The West doesn't need to? What more needs to happen for the West to need to?
Alliance of Russia and China? The shift of literally the entire ROW away from Western de facto control? Dedollarization? The unification of the Middle East in support of Russian and Chinese (and their own) interests? The shift of literally almost all of Central America and South America to anti-American governments?
They're fighting Russia at practically no present cost to themselves, 50 km from Russia's borders.
As for the rest of the rationalizations, look at UST futures. The largest, most sophisticated and most liquid securities market in the world, and they don't seem too bothered.
1) Destruction of the US military's reputation as the dominant military on earth along with literally thousands of US weapons platforms.
2) Destruction of the US' ability to wage economic warfare via sanctions.
3) De dollarization turbocharged
4) Split off of the ROW from US/Western leadership, in particular the Middle East
5) Enormous inflation with 26 months of negative real wages, ended just last month (very possibly temporarily).
But sure, if you ignore all that, practically no cost.
As for the securities market: the US printed literally ten plus trillion dollars over COVID. Why wouldn't the US stock market increase as a result? Weimar stock markets also were up Up UP!
More importantly: stock markets don't supply militaries or people - real world production does. The US had to buy TNT from Japan just a month ago LOL.
I was going to write out an investment strategy if you actually were convinced of all that, but decided not to bother.
The idea that the UST can seamlessly manipulate the Treasury bond market, a market which, taking into account derivatives, is several multiples of world GDP, but cannot affect dedollarization, is a laugh.
Anyway, go buy long dated deep out of the money options if you're so sure. The smart money doesn't think so, although I've made money at times by going against the smart consensus.
And yet the West waltzes over red line after Russian red line, having lost all fear of Russia.
If the West truly had no fear of Russia - it would have already directly intervened.
Yet again - the drip drip of Western weapons even as stocks dwindle to literally nothing - speaks of weakness, not strength.
Because the West hasn't needed to, although, as the author intimates, that intervention is coming.
The West doesn't need to? What more needs to happen for the West to need to?
Alliance of Russia and China? The shift of literally the entire ROW away from Western de facto control? Dedollarization? The unification of the Middle East in support of Russian and Chinese (and their own) interests? The shift of literally almost all of Central America and South America to anti-American governments?
LOL
They're fighting Russia at practically no present cost to themselves, 50 km from Russia's borders.
As for the rest of the rationalizations, look at UST futures. The largest, most sophisticated and most liquid securities market in the world, and they don't seem too bothered.
Hmm, let's see:
1) Destruction of the US military's reputation as the dominant military on earth along with literally thousands of US weapons platforms.
2) Destruction of the US' ability to wage economic warfare via sanctions.
3) De dollarization turbocharged
4) Split off of the ROW from US/Western leadership, in particular the Middle East
5) Enormous inflation with 26 months of negative real wages, ended just last month (very possibly temporarily).
But sure, if you ignore all that, practically no cost.
As for the securities market: the US printed literally ten plus trillion dollars over COVID. Why wouldn't the US stock market increase as a result? Weimar stock markets also were up Up UP!
More importantly: stock markets don't supply militaries or people - real world production does. The US had to buy TNT from Japan just a month ago LOL.
I was going to write out an investment strategy if you actually were convinced of all that, but decided not to bother.
The idea that the UST can seamlessly manipulate the Treasury bond market, a market which, taking into account derivatives, is several multiples of world GDP, but cannot affect dedollarization, is a laugh.
Anyway, go buy long dated deep out of the money options if you're so sure. The smart money doesn't think so, although I've made money at times by going against the smart consensus.