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Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

Is this going to be WW3 on TV or the people of Israel fleeing to cooler climates?

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Stegiel's avatar

🤣YES. Hotel Ukraine is not quite ready. Florida or LA I suppose for the connected.

When I was more daring in my college youth I had a t-shirt with a sub firing atomics and the caption so delighted me because it had beer bottles and NOW IT'S MILLER TIME.

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Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

Hungary has been primed for Israeli immigration. Lots of property have been bought up there by Israeli interests in the last 30 years, and there is no income tax, so many of these places have been empty, waiting for someone to move in.

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Stegiel's avatar

Curious. In 2003 it was Chinese. Everywhere. Paris, Praha, Munich, Costa Rica

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Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

The new "Silk Road" ends somewhere around Hungary. There are major warehouses and logistics deployments for Chinese companies there. It' like Kosovo is the distribution hub for drugs and human trafficking in Europe. The US military hasn't fought in vain in a dirty war over there...

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Richard Seager's avatar

More or less where Ghengis stopped wasn't it?

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Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

He died, and his General, Batu, after conquering the land, returned home in 1242 in order to get elected the new khan, which never happened. Still, two thirds of the population was wiped out in 1241 (the area was three times of the size of today's Hungary that was truncated in 1920). When the Mongols wanted to return in 1281, they were summarily beaten before they finished crossing the Carpathian mountains.

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Richard Seager's avatar

I was told by an Amber saleswoman in Gdansk that the Chinese would pay whatever the Gdansk (wholesale) merchants wanted in the 2010s. But in 2019 most Chinese tourists had their cards stopped to stop them from buying (retail) in Gdansk.

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Richard Seager's avatar

As an idea typically you pay around $2-$3.50 USD a gram wholesale. The Chinese were paying $16 plus and buying in bulk.

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Marta Staszak's avatar

Apparently same in Poland.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Nobody mentioned this when I was there in May.

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Stegiel's avatar

Right.. Israeli's prob got in early nailed key properties and sold to Chinese. 😅

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Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

Could be Chinese by now; the owners never show.

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Stegiel's avatar

Look out below when they do. 🎱

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