It's "stop punching yourself", essentially, but yah
Not really. America doesn't need Russian oil.
WSJ says "correct!"
America gets most of its crude imports from Canada, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. Smaller countries in Latin America and West Africa also typically send more crude to the U.S. than Russia had been sending.
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It’s the first time a Russian hypersonic missile has been deployed in combat as far as I’m aware. Hypersonic missiles go about Mach 6 and fly very low, so they are hard to detect and shoot down. They may be running out of ballistic missiles. It’s also meant to intimidate NATO and send a message that western ukraine and weapons convoys are not safe.
I see we are both slumming it by looking at the same Russian propaganda(ish) twitter handles. It's where you have to go to at least get the other side of the story.
But we've probably got the 4 dudes and a beagle that comprise the Australian and Canadian intelligence services putting us on a 'Putin asset' list somewhere just for looking at them.
It's not the Russian propaganda from actual Russians that gives me the creeps though, it's the fucking weirdo western Putin worshippers. It seems 'I love Putin' is interchangeable with 'I love Q'.
It'd be good if someone would build some sort of pipeline from Canada to the U.S., wouldn't it?
Never heard of it
This whole thing is just so weird.
At the risk of adding 'Xi asset' to my file, this tweet that the above handle retweeted is an excellent summary of current US dealings with China.
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/LiuXininBeijing/status/1505043155682402306?cxt=HHwWhICpodWx_uIpAAAA
Very trivial but this is also a hilarious example of red scare overreach.
www.businessinsider.com.au
Gagarin died 50 years ago and lived in a state that contained both sides of this conflict, for those playing along.
Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, has had his name removed from a Space Foundation fundraiser, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization, removed Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's name from a fundraiser "in light of current events."
www.businessinsider.com.au
Gagarin died 50 years ago and lived in a state that contained both sides of this conflict, for those playing along.
I'm genuinely curious to see what happens to this pro-war fervour if China invades Taiwan. That of course is not in any way, shape or form hoping they do invade Taiwan. I'd assume that's obvious but apparently people have lost their fucking minds
I'd love to see the faces of the Ruskie astronauts that showed up to the space station in Ukrainian colors when they got told this.Very trivial but this is also a hilarious example of red scare overreach.
Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, has had his name removed from a Space Foundation fundraiser, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization, removed Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's name from a fundraiser "in light of current events."
Gagarin died 50 years ago and lived in a state that contained both sides of this conflict, for those playing along.
Probably WW3. But China isn't going to invade Taiwan.
I think you're right. I also didn't think Putin was doing anything more than saber rattling.
correct me if im wrong.
the price of american oil is determined by global supply/demand. so its irrelevant whether or not america gets "russian oil"
The demand can be met. Countries who produce purposely keep it in short supply either because they're greedy fucks (OPEC) or they're fucking morons (Canada/America)
yeh. exactly. in the case of america tho america isnt in OPEC. and america doesnt determine production. companies do. right?
I said before this war 'I don't think Putin will invade, although it may happen, but China definitely won't invade'.
Streaming into a plain you surround with a low chance of direct US involvement is not the same as launching an amphibious invasion of a fortified island with a high chance of direct US involvement.
And China won't see any urgency. Just a different ball game.
First man in space, first to orbit the Earth.Very trivial but this is also a hilarious example of red scare overreach.
Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, has had his name removed from a Space Foundation fundraiser, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization, removed Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's name from a fundraiser "in light of current events."
Gagarin died 50 years ago and lived in a state that contained both sides of this conflict, for those playing along.
Sort of. There are carrots and sticks. If you run an oil business and the government is going to make it so there's no return in producing, you're not going to produce.
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I don't think they will right now. How could they? They don't have the tools and there's too much support the opposite direction. But what about 10 years from now when China is more integrated into some of the developing world that will be middle-class by then? They will be hard to sanction and their military Will be significantly ahead of where it is now.
Same thinking ? Just too expensive of a cost?