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@Luca unfortunately I don’t have access

On Ukraine-Russia war related topics, it is either Ukraine single handily destroying some many Russian assets or Russia amazingly competently doing it to the Ukrainians. (As per WION) both cannot be true at the same time

Thanks. For FFH in the chart the dividend seems to be included I am guessing. How does the mechanics of the chart works ? does it assume that the $10 cash dividend is re-invested back into FFH when it was cashed out. Pretty much assuming a synthetic total capital return made entirely of repurchases (ignoring tax) or is the dividend is not assumed to be re-invested ?

Check this short TV show out on Prime. My god what a story. Really well made. It came out in 2020 yet somehow I didn’t even aware of its existence. The buyers are Italians. The sellers are Mexicans and the middlemen are Americans.

Fascinating read

dude, you got to stop doing that. No one said anything up “US wanting to annex Vietnam”. You are just making that point in order to differentiate it from Ukraine. All to fit a specific narrative that you are trying to float. Guess what USSR didn’t want to annex Afghanistan nor did Saudi Arabia wanted to annex Yemen. Nor does Iran wants to annex Iraq. Funny enough, you are not wrong broadly speaking about Russia’ threat, yet you fight so hard in coming up with narratives and literarily making up points that are wrong which has nothing to do with case in point. I said you are not wrong broadly speaking about Russia, but now that I read your comment and the way you are diluting US involvement in Vietnam, that just tells me that you are one sided and heavily skewed in your thinking. As far as your dismissive “policy of containment” broad stroke, it happened to kill millions and change the direction of millions of lives. It just didn’t have a central villain for the main casting as the Ukraine-Russia story does, which is really gets you going.

Are you serious ? Vietnam was no different than any other “short war” or “isolated war” that a superpower cooked-up but ultimately gained its own inertia and just end up dominating everything … as Ukraine is for Russia or Yemen was for Saudi Arabia. There was no grand strategy vis a vis Vietnam to “push them to waste resources”. Now military pow-wow fanboys (not you) will point out the 1968 Tet offensive and other things, and point out in great details how actually US didn’t lose militarily only politically. The more clever fanboys (not talking about you) talk about number folks killed. Look, they say. “We killed millions vs 60,000 dead Americans”. We are awesome, they assert. It doesn’t matter. We are not in a slaughterhouse, counting bodies as a proxy for victory and/or greatness. “War is the continuation of policy with other means." a wise German once said. In your case, you are actually asserting some sort of political grand strategy.

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@Luca please “love” or “thumbs up” this post for me.

I would love to meet both Petec and Parsad, but unfortunately I am not in the UK

My view is that when one takes an Oath to become a citizen of Canada, unless it is for humanitarian reasons, they need to forgo all their darkest desire vis a vis their former homeland. You cannot in all honestly take an Oath and become a citizen, yet your mind be on overdrive in achieving some sort of political agenda (be it violent or non violent) back home. That is abuse of country that gave you a new home. That said, this is not a Trudeau thing, as much as haters like to pile in. It requires a change that transcends any specific government.

Blackswans hitting three mortals at the same time. The speaker of the Canadian parliament did not know just three days ago that he would cause an huge embarrassment that would cost his job. The anti-Russian narrative was so important to maintain at all cost. Well you don’t have a job now. The prime minister of Canada did not know just three days ago that his biggest headache this week had nothing to do with what he had revealed about the assassination of the Sikh activist in BC by India’ spy agency, but rather something completely out of the left field. The former SS Waffen soldier and Ukrainian patriot, chilling in Ontario, did not know just three days ago (perhaps it is the age) that Poland was going to ask for his extradition. LOL.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/26/americas/canada-house-speaker-anthony-rota-tuesday/index.html Dumbass #1 resigned. Well earned. They went looking for something to fit the anti-Russian narrative. In their blindness, ran straight to the wall. And they ALL applauded, and now they started finger pointing, but before applauding started no one stopped to ask, “well if you fought in WW2 against the Russians (and we are not taking 1939 Poland), than maybe you were with the other side” That is the number 1 issue with this conflict. Everyone is trying to f$&ing hard to be pro-Ukraine. Almost going out of their way. Why is there a need to force narrative. Just stick to the basics, “Russia invaded Ukraine”. And that is fundamentally wrong. That is all you need.

If you want to support Ukraine as an open-ended conflict, go with Hilux, the best versatile h/w

Unfortunately I have been voting liberal. Guilty as charged.

if you permit me. You are ashamed of the current Government. But the flag and the nation are awesome. ps: It could have been worse. In a sheer hysteria Nazi boy could have given a mighty Hitler salute in our Parliament.

That story with Canadian parliament and the retired-Nazi-pensioner goes to show how just superficial everything is. we went looking for a guy who fits the narrative….. Opppps

yeah exactly soon there would upcoming comparison to America going after bearded men w/o impunity. And how come Delhi is not allowed to do conduct assassination on foreign soil. That said I am about tired of Liberals and Trudeau. I was & am voting conservative next election. Whenever that might be. They have been mismanaging our foreign policy. But every time some Asian power throws its economic weight and bullies us, I do like a government that stands up.

Why did Xi diverged from Deng’ footsteps and chose to no longer “be patient and to hide his strength” at the cost of upsetting real tangible economic relationship with United States. Not to say that Canada is important to India as US was to China. But sometimes pride gets in the way. PS: PLA Navy doesn’t need aircraft carriers. They would be better suited to have a larger number of submarines. I even recall an American admiral making the comment how he prefers Beijing obsession about large fleet of aircraft carriers in the long term than a larger submarine fleet that could be America’ naval assets at risk. Delhi doesn’t/didn’t need to assassinate that fellow. But it is a sign of great power status to do so. Backed by “don’t you dare tell me what to do”.

For the first time I heard FFH being mentioned on Motley Fool podcast. FFH got a 2 min mention, 30 sec of which was calling Mr Watsa, the Buffett of Canada They been reading up Viking’ posts.

What would be the “adjusted” stats if Western support was withdrawn ? This is like the argument that stocks are fairly valued in 2021, because interest rate were close to zero. Who said rock-bottom interest rate was going to be permanent. Across Ukraine 42% say that even if Russia intensifies its bombing of cities Ukraine should keep fighting. Some 21% think that the conflict should be frozen without making any concessions to Russia. Only 23% think it is worth initiating negotiations. Even in the east and south, which have borne the brunt of the war, support for negotiations is relatively low, at 32% and 39% respectively. Only 5% of Ukrainians are willing to cede any territory to Russia and only 18% to forswear joining nato.

Mujahedin Khalq is considered as a terrorist organization by the Iranian government. Now I don’t give a rat’ a&& to what Iranian government thinks and who they consider as Bad Guys, but I myself consider the Mujahedin Khalq as traitors to the nation, since they took arm when the country was its weakest point and actively fought against their homeland during the Iran-Iraq War. Yet, both John Bolton (whom I somewhat respect) and that Pompeiiyo (spell) were courting this gang of traitors and giving speeches on their behalf. Bolton collected i think $180,000 in total. Poor guy probably been invested in bonds in the past 10 years. Who said democracy is perfect. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/02/iran-mek-cult-terrorist-trump-allies-john-bolton-rudy-giuliani

I hate to say it but looks like Ben Watsa coming out on podcast and BNN marked the “top” of the India-Canadian relation