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Even in a time of peace, Bill Ackman’s Russian great-grandfather was unwilling to be conscripted into the Tsar’s army-to serve the Russian empire. Yet, Ackman wants Ukraine to give up its lands to Putin’s aggressive Neo-Russian Empire for false assurances of peace.

Ackman proposes Kissinger’s status quo ante, i.e. the state of affairs before February 24th. Kissinger was a Putin advisor for years.

Born rich and able to work for his father, when he couldn’t get a job, Bill Ackman wants policies that destroy the lives of other Americans, as well as Ukrainians. Stupidity or malice?

Ackman wants to import more immigrants to lower American wages, despite the fact that most Americans don’t make a living wage. Of course, lower wages means more welfare. Most welfare recipients are working at low wage jobs: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/a-society-that-rejects-its-own-workers-will-fall-apart/

Bill Ackman is living proof that money makes money, and that immigrants make more immigrants in more ways than one. And, we are supposed to believe that he has anyone’s best interests at heart, apart from his own? He sounds like a scam artist who was given everything on a silver platter. He graduated from Harvard with an MBA in the period when someone was given an “A” in a Harvard business class for cheating, because that’s how to get ahead in business, according to the then controversial opinion of the Harvard professor.

“A Rescue Ploy Now Haunts a Hedge Fund That Had It All” By Gretchen Morgenson and Geraldine Fabrikant Jan. 19, 2003, New York Times: “THEY had a glittering client list, dazzling reputations and smarts galore, but as 2002 drew to a close, William A. Ackman and David P. Berkowitz, hedge fund managers at Gotham Partners, were desperate. They had received a mountain of requests from investors asking for their money back and had suffered a devastating setback in one of their biggest investments. The men, who just a few years earlier had been at the top of the hedge fund world, were facing a run on the bank. But Gotham had little in the way of liquid assets…. It is all a startling comedown for Mr. Ackman and Mr. Berkowitz, both hard-driving Harvard Business School graduates, who set up Gotham Partners in 1993 with just $3 million in assets that, at their peak in 2000, ballooned to $568 million… They had attracted money from some of the wealthiest and most experienced investors in New York, including the Ziff family, scions of the media empire founded by William Ziff… in a letter sent to investors on Thursday night, Gotham said it had received a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an informal inquiry… “ https://web.archive.org/web/20100327141304/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/business/a-rescue-ploy-now-haunts-a-hedge-fund-that-had-it-all.html
So, are these the same Ziffs that his father set up business with? Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group? “If at first you don’t succeed, start another fund” By Liana B. Baker, October 10, 2010: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hedgefunds-ackman-gotham-idUSTRE69D2OH20101014

Bill Ackman’s great-grandfather, Abraham Ackman, fled Tsarist Russia to avoid his military service. That needs to be repeated: By his father’s own admission, their ancestor wasn’t fleeing pograms against Jews in Russia. His ancestor simply didn’t want to do his military service. No major wars were fought in the period when he left, so he simply didn’t want to do his duty, it appears. It seems that this was a sort of army reserve. The Tsar in 1887 was Alex III (1881-1894): “In foreign affairs Alexander III was a man of peace, but not at any price, and held that the best means of averting war is to be well-prepared for it”During his reign, Russia fought no major wars; he was therefore styled “The Peacemaker” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_III_of_Russia

How many of these Russians avoiding military service came to the Americas? A lot of immigrants appear to have come from the Ottoman empire to the Americas, in order to avoid military service and to make money, too. And, Trump’s German grandfather was stripped of his citizenship because he left Germany and only returned after he was too old to be conscripted into military service. This may or may not have been coincidental. His parents wrote Germany for years begging to return home.

Bill Ackman’s idea is like the recommendation that Putin advisor Henry Kissinger made early on: to return to the situation that existed prior to February 24th, as though nothing happened. And, thereby robbing Ukraine of its natural resources and farmland and ports. RT news gloats: “US billionaire proposes peace plan for Ukraine and Russia: Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman says Kiev should make concessions to Moscow”“ https://web.archive.org/web/20221022114430/https://www.rt.com/russia/ Misleadingly states that Ukraine was Russia until 1954. Of course, many countries were part of the UK until the period from the 1940s-60s. And, the Tsars were German-British.. So, should Russia become part of the UK or Germany? Or maybe Scandinavia, since the original Tsars were from there?

“Some 4 million Ukrainians were killed in a famine that was engineered by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to eliminate a perceived threat to central Soviet power.” https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/historian-details-stalins-war-against-ukraine-i-believe-it-was-genocide/

“Kissinger So Wrong, So Often: Ukraine Is His Latest” By Michael Dorstewitz
Tuesday, 05 July 2022 11:54 AM EDT. https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/davos-ford-reagan/2022/07/05/id/1077377/

Bill Ackman is a “hedge fund mogul and activist”. His father, Lawrence D. Ackman was a “real estate giant and founder of Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group”. According to Lawrence Ackman, his grandfather, Abraham Ackman moved to the United States in 1887, when he was 18 years old: “He left Russia to avoid [conscription] into the Tzar’s army—a 25-year service… rode across the border on a horse to Austria, learned to sew, and took a boat to Castle Garden in 1887.” Bill Ackman received a Harvard social science undergrad degree in 1988.

Since he “couldn’t get a job”, he went to work for his father for two years. Then he got an MBA from Harvard where he met David Berkowitz and started a hedge fund with him.“ https://web.archive.org/web/20220610014157/https://forward.com/schmooze/324704/father-son-titans-of-industry-lawrence-and-william-ackman-reminisce/

“Built from 1808 to 1811, [Castle Garden] was the first American immigration station, predating Ellis Island, where more than 7.5 million people arrived in the United States from 1855 to 1890.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Clinton Most of those immigrants were in direct competition for jobs with recently freed slaves, as well as with earlier immigrants. Before that immigration wave, there were already as many people in the United States as in Australia today. Even if any of these immigrants had needed skills and talents, it doesn’t mean that their offspring have needed skills and talents. Yet, they remain, and include Bill Ackman, who, by all appearances, is a blight upon the world.

“Ackman asked, ‘Doesn’t it make more sense to moderate wage inflation with increased immigration than by raising rates, destroying demand, putting people out of work, and causing a recession?.” https://web.archive.org/web/20221021014837/https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2022/10/19/bill-ackman-nails-immigration-and-thankfully-exposes-the-horrid-phillips-curve/?sh=3aca78cc528d

“Bill Ackman: US should fight inflation with ‘increased immigration” By Devin Sean Martin https://nypost.com/2022/09/23/bill-ackman-us-should-fight-inflation-with-increased-immigration/

His thesis sounds like it would make a popular book. Maybe he should focus on his book.
“Ackman was raised in Chappaqua, New York, the son of Ronnie I. (née Posner) and Lawrence David Ackman, the former chairman of a New York real estate financing firm, Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group.[10][11][12] He is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.[13][14][15] In 1988, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in social studies from Harvard College. His thesis was “Scaling the Ivy Wall: the Jewish and Asian American Experience in Harvard Admissions.”[16] In 1992, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School.[17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ackman

“Lawrence David “Larry” Ackman (April 29, 1939 – May 31, 2022) was an American real estate entrepreneur who led the Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group, a company founded by his father and uncle. Ackman is noted for playing a role in the development of the mortgage brokerage industry.[1] His son, Bill Ackman is a billionaire hedge-fund mogul.[2][3…

Lawrence David Ackman was born on April 29, 1939 in New York City to Herman and Jean (Miller) Ackman. His paternal grandfather, Abraham Ackman immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1887. Ackman was raised in Manhattan and the Bronx; he attended the Riverdale Country School, graduating in 1956. Ackman attended Brown University for his undergraduate studies, majoring in economics. He completed his MBA in finance at Harvard Business School in 1963.[1]

Career
During his career, Ackman arranged financing for Seymour Durst, Friedland Properties, and Harry Helmsley, among other clients. In the 1990s, Ackman worked to finance the redevelopment of a property on Manhattan’s Ninth Avenue, which now houses Chelsea Market.[1]

Ackman became president of the Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group in 1968 and the company’s CEO in 1977.[3]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_D._Ackman