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Lock n' Load said:
40% of Russia's economy comes from the sale of oil and gas. We are still importing and paying for their oil at $105/barrel with 120 million+ barrels/year. We need to immediately reopen our pipelines and drilling leases to make us energy independent again, even if it's only for a limited time. We could also supply our allies, which would really tighten the economic screws on Putin. It's way past time for the US government to wake up and stop the flow of US and our allies' money to this tyrant. God help the brave people of Ukraine.
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This administration already said that isn't happening because it isn't going to fix our oil addiction. They are doubling down on "green" energy. At least that's the last I heard earlier today.
 
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Texas Buzzard said:
Yep, and the pressure is on.
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Except they’re being told that the pressure is coming from the West for no reason. The “military exercises against the Neo-Nazi Ukrainian regime” (seriously—that’s how it is being referred to in Russian state media) are successful, and justified…not deserving of the sanctions at all.

Putin controls pretty much all the media outlets; the last two bigger ones that were critical of him got shut down yesterday. The Russian people only hear what Putin wants them to hear.
 
Wannabewoodsman said:
Not gonna happen. Would be suicide for Russia. All of that nuclear fallout would make his entire nation sick
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Dont underestimate a countries use of a low yield nuke. Back a nuclear country into a corner, and they may drop a very small scale tactical nuke to stop any further use of world destruction .

Think Israel. N Korea . India/Pakistan
Threatened with countries collapse they would use one. Putin could very will drop one in one of his former USSR countries
 
HansGruber said:
Except they’re being told that the pressure is coming from the West for no reason. The “military exercises against the Neo-Nazi Ukrainian regime” (seriously—that’s how it is being referred to in Russian state media) are successful, and justified…not deserving of the sanctions at all.

Putin controls pretty much all the media outlets; the last two bigger ones that were critical of him got shut down yesterday. The Russian people only hear what Putin wants them to hear.
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Wonderful, isn't it? :rolleyes::mad:
 
KillerFord1977 said:
Dont underestimate a countries use of a low yield nuke. Back a nuclear country into a corner, and they may drop a very small scale tactical nuke to stop any further use of world destruction .

Think Israel. N Korea . India/Pakistan
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The Newtron Bomb was specifically designed to kill people through the release of neutrons rather than to destroy military installations through heat and blast.

The Neutron Bomb | Air & Space Forces Magazine

It is almost forgotten today, but the enhanced radiation warhead was a blazing international issue in
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Jfal said:
...the Japanese look down their noses at us from quite a height (they do to all but true Japanese). What's that term, Gajin is it?
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^ Not just the Japanese: most of the Far-Eastern cultures have a very ethnocentric view.

The Chinese, for example -and here I speak as a first-generation immigrant- believe that the universe revolves around them. 中国, with the two characters pronounced "Zhōng guó," literally translates to "[The] Middle Country." Similarly, the cultural, philosophical, and even political concept of "Tian xia" - translating to "[All] Under Heaven" - is a defining historic belief of the people of The Middle Country. While much has been played-off in Western culture about the idea that the Japanese think their Emperor is deity incarnate, "sovereignty under Heaven" is very much a Chinese concept (FWIW, just as it is that of virtually every other culture :p ).

Versus us Americans, the Chinese thus is able to think in a binary manner: you're either Chinese or you're, quite literally, an outsider - "Wàiguó rén," or "a person from a foreign land." It doesn't matter if your skin is day-glow-pale Irish or the darkest shade of equatorial African, you are simply "foreign." And while people from different areas of China make as much fun of each other and are as prejudiced with each other as the Coastal Elites are of Appalachian hillbilly's vs. Yuppie rednecks, make no mistake, when you're a foreigner, you are the target of every slander: there is no "woke" culture, where it comes to the assessment of outsiders.

I have often expressed my frustration of our current cultural-politics because I immigrated to the US and was Naturalized at a time when America, it seemed, was still that great big cultural melting pot. We strived to assimilate as Americans, but it was still understood that we were free (after all, we're Americans! freedom is what it's all about! (y) ) to keep our own ethnic traditions in the background: to be proud Americans, first and foremost. As the decades passed, it seemed to me that we started to place our ethnic/cultural backgrounds first and instead wanted to bury the fact that we were Americans - and in doing so more and more fractured that melting pot that made us great in the first place. Now, instead, it seems we have factions battling each other *within* America, and this makes me sad.

If we are unwilling to identify as Americans first and keep America's interests first, how can we expect to remain a leading world power?

I come from a time when us Chinese/Taiwanese looked to America as the promised land. We moved here to become Americans so that we could chase our dreams in a way that wasn't possible in our mother country.

I would be lying to say that there's not a part of me that is proud when I consider the technological progression of Taiwan (when I arrived here in the states in the late-80s, "Made in Taiwan" was a common joke among us grade-school kids when one or another of our toys -which were inevitably made there- broke; now, the words Taiwan and "world's most advanced microchips" are virtually synonymous) and the ascendent economy of China.

But the truth of the matter is that I am an American, and I look at my American daughter, and I fear that for her and her friends, America seems to be backsliding from her status as the promised land.
 
TSiWRX said:
^ Not just the Japanese: most of the Far-Eastern cultures have a very ethnocentric view.

The Chinese, for example -and here I speak as a first-generation immigrant- believe that the universe revolves around them. 中国, with the two characters pronounced "Zhōng guó," literally translates to "[The] Middle Country." Similarly, the cultural, philosophical, and even political concept of "Tian xia" - translating to "[All] Under Heaven" - is a defining historic belief of the people of The Middle Country. While much has been played-off in Western culture about the idea that the Japanese think their Emperor is deity incarnate, "sovereignty under Heaven" is very much a Chinese concept (FWIW, just as it is that of virtually every other culture :p ).

Versus us Americans, the Chinese thus is able to think in a binary manner: you're either Chinese or you're, quite literally, an outsider - "Wàiguó rén," or "a person from a foreign land." It doesn't matter if your skin is day-glow-pale Irish or the darkest shade of equatorial African, you are simply "foreign." And while people from different areas of China make as much fun of each other and are as prejudiced with each other as the Coastal Elites are of Appalachian hillbilly's vs. Yuppie rednecks, make no mistake, when you're a foreigner, you are the target of every slander: there is no "woke" culture, where it comes to the assessment of outsiders.

I have often expressed my frustration of our current cultural-politics because I immigrated to the US and was Naturalized at a time when America, it seemed, was still that great big cultural melting pot. We strived to assimilate as Americans, but it was still understood that we were free (after all, we're Americans! freedom is what it's all about! (y) ) to keep our own ethnic traditions in the background: to be proud Americans, first and foremost. As the decades passed, it seemed to me that we started to place our ethnic/cultural backgrounds first and instead wanted to bury the fact that we were Americans - and in doing so more and more fractured that melting pot that made us great in the first place. Now, instead, it seems we have factions battling each other *within* America, and this makes me sad.

If we are unwilling to identify as Americans first and keep America's interests first, how can we expect to remain a leading world power?

I come from a time when us Chinese/Taiwanese looked to America as the promised land. We moved here to become Americans so that we could chase our dreams in a way that wasn't possible in our mother country.

I would be lying to say that there's not a part of me that is proud when I consider the technological progression of Taiwan (when I arrived here in the states in the late-80s, "Made in Taiwan" was a common joke among us grade-school kids when one or another of our toys -which were inevitably made there- broke; now, the words Taiwan and "world's most advanced microchips" are virtually synonymous) and the ascendent economy of China.

But the truth of the matter is that I am an American, and I look at my American daughter, and I fear that for her and her friends, America seems to be backsliding from her status as the promised land.
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Fear not TSI! The marxist followers of Saul Alinsky won't win this fight. Your perceived (albeit real) fear is a product of our media. Always remember there are more of you (and us) than them. At least for now;)
 
HansGruber said:
They can open investigations all they want…Putin will never stand in front of that court.
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No, but he can spend the rest of his life living in seclusion, always watching over his shoulder and wondering how many of his "comrades" he can really trust. The Israelis didn't rest until all those responsible for the deaths of their Olympic athletes were no more. I'm sure there are Ukrainians who will be up to the task.
 
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