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Hopefully rest and reflect a bit, we are here at deadline white house. Our thinking about the families 4700 miles away in ukraine. With this Holiday Season it must feel like for them. Christmas eve mark ten months since the start of a russian war that has not let up. Even now, as we head into the thick of winter. When russia unleashed that first air strike on february 24th, it was the largest attack on the european state since world war ii. It is a gut punch that capture the worlds attention more than any other, came less than two weeks later. Putins forces laid siege to the port city of mariupol, unleashing ripped through a Children Hospital and maternity ward, sending pregnant women fleeing for their lives. We are only beginning to grasp the scope of the atrocities there. According to the bbc, Satellite Images show that since june, more than 1500 new graves have appeared at a mass burial site inside mariupol. Devastating. And yet. And yet the twice impeached, disgraced ex president c
Phase of this war on ukraine. Just today, President Putin has made overt Nuclear Threats against europe. I talk with the president of finland, who knows putin well. I also sat down with the president of south korea to ask about the threat from his neighbor to the north, who just declared itself a nuclear state. Also, hijabs burned, protests rage and chants of death to the dictator ring out in iran after a woman dies in Police Custody there. What will come of the demonstrations . I will ask an expert. But first, heres my take. Lets not play down what has happened this week. The leader of the Worlds Largest Nuclear Power publicly threatened to use Nuclear Weapons. In an address in moscow on wednesday, vladamir putin declared that russia would use all Weapons Systems available to us to defend the country. He emphasized it. This is not a bluff. It might be. Putins threat is an addon of traditional soviet doctrine. Now they contemplate scenarios which it could use Nuclear Weapons. But putin
The ukrainian economy, i mean, from the Ukrainian Armed forces, no one filtered there anymore, this is the problem, but what was collected if we wanted to achieve this directly, it means the ministry of defense to simply recruit people, thats one story, but the government has what we said before, we have to have everything work systematically, if its just to drive everyone into the army, it will not work, but at the same time people are needed, that is why there are people, they are recruited there, but now it remains to. Regulate so that our economy does not disappear, because there will be no war, i thank you very much, roman kostenko, voice and oleksiy goncharenko, european solidarity, peoples deputies were on radio svoboda. Vladimir putin is ready to stop the war in ukraine by negotiating a ceasefire that will fix the current front line. At least this is what the Reuters Agency writes with reference to sources in politics and business, business circles. Russians who worked or are w
For nvidia long my favorite stock one i always say to own, dont trade. Yet i keep hearing about how to trade nvidia should you go long or short . The greatest avl intelligence play of our time one thats already changing the world with its borderline miraculous semiconductors. Should we declare victory, sell the darn thingup here . Maybe buy some more. And then it hit me why dont i just tell a dad joke so here goes [ rimshot yeah that is why my sisters names rose because your mother loves roses. Thanks, dad. No problem nvidia hallelujah plunging 606 points. Nasdaq tumbling. Nasdaq losing. 39 prs. We have to recognize there was one stock of one truly Great Company that frankly has nothing to do with the dow or the nasdaq or the fed for that matter that stock is nvidia it is quite simply much bigger than a Semiconductor Company much bigger than a can p, much bigger than the platform i owned my late rescue dog after because i didnt think enough people owned the stock. Who is nvidia, what i