🇺🇸⚠️🚨 Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns U.S. is ‘on the brink’ and estimates a more than 1 in 3 chance of civil war

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio believes the chances of a second American Civil War stand better than one out of three and is urging investors to move part of their assets out of the country.

Dalio, who founded the world’s largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates before relinquishing control in September 2022, believes this year’s presidential election between incumbent Joe Biden and challenger Donald Trump is the most important one of his lifetime and be serve as a litmus test that determines whether risks spiral out of control.

“We are now on the brink,” he told the Financial Times in an interview published on Thursday, estimating the probability of strife erupting at somewhere between 35% to 40%.

https://fortune.com/2024/05/16/united-states-elections-trump-biden-ray-dalio-bridgewater/

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🇷🇺🇨🇳❌💵 — Russian President Vladimir Putin discussing about trade with China:

Already 90% of all payments between the Russian Federation and China are carried out in rubles and yuan, the transfer of payments to national currencies has given impetus to the expansion of trade flows

🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 — 🇷🇺 Smotri Media: Roscosmos General Director Yuri Borisov said that Russian-Chinese expansion of the Moon will begin after 2036

https://news.1rj.ru/str/smotri_media/83749

🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 — During the negotiations between Xi and Putin, it was reported that Russia and China signed a concept for the development of Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island (as the Russians call)/Heixiazi Island (as the Chineses and Manchus call)

Noteworthy:
➡️ Althought geopolitically irrelevant from a strategic PoV, this island was the reason of multiple controversies on Chinese and Russian social media over the past months, as Chinese Patriotic Socialists pushed for campaigns to "retake" it from Russia

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🇧🇷⚖️⚖️🚫👤❌ — The president of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, said that the billionaire and owner of the social network 𝕏, Elon Musk, may be part of what he called the "international far-right movement"

"There is clearly a far-right articulation in the world. [Musk] may be a part of that [...] We are fighting powerful enemies of democracy, and a growing wave of authoritarian populism. People that think we exaggerated must know what kind of forces we had to fight. We are talking about people that prepared a coup d’état. We are talking about people that invaded [Brazil’s institutions] with fury.

Some people invoke freedom of speech when they are actually defending a business model based on engagement and, unfortunately, hate, sensationalism, conspiracy theories!"

💬 “For the truth, visit X.com!” Musk said in an email when contacted about Barroso’s comments.

➡️ Musk became a target of the Brazilian Supreme Court after refusing to comply with suspension orders against profiles on 𝕏 and for denouncing pressure from the judiciary and Brazilian politicians to censor non-left-aligned profiles on the social network.

⁉️ Barroso admitted it was difficult to know where to draw the line between freedom of expression and attacks on democracy, saying “it will always depend on the risks you are running”. But he said incitement to violence against the state was unacceptable.

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🇨🇳❌🇺🇸 China Sells Record Sum of US Debt Amid Signs of Diversification China Sells Record Sum of US Debt Amid Signs of Diversification

➡️Selling seen as diversification away from US dollar assets

➡️Gold’s share in China’s reserves rises to highest since 2015

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-sells-record-sum-us-040447496.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-16/china-sells-record-sum-of-us-debt-amid-signs-of-diversification

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🇷🇺 🤝 🇦🇫 Afghan Taliban no longer Russia’s enemy — Russian diplomat

🔶️ According to Kabulov, relations between Russia and the Taliban are on the rise but "there are certain political limits." "Russia has not yet officially recognized the current regime in Kabul. But we maintain relations via our embassy in Kabul. We have allowed a Taliban mission operate in Russia at the level of a charge d’affaires and have a military and trade attaches. Some time ago, when the Taliban was fighting against the Americans, they said: the Americans have watches but we have time. Now Russia has both watches and time," he stressed.

https://tass.com/politics/1788697

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Vladimir Putin said that as now, today, there are no plans to capture Kharkov city

➡️ The Russian President emphasized that the current goal of the operation of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region is the creation of a sanitary zone in response to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

➡️ With the composition of the forces and means taking part in the limited offensive operation in the Kharkov region, the capture of such a large regional center as Kharkiv city is actually impossible due to the small number of troops

➡️ However, this does not mean that current goals will not be adjusted as the situation on the battlefield develops.

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 — Patriot systems may appear in Kharkiv, United States is discussing with Ukraine the placement of complexes, says US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Alongside it
➡️ The USA allocates plus $2 billion for weapons
➡️The decision to start negotiations with the Russian Federation must be made by Ukraine, the States will support any
➡️A security agreement between the USA and Ukraine will be signed within two weeks

🇺🇦🪖📃 — The President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelenskyy signed a new law on mobilization, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

In the new law:
➡️ The age of those being mobilized has been reduced from 27 to 25 years
➡️ The clause on demobilization has been excluded
➡️ Men aged 18 to 60 years are required to present military registration documents at the request of police officers, border guards and the military registration and enlistment office
➡️ Those recognized as partially fit must come back to the medical commission
➡️ Within 60 days, those liable for military service must appear at the TCC to clarify their registration data
➡️ Consular services for Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 years will not be provided without military registration documents
➡️ Men previously recognized as partially fit for service will be required to undergo re-examination within 12 months
🔴 Persons who received disability group II or III after February 24, 2022 (except military personnel) are subject to repeated medical examination to determine suitability for service
➡️ Restriction of the right to drive a car for those evading military service
➡️ the document provides that the summons will be considered received even without delivery in person
🔴 Police officers and civil servants of category “A”, assistants to deputies and owners of strategic enterprises received reservations from mobilization
🔴 Students receiving a second higher education were left without the right to a deferment
🔴 the document also instructs Ukrainians abroad to register for military service

📃 The document will come into force one month after the day following its publication.

➡️ The Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Lubinets believes that the bill in the form in which it was approved by the Rada and signed by the President of Ukraine is the best option that could be hoped for.

🗳 He also added that now, in his opinion, the procedure looks as democratic as possible, without coercion.