Monday, November 28, 2022

This one

 


:-) resonates as well honey...

:-).

I love you sweetheart.



Oh, isn't it strange

How we move our lives for another day

Like skipping a beat?

What if a great wave should wash us all away?


Just thinking out loud

Don't mean to dwell on this dying thing

But lookin' at blood

It's alive right now, deep and sweet within


Pouring through our veins

Intoxicate, moving wine to tears

And drinking it deep

Then an evening spent dancing

It's you and me


Oh, this love will open our world

From the dark side we can see the glow of something bright

Oh, there's much more than we see here

Don't burn the day away


Don't burn the day

Don't burn the day away

Is this not enough

This blessed sip of life, is it not enough?

Staring down at the ground?

Oh, then complain and pray for more from above

Ya greedy, little pig

(sorry had to :-)

Stop, just watch your world trickle away

Oh, it's your problem now

It'll all be dead and gone in a few short years


Oh, just love will open our eyes

Just love will put the hope back in our minds

Much more than we could ever know

Oh, so, don't burn the day away

Don't burn the day away


Oh, come sister, my brother

Shake up your bones, shake up your feet

I'm saying open up and let the rain come pouring in

Wash out this tired notion

Oh, that the best is yet to come

(In a material sense anyway.)

But, oh, while you're dancing on the ground

Don't think of, oh, when you're gone


Love (love), love (love), love (love), what more is there?

'Cause we need the light of love in here

Don't beat your head, dry your eyes

Let the love in there

There's bad times but that's OK

Just look for love in it

And don't burn the day away


Look, here are we

On this starry night staring into space

And I must say

I feel as small as dust lying down here


Oh, what point could there be troubling

Head down wondering what will become of me?

Why concern, we cannot see?

But no reason to abandon it


The time is short, time, that's all right

May we'll go out in the middle of the night

Take your hands from your eyes, my love

All good things must come to an end some time, oh

But don't burn the day away

Don't burn the day away, oh


Come sister, my brother

Shake up your bones, shake up your feet

I'm saying open up and let the rain come flooding in

Wash out this tired notion that the best is yet to come

But while you're dancing on the ground

Don't think of when you're gone


Love (love), love (love), love (love), what more is there?

'Cause we need the light of love in here

Don't beat your head, dry your eyes

Let the love in there

There are bad times

Well, that's OK

Just look for love in it, yeah

Just let love in there, oh, love

Right on a newborn love, oh

Resonates...

 


Yeah...

Just a lil...

Thats sarcasm BTW.


"I'm no clown, 

I won't back down, 

don't need you to tell me what's going down..."




:-)...

 


Yup...

:-).



"I fall so hard inside the idea of you

That's why with you can't say what I mean

Wanna stay but I think I'm gettin' outta here

I fall so hard inside the idea of you..."





Grand

 


Rising Massive my sunshine.

I love you honey.

Busy day baby...

TTYS honey, 

I love you.



















Wednesday, November 23, 2022

I sai

 


Not Just Another Recession Why the Global Economy May Never Be the Same


in March of 2020 when Covid hit the states:

"Thats it, were done, we cant afford this and we'll never recover."

You have to understand the purpose behind all the Seal judgements, The Bowl judgements, The Trumpet judgements, the two woes, etc...It's all to get you to turn back to your creator and realize we are not in charge. He's gonna make it so that you have no place else to go but to him because there just wont be anything left.


Hebrews 12:25-29

See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Even so?

Most wont humble themselves and accept him.

Now on to the piece:


"To say that the last few years have been economically turbulent would be a colossal understatement. Inflation has surged to its highest level in decades, and a combination of geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions, and rising interest rates now threatens to plunge the global economy into recession. Yet for the most part, economists and financial analysts have treated these developments as outgrowths of the normal business cycle. From the U.S. Federal Reserve’s initial misjudgment that inflation would be “transitory” to the current consensus that a probable U.S. recession will be “short and shallow,” there has been a strong tendency to see economic challenges as both temporary and quickly reversible.

(Isaiah 30:10

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:)


"But rather than one more turn of the economic wheel, the world may be experiencing major structural and secular changes that will outlast the current business cycle."

(Ya think? Maybe?)


"Three new trends in particular hint at such a transformation and are likely to play an important role in shaping economic outcomes over the next few years: the shift from insufficient demand to insufficient supply as a major multi-year drag on growth, the end of boundless liquidity from central banks, and the increasing fragility of financial markets."

("the shift from insufficient demand to insufficient supply" Reference todays presentation about oil prices, thats exactly the case right there.)


"These shifts help explain many of the unusual economic developments of the last few years, and they are likely to drive even more uncertainty in the future as shocks grow more frequent and more violent. These changes will affect individuals, companies, and governments—economically, socially, and politically. And until analysts wake up to the probability that these trends will outlast the next business cycle, the economic hardship they cause is likely to significantly outweigh the opportunities they create."


("as shocks grow more frequent and more violent." 

Matthew 24:4-8

Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains."

They get closer and closer together and more and more sever as they do. You gonna argue you're not witnessing that right now? Thats a hard case to make TBH. Thing is? You have to understand that is just the start.)


"DOWN IS UP

Recessions and bouts of inflation come and go, but the last few years have seen a series of highly unlikely, if not unthinkable, global economic and financial developments."

(It's not just economic and financial, it's climate, it's geopolitics, it's everything basically that a few short years ago we thought of as "unlikely, if not unthinkable". You might wanna pause and show a lil reverence to who it is thats in charge and it's recognize that it's obviously not us.)


"Add to this list of low-probability events 

China’s rapid recentralization under Xi Jinping...

its decoupling from the United States, 

the strengthening of autocracies around the world, 

and the polarization and even fragmentation of many liberal democracies. 

Climate change, 

demographic shifts, 

and the gradual migration of economic power from west to east 

were more foreseeable but have nonetheless complicated the global economic environment."


(Why do you think all this is happening RN?

What is your answer?

Why are there no good solutions to all the crises we face?

I know my answer, and i know what my solution is, I've been sharing it with everybody.

I hope, i honestly hope at least some will see the light and save their eternal soul.)



"The inclination of many analysts has been to seek bespoke explanations for each surprising development. But there are important common threads, especially among the economic and financial events, including the failure to generate rapid, inclusive, and sustainable growth; the overreliance of policymakers on a narrow toolkit that over time has created more problems than it has solved; and the absence of common action to address shared global problems. These commonalities, in turn, mostly (although not entirely) boil down to the three transformational changes occurring in the global economy and finance.


(Bespoke: made for a particular customer, not seeing the commonality that runs through all.

"the failure to generate rapid, inclusive, and sustainable growth;"

Inclusive as in income ineqaulity.

Substainable growth cant happen if corporations are just allowed to rip off their customers till nobody has any $ left and is in debt up to their eyeballs etc...

"overreliance of policymakers on a narrow toolkit that over time has created more problems than it has solved"

(See the previous piece on QE.)


"WORLD REWIRED

Coming out of the 2007–8 global financial crisis, most economists blamed sluggish economic growth on lack of demand. The U.S. government sought to rectify this problem through stimulus spending (although polarization in Congress constrained this approach from 2011 to 2017) and, more important, through the Fed’s decision to floor interest rates and inject a massive amount of liquidity into the markets. The approach was put on steroids, first by the Trump administration’s spending and tax cuts and then by the emergency support doled out by both the Trump and the Biden administrations to households and companies during the COVID-19 pandemic—all while the Federal Reserve flooded the system with cash."


"It is not easy to jump-start a global economy that has been forced to a sudden halt. Shipping containers are in the wrong place, as are the ships themselves. Not all production comes back online in a coordinated manner. Supply chains are disrupted. And thanks to enormous handouts from governments and abundant central bank liquidity, demand surges well ahead of supply"


("It is not easy to jump-start a global economy that has been forced to a sudden halt."

Whose in charge again?)


"As time passed, however, it became clear that the supply constraints stemmed from more than just the pandemic. Certain segments of the population exited the labor force at unusually high rates, either by choice or necessity, making it harder for companies to find workers. This problem was compounded by disruptions in global labor flows as fewer foreign workers received visas or were willing to migrate."


"Such changes accelerated the post-pandemic rewiring of global supply chains to aim for more “friend shoring” and “near shoring.”

This is not the only rewiring underway. Climate change is finally forcing companies, households, and governments to alter their behavior."


"The bottom line is that changes in the nature of globalization, widespread labor shortages, and the imperatives of climate change have created supply difficulties and put already-challenged growth models under even more stress."


"SCRAMBLING CENTRAL BANKS

Making matters worse, these changes in the global economic landscape come at the same time that central banks are fundamentally altering their approach. For years, central banks in major economies have responded to virtually any sign of economic weakness or market volatility by throwing more money at the problem. After all, by necessity more than by choice, they had been forced to use their admittedly imperfect tools to maintain economic stability until governments could overcome political polarization and step in to do their jobs."

("until governments could overcome political polarization and step in to do their jobs." Yeah good luck with that.)



"But the longer central banks extended what was meant to be a time-limited intervention—buying bonds for cash and keeping interest rates artificially low—the more collateral damage they caused."


(Hello Peter Schiff, the SPR drawdown comparison etc...

"the more collateral damage they caused"

Hasnt even really started yet BTW)


"Liquidity-charged financial markets decoupled from the real economy, which reaped only limited benefits from these policies. The rich, who own the vast majority of assets, became richer, and markets became conditioned to think of central banks as their best friends, always there to curtail market volatility. Eventually, markets started to react negatively to even hints of a reduction in central bank support, effectively holding central banks hostage and preventing them from ensuring the health of the economy as a whole."


(Translations:

"Liquidity-charged financial markets decoupled from the real economy,"

The 34 year olds, "normal".

"The rich, who own the vast majority of assets, became richer"

Revelation 6:6

Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds[a] of wheat for a day’s wages,[b] and six pounds[c] of barley for a day’s wages,[d] and do not damage the oil and the wine!”

Workers get starvation wages, well grow richer forever.

"markets became conditioned to think of central banks as their best friends"

There's no risk here any more fellas, borrow all you want and invest it! It wont cost you anything, and the return from the market is extraordinary! Or better yet engage in stock buy backs and pump up the price of your own stock and then cash that out!

"Eventually, markets started to react negatively to even hints of a reduction in central bank support, effectively holding central banks hostage and preventing them from ensuring the health of the economy as a whole."

Dont you dare take away our drug (Fed's easy $ policy), we need that to continue on this course.)



"All this changed with the surge in inflation that began in the first half of 2021. Initially misdiagnosing the problem as transitory, the Fed made the mistake of enabling mainly energy and food price hikes to explode into a broad-based cost-of-living phenomenon. Despite mounting evidence that inflation would not go away on its own, the Fed continued to pump liquidity into the economy until March 2022, when it finally began raising interest rates—and only modestly at first.

(Hello idiosyncrasy! Who bends the arc of history to their desired outcome? The almighty.

And again I disagree, the Fed didn't misdiagnose the problem as transitory, they knew it wasn't all along, The fed didn't make the mistake of "enabling mainly energy and food price hikes to explode into a broad-based cost-of-living phenomenon." It was the bloated money supply that created it. You create 6 trillion $'s out of thin air in a matter of years? After having already pumped "liquidity" into the system and had artificially low interest rates for a decade as a continuation of policies that started with the financial crisis? Then this is what happens. Talk about backing yourself in a corner with no real good solutions (QE) We prolonged the inevitable by 14 years, yea us.)


"As a result, it was forced to pivot to a series of much steeper rate hikes, including a record four successive increases of 0.75 percentage points between June and November. Markets recognized that that the Fed was scrambling make up for lost time and started worrying that it would keep rates higher for longer than would be good for the economy. The result was financial market volatility that, if sustained, could threaten the functioning of global financial markets and further damage the economy."

(Nothing but a complete and total collapse is in order. This is what we get for putting our faith in ourselves and the "things that can be shaken." (things that are made) instead of the thing that cant be shaken. "My word will stand forever", it has, it is and it will, I'd start to trust in it if I was you.)


"RISKY BUSINESS

The conditioning of markets to always expect easy money had another perverse effect, encouraging a significant chunk of global financial activity to migrate from highly regulated banks to less well-understood and regulated entities such as asset managers, private equity funds, and hedge funds. These entities did what they are paid to do: take advantage of prevailing financial conditions to turn a profit. That meant taking on more debt and leverage, venturing further from their areas of expertise, and running ever greater risks on the assumption that easy money and reliable central bank support would persist well into the future."


(Opps)


"Few of these firms planned for a sudden change in the cost of borrowing or access to funding."

(No party last forever guys, come on now, what were you thinking?)



"BUMPY ROAD, BETTER DESTINATION

These major structural changes go a long way toward explaining why growth is slowing in most of the world, inflation remains high, financial markets are unstable, and a surging dollar and interest rates have caused headaches in so many countries. Unfortunately, these changes also mean that global economic and financial outcomes are becoming harder to predict with a high degree of confidence. Instead of planning for one likely outcome—a baseline—companies and governments now have to plan for many possible outcomes. And some of these outcomes are likely to have a cascading effect, so that one bad event has a high probability of being followed by another. In such a world, good decision-making is difficult and mistakes are easily made."


(I've been telling people to buckle up for a while now, get your heart and soul right, nobody is going to escape the coming judgement of God, nobody.

"Unfortunately, these changes also mean that global economic and financial outcomes are becoming harder to predict with a high degree of confidence."

Not for some of us they aren't.


"some of these outcomes are likely to have a cascading effect, so that one bad event has a high probability of being followed by another."

Hello birth pains, dominos etc


"In such a world, good decision-making is difficult and mistakes are easily made"

Matter of time, yup...) 



"Fortunately, what it takes to navigate such a world is not a secret. Resilience, optionality, and agility are all vital. Resilience, or the ability to bounce back from setbacks, is often dependent on strong balance sheets and stamina, endurance, and integrity. Optionality, which enables a change in course at a low cost, is underpinned by the open-mindedness that comes from diversity in gender, race, culture, or experience. And agility, or the ability to react quickly to changing conditions, depends on leadership and governance that allow for bold moves in moments of greater clarity."


(Now were talkin my language :-).

"Resilience, or the ability to bounce back from setbacks, is often dependent on strong balance sheets (Ill substitute strength here) and stamina, endurance, and integrity...And agility, or the ability to react quickly to changing conditions, depends on leadership and governance that allow for bold moves in moments of greater clarity"

Like I said, talkin my language :-).



"Policy priorities should include modernizing infrastructure to help increase supply, improving labor training and retooling programs, and launching public-private partnerships to meet pressing needs such as vaccine development. At the same time, governments and central banks should keep fighting inflation and improve the coordination of fiscal policy, monetary policy, and structural reforms that enhance productivity and growth."


(Ohhhhhhh, now I get it, you mean we should do now all the things we should have been doing all along! Gotcha!

"and structural reforms that enhance productivity and growth."

Like?

Give me an example, just one.

Not one?

Really?)


"Governments should also improve supervision and regulation of non-bank financial entities, which will require gaining a much better understanding of the technical linkages between them, the implicit leverage that lurks off their balance sheets, and the channels through which risk can spread to the broader financial system. Finally, governments should put in place stronger safety nets to protect the most vulnerable segments of society, which time and again have been the most exposed to economic and financial shocks.

(Again, it's all the stuff we should have been doing all along but never did. Is it just me or does it seem a lil late in the game to start fixing everything we have done wrong over the last 40 years with China and Russia breathing down our necks? And "protecting the most vulnerable?, Yeah, like that's ever gonna happen.)



"Governments will need to work together to reform international financial institutions, pool insurance against common shocks, enhance early warning systems, preemptively restructure the debts of countries laboring under heavy debt overhangs that starve their social sectors and inhibit capacity building, and improve the functioning of the G-20."

(Did this guy paying attention to how well governments worked together against Covid? To how well they have worked against climate change?)


"The world isn’t just teetering on the brink of another recession. It is in the midst of a profound economic and financial shift."


Matthew 24:21

For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.


Godspeed.

Journey well everyone.

I love you baby.




















Everybody

 


keepin up?

Or you got your head in the sand watching Tic Toc videos?

Article

 


originally posted on Bloomberg:


It's Now Clear That QE Was A Colossal Policy Mistake ALLISON SCHRAGER


"The great quantitative easing experiment was a mistake. It's time central banks acknowledge it for the failure it was and retire it from their policy arsenal as soon as they’re able."

(Opps...lil late yo.)


"Since the global financial crisis of 2008, an integral part of central banks' play book in the US, the UK and the European Union has been QE — the practice of buying up long-term bonds and mortgage-backed securities. QE is supposed to work by lowering long-term interest rates, which boosts demand and increases lending and risk-taking."


"There is little to show in terms of the economic benefits of QE, but there are plenty of costs. Now central banks find their hands tied as they try to curb inflation with interest rate increases and quantitative tightening, which means no more purchases of long-term bonds and mortgage-backed securities. But they're finding that ending QE can itself be a threat to financial stability."


"During the 2008 financial crisis, central banks were desperate to inject liquidity into the financial system. With the policy interest rate at zero, it needed to figure out another mechanism, so it bought long-term bonds and mortgage-backed securities, ballooning its balance sheet. That was supposed to be an emergency measure, but it went on for years. QE was followed by QE2 and then QE3 as the Fed became fearful that stopping would crash the bond markets.

(It's called "loose" or "easy" monetary policy and it became our addiction. Notice who used it the most, US, UK, EU...who is Putin going after again?)


"About a decade later, just as the Fed’s balance sheet finally started to shrink, along came the pandemic and the biggest QE ever. It lasted well after the immediate crisis passed, even as inflation and the housing market started to heat up."

(Think that was a fluke? Who bends the ark of history to his trajectory again? The Almighty alone, see post on idiosyncrasies etc...)


"In cases where a market is in trouble, having the central bank step in and buy bonds can provide needed liquidity. But using QE to boost the entire economy, to lower unemployment or boost inflation, has a more dubious record."


"QE is essentially taking a leveraged bet that won't pay off if interest rates increase. The Fed pays interest on the reserves it holds for banks, and it uses those reserves to finance its purchases of long-term bonds. Now that the interest rate has increased to fight inflation, the Fed must pay more for reserves than it's getting from the bonds in its portfolio, and it’s losing money."


"Using QE to keep interest rates low distorts risk assessment since bonds are considered the risk-free assets in the economy — they're used to price assets and act as a barometer on risk-taking. Long-term bonds are among the most systematically important assets in the economy, and when their price is distorted, risk prices have less meaning."


Translation, "easy $", "loose monetary policy", "QE" etc...I got kazillions OF $'s or other forms of wealth, I leverage those to the hilt, take a no interest or .25% interest loan, get more kazillions, invest that in the stock market with way better returns than what the banks are paying, after my investment reaches a certain threshold I "cash out" my investments having increased my kazillions and now I repeat the entire process. It's not hard to see why certain individuals dont/didn't want the process to stop and the 34 year old's who were 20 when this was all initiated? They think this is "normal", this is their "baseline", everything else in the past is an aberration because it's all they have ever known, when in fact the other side of that equation is whats "normal" and their "normal" is the "aberration.")


"The Bank for International Settlements published a paper arguing that lowering long-term rates made corporate debt cheaper, which propped up zombie companies."

(All waste in a sewer, all that "liquidity" the fed created  had to go somewhere and it largely went to creating and financing "Zombie corporations" which wouldnt have existed under "normal" conditions and dont provide any benefit other than barely being able to carry their debt loads and with interest rates climbing? They are now doomed to failure.)


"QE blurs the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy and threatens central bank independence because the Fed is essentially monetizing government debt. It also makes it very hard to follow monetary policy rules."


"Many economists think rules are better in most situations because they maintain the Fed’s credibility and promote transparency. There is no such formula or rule for QE; it's always ad hoc. That may be necessary in an emergency like the financial crisis. But the persistent use of QE shows central bankers will then extend that emergency action into normal times."

(I might add we tried raising interest rates a while back, 2.5% and it headed us straight to a recession, once we were backed in the corner of QE? there was no escape and the only way it's ever going to get fixed is with a complete collapse of current world economic order, hello 666, the new economic system spoke of in the book of revelation.

"Revelation 13:17-18

..."so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[a] That number is 666."

(Thank you Brother Joe for pointing out during your revelation bible study that "666" wasn't Satan but the new economic system that's coming.)


"Ending QE won’t be easy. Central banks now have enormous balance sheets that will take years to whittle down. And as we see in the UK, when a central bank stops buying bonds, it can throw markets into chaos. Now that QE has become the norm, the next time there is a recession markets will expect more QE, and if doesn’t happen that could cause more trouble in the debt market.

That’s why central banks need to admit QE was a mistake. Their credibility is already at stake after they underestimated inflation. Now is the time to take a hard look at monetary policy over the last decade and rethink what worked and what didn’t. Otherwise we’ll be stuck with QE forever."


(What do you call it when a mistake is your only choice? 

I dont know what you call it but I hear:


Revelation 6:15-17

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

We were just about out of it and here comes covid and makes it worse...you might want to just think about it for a minute and think why is it that our only option was a mistake?


"Their credibility (Central banks, the Fed etc) is already at stake after they underestimated inflation."

(I disagree, they knew ahead of time what was coming and that they were powerless to do anything about it, THATS why they let inflation be underestimated, they didn't wanna "remove the punch bowl from the party" so to speak until they had no choice, but they knew what was up, these people are not that obtuse. WOD BTW, obtuse :-).


"Now is the time to take a hard look at monetary policy over the last decade and rethink what worked and what didn’t. Otherwise we’ll be stuck with QE forever."

(Again, I disagree, i know go figure right? 1) it's not a substainable solution and 2) Russia and China just might have a say in what happens next, they sure seem to understand whats going on but all the combined central bankers in the US, UK and EU dont? Come on now...



Maybe?

Maybe there was a reason I got a job at the height of the financial crisis where I could sit and read all night night after night in quiet about QE etc...

Doin this 10+ years now...










Imagine that...

 


You'd almost think it was somebody's "long game" wouldnt ya?


Weapons shortages spark tough choices for Ukraine’s allies


"Top defense officials in Europe say arms shortages among Ukraine’s Western allies are forcing difficult conversations about how to balance support for Ukraine with concerns Russia may target them next."

(If the Russians are out of arms like the article says they are? then why are, "Ukraine’s Western allies are forcing difficult conversations about how to balance support for Ukraine with concerns Russia may target them next."?)


"NATO members that have sent billions of dollars worth of weapons and equipment are discussing what stockpile levels they need to meet their obligations under the mutual defense treaty."


When you are continuing to give away ammunition to Ukraine and you have to evaluate and assess the risk you take for your own readiness, you will have to take into account the threat,” the chairman of NATO’s military committee, Adm. Rob Bauer, said at the Halifax International Security Forum this weekend.

(Again, almost like somebody (Russians) forced us into this situation, go figure.)


"The strain on stockpiles is “across the board,” and particularly sharp for ammunition, he said. In the years before some countries donated to Ukraine, they maintained stockpiles at half capacity or less because they saw little risk or couldn’t afford more, and took a “just-in-time, just-enough,” approach to the defense industry.

“So the urgency now is seen and understood, I think in most of the nations,” Bauer said.


(Again, almost like somebody knew that isnt it?)


"While Russia’s battlefield losses of soldiers, tanks and aircraft have made it less of a threat, Ukraine’s allies have to make complicated calculations about the ability and pace at which Russia can reconstitute its forces, Bauer said.

The Russians have the same problems we have in terms of their stocks,” Bauer said."


(This is where I 100% disagree, just like the thing I did a video on this AM, 

Putin 1) Warns no more NATO expansion, 2008. 2) In 2014 with several weapons systems developed, (among them Hypersonic missiles) Putin states "The west has failed to contain us." 3) He sells off dollar's and buys gold so as to be protected from sanctions 4) He insulates his economy as much as possible such that they can be almost self sufficient. (Hello rise of importance of turkey, dont even get me started.)5) He is following the strategy to defeat NATO by a war of attrition because he knew 14 years ago it was what he was going to do and it is a war of attrition against NATO.  So I'm just not gonna buy the argument that the man with that much foresight didn't know in advance what he was doing and didn't manufacture the weapons he knew he was going to need ahead of time. One side, "maintained stockpiles at half capacity or less because they saw little risk or couldn’t afford more" the other side knew 14 years in advance what they were gonna do but didn't manufacture enough ammo? It's a stretch at best, and we might as well face it, we got caught with our pants down. 

Side note: One of these latest missile barrages and somebody in the theatre of war posted a picture of part of a Russian missile with it's serial number on it and the number indicated that it was a later version of that type of missile and the caption was sort of: "See, they are using the newer stuff because they have ran out of all the older versions etc..." and I'm over here like no, that's just exactly what he want you do believe, it's why they do things like that.)


"Amid splits among Ukraine’s supporters over whether Ukraine should enter peace talks..."

(Who does that benefits again?)


"Mindful of Canada’s ammunition levels after Ottawa donated M777 Howitzers and more than 25,000 artillery rounds earlier this year, Eyre (chief of Canada’s defense staff, Gen. Wayne Eyre) said he visited General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems earlier this month to see what’s possible to boost production for 155mm ammunition."

“It’s not easy when you’re dealing with production lines that need significant retooling to get the various [equipment] that we need,” Eyre said. “It’s not easy when you have very complicated supply chains, especially for the component parts of the munitions that are required.”


(Again, almost like somebody had that part of the calculus figured out in their decision making process.)


"One challenge, Bydén said (Swedish military’s supreme commander, Gen. Micael Bydén), is that nearly every Western country is looking to the defense industry to ramp up to meet their defense needs simultaneously."

(Opps...)


We have to coordinate ― specifically within the European continent ― better, because we have to fulfill a certain strategic autonomy in Europe,” Eichelsheim (Gen. Onno Eichelsheim, chief of defense of the Netherlands), said. “You cannot only rely on the U.S. or on other partners if the need is that high. Because the U.S. will not be able to ramp up completely for us, which is what we thought in the past. That’s not the truth.”


Seems to me like somebody else thinks were gonna focus on the Pacific...


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