The Russians might think that we are the last country on the planet with the standing to object to them doing a little forcible regime-changing of another country.
You know, Iraq, Panama, and so on.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022
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Aw, it's just clean fun don't you know. After all what's the point of having a military industrial complex if you can't take it out and go bangity bang once in awhile. Gollie, next thing you know there will be Armed Forces regulations to go along with gun regulations taking all the fun out of things. After all, we all know the generals and Admirals and presidents and sweethearts like Putin are wiser than the rest of us and have promised to play nicely with their weapons of mass destruction. /s
ReplyDeleteProbably Ledeenism ("...pick up some crappy little country and throw it against the wall...") is the single thing that will be most durably and bitterly held against us.
ReplyDeleteThen there are the US Missiles in Poland
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/europe/poland-missile-base-russia-ukraine.html
So Russia wants a veto on NATO's deployments within NATO territory? Will NATO get a veto on Russian deployments?
ReplyDeleteIn your vein - US missiles in Turkey and Russian missiles in Cuba is how I make it for the specific instance. Part of this is the bigger game that Russia and the US have played since Cuba. How long will Xi let Vladdy have his Eastern squad in the west, before he takes a piece of something something?
ReplyDeleteFrank, 100 or 200 years from now, nobody will give a shit about Leedenism. All they will care about will be that we were the people who could have averted climate change and we sat on our hands and did nothing meaningful to stop it.
ReplyDelete(Not that I know what “Leedenism” is, mind you.)
ReplyDelete? The quote from Michael Ledeen was right there in my comment, and it was also the whole point of your original post.
ReplyDeleteAs to climate change, are you using "we" to refer to the entire human species during a window of time, or specifically to Americans? If the latter, you still need to cite a time frame, because the only point there could be that China and India are burning their carbon today in a vain effort to imitate us X years ago.
The whole species.
ReplyDeleteThe outside view
ReplyDeletehttps://econ.st/3Bsyra2
A lot of moving parts in this game and the Olympics end on the 20th.
My suspicion is that Putin has painted himself into a corner.
ReplyDeleteThat will be the cover of the next Economist
ReplyDeletehttps://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Can-Norwegian-Natural-Gas-Solve-Europes-Energy-Crisis.html
You have a very good mind if I haven't said it before.
Maybe the Germans ought to rethink shuttering their nuclear power plants. Imagine where Europe would be if Putin waited until Nord 2 was online.
ReplyDeleteThe EU may have shuttered some coal plants to early too. The EU can't trade electricity and energy like US states. The Nordic countries are trying to figure it out.
ReplyDeleteNordic electricity market is a common market for electricity in the Nordic countries. It is one of the first free electric-energy markets in Europe and is traded in NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe and Nord Pool Spot. In 2003, the largest market shares were as follows: Vattenfall 17%, Fortum 14.1%, Statkraft 8.9%, E.on 7.5%, Elsam 5%, Pohjolan Voima 5%. Other producers had 42.5% market share.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_energy_market
https://www.nwcouncil.org/sites/default/files/The_Nordic_Model_for_a_Liberalised_Electricity_Market.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEoXwsFdqYI
Heh ~ Operation Just Let Them Speak is working perfectly ...
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