Every direction one looks in is bad- really bad. I would expect to hear an announcement of a new gas line from Russia to China at any time. China really needs clean fuels and less coal plants, virtually everywhere. Putin has amassed 750 plus billion in cash. I don't think that keeping oligarch's children out of western schools amounts to…
Every direction one looks in is bad- really bad. I would expect to hear an announcement of a new gas line from Russia to China at any time. China really needs clean fuels and less coal plants, virtually everywhere. Putin has amassed 750 plus billion in cash. I don't think that keeping oligarch's children out of western schools amounts to much of a sanction.
Ukraine needs a response more like the lend lease policies of Roosevelt in 1940. The only thing I see Putin responding to is brute resistance. I would not be surprised to see him go nuclear since I don't think he's rational. Sadly, I think American and NATO troops will be in Ukraine. Mass them on the polish border and be ready to defend Kiev. I hate it.
The republican party is simply inexplicable. What the fuck happened? Everywhere I read that Democrats are held in poor esteem. I truly don't get it. Overall, they got us through this pandemic. No good deed shall go unpunished.
And the Democrats also kind of got the USSR through it--they were a LOT closer to losing than most people realize:
Most visibly, the United States provided the Soviet Union with more than 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 14,000 aircraft, 8,000 tractors and construction vehicles, and 13,000 battle tanks.
However, the real significance of Lend-Lease for the Soviet war effort was that it covered the "sensitive points" of Soviet production -- gasoline, explosives, aluminum, nonferrous metals, radio communications, and so on, says historian Boris Sokolov.
"In a hypothetical battle one-on-one between the U.S.S.R and Germany, without the help of Lend-Lease and without the diversion of significant forces of the Luftwaffe and the German Navy and the diversion of more than one-quarter of its land forces in the fight against Britain and the United States, Stalin could hardly have beaten Hitler," Sokolov wrote in an essay for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Under Lend-Lease, the United States provided more than one-third of all the explosives used by the Soviet Union during the war. The United States and the British Commonwealth provided 55 percent of all the aluminum the Soviet Union used during the war and more than 80 percent of the copper.
Lend-Lease also sent aviation fuel equivalent to 57 percent of what the Soviet Union itself produced. Much of the American fuel was added to lower-grade Soviet fuel to produce the high-octane fuel needed by modern military aircraft.
The Lend-Lease program also provided more than 35,000 radio sets and 32,000 motorcycles. When the war ended, almost 33 percent of all the Red Army's vehicles had been provided through Lend-Lease. More than 20,000 Katyusha mobile multiple-rocket launchers were mounted on the chassis of American Studebaker trucks.
In addition, the Lend-Lease program propped up the Soviet railway system, which played a fundamental role in moving and supplying troops. The program sent nearly 2,000 locomotives and innumerable boxcars to the Soviet Union. In addition, almost half of all the rails used by the Soviet Union during the war came through Lend-Lease.
I get the strong feeling that if Putin decided to go nuclear he would all of a sudden have a "stroke" and there would be some committee running things while the members of that committee fight it out to see who is in charge in the background.
None of these people are interested in hazarding their wealth and position in a nuclear war.
That has been goin on for sometime, Russia used to be 90% dependent on the EU for energy export sales. (a large part of their export income) It is now down to 50% with China picking up most of the slack at 30%.
Every direction one looks in is bad- really bad. I would expect to hear an announcement of a new gas line from Russia to China at any time. China really needs clean fuels and less coal plants, virtually everywhere. Putin has amassed 750 plus billion in cash. I don't think that keeping oligarch's children out of western schools amounts to much of a sanction.
Ukraine needs a response more like the lend lease policies of Roosevelt in 1940. The only thing I see Putin responding to is brute resistance. I would not be surprised to see him go nuclear since I don't think he's rational. Sadly, I think American and NATO troops will be in Ukraine. Mass them on the polish border and be ready to defend Kiev. I hate it.
The republican party is simply inexplicable. What the fuck happened? Everywhere I read that Democrats are held in poor esteem. I truly don't get it. Overall, they got us through this pandemic. No good deed shall go unpunished.
They also got us through WW2.
And the Democrats also kind of got the USSR through it--they were a LOT closer to losing than most people realize:
Most visibly, the United States provided the Soviet Union with more than 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 14,000 aircraft, 8,000 tractors and construction vehicles, and 13,000 battle tanks.
However, the real significance of Lend-Lease for the Soviet war effort was that it covered the "sensitive points" of Soviet production -- gasoline, explosives, aluminum, nonferrous metals, radio communications, and so on, says historian Boris Sokolov.
"In a hypothetical battle one-on-one between the U.S.S.R and Germany, without the help of Lend-Lease and without the diversion of significant forces of the Luftwaffe and the German Navy and the diversion of more than one-quarter of its land forces in the fight against Britain and the United States, Stalin could hardly have beaten Hitler," Sokolov wrote in an essay for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Under Lend-Lease, the United States provided more than one-third of all the explosives used by the Soviet Union during the war. The United States and the British Commonwealth provided 55 percent of all the aluminum the Soviet Union used during the war and more than 80 percent of the copper.
Lend-Lease also sent aviation fuel equivalent to 57 percent of what the Soviet Union itself produced. Much of the American fuel was added to lower-grade Soviet fuel to produce the high-octane fuel needed by modern military aircraft.
The Lend-Lease program also provided more than 35,000 radio sets and 32,000 motorcycles. When the war ended, almost 33 percent of all the Red Army's vehicles had been provided through Lend-Lease. More than 20,000 Katyusha mobile multiple-rocket launchers were mounted on the chassis of American Studebaker trucks.
In addition, the Lend-Lease program propped up the Soviet railway system, which played a fundamental role in moving and supplying troops. The program sent nearly 2,000 locomotives and innumerable boxcars to the Soviet Union. In addition, almost half of all the rails used by the Soviet Union during the war came through Lend-Lease.
https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html#:~:text=Under%20Lend%2DLease%2C%20the%20United,80%20percent%20of%20the%20copper.
I get the strong feeling that if Putin decided to go nuclear he would all of a sudden have a "stroke" and there would be some committee running things while the members of that committee fight it out to see who is in charge in the background.
None of these people are interested in hazarding their wealth and position in a nuclear war.
you would think that of Trump too. He gets to continue to be astonishingly crazy and his creeps stay right with him.
They just announced one 2 weeks ago, 30-year deal to be settled in euros:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-russia-china-agree-30-year-gas-deal-using-new-pipeline-source-2022-02-04/
That has been goin on for sometime, Russia used to be 90% dependent on the EU for energy export sales. (a large part of their export income) It is now down to 50% with China picking up most of the slack at 30%.