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.
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
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.
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.
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