It is clear that Putin must be stopped, cold in his tracks. No appeasement or compromises anymore. We, as the so called civilized western world, have to draw a line in the sand and say no more. If not here, where ?
M.A.G.A! Oh wait...
Maybe it's time to get the band back together: Tony B.'s Coalition of the Willing...
Once again, we have another war that is ultimately about oil. The lack of it is causing grave weaknesses and vulnerabilities to the whole world. I see somewhere that it was posted that with ALL the efforts to implement green energy, we have only lowered oil's share from 82% to 81%.
The war is not about oil at all⦠was Russia invading Ukraine to secure oil rich land that Russia coveted? No, the war is about Vladimir Putinâs imperialist ambitions to try and retool Russia into a version of Soviet Union II only the script isnât quite playing out the way he planned.
Oil⦠and access to it⦠is simply a lever that Putin was hoping to exploit to try and erode support for Ukraine from countries that were highly dependent on Russia on supplying it to them.
I don't think many actually support the war, but they see supporting (no direct involvement) Ukraine in fighting as appropriate, while ignoring or largely discounting the long history leading up to the invasion.
I guess you must mean the long and storied history of Russian repression. Nope, I donât think anyone is discounting that at all. In fact I think everyone recognizes it as a primary contributing factor to the current state of affairs.
If it's MOST, then I assume you're talking about support for the Russia-Ukraine war. Political party perhaps, ideology not so much.
I don't think many actually support the war, but they see supporting (no direct involvement) Ukraine in fighting as appropriate, while ignoring or largely discounting the long history leading up to the invasion.
I believe to some that there is a sense of resignation over this whole thing. We have kicked the can all the way to the end of the road. Now we have to pick it up and deal with it.
It is clear that Putin must be stopped, cold in his tracks. No appeasement or compromises anymore. We, as the so called civilized western world, have to draw a line in the sand and say no more. If not here, where ?
I don't want any full tilt nuclear annihilation scenario. I grew up with the threat of this once already. Biden / Putin is not the same as Kennedy / Khrushchev however. Two old and deranged men are in charge of this round.
Once again, we have another war that is ultimately about oil. The lack of it is causing grave weaknesses and vulnerabilities to the whole world. I see somewhere that it was posted that with ALL the efforts to implement green energy, we have only lowered oil's share from 82% to 81%.
Do I have a point ? I dunno. Perhaps green energy is not ready for prime time and won't be anytime soon. This premature push to it at the expense of using oil is destabilizing the world. Oil is much more than fuel for internal combustion engines, it is still the lifeblood of our civilization. The quickest way to peace as I see it is an abundance of oil. Deweaponize it with abundance.
I don't think many actually support the war, but they see supporting (no direct involvement) Ukraine in fighting as appropriate, while ignoring or largely discounting the long history leading up to the invasion.
Right, I guess that's one way of (narrowly) framing support.
If it's MOST, then I assume you're talking about support for the Russia-Ukraine war.
Political party perhaps, ideology not so much.
I don't think many actually support the war, but they see supporting (no direct involvement) Ukraine in fighting as appropriate, while ignoring or largely discounting the long history leading up to the invasion.
I dealt with many of these ideologues â David Petraeus, Elliot Abrams, Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland â as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Once you strip away their chest full of medals or fancy degrees, you find shallow men and women, craven careerists who obsequiously serve the war industry that ensures their promotions, pays the budgets of their think tanks and showers them with money as board members of military contractors.
They are the pimps of war. If you reported on them, as I did, you would not sleep well at night. They are vain enough and stupid enough to blow up the world long before we go extinct because of the climate crisis, which they have also dutifully accelerated.
Sachs is good value. His op-ed piece reads a bit like "The Emperor has No Clothes".
I recall that a long time ago, Sachs promoted the idea that the former Soviet Union, in effect Russia, should move from a command and control economy to a freemarket economy by figuratively speaking "taking all the wheels off at once". I have often wondered after the fact if that was good advice and ultimately encouraged some of the looting of the Russian economy that took place. Hard to say.
Note that Sachs is using the term 'hegemony' as if it were a bad thing. I would argue the opposite. Hegemony is a good thing if it means getting things done and taking care of security at a very low cost. The problem with the way the USA acts as described by Sachs, effectively the 'Man of Great Stature' on the international stage schtick, is that divine moral intervention will blowback and ultimately reduce the hegemony of the USA at a faster clip than might have otherwise occurred.
