The Reality of Money Printing and Geopolitical Moves

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laser69Full Member
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#1Oct 22, 2018, 01:26 PM
You can keep printing money and play around the system for a while, but it's not sustainable. Eventually, inflation hits hard and you can't just keep doing that. You need real assets like food and oil to back it up. Otherwise, it's just gonna collapse.
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laseryesSenior Member
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#2Oct 22, 2018, 03:23 PM
Why go invade Qatar or any other Middle Eastern country? Why not just sit down with their leaders and make a deal? Ask them to print money for you to build or upgrade their stuff. Over time, change the terms and get land or oil rights as payment. Sounds familiar, right? That's pretty much what happened back in 1916 and beyond.
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wolf_protoSenior Member
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#3Oct 22, 2018, 08:17 PM
Countries definitely need to control resources! But what if Qatar declines your offer? 😂 The nations truly holding the resources aren't sitting idle. They get those partnership deals all the time. Looks like the UK and France are already in the game, but now Russia's stepping up in places like Burkina Faso.
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jake.altSenior Member
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#4Oct 23, 2018, 02:00 AM
You can’t just print your own money and expect it to work. It’s not legit unless it’s from the government or the central bank. This convo is kinda all over the place... One minute we’re on money printing, next it’s military action.
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laseryesSenior Member
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#5Oct 23, 2018, 07:59 AM
We're talking about macroeconomics here, not just you as an individual. The 'you' in the original post meant a collective 'we', like a country or a nation.
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MadNovaHero Member
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#6Oct 23, 2018, 01:31 PM
Power is all about resources and how you use them. Look at Nigeria, tons of natural resources but we do nothing with them. We depend on countries that don't have them to process what we do have. Invasions for resources are still happening, and they're sneakier now.
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#7Oct 23, 2018, 03:35 PM
What you’re saying doesn’t really match up with real economics or geopolitics. Countries can’t just print money wildly without facing consequences. Inflation is a factor, but long before collapse, interest rates and political pressures will force changes. Military invasions over inflation? Not happening.
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#8Oct 23, 2018, 08:41 PM
Your view is kinda confusing. War isn’t the first answer to inflation from printing money. Sure, countries compete for resources, but military action against a sovereign nation comes with huge costs. A French attack on Qatar? Highly unlikely.
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#9Oct 23, 2018, 10:07 PM
Why would France even think about invading Russia? Russia's military strength is way bigger than France's. Plus, France relies on NATO too much for that. Russia's a key player in the oil and gas game, but attacking them would be a bad move.
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