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I realize trends and charts may have shown things differently, but to the average person, I don't think inflation ever really eased up all that much or left at all for that matter! Linking as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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Biden (or Xiden) has banned drilling in the arctic and banned trains carrying liquified natural gas (where's Frederick R. Smith when you need him) and they talk about the Governor banning the 2cnd. It never ends.

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If energy price inflation persists Dementia Joe is going to be forced to reverse his energy policies.

The only way that wouldn't happen is if the Democrats are planning another rigged election. And that carries an elevated risk of a real insurrection.

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Yep, get ready for it, and F-15 carrying nukes.

They have made it clear they will stop at nothing!

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F15s, or any other aircraft, are of minimal use against irregular forces.

Twenty years of war in Afghanistan, ten more years of Russian warfare against the Mujahideen, and the war in Iraq all are grim testimony to that.

The 21st century has been one which charts the limits of air power. Both sides have largely abandoned the contest for air supremacy in Ukraine. I submit this is not a coincidence.

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This isn't Afghanistan or Iraq, it is the United States.

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The principles and dynamics of asymmetric warfare are not exclusive to any one nation.

If civil war is to come to the United States, we can learn a lot about how it will likely unfold by studying Afghanistan and Iraq, and the insurgencies in both.

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And air forces stay out of the mess, will ours?

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We use our world’s reserve currency as an economic weapon and they fight back by manipulating oil prices. Perhaps that is an underlying reason why they’re pushing electrification.

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They're manipulating oil prices because Saudi Arabia needs higher oil prices and so does Russia.

Before the production cuts Saudi Arabia was losing money on each barrel of oil sold. Now the price per barrel is better for them but the volume of oil sold is too low

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Russia needs higher oil prices in large part to offset the sanctions that were deliberately initiated to cripple their economy.

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Well, they DID invade Ukraine. No invasion no sanctions. No invasion no war to have to finance.

There's plenty of reasons to criticize the sanctions but sympathy for Russia does not number among them. They could end the sanctions tomorrow by pulling their forces back to Russia proper.

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Sep 11, 2023·edited Sep 11, 2023

I told you before. Which you chose to ignore. That America provoked the conflict. First by staging a coup to install scumbag Zelensky, exchanging nuclear weapons in Ukraine for biological ones. And, courting Ukraine into NATO which the US promised they’d never do. How long are you going to pretend those things don’t count? And, BTW, none of what I’m saying has anything to do with sympathy for Russia. “Sympathy for Russia” is a dog whistle for don’t criticize the USA. Bullshit.

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The provocation argument presumes that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is morally justified. It is not.

Ukraine was not preparing to attack Russia. There was no marshaling of forces on the Ukraine side of the border with Russia. There was no imminent threat against Russian territory.

Consequently, the premise that Putin was justified in invading Ukraine is morally absurd, morally repulsive, and morally rejected. That Russia has legitimate grievances against NATO and the EU does not give them license to invade a sovereign nation, and Ukraine is a sovereign nation. To argue otherwise is to say America's illegal wars in the Middle East are in fact legal and moral. You may favor such a position, but I do not.

Russia invaded Ukraine. This is a morally indefensible act. There is no valid argument to the contrary.

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Sep 11, 2023·edited Sep 11, 2023

You are the one making justifications I’m merely saying facts. Your conclusions are askew. Putin took forever piling artillery on Ukraine’s border. Did the Biden admin use that time to de-escalate tensions? Nope. Everything points to this administration wanting to wage a proxy war with Russia which any thinking person would see as a very bad idea.

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