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  1. 6 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    I’m slow, explain this to me like I’m a child.

     

    Someone plz correct me if I’m wrong but: 


    People count on the stability of food production for the market. War or dramatic shifts can have ripple effects across this marked and because that are foundational to some wealth management systems, those effects can reverberate and expedite natural events such as booms or recessions. 
     

    *shits gonna cost even more for us. 

  2. Just now, AUS-97HORN said:

    for my high school that was the absolute lowest A possible.

    we had a  school district that didnt believe the the kinda universal 90/80/70/60 system for grades.

    93+ A

    85-92 B

    78-84- C

    70-77 D

    69 dude.... F

     

    god dammit I hated that scale.   and trying to explain that grade scale to the collages I applied to was fucking complicated as shit.


    Hat was their cutoff for statutory rape?

     

    -out of curiosity!!

  3. 14 minutes ago, DaggerHorns said:

    candy flipping

    I mean, I’m not try to split hairs or be unpatriotic but… Russians would take the gold if we had to go up against them in crack, mdma or methamphetamines. With out question. While we would destroy them in prescription pills, cannnabis and cocaine. 

    just trying to offer facts

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  4. 3 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

    Willie Nelson to the front!

    If you don't already know Snoop said Willie was the only one to ever make him tap out.

    Fun story, I’ve smoked weed with willie in San Fran after one of his shows with his kid Luke circa 2007ish. 

    That dude stayed until the last fan came over and talked to him. Guy in W TX grows his weed out by Ozona (on the other side of that check point)

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  5. 1 minute ago, synoptic said:

    There is a limit to what is tolerated in terms of weapons lending in modern proxy wars.  For example, suppose we lent Ukraine a single ICBM with nuclear warheads.  Russia would know it came from us and would not care if it were the Ukrainians that entered the launch codes.  We would be in a nuclear war.  Likewise, if US and NATO aircraft start shooting down Russian aircraft and taking out their convoys with F-22s and F-35s, the nationality of the pilots simply won't matter.  We would be directly in the war as far as Russia is concerned.  They wouldn't be pondering the technicalities and perplexed by loopholes with this type of weaponry involved.    

     

     

    Riiiiiight. 

    So… your saying “Mexico” should give Ukraine an ICBM. Got it.

     

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  6. 3 minutes ago, NoName said:

    there is a HUGE difference in sending intelligence, ammo, weapons and military equipment vs flying F35 flights over Kyiv.

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    you aren't putting your troops in harms way when it's military equipment and you stay out of starting a literal world-wide war with Russia this way.

    if you start flying planes, you have to enforce a no fly zone.

    ...if you start enforcing a no fly zone, you are shooting down planes.

    ...if you start shooting down planes, you start a literal hot war with Russia.

    starting a hot war with a nuclear power over a country that is not in your alliance, has shown limited interest in joining and doesn't have widespread support (for troops) among allies = a bad move.
     

     

    Very much so. I would doubt with this administration we are doing that already and if we aren’t then its going to be a bitch to start with Congress watching

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  7. 2 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Agree with you, but Latin America and the Middle East are choosing very poorly when it comes to allegiances with Russia if they’re worried about a new colonialism.  I obviously expected it from Venezuela and the shadier OPEC countries, but much of Central and South America clearly have way more Russian and Chinese influence than I expected.  

    Mexico, Brazil, et al … good luck with all that. 


    well, “colonialism” is being shopped to many countries as ‘alliance’ and ‘protection’ that some nations find attractive. Cuba a land China come to mind.
    it’s just a carrot and stick situation and in the end just affords stability to the colonizing county. In SA, some of the messes are so deep, cultural or historical that it is more effective from a cost and effort perspective to “handle” the county instead of making it an equal partner. 

  8. 1 minute ago, BachelorTrek said:

    This story comes out 6 days ago about Kazakhstan say they'll stay out of the war......

    From: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/russia-ukraine-live-updates-n1289976/ncrd1289985#liveBlogCards

    One of Russia's closest allies denies request for troops

     

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    Peter Alexander

    6d ago / 6:21 PM CST

    Kazakhstan, one of Russia's closest allies and a southern neighbor, is denying a request for its troops to join the offensive in Ukraine, officials said Friday.

    Additionally, the former Soviet republic said it is not recognizing the Russia-created breakaway republics upheld by Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, as a pretext for its aggression in Ukraine. 

    Despite ceasefire accords covering the disputed land, Putin on Monday declared Russia's recognition of Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) as independent states.

    The surprising development from a traditional ally of Russia has the support of the United States.

    “We welcome Kazakhstan’s announcement that they will not recognize the LPR and DPR," the National Security Council said in a statement. "We also welcome Kazakhstan’s refusal to send its forces to join Putin’s war in Ukraine."

     

    YET there's this tanks on trains movement all of a sudden in Kazakhstan:
     

     

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  9. 10 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    A world where great powers announce that they’re going to rewind to 1820 and just take over countries they want or don’t like is a threat to the international order in a way no proxy war or Islamic insurgency can be.  Just how it is.

    A return to that order is far more threatening to the Global South, too. Many progressives have failed to grasp that Russian designs in Ukraine are colonial at their core and threaten to revive an explicitly colonial world. 


    (*very) Good point to be sure, but I would say progressives haven’t failed, they just don’t care because their foundational philosophy is terminally flawed. 

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  10. 10 minutes ago, NoName said:

    enforcing a no fly zone = killing russian pilots and planes.

    if we are going to kill russian pilots and planes, we are entering full scale warfare with Russia - as is the rest of the world no matter if they want to or not. if we are going to do that why the hell would we "just" enforce a no fly zone?

    yes, thousands of Ukrainians will die needlessly. while it is unfortunate as hell, they are not part of NATO (and only 54% of UKR people want to join pre this fight), they are not part of the EU - only 58% of people wanted to joint that. 21% of people wanted to join a customs union with RUS+Belarus+Kazakhstan. there is no clear want by the UKR people over time to join either group and ally themselves to Europe or NATO. they JUST requested to join and have their request fast tracked THREE days ago.

    this isn't going to fight against Iraq or the Taliban, this is a full hot war against a nominal superpower with nukes. you don't jump into that kind of war over someone who isn't an ally, someone who hasn't joined your alliance and someone who had limited interest in pushing to join the alliance until they were invaded.

    going balls to the wall into a nuclear war with the rest of the world against fucking Russia over a country that has had every single opportunity to lean closer to Europe/NATO and has opted not to over the last 30 (!!!) years seems like an iffy choice when there are so many other options.

    Going Crazy Will Ferrell GIF

    ~250k people have died in the Civil War in Yemen and nobody was interested. somewhere between ~120k and ~150k from 06 to 18 died in the Mexican Drug War. Est 350k have died in the Boko Haram/Islamist fight in Nigeria. ~350k have died in the Syrian Civil War.

    don't see you or most others pushing to enter any of those conflicts, which are worse in basically every way for humanity as a whole when it comes to how many folks it has impacted, just because the fucking Ruskies are not on the other side.

     


     

    Buddy. I feel your confusion.

    but consider that the people killled in Mexico at its core, controls people and adds stability to a drug trade lots of Americans profit from. Yemen, because of religion and politics literally adds no benefit to any side, and Boco Haram is in Africa so lol. 

    this war directly affects American interests so we give a shit. A lot. It’s kinda our thing. Check out the banana wars and why Americans expect them for 18¢.

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