Morning,
Markets are down, not much green at all.
Vix up 10%
Does Macaron think he's Napoleon?
If you go back about 3000 yrs or more nearly every European country has tried to conquer Russia but it's never quite worked out for them.
These days Russia seems to have China with them.
Peace would be a much better and sensible option for Europe imo.
Russia exists, one should work with them rather than try and conquer them, wars will happen when you want to conquer them.
Australia not spending anywhere near enough on Defense, we only at about 2% and need to catch up for all the decades of unspent investment and lack of capability, we didn't even know China was a few hundred km's off the coast playing war games the other week.
Trump says Musk does not have the power to sack people, cabinet has final say.
Exemptions for Canada and now Mexico for those under USMCA which is probably sensible.
Trump admits short term disruption possible but long term gain inevitable...... or something like that.
I read somewhere that Blackrock's Larry says buy the big dip.....whatever that means.
Light drizzle and showers here, 23C, stuff all wind, surf's up, enjoy it while it lasts surfers.
