Welp...you're the expert...
U.S. eyes training Ukrainian troops remotely
The Pentagon is contemplating the next phase of the conflict.
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Sounds like you've flipped the bit from anarchist to proto-facist libertarian. Congrats on that.
I seriously doubt Putin invades if we had threatened to use US airpower to protect Ukraine. Making the threat and positioning the assets to carry out the threat is not the same as using the threat. By doing so it would have caused great concern for Putin and another negotiating piece for the corrupt inept idiot in the White House. If Russia had decided to invade anyway, we could have stood down or carried out the threat. By not at least threatening, Putin was emboldened to invade knowing Biden is as inept as we all think he is.
If you think Putin is done with his aggressions, you are naive, the Balkans are next, and they are NATO countries which under treaty we are bound to come to their defense. By showing we are scared of Putin in Ukraine we have but assured he will invae the Balkans in the near future.
Did not happen. But Yes Ukraine was involved in some corrupt deals.
Yeah NATO membership was not imminent. Its a farce of an argument by the thug.
I disagree. ONLY ground forces propositioned in the uncontested areas would have stopped the broader invasion. The thug would have probably went in to the contested areas anyway and we would have a East Ukraine West Ukraine much like North and South Korea
We would see a W Ukraine eventually flourish and E Ukraine languish like N Korea.
Is war Putin's solution to threat from Demographic Winter?
The Washington Times recently called demographic winter "The plague of the century."
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Putin has never had the moral high ground in his life. He is an immoral man.
Like it or not, Israel will take care of Iran.
No it's not. Biden has done tons to limit production in the US AND halted the Keystone Pipeline. We were energy independent 12 months ago.
Part of NATO's problem is European countries, Germany, have closed their Nuclear Power Plants to run their country on Russian oil and gas. They gave up the cleanest and least expensive power source to choose to be reliant on Russia to keep their homes warm. Stupid mistake!
Pilt is a "university" type. He's one of those "if you can't do, you teach" people. Not all bad, but really limited in common sense.
Way back in the last century when we had fun, someone wrote a book about "those who can, and those who can't, teach". I remember reading the damned thing, but for the life of me can't recall the author nor the exact title. Must be clotting up again.
Biden’s Republican critics are wrong about U.S. gas production, experts say
Some Republicans, attacking President Biden, say that increasing U.S. production of fossil fuels would liberate Europe from its dependence on Russian gas. But experts say Biden hasn’t scaled back energy production and that Europe’s path to energy independence lies away from fossil fuels.
“There are a few factual problems with these claims.
First, U.S. fossil fuel production has not been “shut down.” According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, natural gas production increased in 2021 and is forecast to increase further in 2022 and 2023, while U.S. oil production roughly held steady between 2020 and 2021 and is forecast to increase this year and next.”
No he hasn't. Keystone Pipeline is Canadian oil. We were not energy independent 12 months ago. Net Imports 12 months ago were 2.285 million barrels per day. Domestic oil production is up 1.9 million barrels a day from 12 months ago.
Sorry but facts don't care about your feelings or common sense in this case.
Where’s consumption today compared to 12 months ago?
Oh, while you’re at it do you know what the average price of a gallon of gas is today compared to a year ago?
crude consumption is up 7.9% compared to production which is up 9.2%.
Couldn't tell you anything about the price of gas, but WTI was $60.5 a year ago compared to $95.65 today.
I ask this honestly. Why the price increase if production is comparatively higher than consumption? You’d think it would be the other way around.
collective realization that consumption was going to come back much faster than production if the price was $60
“Collective realization” sounds like a fancy way of avoiding the word “collusion.”
Unlike most products, oil prices are not determined entirely by supply, demand, and market sentiment toward the physical product. Rather, supply, demand, and sentiment toward oil futures contracts, which are traded heavily by speculators, play a dominant role in price determination.
I'm just funnin' with our socialist friend. I always thought it was weird that socialists/collectivists decried collusion between corporations since collusion is a form of the collectivism they admire.
Collectivism is collectivism, my friend. If it's good for the goose it should be good for the gander, right?
You don't even have to think very hard about this one Dan. Just think about who is included in and benefitting from the collectivism in a collusion case.
If I'm on the receiving end of the collectivism why would I care who's on the giving end? I'm screwed either way.
You're gonna have to slow your roll with these "facts" or some folks might just get a little upset...
2 oligarchs and their entire families found dead last week. 4 oligarchs dead since the war started.
Wet work is alive and well.
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