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    Putin & Russia

    while Trump says a lot of crazy sh*t he has explicitly stated that one of the reasons the Ukraine war needs to stop is that the longer it goes on the greater chance there is of unintended and irretrievable escalation
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Not seen anything on this but if true i wonder if Labour are considering dropping the high income tax threshold to £45K? Could imagine spin that its not technically a tax increase just a change in the threshold at which you pay more tax.....
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Labour's worat ever YouGov poll apparently. Cons, Lab, Dems and surging Greens all within margin of error of each other now.
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    Putin & Russia

    End the war as soon as possible.
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    Putin & Russia

    This is an excellent yet chilling book on the scenario of a modern nuclear war that accidentally escalates in about an hour to end human civilisation and it features the scenario where Russia's EKS/Tundra early warning system mistakenly interprets a US missile attack fired across its airspace...
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    Putin & Russia

    China likely views the war as one it really can't afford Russia to lose. If Russia loses, Putin's grip losens and the liklihood of a pro-democracy, pro-west takeover occurring in Russia. That would leave China isolated geopolitically and with what it would view as a major threat all along its...
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    Putin & Russia

    Russia isn't using its airpower though. It isn't actually committing all of its military to this conflict. It has never committed its most modern hardware or provided serious air support to its forces. The reason support for Ukraine has been drip fed is to prevent escalation. As much as we...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    They are mostly not using them, nor other similar platforms like Paypal, Stripe as a bank. They are using them to move money rapidly. Open banking environments mean you can have your bank, savings accounts and credit cards liked to your Revolut or Paypal apps and if you want to transfer money...
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    Putin & Russia

    Depends. If you took away the western military support Kyiv would likely have fallen within months if not weeks. When the US briefly halted military aid not so long ago a whole section of the Ukrainian front collapsed and the Russians gained hundreds of miles in the space of a week. I don't...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    They are not. They are in the process of obtaining one. They were granted a provisional license in July and are working through the process to become a bank in the UK. Most people have their salary paid into a bank account which soon dissappears. I only have a couple of hundred quid left...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    People are using it for large amounts though. Huge amounts.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    i think to be honest, if you're in the position of worrying about the FSCS scheme, you are in a far more privileged position than most.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I don't really understand the point of all this. You won't use Revolut. Fine. But millions do and they are growing all the time. As i said they are a success story that our government policies are threatening to drive away.
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    Putin & Russia

    I didn't say it would take place. I'm saying that we are sat here in Europe crying about America not being prepared to provide security guarantees and intervene in a way you would like. And we are no longer capable of defending ourselves. Basically.
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    Putin & Russia

    I don't think any serious military analysts thought Russia would take Kyiv in 3 days. Ukraine is a vast country and had a standing army of 700,000 in 2022, which had been battle hardened via fighting separatists in Eastern Ukraine since 2015. Russia initially deployed 200,000 troops and has...
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    Putin & Russia

    Exactly. "Disgrace that Trump isn't intervening." What about Starmer. Should he deploy our forces to Ukraine? In terms of intervention to "stop people dying" most military anakysts reckon that in a conflict against Russia our entire standing army of c. 75K would be killed/incapacitated within a...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    They don't need to be FSCS covered because they are not a bank in the UK. But they are an e-money institution. The fundamental difference between a bank and an e-money institution is that when you place a deposit with a bank, the bank can do what it wants with that money. Whereas an e-money...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    In what way are they not going to guarantee your money? I did read. I cited Revolut as an example of a success story developed in the UK that will possibly HQ and list themselves elsewhere due to the constant sh*tshow we see in government policy in this space. You then talked down Revolut as...
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    Putin & Russia

    2 and 3 is absolutely about being the world police. Interventionalism has gone so well for us all over the decades hasnt it?
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Just more evidence for me of the attitude we need to reform our incompetence and outdated political and governance systems. F*cking get on with it and suck it up. Bravo.
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