General Discussion

If you think this report is false or even implausible, I'm more than open to hearing why (preferably with sources).

Hopefully we all know how to vet a source by now and how to discount or credit stories that seem for or against the self-interests or bias of the source. In this case, it seems to me that most people at both sides of the spectrum are skeptical of this war and worried about where it could lead us.

We've also seen a number of stories labelled by one side or the other as "conspiracy theories" turn out to be partly or wholley true. Do I believe in "Pizzagate"? No. Do I believe that the Covid pandemic began with a lab leak? Sure do.

I also find it invaluable to get some insight into what people from other bubbles are thinking, beng told, and telling each other.

Zerohedge is a hodge-podge. BUT it's frequented by investors who care very much about what's really going on in the world, to the extent it might affect their investments. So yeah, there are some crazy screeds, and even more by way of political interpretations that differ from yours or mine; but I also find a lot of practical, detailed info there about Wall St. activities & regulation and a great many other matters that affect our welfare.

And last but far from least, none of the leaders in any of our bubbles usually volunteer info about their own corruption or mistakes, so you usually do have to go to "the other side" (and to alternative media) to get a reasonably complete picture.

A system that throttles the free flow of info and ideas by excluding sources from competing p.o.v.'s degrades its own computational IQ.