John Hjorth

@Eldad and @thepupil, I'm sorry if I above offended you. That was really not my intent. But I'm sure you both are capable of actually finding for you interesting, attractive, pretty stable stuff at reasonable prices running at ~15 per cent ROE, cash flow positive, without problems in todays environment. Who to engage with and to kiss is always a strictly personal matter. But please also think about not wasting your time on something not worthy of your time, with no real upside. Doing so is just the perfect object for locking you in where you already are, in stead of spending your time, energy and attention on something bringing you on the move forwards to a - for yourself - better future.

Why is it, that some people here on CofB&F are even spending time on stuff like this?

2025W17, Tuesday April 17th 2024 - American Politics : Are you all kidding me?

Thank you for the elaboration, Lars [ @Viking ].

Lars [ @Viking ], Related to generational and estate planning, or are your following this from a general investment point of view, or your wife and you considering a second home?

2025W17 - Monday 21st April 2025 - Russian-Ukrainian War : YouTube - Anders Puck Nielsen [April 18th 2025] : NATO has missed the drone revolution You Tube summary : NATO has failed to understand the drone revolution and needs to act quickly to avoid disaster in a war with Russia. That is the message in a recent article by Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's former commander-in-chief. In this video, I discuss Zaluzhnyi's arguments and point out where the Western militaries have gone wrong. The biggest problem is that they see drones as enablers of maneuver warfare, but they haven't noticed that maneuver warfare is now a paradigm of the past. Drones have shifted the balance between defensive and offensive operations to an extent that modern warfare now means static, attritional fighting that resembles World War I. Link to Zaluzhnyi's article: https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/04/how-drones-data-and-ai-transformed-our-militaryand-why-us-must-follow-suit/404444/ . - - - o 0 o - - - I think Anders Puck Nielsen certainly has a valid point, related to most of the NATO member countries. It's not just about gear and equipment, its also about practical training of military staff.

Got filled on some tiny low ball [under the belt?] orders on JOE today.

And then about seven hours before the end of the socalled ceasefire : Retuters - World - Europe [April 20th 2025] : Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of breaking one-day Easter ceasefire. - - - o 0 o - - - All *BS*, likely from both parties. Just let the show continue now, and let's see what then happens. I suppose we'll soon see US peace delegation packing its stuff and going home.

Yes, like Blake [ @Blake Hampton ] posted, A new arena set up, much wider, more bloaty than before, however I certainly have an understanding of Sanjeev [ @Parsad ] from time to time getting really tired of us. Tariffs are an integral part US politics by now, I would say, and so also the reactions from other parties to it. - - - o 0 o - - - - As a consequence of this CofB&F intiative, I'll personally take it as a welcomed opportunity to limit my own activity in this merged topic to one post per week per political topic, where I so far primarily has posted in the predecessor topics about the Ukrainian-Russian war and stuff about US Politics related to Greenland, mostly for information sharing purposes without the intent to get into heated discussions. If I get hit by an urge to add something, I'll edit and add to already existing post for the week. My weeks starts on Mondays, so from tomorrow.

After checking up on the status on this, this morning, it turns out it was in reality all hot air and spin by Putin, without any real content, nor intent, and the hostilities never really came to a stop yesterday. Total *BS* Oh well. - - - o 0 o - - - Edit :

Political opponents and other bad guys getting cannoned down in public?

Reuters - World, Europe [April 19th 2025] : Russia's Putin declares unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine. - - - o 0 o - - - Finally, Putin is giving in, just a bit, an inch. At least that's better than nothing, likely because of hard negotiation pressure by USA. We must just hope that Ukraine follows suit.

Sanjeev [ @Parsad ] can naturally reply for him self about his political observation. Here I'll just say I personally think you have misunderstood him. There exists a difference between being left leaning, and being willing give away your own a** to whoom next to you, who may be in need of so. It's in the genes and the upbringing, and the Life! The complaints / reports here on CofB&F to Sanjeev are about bad form discussion strategies and techniques , - name calling and such! -A few Americans here on CofB&F [never you Greg , @Gregmal ] from time time post stuff here on CofB&F that is considered rude by non-American CofB&F members. And we should all know to do better! The greatest common denominator [culturally] needs to be the ultimate minimum of board behavior here on CofB&F, if CofB&F long term shall stay global, so we welcome everyone on the planet!

It will very likely serve you well, @Red Lion.

Reuters [April 18th 2025] : US will abandon Ukraine peace push if no progress 'within a matter of days,' Rubio says. - - - o 0 o - - - The message also confirmed by POTUS verbally from the White House. [Yellow tie! - Easter!] Personally, I've the whole time considered this initative by POTUS noble. I also think it's about time to drag a line in the sand, meaning now or not. *BS* needs to be called. The striding parties can't continue to drag this out any longer for this madness to continue.. I just hope there will be made an example of procedural harm to the presumptuous party stalling the process. I have absolutely no idea about what the check-out of USA from the process eventually may bring, if that happens, for Ukraine, for Russia and in the end for whole Europe. It's just a disaster, calamity, taking a turn into something worse, much worse. It's just extremely frustrating to think about. *sigh* - - - o 0 o - - - Happy Easter to all CofB&F members and families !

@Dalal.Holdings, You're right. It does not really matter much. The place on the planet in general to buy good stuff is still USA. No doubt about that.

Awesome entertainment. Just saying.

Year to date : One year : Three years :

Blake [ @Blake Hampton ], Nobody is really holding you back from doing something about it.

Reading these posts by @Sweet and @Pelagic, and thinking about the content of them, and the built-in POTUS logic in them, has caused a minor brain hemorrhoid.

Lars [ @Viking ], Three days more, and then we're just three months into this scenario. Today : - - - o 0 o - - - It's not that long ago [a couple of weeks or so?] Charlie [ @dealraker ] posted, that the decisions already made and actions already taken by POTUS likely and eventually will catch up with him, and take control over him. I think we are already at that point. - - - o 0 o - - - I've always been of the opinion that the World lost a hell of a software engineer by my personal decision while young to become a bean counter. Attached is my humble contribution to make the World a better place. [The cat Lulu thinks it's awesome!, while The Lady of the House thinks I've now totally lost it. ] Excel file for CofBFers to help cope with things as is - 20250417.xlsx

Finally, I've got an explanation of why I've always wanted to punch this guy, hard :

Peter [ @Dalal.Holdings ], I have admit here, that it in this topic it appears peculiar. And it's not in any way good. European bureaucracy at its 'finest'. Against that power, you have - by now, pretty mute, 'corporate Europe',

What do you really mean by posting 'Putin is clever.'? What's about the future of frozen Russian assets in Europe isen't for POTUS to decide.

How on Earth did you figure out that @Sweets private message to me was about that?