Crypto dominoes fall in the wake of FTX's collapse

Re:Crypto dominoes fall in the wake of FTX's collapse by TurkishPoptart on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:08PM (#33643965)

It was my understanding that Mr. Zelenskyy is busy defending his country in a war. But somehow he has the time to fly to NYC and brush shoulders with SBF, Larry Fink, and the treasury secretary. It's almost like this event is a handy excuse for these elites to brush shoulders, broker secret deals, and/or exchange U.S. taxpayer money for institutional clout. Makes you wonder why anyone these days remotely critical of the motives of billionaries and global "changemakers" is branded a conspiracy theorist.

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Re:Crypto dominoes fall in the wake of FTX's collapse by kspacewalk2 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:22PM (#33644200)

>But somehow he has the time to fly to NYC and brush shoulders with SBF, Larry Fink, and the treasury secretary.

Zoom.

>Makes you wonder why anyone these days remotely critical of the motives of billionaries and global "changemakers" is branded a conspiracy theorist.

That's only true in their own minds.

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Re:Crypto dominoes fall in the wake of FTX's collapse by ceejayoz on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:46PM (#33644537)

> It was my understanding that Mr. Zelenskyy is busy defending his country in a war. But somehow he has the time to fly to NYC and brush shoulders with SBF, Larry Fink, and the treasury secretary.

Are you under the impression he's expected to be out there literally driving a tank?

Flying around the world meeting with government officials and political influencers is precisely what you'd expect someone to do in this scenario. He'll have some staff and a phone on him.

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Re:Crypto dominoes fall in the wake of FTX's collapse by blaser-waffle on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:28PM (#33646003)

Arguably, that's Zelensky's main strength: he's a comedian and did tours; he's a showman, a diplomat, a talker.

His primary role viz-a-viz the war is going around talking, doing meetings, and drumming up support. Get him on a 12 city tour, except instead of cross-dressing and telling jokes he's cutting deals for aid.

He's no general, and it's likely he doesn't know jack about actually fighting a war. Nor does he need to: he's got actual generals for that, ones who have been fighting w/ the Russians on and off since 2014, on top of real-time intelligence and assistance from the 30 -- say it again, THIRTY -- countries of NATO.

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