Russia and Ukraine

[Bumblebee]

U.S would guard us regardless if we were nato or not simply to the fact if Russia is going to attack it will be through the North Pole first. Nuclear or aircraft wise. Sorry didn’t mean to reply to you fall.

If we weren't part of NATO, technically the US wouldn't be able to engage an attacking entity......it'd be the same as what's going on in the Ukraine right now. Geography isn't the deciding factor.

And they could fly right over BC or come through the high arctic.

There are a couple things that have saved Canada so far, one is our membership in NATO and there is how vast our land mass and how spartanly populated we are. If someone wanted to invade us, they'd need a very, very well set up logistics net to do it.

 

[fallenarch]

If we weren't part of NATO, technically the US wouldn't be able to engage an attacking entity......it'd be the same as what's going on in the Ukraine right now. Geography isn't the deciding factor.

And they could fly right over BC or come through the high arctic.

There are a couple things that have saved Canada so far, one is our membership in NATO and there is how vast our land mass and how spartanly populated we are. If someone wanted to invade us, they'd need a very, very well set up logistics net to do it.

If Russia was to attack Canada NATO or not the US would declare war immediately. I think the same for Mexico but it might be more difficult to get some so-called Americans to fight over Mexico.

 

[Bumblebee]

If Russia was to attack Canada NATO or not the US would declare war immediately. I think the same for Mexico but it might be more difficult to get some so-called Americans to fight over Mexico.

Nobody would attempt to invade Canada.....or the US....

 

[jellyrug]

I didn't know Biden directly controlled the Fed.

President Biden has chosen to keep Jerome Powell in place for a second term as Federal Reserve chairman — a move that signals continuity with the central bank's policies at a time when the economy faces critical challenges, including surging inflation

Biden nominated current Fed governor Lael Brainard to serve as vice chair. Brainard had been seen as a leading contender to replace Powell.

Under Powell and Brainard the Fed has kept interest rates near zero despite the current high prices for all kinds of goods, as it focuses on returning the economy to full employment and as policymakers argue that inflation will prove temporary.

"Powell and Brainard share the Administration's focus on ensuring that economic growth broadly benefits all workers," the White House said in a statement.

Biden's pick to stick with Powell will likely reassure financial markets, despite opposition from some progressive members of the president's own party.

Powell, a Republican, was originally appointed to the Fed's governing board by former President Barack Obama and was elevated to the chairman's post by then-President Donald Trump.

Ways The President Can (And Can’t) Influence The Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve was designed to be independent from politics, but the president may have more influence over the central bank than you originally thought.

www.bankrate.com

Unfortunately this article again brings up Trump and you have made clear what you think of him.

Here are my thoughts. His achievements were exponentially better than anything Biden has ever done during his long political career. But unfortunately Trump’s failures were also exponentially worse than those of any previous President.

 

[kml]

Nobody would attempt to invade Canada.....or the US....

I don't know...
The Zebra mussel seems to have done pretty good.
And it ain't even got a brain.

LOL

cheers
ken

 

[TallTom]

Nobody would attempt to invade Canada.....or the US....

They did a pretty good job on 9/11. But I think I understand you are trying to say a mass invasion by large armies. It's obviously hard to do undetected. And hard to support logistically. It would have to be supported by our southern neighbors.

 

[JeffSyh]

Nobody would attempt to invade Canada.....or the US....

The only real threat U.S has is Russia and China. Russia would never be able to invade U.S but if we ever get ballistic missile defence systems that are capable of shooting down MIRVS they will be placed in Canada wether we were close allies or not. Because when Russia starts attacking every nuke from Russia is flying over Canada to hit the U.S and you can bet Russia will drop a few in canada.

U.S will always protect us unless they start running out of resources then annex Canada time comes.

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Ways The President Can (And Can’t) Influence The Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve was designed to be independent from politics, but the president may have more influence over the central bank than you originally thought.

www.bankrate.com

Unfortunately this article again brings up Trump and you have made clear what you think of him.

Here are my thoughts. His achievements were exponentially better than anything Biden has ever done during his long political career. But unfortunately Trump’s failures were also exponentially worse than those of any previous President.

Achievements?

 

[TallTom]

Ways The President Can (And Can’t) Influence The Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve was designed to be independent from politics, but the president may have more influence over the central bank than you originally thought.

www.bankrate.com

Unfortunately this article again brings up Trump and you have made clear what you think of him.

Here are my thoughts. His achievements were exponentially better than anything Biden has ever done during his long political career. But unfortunately Trump’s failures were also exponentially worse than those of any previous President.

Thanks Unca Joe!

Saudi Arabia Considers Ditching The Dollar For Chinese Oil Sales | OilPrice.com

Saudi Arabia is now in active talks with China about accepting yuan for some of its oil sales to China, a move that would undermine the U.S. dollar.

oilprice.com

 

[Zerks]

I will restate...Russia will win the war militarily but won't win anything...the infrastructure will be destroyed and the people will hate them.

Said another way.... Putin and his military have already done damage that will last for generations. When a despot unleashed trained killers on a civilian population the result is about as ugly as it gets.

 

[Zerks]

We're not in recession, the economy is overheating. The GDP is up and Biden created more jobs last month than Trump netted in his entire 4-year term.

Pretty amazing for somebody that appears to be intelligent has actually run with this rubber stamped narrative here and is stating is like its true.

This is like the day you said China has 4 billion people living there.

Reversing the no medical insurance mandate,( which was stupid anyway ) reducing taxes, lowest unemployment on record in certain minority groups and much more on Trumps watch... Year 3 of Trumps term was better than anything in American history by the numbers. If that wasn't true the MSM would have called foul long and hard everyday just like they smeared and attacked him every day. During this covid phase the distortion in the media covering the numbers of GDP and more is a total mess. I can assure you almost everything the MSM is saying is either twisted or a lie and all it has done is getting worse. Just look who owns the 90% media. They repeat themselves like mocking birds when they want to spread the narrative.... it happens over and over and some people call it news... what a friggin joke it all is.

Thanks to all those that dig past surface and expose the clown show in DC right now.

How about we start drilling again here? Wouldn't that be better than relying on foreign oil after all the grief this country has gone through over foreign oil in the last several decades?

The real estate market is starting to show signs the tell us the inflated prices are slowing and in some markets they already have for several months.

 

[fallenarch]

Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover

The number of employed Americans fell by 3 million during Trump's time in office.

fortune.com

 

[fallenarch]

Well, it looks like Ukraine won't be joining NATO. This is an interesting article about why NATO doesn't want Ukraine in. NATO Won’t Let Ukraine Join Soon. Here’s Why.

 

[Bumblebee]

The only real threat U.S has is Russia and China. Russia would never be able to invade U.S but if we ever get ballistic missile defence systems that are capable of shooting down MIRVS they will be placed in Canada wether we were close allies or not. Because when Russia starts attacking every nuke from Russia is flying over Canada to hit the U.S and you can bet Russia will drop a few in canada.

U.S will always protect us unless they start running out of resources then annex Canada time comes.

The now defunct DEW line was a good example of this as well as NORAD which has a home in Canada.

I can see this sort of thing starting up again especially now that Russia has shown it isn't to be trusted.

In the Cold War, there were distinct Canadian targets, but that was primarily because US assets were present in them.

 

[Bumblebee]

I don't know...
The Zebra mussel seems to have done pretty good.
And it ain't even got a brain.

LOL

cheers
ken

The Zebra mussel is but one evasive creature which is raising havoc in North America....there is a lengthy list...

Wild boar are slowly making their way north and they are very destructive, just to name one...

 

[jellyrug]

Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover

The number of employed Americans fell by 3 million during Trump's time in office.

fortune.com

LOL, you totally chose to ignore the second paragraph in the article. Actually you ignored the first also.

So why not rather post the headline only and leave out all the narrative?

 

[fallenarch]

LOL, you totally chose to ignore the second paragraph in the article. Actually you ignored the first also.

So why not rather post the headline only and leave out all the narrative?

Righties always try to excuse this with "the pandemic caused Trump's job performance to be so bad". But the pandemic was made much worse by Trump's handling of it, mainly his failure to distribute the vaccine he himself created, and weakness on restrictions. Trump chose to simply ignore the problem because he thought all the extreme actions that were necessary to contain the pandemic would impact voters negatively (which in classic Trump fashion, he actually admitted himself!). Ironically, not being aggressive with the pandemic cost him dearly at the polls.

Note that I didn't edit this, I posted a link. I didn't cherry-pick the information, you can follow it and draw your own conclusions. For example, it says Trump's job success prior to the pandemic was riding an already roaring economy he inherited from Obama.

However, the biggest reason Trump left office with a historic failure on the jobs front is that he lost so big in the 2020 election. Obama faced an equally difficult combination of obstacles in his time in office but had a second term to recover.

 

[fallenarch]

So listening to the speeches of Zelenskyy and Biden yesterday, it occurred to me that the Ukraine situation is really a classic civil war. They are essentially one people, slightly different cultures and languages but still think and see many as brothers. In fact, as the USSR they were one people for a long time. So that is another reason not to get involved in this. Without a doubt, many of those weapons will end up in Russian labs being reverse engineered. Giving the Ukrainians too much technology would be like giving it to the Russians.

Zelenskyy is a master politician, but as dire as his straights are it is still a civil war. For example, his predecessor was pro-Russia. We all know how this plays out when we interfere in a civil war, especially when one side has 6K nukes.

 

[jellyrug]

Righties always try to excuse this with "the pandemic caused Trump's job performance to be so bad". But the pandemic was made much worse by Trump's handling of it, mainly his failure to distribute the vaccine he himself created, and weakness on restrictions. Trump chose to simply ignore the problem because he thought all the extreme actions that were necessary to contain the pandemic would impact voters negatively (which in classic Trump fashion, he actually admitted himself!). Ironically, not being aggressive with the pandemic cost him dearly at the polls.

Note that I didn't edit this, I posted a link. I didn't cherry-pick the information, you can follow it and draw your own conclusions. For example, it says Trump's job success prior to the pandemic was riding an already roaring economy he inherited from Obama.

However, the biggest reason Trump left office with a historic failure on the jobs front is that he lost so big in the 2020 election. Obama faced an equally difficult combination of obstacles in his time in office but had a second term to recover.

Trump was and will never be Presidential material.
I won't mention Biden, because you like him.

And here we are, Iran sends missiles our way this week, they are in bed with Russia and China and we are busy renegotiating the nuclear deal with them. Folks who can't be trusted from the one minute to the next. We are even lifting some of the sanctions.

 

[jellyrug]

Righties always try to excuse this with "the pandemic caused Trump's job performance to be so bad". But the pandemic was made much worse by Trump's handling of it, mainly his failure to distribute the vaccine he himself created, and weakness on restrictions. Trump chose to simply ignore the problem because he thought all the extreme actions that were necessary to contain the pandemic would impact voters negatively (which in classic Trump fashion, he actually admitted himself!). Ironically, not being aggressive with the pandemic cost him dearly at the polls. Note that I didn't edit this, I posted a link. I didn't cherry-pick the information, you can follow it and draw your own conclusions. For example, it says Trump's job success prior to the pandemic was riding an already roaring economy he inherited from Obama. However, the biggest reason Trump left office with a historic failure on the jobs front is that he lost so big in the 2020 election. Obama faced an equally difficult combination of obstacles in his time in office but had a second term to recover.

So listening to the speeches of Zelenskyy and Biden yesterday, it occurred to me that the Ukraine situation is really a classic civil war. They are essentially one people, slightly different cultures and languages but still think and see many as brothers. In fact, as the USSR they were one people for a long time. So that is another reason not to get involved in this. Without a doubt, many of those weapons will end up in Russian labs being reverse engineered. Giving the Ukrainians too much technology would be like giving it to the Russians.

Zelenskyy is a master politician, but as dire as his straights are it is still a civil war. For example, his predecessor was pro-Russia. We all know how this plays out when we interfere in a civil war, especially when one side has 6K nukes.

We have civil war here as well. We just leave it for Fox and CNN to keep score.

On a more serious note, I see Ukraine different. There was no valid reason for an invasion. Ukraine is not at war with Russia, Russia simply invaded them without just cause.

For the world at large, if Ukraine falls and becomes part of Russia, it would be a devastating blow for the free world and Democracy.

Something you and I debated before, I see all humans as one people. There are just different values and the more civilized the world becomes, the more those values will become synchronized. What Putin is doing is a major setback towards a civilized world. He should have been stopped before it even started.