world as we have, you can only run for so long. Eventually you have to stop running. And stand for something. Perhaps Bill will enlighten us as to what he stands for, if he wants to go there.
Otherwise, we get what we paid for - someone who is good at protecting our assets (including our asses) during times of strife and turmoil.
like you our family escaped from Poland/Prussia before the Iron Curtain came down .. and now it's gonna come back down again which is exactly what the indulgent self gratifying western permissive/perverted criminal capitalists need to sake them out of their perennial self indulgent slumber and realise that very few humans are actually 'civilized' we are only just out of the caves of intolerance !
Bill has lost his mind and sounds like Tucker Carlson on Fox News. If the bombs fell on his house in Argentina, Ireland, France, or Baltimore....and they once did, maybe he'd be singing another song. When you allow barbarians to overrun a country and destroy it's cities, when you do nothing, it emboldens them to do more of the same. It's not like Putin hasn't done this before. We're not talking about some third world country most people can't find on a map....we're talking about a brutal war for no good reason in Europe which could destabilize the EU, recently freed democracies, and affect America's relationships outside of North America. Russia held half of Europe as a hostage and enslaved them for 45 years, which depressed economic output, created nuclear paranoia and jacked up defense budgets. There's another reason to worry about Russia's war.....it's a depressing repudiation of freedom and reminds me of gangs in America that terrorize old people of women, beating on them, terrorizing them, as bystanders look away and pretend nothing is wrong.
well that might be a stretch to far boys .. Bill is definitely a spoiled southern yank but I'm not sure he's Putin paid propaganda mouthpiece .. only a real crim like TRUMP could claim that honor but who knows were T*ucker is getting his funding?
Taibbi I has been one of my go-to’s for political commentary/analysis for quite some time. Highly recommended, regardless of how you identify politically.
Ukraine has been fighting a war for 8 years in eastern part of the country with Russia as the attacker. They gave their Nuclear weapon away to Russia and got a deal that Russia should not attack them. Putin is dreaming of USSR.
it might be "jackassery" to some until your ass is being shot at .. all sides of ALL arguments or battles have some 'might' on their side .. in this case the real might is with the biggest mafioso who also happens to have lots of nukes and that makes them Yanks/Nato permissive shit scared "oh we don't want to start a real war just a pretend one that we can watch each night on channel X and moan about but no fighting please we're for freedom of expression as long as its our version of expression .. either side of this or any other conflict is always about something eh .. so stick to the MONEY$$ side of it a forget about political commentary since you're going to piss off half of your listeners and in either case there is no victory of any real substance until the fire is right outside your door and then its to late to BS about whatever just stick to your knitting and shoot to kill when the time comes .. unless the nukes start flying and then we'll see what sort of zero impact we humans have had on this third rock from Sun ?
The back end of this commentary tells the whole story. The world is against Russia and its villainy until the “pocketbook pain” becomes too much to bear. Then the narrative will change again, most likely 60-90 days prior to US midterm elections.
ENOUGH! He, him, his. Do you think half the world’s population want to play men’s games of mine, mine, mine. Women pay the price of supporting war games and raising men for the battlefield to become poker chips for leaders who need power. You never factor in, half of humanity essential for survival of the species does not seek war but will fight to the end to protect their (her) offspring. Frankly you seem to never factor in women at all.
The Liberal elites are simply the same sort of people as were the kings and queens, lords and earls. Their time of waring amongst each other came and passed. No need of keeping the slaves or serfs on the property. The serfs won their freedom, it was best simply to allow their freedom, and create a government, a church, and the guise of free elections. How is our modern age any different we only think we're free, our homes are owned by the taxman, our money is owned by the government. Government is the king and queen it's composed of the barons, lords, and earls. The churches are not free nor would they desire to be such with freedom comes taxes. Religion of all flavors has always been the front line of defense for the elites. Public schools destroyed education, the churches destroyed the process of weighing evidence and making an informed rational decision. We have come to a time wherein the new religion of social secular humanism with its mantra of political correctness has created 2 generations of fools, with the oldest generation coming to understand their wisdom has no value, best to keep quiet.
There is no going back because those on all sides claiming to be the moral majority, patriots, tolerant, seeking justice, and freedom have no idea what these terms mean, or how to implement them. The only way of going back will be a great resent and this can only happen if. the entire system were to be burnt to the ground. We' have to return to Eden and be vigilant to stone anyone seeking a rule instead of lead.
I can understand why Bill Bonner has a home in Ireland, it is one of the only places I know of in Europe where a man's home is his castle. During a recent visit to explore the old family lands near Shannon Airport I learned there is no real estate tax in Ireland at least in southern Ireland.
The reason we should care about Ukraine is because barbarians from Russia have triggered most of the planet with WW2 style atrocities and deliberate destruction of hospitals, schools and residential neighborhoods to depopulate Ukraine and conquer it. Americans have less of an oar in this water than Europe, which seems to have forgotten the late 1930s and 40 million dead in a horrifying genocide. It's got nothing to do with being liberal....it's about being rational...if you embolden a homicidal, egomaniacal psychopath by allowing him to seize countries, kill their people, destroy their homes, threaten nuclear war, arrest people who are telling the truth, you encourage more of the same. Bill, keep it up and you'll lose most of your readers. Some of us remember what happened to Europe from 1930s to 1945. You're a student of money but not a student of history. Wars make money go bad. I'm surprised by your latest piece. Jeff Kassel
Another reader loses perspective as to why we are here.
We're not here for Bill's political stance or point of view. Though that is enlightening, and Ayn Rand-esque in it's anti-government stance, we came here for his wisdom and experience in keeping our assets safe, in times of strife and trouble. You can't possibly think that your going to agree with Bill on every Geo-political argument out there. Or that your allegiance to him rests on him saying everything that YOU would want him to say.
His political views extend to not only his and his reader's assets, but their asses as well. Much like his financial exposure, he doesn't like to stick his ass into the line of fire because some politician told him that he should. And he's thinking that if you're smart enough to protect your assets, you should be smart to protect your ass. So you can live to enjoy those assets.
The real question is, where is Bill's breaking point? What would he stand up for to fight? Does it end at his property line? His family? Certainly not his country, as he's already alluded to that. Will he tell us? That remains to be seen.
BTW, 40 million is a bit high for Holodomor, as the total population of Ukraine has never been higher than it currently is - around 45 million. We lost about 8 million souls in that atrocity.
I'm not sure they were counting when Stalin loaded them up on cattle trains to Siberia .. lucky my ancestors managed to get into Moldova and then out to Canada!
The Russian/Ukraine fight would seem to matter to regular Americans because of the chance of NATO getting dragged in. Other than that it's just fodder for bleeding hearts that comply with their colleagues, right? A basic non event in the scheme of things.
As long as you have no ties to the event itself. You getting squished by a T-72 would have no bearing on my life either. But if it were my relative, or my neighbor, I might give a sh*t.
Oh please, once again, what exactly would you be doing differently? Come with a plan rather than a complaint, the man is your president and he is hardly doddering, he has a stammer and has had his entire life but continues to win elections.
I was troubled by your use of "liberal" as a corrosive slur. I don't believe there is a "liberal" world order but only, as always, a monied world order. The old, money is power and power insures survival; fairly basic stuff no need to go to conspiratorial claptrap. Going forward for a nation to be a nation with respected territorial boundaries and the ability to make its way among nations freely provided it plays by the rules agreed upon should be supported by all signatories. The question is only, what is Ukraines crime and what is Russias? It really isn't that complicated, there are times the high road is quite obvious if somewhat torturous.
All should be aware that trying to "LOOK" strong no matter the side chosen for the coming voting, biden is trying to confuse the unwise voters so they will vote for the commie., demos, left. This ploy has been used many times, it is a good trick and works most of the time, i.e., don't change sides in the middle of conflict. RALPHE
Bill, you enjoy being provocative and I enjoy that. But this latest piece is a bit far. The indiscriminate bombings and the "peace keeping" operations of Russia is beyond defensible or justifiable. Yes, Russia had some legitimate concerns about NATO missiles surrounding and up against its borders. And no,
I would not put much faith in the intelligence or restraint of the dolts elected lately in the US to have fingers on buttons and spending accounts without limits. But that does not justify whats going on in Ukraine now, and in fact will make for the opposite effect of what they were worried about. Please be cautious about appearing to excuse such stuff.
Dear editor, what a language! Excuse me, but I am more dependent on dictionary than ever. The Oxford one is to no avail (EEE is messing with words and invented a politically correct language (OMG!) and it could be your language has been censored or treated like strange cultural minority) and I would be pleased if you could recommend pari passu which dictionary is adequate to use for your vernacular. I am truly interested in a good translation because I suspect that you are driving your points, sometimes dots, home with more ease using this, well, language. Atentamnete
I agree with Bill's pov that no nation should wage war against other but in a less than perfect world both Washington and Moscow have waged war for reasons that did not involved a direct threat to their national security but appealed to the political hardliners and generals.
Nine decades ago another dictator rose to power promising to unit all the German speaking under a new Reich and to right the wrongs of the Treaty of Versailles. France and Britain did nothing for 7 years until 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland. Had France and Britain acted sooner would Hitler have been able to wage war across Europe in 1940 - 1945?
Putin has stated that the fall of the USSR was the greatest geopolitical tragedy in Russian history and his goal is to recreate the USSR with all the Russian peoples living in the newly expanded Russian Federation. Had the world did nothing with the invasion of Ukraine would Putin be considering an attack on Eastern Europe or the Baltic states believing that Western Europe and the US would consider appeasement over WW3? What would be the global ramifications to world peace of such an event would occur?
For the sake of the Ukrainian people I pray that both sides will be able to agree to a cease fire and peace soon. If the war escalates beyond Ukraine/Russia our worst nightmares will not come close to the horrors that nuclear war will bring.
We mostly wage war to benefit the Military-Industrial-Complex. We haven't won a war since 1945 and taxpayers pay for weapons systems that are used in long, pointless, expensive conflicts that result in defeat. In the last 20 years taxpayers have spent about $14 trillion on our military without much to show for it except humiliating defeats and hundreds of thousands killed and maimed. It's important that they last a long time and grind up lots of military equipment so taxpayers can pay for more. It's a giant racket and lots of the money is borrowed, punishing future taxpayers. Exactly what did we achieve in Afghanistan, and even Iraq. And our meddling by the CIA and NSA in Syria ended up turning much of that country into rubble, just like Ukraine. And what about Libya...nothing but a mess there. Ukraine's a little different because that was a fledgling democracy that the American government promised to protect if they gave up their nuclear weapons to Russia. They unfortunately agreed and America betrayed them. If America had allowed Ukraine into NATO, we would not be looking at war criminals invading a free country. It was a giant foreign policy mistake and we'll be paying for that along with Germany, France, Italy and every other country in NATO as they "man up" with lots of exotic, expensive weapons in a new cold war.
Every so often the kings of Europe understood it was time to thin the herd. Start a war and rid themselves of some extra mouths to feed. This while the people gladly paid more taxes to support the war effort. Every so often an upstart blind sides the ruling elite. Treaties are made religions are reordered, heads are cut off, and the people gladly fall in line. The system restarts the elite families are strengthen by the new blood, as the seats at the table are reshuffled.
I guess it depends on how you define "winning".
How do you figure that...won in Afghanistan, remind us of the cost, The Brits were they they lost so did the Russians, and so did the tax payers of the USof A.
In fact on army in history as been able to subdue Afghanistan inclusive of Alexander who learned he was not so great. He won the battle moved on, upon his return he went around Afghanistan. They are still living as he left them except they've been upgraded from camels and swords to Humvees and M16's.
Keep in mind, Bill, that ordinary Ukraine people are simply trying to live their lives without being bombed, shot, or whatever. They, like us, want to just get up in the morning and go to a job and earn enough to support their families. Well, that is not happening. Russia is killing Ukraine's citizens. They are bombing and using artillery barages to wipe out everything in their path. They are cutting off humanitarian aid shipments. They are cutting off water and medical supplies and food. These Ukraine people are not pushing to be in NATO. They were not Russian haters...until now. They are just in the way of a killer. Too bad, you may say. That is their problem. Yes, it surely is. But I can almost guarantee that Putin will not stop at Ukraine. Why should he? He wants it all. All the lost USSR states. All the EU. All period. Full Stop.
When it comes to all-out war, China will side wtih Russia. Why? Because Russia has resources that China wants/needs. And China had a war with Russia, remember? The Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared military conflict between the Soviet Union and China in 1969, following the Sino-Soviet split. Now they have a Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation (FCT) is a twenty-year strategic treaty that was signed by the leaders of the two international powers, Jiang Zemin and Vladimir Putin, on July 16, 2001.
WWIII and the Greater Depression? Connect the dots, Bill.
The world is not a safe place right now. Not for Ukraine and not for the U.S.A.
I'll just leave this here, another view
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OisJkpGYpAo&feature=share
NATO is not pure. Nor is Putin. The killing is not solving any problems. It is just killing. It is genocide.
Loved this response.
I feel sometimes that Bill has lost some of his empathy for others because he is insolated.
Bonner Private Research’s beat is money, right? And in terms of money, Ukraine shouldn’t matter much to Americans, especially compared to Russia, right? I’ll bet Poland, Lithuania, and several others don’t matter much (in terms of money) to Americans, either. And I can imagine Mr. Putin would be attracted to them for similar reasons as those for Ukraine, regardless of the destruction and human suffering involved.
The Russians are brutes? Perhaps. I’m old enough to have seen this show many times before. I had hoped that I wouldn’t see it again.
And if there are governments (like Ukraine’s?) that don’t warrant defense from invasion because elements of extremism or corruption exist within them, I can think of others, one much closer to home, that might crack under much less. Should we not defend it?
And the comedian Zelensky? Perhaps the media have painted him with a hero’s brush, but he had the chance to run and he stayed. He even seems to genuinely care about his country (perhaps Soros is paying him a lot?). Regardless, from what I’ve seen, I’d take 537 of his ilk over the political jokes we have in office.
I’m certainly not a member of the “EEE” and I don’t stand with, or believe in, the “liberal world order”. I must just be one of those folks who wants to be fooled. Thank you for pointing that out.
Yes Mark, the media is making another foreign liberal toad/puppet into a hero, as they do everyday for the American liberal toads that sits on stumps and croak about how bad America is, how bad Trump is, how bad Republicans, how bad whites, how bad Americans are...but how good Mr Biden is. Really?
What we are witnessing is a new form of reality TV. Yes people are dying, but maybe it's from the new Ukrainian variant of Covid? Or the Chinese variant or maybe the drug pandemic of overdoses, where you just kill yourself if not satisfied with what your government can give you! Darn, so many good folk dying. It's just not fair.....but life never is.
Yes war sucks, but so do the idiots who run our nations. How do you stop a war? Get the idiots in power, out of power by any means necessary!
Yes Mark, many good folk are being fooled, but many of us are not ;)
God bless America, and those who fight for her!!!!
LoL. I'm sure that was COVID destroying apartment blocks, hospitals and bridges. Maybe those were booster shots taking out the Russian armor too. Not sure what reality TV you're watching.
Yes Lucas, the show is real, with real lives being sacrificed. It's all staged for effect. How are the PsyOps working on you?
I know, it's all very disturbing...as are most issues affecting you right now. Do you understand what you are feeling? Yes Lucas, those feeling are real, because the media is drilling them into your conscience, relentlessly, every living moment.
It's ok to feel the pain, just don't let it corrupt your most intelligent judgement.
I have relatives in Ukraine. The bombs, the bloodshed, the bullets, the shitting into coffee cans and drinking water that you or I would think twice about stepping in, never mind drinking, is real. Try booking a flight into Kiev and see how far you get. Or better yet, a bus tour of Kharkiv.
Once again, unless you have relatives over there that are telling you the sun is shining and the only reason the Russians have rolled into Ukraine was to plant sunflowers, you might want to double check your intel.
Wow, Steve..the 'scorched earth' happening right now is NOT an act. I don't feel pain, I feel fury. That yet another megalomaniac has started another war. And, when I see pictures of once beautiful cities reduced to rubble and know that a lot of people no longer have a roof over their heads, they are hungry and tired - only a sociopath could remain neutral.
how sad is it that the country that saved the world from 2 world wars now only has one old grandpa to stand up and pretend to be a real leader of the one nation under God .. who's god and which one of the 50 states/nations? are we talking about .. we either get criminals running their own Mafia's or wannabe's and NO real men or women of character with the guts to stand up to Putin or Trump or Erdogan or Bolsonaro or Xi or where ever they are they just shi* on our self crucifixion of western degeneracy and pretend goodness because they know we're just a bunch of BS artist's like Trump pimping his daughter or anything else to make himself important like what Putin is doing now!
Well said,, Mark ,, I agree with U 100% General Patton was right about the Rooskies back in '45. PHN
Yes Patrick, and they killed him. Real hero's are silenced. Real scum run nations....
sadly they ignored Patton over Ike and MacArthur over Truman so now we have this bullsh** which was all avoidable except for the very Jackassery that is now reappearing only because we continue to be JACK asses when will they ever learn ?
Captain Billy Mitchell was Court Martialed for predicting the Jap attach on Pearl Harbor and attempting to do something about it but the "jackasses" of military intelligence and the govt BS artist are all smarter than the real people on the ground ..
" The war in itself is nothing remarkable "
Are you out of your b.....y mind ?
Ask the thousands already dead and the 2.5 - 3.0 million Ukrainians who have already fled with many more to come to Western Europe.
YES the Russians ARE committing dastardly War Crimes , your belittling this totally unprovoked
invasion - shelling of hospitals and apartment blocks is simply mind boggling -
What is there " to observe, study or understand "????
I'm afraid on this issue you've simply lost the plot - unsubscribing - $ 100 wasted
You're not paying for Bill's political, wartime or neutral view points, Christian. You're paying for his expertise and wisdom when it comes to keeping your assets safe and growing, in dark and difficult times. The fact that we don't understand WHY Bill thinks that way, is perhaps fodder for a future newsletter.
Thanks Lucas
I’m afraid his ranting and raving about what he calls “The Elite “
( himself constantly moving from one continent to another) is very political … I’m all onboard about the imminent financial crash / money preservation - and at 79 and a former refugee myself-I hardly qualify as a “ liberal “ - but these unqualified remarks about the Ukrainian Desaster are simply unacceptable and coming from a man of Bill’s intelligence incomprehensible
No war is a good war.
As I've posted earlier, Bill is merely protecting his ass as well as his assets. However, even in as big a world as we have, you can only run for so long. Eventually you have to stop running. And stand for something. Perhaps Bill will enlighten us as to what he stands for, if he wants to go there.
Otherwise, we get what we paid for - someone who is good at protecting our assets (including our asses) during times of strife and turmoil.
No stand required.
like you our family escaped from Poland/Prussia before the Iron Curtain came down .. and now it's gonna come back down again which is exactly what the indulgent self gratifying western permissive/perverted criminal capitalists need to sake them out of their perennial self indulgent slumber and realise that very few humans are actually 'civilized' we are only just out of the caves of intolerance !
Bill has lost his mind and sounds like Tucker Carlson on Fox News. If the bombs fell on his house in Argentina, Ireland, France, or Baltimore....and they once did, maybe he'd be singing another song. When you allow barbarians to overrun a country and destroy it's cities, when you do nothing, it emboldens them to do more of the same. It's not like Putin hasn't done this before. We're not talking about some third world country most people can't find on a map....we're talking about a brutal war for no good reason in Europe which could destabilize the EU, recently freed democracies, and affect America's relationships outside of North America. Russia held half of Europe as a hostage and enslaved them for 45 years, which depressed economic output, created nuclear paranoia and jacked up defense budgets. There's another reason to worry about Russia's war.....it's a depressing repudiation of freedom and reminds me of gangs in America that terrorize old people of women, beating on them, terrorizing them, as bystanders look away and pretend nothing is wrong.
Right on!!! Christian , I agree with you.. PHN
well that might be a stretch to far boys .. Bill is definitely a spoiled southern yank but I'm not sure he's Putin paid propaganda mouthpiece .. only a real crim like TRUMP could claim that honor but who knows were T*ucker is getting his funding?
A respected, 'tell it like it s" reporter on Substack is Matt Taibbi.
Taibbi I has been one of my go-to’s for political commentary/analysis for quite some time. Highly recommended, regardless of how you identify politically.
Ukraine has been fighting a war for 8 years in eastern part of the country with Russia as the attacker. They gave their Nuclear weapon away to Russia and got a deal that Russia should not attack them. Putin is dreaming of USSR.
it might be "jackassery" to some until your ass is being shot at .. all sides of ALL arguments or battles have some 'might' on their side .. in this case the real might is with the biggest mafioso who also happens to have lots of nukes and that makes them Yanks/Nato permissive shit scared "oh we don't want to start a real war just a pretend one that we can watch each night on channel X and moan about but no fighting please we're for freedom of expression as long as its our version of expression .. either side of this or any other conflict is always about something eh .. so stick to the MONEY$$ side of it a forget about political commentary since you're going to piss off half of your listeners and in either case there is no victory of any real substance until the fire is right outside your door and then its to late to BS about whatever just stick to your knitting and shoot to kill when the time comes .. unless the nukes start flying and then we'll see what sort of zero impact we humans have had on this third rock from Sun ?
The back end of this commentary tells the whole story. The world is against Russia and its villainy until the “pocketbook pain” becomes too much to bear. Then the narrative will change again, most likely 60-90 days prior to US midterm elections.
ENOUGH! He, him, his. Do you think half the world’s population want to play men’s games of mine, mine, mine. Women pay the price of supporting war games and raising men for the battlefield to become poker chips for leaders who need power. You never factor in, half of humanity essential for survival of the species does not seek war but will fight to the end to protect their (her) offspring. Frankly you seem to never factor in women at all.
Please Erika. Tell us how YOU would stop this mad(man). All ears.
The Liberal elites are simply the same sort of people as were the kings and queens, lords and earls. Their time of waring amongst each other came and passed. No need of keeping the slaves or serfs on the property. The serfs won their freedom, it was best simply to allow their freedom, and create a government, a church, and the guise of free elections. How is our modern age any different we only think we're free, our homes are owned by the taxman, our money is owned by the government. Government is the king and queen it's composed of the barons, lords, and earls. The churches are not free nor would they desire to be such with freedom comes taxes. Religion of all flavors has always been the front line of defense for the elites. Public schools destroyed education, the churches destroyed the process of weighing evidence and making an informed rational decision. We have come to a time wherein the new religion of social secular humanism with its mantra of political correctness has created 2 generations of fools, with the oldest generation coming to understand their wisdom has no value, best to keep quiet.
There is no going back because those on all sides claiming to be the moral majority, patriots, tolerant, seeking justice, and freedom have no idea what these terms mean, or how to implement them. The only way of going back will be a great resent and this can only happen if. the entire system were to be burnt to the ground. We' have to return to Eden and be vigilant to stone anyone seeking a rule instead of lead.
I can understand why Bill Bonner has a home in Ireland, it is one of the only places I know of in Europe where a man's home is his castle. During a recent visit to explore the old family lands near Shannon Airport I learned there is no real estate tax in Ireland at least in southern Ireland.
The reason we should care about Ukraine is because barbarians from Russia have triggered most of the planet with WW2 style atrocities and deliberate destruction of hospitals, schools and residential neighborhoods to depopulate Ukraine and conquer it. Americans have less of an oar in this water than Europe, which seems to have forgotten the late 1930s and 40 million dead in a horrifying genocide. It's got nothing to do with being liberal....it's about being rational...if you embolden a homicidal, egomaniacal psychopath by allowing him to seize countries, kill their people, destroy their homes, threaten nuclear war, arrest people who are telling the truth, you encourage more of the same. Bill, keep it up and you'll lose most of your readers. Some of us remember what happened to Europe from 1930s to 1945. You're a student of money but not a student of history. Wars make money go bad. I'm surprised by your latest piece. Jeff Kassel
Another reader loses perspective as to why we are here.
We're not here for Bill's political stance or point of view. Though that is enlightening, and Ayn Rand-esque in it's anti-government stance, we came here for his wisdom and experience in keeping our assets safe, in times of strife and trouble. You can't possibly think that your going to agree with Bill on every Geo-political argument out there. Or that your allegiance to him rests on him saying everything that YOU would want him to say.
His political views extend to not only his and his reader's assets, but their asses as well. Much like his financial exposure, he doesn't like to stick his ass into the line of fire because some politician told him that he should. And he's thinking that if you're smart enough to protect your assets, you should be smart to protect your ass. So you can live to enjoy those assets.
The real question is, where is Bill's breaking point? What would he stand up for to fight? Does it end at his property line? His family? Certainly not his country, as he's already alluded to that. Will he tell us? That remains to be seen.
BTW, 40 million is a bit high for Holodomor, as the total population of Ukraine has never been higher than it currently is - around 45 million. We lost about 8 million souls in that atrocity.
I'm not sure they were counting when Stalin loaded them up on cattle trains to Siberia .. lucky my ancestors managed to get into Moldova and then out to Canada!
The Russian/Ukraine fight would seem to matter to regular Americans because of the chance of NATO getting dragged in. Other than that it's just fodder for bleeding hearts that comply with their colleagues, right? A basic non event in the scheme of things.
As long as you have no ties to the event itself. You getting squished by a T-72 would have no bearing on my life either. But if it were my relative, or my neighbor, I might give a sh*t.
Oh please, once again, what exactly would you be doing differently? Come with a plan rather than a complaint, the man is your president and he is hardly doddering, he has a stammer and has had his entire life but continues to win elections.
I was troubled by your use of "liberal" as a corrosive slur. I don't believe there is a "liberal" world order but only, as always, a monied world order. The old, money is power and power insures survival; fairly basic stuff no need to go to conspiratorial claptrap. Going forward for a nation to be a nation with respected territorial boundaries and the ability to make its way among nations freely provided it plays by the rules agreed upon should be supported by all signatories. The question is only, what is Ukraines crime and what is Russias? It really isn't that complicated, there are times the high road is quite obvious if somewhat torturous.
All should be aware that trying to "LOOK" strong no matter the side chosen for the coming voting, biden is trying to confuse the unwise voters so they will vote for the commie., demos, left. This ploy has been used many times, it is a good trick and works most of the time, i.e., don't change sides in the middle of conflict. RALPHE
Bill, you enjoy being provocative and I enjoy that. But this latest piece is a bit far. The indiscriminate bombings and the "peace keeping" operations of Russia is beyond defensible or justifiable. Yes, Russia had some legitimate concerns about NATO missiles surrounding and up against its borders. And no,
I would not put much faith in the intelligence or restraint of the dolts elected lately in the US to have fingers on buttons and spending accounts without limits. But that does not justify whats going on in Ukraine now, and in fact will make for the opposite effect of what they were worried about. Please be cautious about appearing to excuse such stuff.
Dear editor, what a language! Excuse me, but I am more dependent on dictionary than ever. The Oxford one is to no avail (EEE is messing with words and invented a politically correct language (OMG!) and it could be your language has been censored or treated like strange cultural minority) and I would be pleased if you could recommend pari passu which dictionary is adequate to use for your vernacular. I am truly interested in a good translation because I suspect that you are driving your points, sometimes dots, home with more ease using this, well, language. Atentamnete