“They say everything is the RED LINE!”
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Russia has always said cruise missiles will force massive escalation. Yes, they say that about everything. But in every other instance, HIRAMS, Abrams, f-16s, even ATACMS; Putin’s best means of achieving his war aims still lay in current strategy and not provoking the west.
We don’t know anything that is going on. We are either A). Sending cruise missiles because Russia is about to achieve breakthrough. Or B). Russian infrastructure is on its knees, and additional precision will cripple it, forcing a cession of hostilities.
There hasn’t been any news about the war in the last few months.
Either way,
You can’t use a proxy state to bomb a country with a +1,000,000 standing army. They will simply seize the launchers with a general invasion.
And Russia has said since 22 they will declare war if this happens
I’ll leave it to the monkeys at the Pentagon, though. Clearly the Russians aren’t going to act on their words, they never have.
It’s been on the up and up recently and they mine precious metals. Monday it was up but there was a sell off yesterday because of the pending decision of the Libby exploration project in Montana in which they are going to explore for silver and copper ore deposits . In which they were given the go ahead as th forest service said there was no significant impact and the stock rose today to 13.33 up a 1.33 in a day. Call options on it are up in the 100s of a percent. I think it’s a moderate good buy because a) people are starting to hoard precious metals b) we need to have precious metals for our tech. Also check out first majestic silver.
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