 Right. Well, maybe the last set news to get top stories in crypto and break them down into bite-sized pieces today Just as the thumbnail the title suggests. It's a pretty bad day. I cannot Say it any way shape or form. So Russia has invaded Ukraine and we're gonna take a look at what that does to the market and what's gonna happen A little bit down the road now. I have no crystal ball, but there is things that we can do right now It's insulate. So first up. We'll talk about Russia how invades Ukraine what we know actually right now Well, let's take a look at Twitter results and what people are saying on Twitter and where things are potentially going and lastly I want to talk to you about it's gonna be a pretty short video Focusing on the things that you can change because I'll be honest with you right now There's so much turmoil and there's so much ambiguity and there's so much nervousness and there's so many people We're just losing it really just comes down to look at Your sphere of control and what can you change and work on changing those things that you can and have the Wisdom and power to know the difference between the two and lastly we'll just do a quick Q&A five minutes five questions and go from there All right So a good on all those things the first take a look at what happened with the markets in our markets I'll take a look at gold if you're watching the live stream first of all welcome. Thanks for coming by This is a pretty awful day thoughts and prayers prayers and Sentiment go out to the people Ukraine because right now. This is This is a war that I'll be honest with you a lot of people a lot of talking heads a lot of said that Could happen could not happen, but no one really knew the future. No one has a crystal ball So these things that people talk about Maybe they knew it maybe they didn't but this is exactly where we're at and of course We can always take a look at hindsight is always 2020 we can take a look at the past and go well Of course it was gonna happen, but did we all know nobody really knew I thought we could avoid it But here we are so watch the live stream welcome watching the replay Just know that the news is gonna take about 10 minutes today Then we do the Q&A at the end time stamps below so you can skip ahead do whatever you want to and that should Take care of it. So let's take a look at what exactly is going on. So today's like I said pretty bad day but remember there's tons of bad days out there for the market there's tons of bad days for everything else and Just remember also that for the awful days that I mean the market is what it is It's just a price tag, but it really pales a comparison to the suffering everything that's going on in Ukraine So keep everything in perspective as best you can and again try to control your sphere So everything took a big dump last night because of this invasion Everything's down mightily which we knew it would happen if this happened I mean, we're seeing some pretty awful prices and I wouldn't be surprised if it falls even more It just depends right now. It is 9 a.m. Here. So the markets don't open for another hour and a half I would expect when the markets open We're gonna see even more free fall and more panic because there's always a cycle people will They'll kind of take a step back and okay Well, how's this affect everything and then as things start to shake out then all of a sudden you see just a massive amount of dumping because Fear begets fear and when people see it then they start to get afraid and they kind of go forward if all the difference Markets held. I don't think you'd see so much but again. It is it is a herd mentality and When the markets open I believe you're gonna see a lot more dips I could be wrong hoping wrong, but again put everything in perspective. So here's what we actually well real quick just so you know if Gold took quite a bit of a quite a bit of a jump out this whole time So I'll see how that works out anyhow. This is what we know. This is where we're at so You're carrying conflict what we know about the invasion. So real quick. This was just updated about an hour ago from BBC So first off Putin orders the attack There was a little bit of a back-and-forth, but this is exactly what happened when bullets up so you can see it So in a televised speech at 555 Moscow time or 255 GMT put announced a military operation Ukraine's eastern Donbass region part of it has been occupied and run by Russian back rebels since 2014 Puyansk and Russia was intervening as an act of self-defiance or to self-defense Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine But would demilitarize and denazify the country. This is a very dangerous talk very dangerous talk for these types of things and It's a it is concerning and the question the question really becomes does it stop here at Ukraine or do things keep moving forward? I'm not a geopolitical analyst nor do I claim to be or think I have a crystal ball But when I see or hear about talk such as denazify it raises up extreme red flags So here's what else to know Explosions were heard across the country BBC correspondence for loud bangs in the capital Kiev As well as Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine blasts have also been heard in the southern port city of Odessa Ukraine's president presidents Vladimir Zelensky Said Russia had carried out missile strikes in Ukraine's infrastructure and on border guards Russia's Defense ministry has denied attacking Ukraine city city. It was targeting only military infrastructure air defense and air force with high precision weapons like in For I would just tell you that's going through any types of war There's always collateral damage Unfortunately, and that is just the truth so even as as high as you say or don't say or Telling the truth or not telling the truth because you can't really take Anybody for for their word these days. It seems like especially from different countries So even if they're trying to do a precise attack, it's you will still have loss of life And that is just the truth Tanks and troops enter Ukraine tanks and troops have poured in Ukraine It points along its eastern southern northern borders Ukraine says also convoys have also entered the eastern Luhansk and Khariv regions and moved in the Kyrgyz region from Crimea a territory that Russia Annexed from Ukraine in 2014, which is why I don't think this is gonna stop It's going to start here in Ukraine Putin will try to go forward But again, could be wrong a geopolitical analyst, but it is again concerning just how fast this actually Went forward There are deaths at least eight people have died in bombings by Russian forces an attack on a military unit and put us Outside Odessa killed six people moon and seven Ukraine does say it's fighting back Ukraine armed forces say they have shot down five Russian planes in a helicopter Ukraine is also declared martial law, which means that military takes control temporarily and Has cut diplomatic ties with Russia as there's different sanctions being enforced by EU and America Residents seek shelter in Kiev There are huge jams and expressways as people flee the city many people in Kiev have sought shelter and underground metro stations They're also long queues at petrol stations and cash machines Which is this is exactly what war looks like and it doesn't matter. This is what people in power do They bring forth their agenda and their ideas of who should be in control and what should be in control, but in the end wars Damage these people and I want you to take a real good look at this This is what the tolls of wars are and this is just the beginning So I've served in the military during wartime. I've seen war I know where it goes and it never stops because as long as there are people in power Who will want to amass more power? It will always be the same People were out in the streets last night in the city. They're waving the Ukrainian flag. They said this was their land They're going nowhere. She reported which is admirable Honestly now here's how it affects everything else now not just loss of life Of course, it's going to affect other people throughout the entire globe We are really a global community, especially as these things are to happen oil prices jump above $100 for the first time in seven years Meanwhile, Russia's currency the ruble felt an all-time low against the dollar London stock exchange leading FTSC 100 plunge more than 2.7 percent or 200 points within minutes of opening again I expect the same thing to happen in our markets traditional finance S&P 500 NASDAQ and all those things Probably take a big huge hit today Here's the positives or however you want to look at it world condemns Putin. US President Joe Biden says There's chosen a Putin choose a pre-mititied war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering true The world would hold Russia accountable Prime Minister Boris Johnson Was appalled by the horrific events in Ukraine that Putin has chosen a path of bloodshed and destruction by launching this unprovoked attack NATO Secretary General Jen Sultanberg condemns Russia's reckless attack. Europe was facing its darkest hours And then a former US president Donald Trump says mr Putin took advantage of America's weakness And I think you want to do something and negotiate it got worse and worse and then he saw the weakness Trump said So that's what's going on. So that's what we have and That is everything in a nutshell for what we know right now again Wars seldom and Without an escalation of conflict again. I'm not the expert on war But I can just tell you that war begets more war violence begets more violence And then the turbulence and the and the ambiguity and the uncertainty will surely only escalate now If you remember back in uh for the first Iraq war, that was a pretty pretty quick war pretty decisive But then the problems actually happen after the war You can see that in the iraq war and see that in the afghanistan war for the united states Also talk to russia about invading afghanistan and see how well that worked out But again, it's a little bit different when you're bordering these countries But the real question is well, what else? I mean we can take a look at twitter results. I'm gonna go over this really fast because I can't scroll down on twitter to show you these things because there's some pretty graphic Videos which I will not show But you can see like here, you know, there's a russian fire jets flying in here. Of course we see putin and he's uh Trying to negotiate I don't think you really wanted to and uh, that is what's happening. However There was one positive thing you can call it that at least Over on squawk box. They talked about how you know the fed wants to raise basis points A couple of economists that said well, that's off the table now because I mean the different things that are going on which is going to put the Pretty much the world economy into a free fall for quite some time And uh, so maybe the federal actually pulled back, but that's just again if you put in focus, these are just numbers These are just dollars not Human life and that I think is the big thing so right now I think everybody Is feeling a pretty much deflated And uh, we talk about these things as if they don't exist, but they do exist But now it's really time to focus and I'm going to talk to you about real quick is We can focus on the wars and we can talk about the wars all day long and you can watch and you can ingest a mountain massive amounts of uh of news about what's going on And you can pull yourself down the hole, but you really want to think about because I mean if you've been around for a while Uh wars are nothing new Since the beginning of time So you can look at this and go this is awful Which it is and you can be sucked down you can do all those things or you can take a look and this is Just the truth About what you can control Take a look at the things you can control Understand what those things are and then understand the things that you cannot control and hopefully have the wisdom To know the difference between the two so right now. What can you do? uh here as If you're in I don't know where you're at Actually, if you're the united states if you're in eu if you're in australia if you're in wherever you're canada What can you do for uh this particular situation as far as the war itself? There's really not much that you potentially or or particularly can do now if things break out and there's an even greater war Uh between nations then that is Well, you know you you can think about that as time goes on But right now you ought to think about what can I do? And how can I control the things that are in my circle right now and taking a look at all these news and just worrying Only be gets me more worrying. So what can you do as far as like, uh, Economically for your family that's up for me when I take a look at these things I can't do anything in ukraine. I'm not in the military anymore. However, things do happen You know, there's no there's no lack of medical personnel that they'll need so that's just how it is for me But uh, the question is what can you do economically for yourself? What can you do ukraine? Not too much? Can you continue to? Dollar cost average can you continue to buy can you sell off all your crypto and digital assets? You can do all those things But it really depends and comes down to what can you do and what can you control? And take a look at the things you can't control and again Try to know the difference between the two and work out from there and that's what we have right now for me personally I can only tell you what i'm doing for right now so I report on the news. I take a look at what's going on I Say prayers for the people in ukraine Because it's just an awful all wars are awful and it's always started by people in power Not the individual citizens and people in there unless they're Protect themselves. So for me what i'm doing is the same thing i've done every single day, which is I wake up I look at the the positivity the potential hope that's out there As far as coming up because hopefully it won't last forever The buy orders from buy from voyager trigger and I buy the same things every day bitcoin ethereum chain link Cardano gala algorand some other things actually i've added on i'll probably be adding on more Because I can't change anything else and I can just keep doing the things that I do And control those things around me and that's what we have so That's it for today's video is short and sweet I just wanted to get that out there and just tell you that there's a lot of things to worry about a lot of things to be Concerned about but you need to focus on you and your family and what you can actually control And now that's it. So if you like today's video thumbs up thumbs down Give it a thumbs down. Tell me why and consider subscribing all that good stuff But let's get into the questions five will probably go a little longer for a q&a and we'll go from there So let me uh bring this up yeah, like I'm down because Because if you live through war and gone through war Like I was you know medic and 91 charlie, which was a Lvn or nurse in the military. I mean take care of people who come back from where it's just Just shitty situation because like I said there's always Tragedy and suffering and different things that go about and again. It's always always down to the individual people that That are in power that bring this about because of whatever their delusions of grandeur are and I'm not gonna Say why it is or what it is, but that's that's beyond me. I just know that The grand scheme of things or really doesn't help out only it helps out the people in power And that's it Talk about synthetics. What are your thoughts and synthetics and synthetics are We were talking about this last night at the meet-up actually, which is a great meet-up We had here in Puerto Rico shout out to the smokehouse for doing that and Someone asked me about synthetics to go. What do you think about synthetics? I go not doing anything and There's two ways to look at it like me Synthetics could be a big thing, but I don't really have much faith in the project itself And that's probably some good people around in the token. I'm saying But for me, I just don't think that's gonna do so well So I'm going to I sold part of it a while back I still own a little bit because I think maybe it takes off But I sold a little and I just don't because I've had remember I've had like over 60 different cryptos Throughout the different time my time frame and now I'm just trying to get into the other stuff So I meet person at cell but if it's up to you you can keep on to that I don't know Probably the Baltic states are in danger. Everything's in danger. I mean look when you when you start this out It just kind of gets the ball rolling and before you know it it kind of can escalate so it really will go down to How far this wants to go and this really goes down to You know, what was the ulterior motive for this? How much power do you get and what is the big play and why As putin wants ukraine so so heavily when he's going to face some pretty massive sanctions We'll see Robby's this is you still use for the chain. No, uh, I use santa mitts I like santa mitt because it gives me not only sentiment Analysis but on chain data and I can also take a look at developer activity. So I like that one Yeah Media cry well for two years. No one believe them was real and this is one of those things like Again, like yesterday we talked about this. We go. Hey, we don't know what's gonna happen I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't have a crystal ball So you can sell everything and get out or you can stay in Actually, we talked about this a week ago And of course yesterday the markets went up. Everything's looking pretty good and today everything drops down I'm not one of those people to to say. Okay. This is definitely gonna happen. So I'm gonna sell everything I just didn't I didn't see I mean we could again retrospectively and hindsight like oh, of course what happened, right? But didn't know now the the big question is how long will this last and how much will the will the markets be affected That's the big thing in the long run three four five years. Well, we look back at this and go Oh, this is what took bitcoin to zero. That's what you have to ask yourself. I don't think so Do you think this is a good question? Do you think Russia stands in crypto? We'll turn our market into a target from the west It would have if that was russia's if russia was the only country that thought that crypto was going to be great and be life or be A big disruptor and changing and actually try to integrate it into their countries But a lot of countries do the same thing especially america So america if you don't know we are we have one of the largest amounts of bitcoin miners after china shut things down Then we've got a lot of different And big players coming in the game that actually think that krib is going to do well So I think it's going to be all right Uh, if again if russia was the only country probably a problem, but right now I think it's most the countries do even even Even china wants to do their cvdcs Giant prudent is not the bad guy here. Ukraine is we'll see how it works out For if rates go up don't inflation go up inflation couldn't go up even more especially if uh Especially if the fed says hey, we're not going to raise rates so Yeah, it will go up But the question is they're they're stuck the fed stuck because they had those half basis points and they're like well Maybe 0.25. Maybe half dips That wasn't going to really move the needle too much anyhow. Now they take it off the table. They're like well Wasn't going to do much anyhow remember 1982 or in the 1980s when vulgar was the head of the fed reserve They were raising rates to seven eight nine percent and they said We're we need to do this or else we're going to face the recession They did that recession still came, but it was very short-lived. So That's what it is and then let's the last one. Uh, thank you. Solomon love love from india rob Appreciate your honest inputs as a veteran. How long do you think this war goes on? Thanks for your service so for this one it's a little bit different because Again, we're not this isn't a country. What's is kind of you occupy from across the world. This is russia Going into ukraine Which correct me am I wrong? I thought ukraine was part of russia at some point Oh, cry me was And then we got an ex and they got pulled back. So it's a little bit different So could this be a long standing war? I don't I don't think so with the uh military Military might that russia's and I could be wrong because I mean Who knows how mighty russia is right now? Of course, put him to say it's the it's the greatest thing ever But how powerful are they and how fast can this sweep across not sure But it could be long it could be bloody and if it is that's not good news for For russia and for a lot of us. So that's it. All right. So that's it for today I just want to put that out real quick Like this video thumbs up If you don't give a thumbs down and tell me why and consider subscribing also timestamps all that good stuff That's it for today. Thanks so much. See you on the next one. Bye