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presidents of the USA don't pursue the dame politics. To lump them together is just too convenient.

If we have to apportion blame, things become very complicated very quickly. Putin did not have to invade Ukraine but he did. He is responsible for inflicting misery on easily 6 millions+ Ukrainians and posibly 100,000+ deaths. The sooner he goes, the better the world will be.

why should the USA take responsibility for something that Putin did?

I watched Lord Bilimoria of Cobra Beer fame was explaining the logic behind the decisions of LT's government on BBC Newscast. He is absolutely delighted with the mini budget. Huge transfer of tax money to big businesses.

big difference, LT and KK borrow to cut taxes, not for expansion. £2 billions is what it costs the Treasury to remove the 45% tax band for the top 1% of taxpayers while basic rate taxpayers get 1% tax giveaway.

I reckon they'll wait for the winter to bite and call the new GE, hoping people would vote for continuity when faced with high energy bills. Borrow to buy votes.

if you can't pedal much, you'll need a bike with a fully acting permanent throttle so you can start off on a hill. The Woosh Santana3 can do that with a simple reprogramming to make the throttle permanent. If you want it to be 100% legal, it has to be certified by VOSA (£55). The Santana3 has a...

Lawrence Summers, Secretary of US Treasury under Clinton, said this about LT's and KK's plan announced today: quote: It makes me very sorry to say, but I think the UK is behaving a bit like an emerging market turning itself into a submerging market. Between Brexit, how far the Bank of England...

I am not convinced that a Marshall plan would even work. The whole Western sphere has entered low growth phase for the last 30 years and with education in developing countries catching up with ours, there isn't a specific area we can quickly get into and dominate. We could have done well in wind...

Just image the opposition to the war in Russia if 300,000 were sent to fight in Ukraine. a lot of Russians are born after the USSR collapsed (1991), they don't have the nostalgia of communism. How many do you reckon are willing to fight to 'regain' Ukraine? Unlike in the Russo Afghanistan war...

a year ago today, the Pound was worth $1.367. Some 19% drop. It's not hard to figure out where inflation comes from. Does anyone know another way to claw back the losses other than for interest rate to go up?

I half expected that the Pound will tank at least for the next few months until the BoE can up interest rate to 4%-5%.

KK's mini budget: short term 2-year treasury bond yield went up from 3.3% to 3.9%. Billionaires are not buying them as enthusiastically as they did until now. That should tell LT and KK loud and clear that growth won't materialise. They try to woo back fintech companies that fled to the EU after...

zelenskiy fights for independence from Russia, Putin fights for the old Russian empire. Surely independence is a more motivating, don't you agree? Also, they are fighting in Ukraine, the locals will always have superior number of manpower. As far as I can see, Putin will fail, it's just a matter...

Truss-onomics is a lot of hot air. It's not so much what she wants to do on the economy, government borrows to controls energy price and removes moratorium on fracking, it's the noise that government tries to whip up as if it would energise the population. It's the same with tax cuts, Truss...

it isn't an irresistable force though, because Putin is calling up 300,000 to send to Ukraine. Russia is a country blessed with incredible riches which its dictator decided to use to wage a WWII style war, so unlike China's Xi. Putin is way past his sell by date.

sooner or later, I prefer it sooner rather than later, the Russian people and Putin will realise that his decision to invade Ukraine was wrong. His and their only way is for somesone else to take charge of the situation and negotiate a way to end this war. If he does not take responsibility for...

if Putin deploys nuclear weapons, even only low yield, it won't end the war. It will destroy Russia completely and most of Europe's capitals. WW3 will be for real. As you said, NATO has superior manpower and weaponry. Russia can't win. Soon enough, China and India will have to choose side and...

contrast the way China wants to re-unify with Taiwan and Putin with Ukraine. China will get there more quickly and pretty much bloodless.

it's the same as LiFePO4 (Lithium Iron Phosphate). LPF stands for Lithium Ferro Phosphate. Neither name is ideal because the cathode material is a compound of LiFePO4 and other elements like Aluminium, Cobalt, Manganese and Titanium. The compound forms a solid structure of 'blobs' a bit like...