Breaking: Russian nuclear deterrent on alert :BBC

[d08]

The Ukraine nationalist movement is expanding exponentially because of Putins use of reverse psychology. AZOR is against NATO, Putin will accept embarrassment to keep Ukraine out of NATO forever.

What's AZOR? This was not about NATO. Putin had always plans to attack Ukraine but never had the timing right until now. Baltics are also on the list but with NATO presence it became slightly more difficult.

 

[zdreg]

Peace talks have started and the weekend Dow market at IG index is up 150 points.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...s-without-preconditions-russia-belarus-border

Powerful 600 negative point swing

 

[ZBZB]

Powerful 600 negative point swing

Buy the dip so far.

 

[d08]

RUB down 36%.

 

[JamesJ]

RUB down 36%.

The RUSL ETF might hit 0 value tomorrow, at 2x leverage a 50% drop will make it worthless.

With RUB down that much and a drop in stocks in Moscow, this can easily happen in $ denomination

 

[vanzandt]

That's the plot of Die Hard 4: Live Free Or Die Hard. A rogue Treasury Agent turned cyber criminal creates fake videos about the White House being blown up and performs a "fire sale" of the US infrastructure grid and downloads all the financial transactions of the world. It's a pretty interesting movie.

Really? I never saw it, what year was it made? I can look, no biggie. Point is, these fake video's can be a real big deal because they've gotten that good. I mean someone that knows how to do it can make one that has Putin saying whatever and that he's pushing the big button.

Now, FB, Twitter, MSFT, and to a greater extent DARPA have been working on ways to identify them so they can't be posted. Not that they care about the markets per se, it's just that these things can be hugely dangerous the way stuff spreads lightening quick on social media.

 

[nitrene]

It was released in 2007.

 

[vanzandt]

It was released in 2007.

Compared to what can be done today, we might as well be comparing NVDA's latest and most expensive chip... to a friggin vacuum tube.

Somebody's gonna do this some day, for a quick score. Hopefully it will just be a stock, something stupid... and not something that could be the catalyst to a nuclear response from a nation state.

Like I said, the more sophisticated the origins, the bigger the score. Watch what happens when they figure out a way to trick-f*ck the newswires.

 

[vanzandt]

holy crap, nasdaq got close to limit down

buy it
13,830

 

[canada812]

Putin is probably mad at the central bank sanctions.

"The U.S., Europe and Canada pledged Saturday to prevent the Bank of Russia from deploying its $630 billion stockpile of international reserve “in ways that undermine the impact of our sanctions,” they said in a joint statement Saturday."

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/ru...try-s-financial-strength-AGe2bBTKmYW2bzqRnNWI