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Russia-Ukraine War
The war in the Ukraine approaches three years in 2025. The Ukrainian counter-offensive largely saw little to negligible gains but massive casualties, deaths on both sides and huge amounts of aid, munition and humanitarian aid.
Both countries have seen massive causalities of war in the hundreds of thousands. Recruitment to the army in these countries has often included criminals and convicts to replenish flanks that have been wiped out.
18th Nov
The Biden Admin gave the all clear for Ukraine to deploy ATACMS, high velocity, long-range missiles into Russia.
BRICS Summit, Kursk and North Korean Troops
We had the time to review the BRICS summit in Russia in which Russia, despite the best efforts of the western alliance, didn’t appear isolated. While Russia has its problems with population decline; the nations of India, China , Brazil are no central to world trade and are necessary to any world order.
Putin was confronted directly on the Kursk incursion. We tend to believe that there is quite the possibility that the Russian army has encircled the the Ukrainian battalions in the Kursk region.
It is noteworthy that Russia and North Korea signed a defense pact. Recently the deployment of ten thousand North Korean army members to the Kursk region may be part of this treaty or they may later be deployed to the Ukraine, this remains to be seen.
With the New President elect, Donald Trump, there could be renewed hopes for a deal between these two adversaries. The question is for many should Ukraine be forced to cede territory it had before the war ?
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Russia decided to heavily attack Ukraine’s power grid during Christmas, in what one could only describe as being not within the Christmas spirit.
Feb 5th
The promised Trump Presidency to bring about a swift end to the Russia-Ukranian war has yet to transpire. Trump has indicated that he would be interested in a deal with the Ukraine to supply it’s rare earth minerals to the US in return for military aid.
Trump has also called out Europe for not contributing more to the Ukraine than it has or currently is in ter
ms of financial and military aid.
Feb 25th 2025
A fallout between Ukraine and the United States has taken place in the last weeks. Zelensky has come under pressure by remarks from Donald Trump, accusing him of not doing enough for peace in the Ukraine and for not holding elections in the Ukraine. Meanwhile Putin and Trump are engaging in talks without the Ukraine being part of the talks. I indicated earlier in my blog that ideally we would have a number of neutral nations and the respective nations fully involved in peace talks. Concessions may have to be given by both sides, but the result can be lasting peace.
Russo- Ukraine ceasefire Negotiations
After the dramatic fallout between Donald Trump and V Zelensky at the White House a meeting between both administrations in Jeddah Saudi Arabia has seen a push for a ceasefire. The results of the meeting are preliminary as Russia wasn’t present. Once again, I have set out my opinion that for meaningful discussions both adversaries should be present. Russia and the Ukraine. Now while Ukraine isn’t completely against a ceasefire, I think We know that in any case but leaves Russia to add conditions at this stage.
April 15-2025
Reports from most international media and leaks from US State channels seem to suggest that Russia is edging closer to an agreement with the US over a ceasefire. While Ukraine has been the more forthcoming of the two sides as far as acceptance of US proposals.
Israel-Gaza and Palestine conflict
Israeli attack on Iran
In the much promised retaliation on Iran for their ballistic missile barrage on October 1st, we saw the response in which according to reports some 120 fighter jets invaded Iranian airspace with little response and targeted a number of ballistic manufacturing sites, airbases and other military installations. Iran issued a statement that it reserved the right again to respond.
Both countries were slow to release evidence or footage of the damage caused by the Israeli strike. It is also unclear why there was or was not any response from the Iranian air force to the violation of their airspace by over 100 jets. It may be that the Israeli aircraft ability dwarfs that of Iran. We can’t really know for sure without accurate reports.
We tend to come to the conclusion that the Iranian defense and anti-ballistic missile system has been considerably set back, perhaps by months or years depending on the support it can get from allies. Little reporting has been given by either side to this fact.
Syrian uprising and Israeli opportunistic bombing of Syria
With Assad on the run in Russia and a new regime being installed in Syria,.Israel was quick to bomb military installations in Syria and push troops into Syrian territory. It remains to be seen, how far Israeli troops will encroach upon Syrian territory. The statement is that it wishes to create some buffer zone from terrorist attacks on its territory.
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Israeli’s focus has now shifting towards the Houthis operating in Yemen. Considering their considerable success against all other groups in the Middle-East, we reckon that they are likely to significantly deplete this group also in the coming days or weeks.
Feb 5th Update
The US administration has reclassified the Houthis as a terrorist organisation. This allows the US to confront them more vigorously.
The release of Israeli hostages has been to the delight of most ,there still remains some hostages and terms of the deal indicate a ceasefire and in many cases one Israeli being exchanged for over 50 Palestinian hostages.
Just yesterday Trump announced that it intended America to take control of Gaza. This could have far reaching consequences.
Feb 25th 2025
The hostage exchange continues in turn for a ceasefire and exchange of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. The international community is mostly against the US occupation of the Gaza strip , denouncing it as amounting to ethnic cleansing. It would see hard to takeover the strip against the will of the people, without the support of neighboring countries to take in the people and with strong international condemnation. Obviously Israel would be in favor of replacing a foe with an ally in the region. Once again, one thinks that any agreement would need representatives of the Palestinian community to partake in them to ensure a lasting peace.
March 12
There has been a significant uptick in Iranian and US rhetoric on nuclear capabilities. The US has stated firmly that Iran needs to enter discussions or else and that in no uncertain terms will.it allow Iran possess weapons of mass destruction. This seems like a situation that escalate. We think Iran is most likely to engage in delay and diplomacy tactics as the Israeli strikes on its ballistic defenses have perhaps set it back years on airdefense.
Iran- Us talks
Rounds of talks are taking place to be persuasive pressure on Iran abandoning its nuclear program. Meanwhile, the Houthis in Yemen have been under heavy bombardment by the US military.
Inflation and Migration in Europe
Housing
We here encourage removal of red tape to allow planning an extensive building of housing.This purpose is to reduce the social burden and also allow citizens and legal migrants to be adequately housed. I would deem a fair housing rent to be no more than 40 percent of the monthly income for a minimum wage worker. I think European nations need to aspire and meet this target. This would be the price for a a single housing unit or a family housing unit where there are two workers in the household. For example it might be necessary to cap rents at 500 euro in the euro zone for a single unit and 800 euro for a family unit. Both being a private residence. Some reports indicate that net immigration in parts of Europe exceeded new housing by multiple factors which has greatly contributed to a housing crisis. While it might be good news for landlords, it is not good news for the average worker and migrant alike, the later may initially benefit from free accommodation. Further measures might be to examine all vacant properties in each State to see if they can be made available for housing.
European Measures to quickly counter Inflation
I have a number of proposals to create better living conditions and quickly counter inflation in the Eurozone area.
- Tax all second properties ,reduce and eliminate all tax breaks for investment properties and have a incremental scale of tax for multiple properties.
- Increase the banking reserve rate,the amount of cash banks need to hold, increase the basal requirements for banks to secure their depositors and drastically reduce if not eliminate the fractional reserve policy.
- Immediately reduce the amount of EU buying of sovereign government debt to discourage increased debt in the Eurozone.
The threatened Trump trade war seems to have been a bluff to control illegal migration and drug smuggling into the US. The US paused it’s tariffs on both Canada and Mexico when assurances were given as to extra security being deployed on their side of the border !
European People’s crisis
While European countries are obliged under the EU asylum pact to take their fair share of asylum seekers and provide the necessary housing and social benefits, we once again outline that the same benefits aren’t always provided to citizens of the same States. Hence,it would be productive to make sure these are available to all citizens to alleviate tensions between asylum seekers and citizens and to diffuse tensions in many European countries.
Furthermore, with the rise of far-right parties in Europe, the danger is to increase the rich-poor gap in many countries. Migrants are already largely settled in lower to lower-middle class parts of society rather than in expensive plush suburbs. This is causing tensions in communities.
Suggestion for Europe moving forward with the current security threats within and outside.
Europe, member states, and the commission is wise to step up defense spending. The commission promising in the region of 1 trillion Euro.
The asylum process ,while as Europeans we have great humanitarian sympathy unlike many third nations,needs a temporary pause for 6 months.
The EU commission would be wise to put an immediate pause on asylum.for 6 months. EU countries need time to deal with domestic issues,housing, internal crime, registering all past entrants and increasing military spending.
Hungary a Strong leader in Europe.
The prime minister of Hungary needs to be lauded for his progressive fight against migration in Europe, preservation of European traditional values and fighting the fight that has been launched against European cultures, values and the soul of Europe. Budapest is one of the safer European capitals at this moment.
Greece
An unparalleled history, birthplace of great human thinkers , a language so rich in meaning and history. A passionate people that has not forgotten it’s nationalistic nor its patriotic spirit. A country remaining strong at heart due to past adversaries.
Bitcoin, which doesn’t resemble a coin but part of a program, reaches record highs on the election of President Trump, elected by his enthusiastic followers. The price reaches approx $80k and gold has reached record highs recently. Both are good indicators of inflation.
These have given rise to an exigency in Europe.
US Congress Foreign aid Package
The US Congress recently passed a roughly 90 billion dollar aid package for essentially military spending that included some humanitarian spending. The package sought to bolster defenses in the Ukraine,Israel and the China Sea region. We think again this spending will result in inflation in the US economy.
EU Anti-Inflationary purposals
To counter inflation in the Eurozone a number of measures need to be undertaken.
Firstly, an increase in the banking reserve rate the percentage of cash banks need to hold.
Secondly, we would encourage a tightening of the banking fractional reserve system and an update to the Basal banking accords. Ultimately dramatically limiting the banking lending policy with the aim of securing the banking system ,limiting false profits to banki
2025 Business Updates
Both bitcoin and gold have traded higher than ever. I do an extensive analysis of the markets, looking at value, political stability , macro and micro economic conditions and geopolitical stability. Gold is going higher based on its store of value, whereas bitcoin is falsely perceived as digital gold, reaching record prices in 2025.
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