Read the best with F+: Uncomfortable truths and heavy losses

Two

had to

ETF investors experience these days when the stock market prices swing wildly in one direction and then in the other direction again.

The first ugly realization is that it is possible that overnight entire countries and their companies will no longer be accessible to investors.

The author of these lines also received such a letter from his bank.

And the second insight is that

– a type of investment that even consumer advocates praise for its excellent tradability – can

.

Dennis Kremer from our business department at the Sunday newspaper took a look at what needs to be considered in the ETF market under these circumstances.

So are ETFs still the right choice in times of crisis?

The short answer is yes.

But how can it still be a good idea to invest in ETFs given such possible restrictions?

Because there are answers to the new questions that have arisen, Kremer has put them together for you, right down to a look at specific ETFs.

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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As a

,

warned of Russian aggression years ago.

Now, as a member of a think tank, he is analyzing the Ukraine war in conversation with Peter Badenhop, who has known him for a long time as a member of the Rhein-Main editorial team – and has a clear opinion on Russian warfare.

He knows what he's talking about: Hodges was born in 1958 in Quincy, Florida.

He attended West Point Military Academy and became Commander-in-Chief of the US Army Europe in 2014 as a three-star general.

From the headquarters in the Clay barracks in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, he commanded the approximately 30,000 American soldiers remaining in Europe until 2017.

Today, Hodges is a member of the Washington think tank Center for European Policy Analysis: “From what we know now, the

probably assumed that within

block Ukraine's access to the Black Sea, capture the most important cities and overthrow the government.

They were apparently not prepared for prolonged fighting and ground engagements... And then there are the astonishingly large casualties of the Russians: the highest estimates are around 14,000 casualties, the lowest around 7000. So even with the greatest reluctance we are talking about one The number of deaths in just three weeks that the Americans had to mourn in 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan as a whole.

It will be impossible for the Kremlin to hide this scale from the Russian public.” A conversation worth reading.

Journalists are not popular with people who go to war.

"Please leave me alone.

Thanks,” one coolly wrote on Telegram.

In the

, which no longer exists,

.

When my colleague Justus Bender wrote to another, his girlfriend answered for him: "Do you seriously think that the people who decide to go to Ukraine would even think for a minute about replying to such a characterless asshole like you?" But Bender starts a conversation with her, she apologizes.

At some point he gets to know Andrei.

In a long phone call, he explains that he wants to set off with 27 volunteers and seems well informed;

he knows about international criminal law and contacts with the Ukrainian embassy, ​​whose e-mail account is not working.

Andrei used to be a career soldier in the command support battalion of the Bundeswehr.

These are soldiers who take care of communications and radio.

Today the unit is called the “Information Technology Command”.

That could explain

why Andrei always has good internet in the war.

In the meantime he has experienced terrible things in Ukraine.

Bender wrote it down.

Despite everything, I wish you a nice weekend and thank you for your loyalty to F+, your complete access to FAZ.NET, best regards,

Yours, Carsten Knop

Publisher

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung