Russia and Ukraine

[wreckwriter]

I really don't think we can judge a modern war against the war in Ukraine....

Russian tactics were flawed from the get-go and the Ukrainians are being artificially enhanced by the west....they have equipment they never had before and are being trained in western tactics and strategies....heck all the cell towers and communications are at full strength in Ukraine....that is normally the first thing to go in an invasion, then air superiority is gained keeping everything from the enemy on the ground, then supply lines and ability to resupply get cut. Armor and combined arms takes ground, infantry holds it and this gets repeated until objectives are taken.....none of this happened during this invasion.

I believe if two large, powerful militaries such as the US and China were to clash, warfare would initially be fought with technology but would soon turn into a "slug fest" of man and machine.

A few EMP bursts and technology is useless, and I can guarantee you all stops would be pulled with any available weapon systems...all "Geneva conventions" will go out the window and chemical, biological and nuclear weapons will be on the table.

I watched a show the other day about the initial tests regarding EMP. The conclusion of the show was that modern military hardware, at least ours, is shielded quite effectively against EMP.

 

[wreckwriter]

I'm not tracking.......??

I don't know how you went to what Biden did or has done as it has very little on how warfare will be fought...it's almost an obsession or something.

It's just a republican thing.

 

[wreckwriter]

Just one big photo opportunity. Its all image salvation when the dice have already been cast. The world knows Biden in compromised and stupid which under Obama's leadership ( the Press Secretary admitted that much the other day ) is the status quo. Remember this.... Obama went to Saudi Arabia and bowed to the Royalty that exist there while the American Military is protecting the Saudis under a contract with them for any country that would attack it. The Saudis did not bow in return. My guess is the Saudis chuckled under their breath when they observed his behavior.

Too bad your guy will never be reelected.

 

[Bumblebee]

I watched a show the other day about the initial tests regarding EMP. The conclusion of the show was that modern military hardware, at least ours, is shielded quite effectively against EMP.

It depends on the equipment...heavy armor is shielded but the average everyday people and equipment hauler isn't....

....and remember what you see on a TV show is a very, very small window into what is really out there in development or use..

 

[Zerks]

Too bad your guy will never be reelected.

I care about one thing... we get a leader that can actually lead. Not some old dementia ridden con man that has a history of doing things like using his power and connections to enrich himself and at the same time protect himself from justice. I take it Biden is your type of guy.

So, when you label me by who you think I think is qualified... you miss like a kid swinging at a Piñata while blindfolded. This country is in decline on all the important levels that matter... from energy production to education to foreign policy to fiscal control of the budget. It is all a big stinking mess right now. Have you noticed anything different in the last 2 years?

 

[wreckwriter]

I care about one thing... we get a leader that can actually lead. Not some old dementia ridden con man that has a history of doing things like using his power and connections to enrich himself and at the same time protect himself from justice. I take it Biden is your type of guy.

So, when you label me by who you think I think is qualified... you miss like a kid swinging at a Piñata while blindfolded. This country is in decline on all the important levels that matter... from energy production to education to foreign policy to fiscal control of the budget. It is all a big stinking mess right now. Have you noticed anything different in the last 2 years?

I don't love Biden but he was, by far, the best option. I expect he won't run in 24, despite saying that he will. I have no idea who the Dems will put up in his place but whoever it is will again be better than the alternative.

I don't see the country in decline other than the political situation which is at a boiling point.

 

[michael parris heuberger]

I don't love Biden but he was, by far, the best option. I expect he won't run in 24, despite saying that he will. I have no idea who the Dems will put up in his place but whoever it is will again be better than the alternative.

I don't see the country in decline other than the political situation which is at a boiling point.

Hi. You are correct just look how Biden has lowered the price of gas and hearing oil also he has inflation under control now. But when I go in to the store every thing is up 40%. Break $7.99 4 hamberger rolls $3.99 turkey $12.99 a pounds. OH yes Biden is helping the people. I am also happy that cat food is only $ 26.99 for 40 cans if you can even find it When it was $16.00 for 36 cans and it was always in stock 2 years ago. Oh yes Biden dod bring down the price of gas to ONLY $3.49 a gal from what was it $4.99 to $5.29 a gal. I was paying $1.79 3 years ago. When I started driving it was $.24 a gal. I had a 55 Chevy with a 350 HP 327 with a 4 speed.

 

[Bumblebee]

Hi. You are correct just look how Biden has lowered the price of gas and hearing oil also he has inflation under control now. But when I go in to the store every thing is up 40%. Break $7.99 4 hamberger rolls $3.99 turkey $12.99 a pounds. OH yes Biden is helping the people. I am also happy that cat food is only $ 26.99 for 40 cans if you can even find it When it was $16.00 for 36 cans and it was always in stock 2 years ago. Oh yes Biden dod bring down the price of gas to ONLY $3.49 a gal from what was it $4.99 to $5.29 a gal. I was paying $1.79 3 years ago. When I started driving it was $.24 a gal. I had a 55 Chevy with a 350 HP 327 with a 4 speed.

Go visit any country in the world and you will experience the exact same thing...

Fuel, food and inflation are a global concern right now...

You also experienced a fuel crisis in the '70s which triggered the end of the muscle car if you remember...

 

[wreckwriter]

Hi. You are correct just look how Biden has lowered the price of gas and hearing oil also he has inflation under control now. But when I go in to the store every thing is up 40%. Break $7.99 4 hamberger rolls $3.99 turkey $12.99 a pounds. OH yes Biden is helping the people. I am also happy that cat food is only $ 26.99 for 40 cans if you can even find it When it was $16.00 for 36 cans and it was always in stock 2 years ago. Oh yes Biden dod bring down the price of gas to ONLY $3.49 a gal from what was it $4.99 to $5.29 a gal. I was paying $1.79 3 years ago. When I started driving it was $.24 a gal. I had a 55 Chevy with a 350 HP 327 with a 4 speed.

But really, is inflation Biden's fault? Pretty sure it's a global thing. I seriously doubt anyone else could do better.

Biden has screwed up several things but really don't believe that most of our problems are his fault.

 

[michael parris heuberger]

But really, is inflation Biden's fault? Pretty sure it's a global thing. I seriously doubt anyone else could do better.

Biden has screwed up several things but really don't believe that most of our problems are his fault.

Hi. No it is not all his fault. Just like the 8 years under Obama it all was not his fault. It looks like Obama and Biden's problems were caused by Trump!!!!! And his pall Putin!!!! It all started with the Russian conclusion when they got to gather to steel the election from gods gift to the American people Hillary. And somehow they planned a fake Hunter Biden laptop top too.

 

[wreckwriter]

Hi. No it is not all his fault. Just like the 8 years under Obama it all was not his fault. It looks like Obama and Biden's problems were caused by Trump!!!!! And his pall Putin!!!! It all started with the Russian conclusion when they got to gather to steel the election from gods gift to the American people Hillary. And somehow they planned a fake Hunter Biden laptop top too.

Hmmmm.... I won't even bother.

 

[TallTom]

But really, is inflation Biden's fault? Pretty sure it's a global thing. I seriously doubt anyone else could do better.

Biden has screwed up several things but really don't believe that most of our problems are his fault.

Here's a little tip. If you drive up the cost of petroleum use, everything else goes up. You can drive it up in lots of ways. Cutting production being one. Making the cost to build new refineries cost prohibitive would be another.

If I'm a say Exxon and the sitting president makes a statement that he wants to stop the use of oil and gas in America, what would you do if you were Exxon?

If I'm a trucker and it cost me $5000 in fuel to get your product to you, do you expect that trucker is going to suck that up? If I'm a trucker. Working on thin margins already and can't afford to float those fuel prices waiting to get paid, am I going to stay in trucking?

If I am the Fed and I raise the cost to borrow capital, is that going to make the price of doing business go up or down?

If I am a business and I am being told to pay more taxes, is that going to raise my prices to the consumer?

If I tell the CEOs that have taken all the risk to build a company and secure jobs and pay taxes and produce competitive products, that they are going to pay more personal taxes because of it. Does that improve that companies chances to keep that leadership?

What president has accomplished all of the above? In less than 2 years?

 

[wreckwriter]

Here's a little tip. If you drive up the cost of petroleum use, everything else goes up. You can drive it up in lots of ways. Cutting production being one. Making the cost to build new refineries cost prohibitive would be another.

If I'm a say Exxon and the sitting president makes a statement that he wants to stop the use of oil and gas in America, what would you do if you were Exxon?

If I'm a trucker and it cost me $5000 in fuel to get your product to you, do you expect that trucker is going to suck that up? If I'm a trucker. Working on thin margins already and can't afford to float those fuel prices waiting to get paid, am I going to stay in trucking?

If I am the Fed and I raise the cost to borrow capital, is that going to make the price of doing business go up or down?

If I am a business and I am being told to pay more taxes, is that going to raise my prices to the consumer?

If I tell the CEOs that have taken all the risk to build a company and secure jobs and pay taxes and produce competitive products, that they are going to pay more personal taxes because of it. Does that improve that companies chances to keep that leadership?

What president has accomplished all of the above? In less than 2 years?

OK.

 

[Red05]

Here's a little tip. If you drive up the cost of petroleum use, everything else goes up. You can drive it up in lots of ways. Cutting production being one. Making the cost to build new refineries cost prohibitive would be another.

If I'm a say Exxon and the sitting president makes a statement that he wants to stop the use of oil and gas in America, what would you do if you were Exxon?

Exxon knows that use of oil will have to slow down in the next hundred years. That’s 25 presidential terms. What number in that queue can talk about starting the process?

 

[kml]

Go visit any country in the world and you will experience the exact same thing...

Fuel, food and inflation are a global concern right now...

You also experienced a fuel crisis in the '70s which triggered the end of the muscle car if you remember...

It's, according to Pierre Poilievre, the ineffective kindergarten teacher Justin Trudeau's fault.
While being utterly incompetent, he has clandestinely organized a global recession with out of control inflation.

LOL

cheers
ken

 

[TallTom]

Exxon knows that use of oil will have to slow down in the next hundred years. That’s 25 presidential terms. What number in that queue can talk about starting the process?

More like 200 years. And that doesn't include the vast fields in Canada that are largely untapped. So add another 200 years.

Oil isn't our problem. An alternative is the problem. All economies are by and large dependent on it. You don't eliminate the use of a plentiful supply we depend on by making it so expensive we all starve trying to use it.

Tell Exxon. We are going phase out it's use over the next 50 years. If you invest in alternative energy technologies we will reduce your income tax by a factor greater than 1 of that investment. Otherwise we are going to tax you (not the consumer) at X rate and give that investment to what will be who replaces you.

I'll be the first one to tell you as someone who was in the coal industry. Coal needs to go away. But 60% of our power and infrastructure rely on it. You can't just turn that off and flip a new switch and it's done. It will take YEARS of investment to create it's replacement.

 

[Bumblebee]

Here's a little tip. If you drive up the cost of petroleum use, everything else goes up. You can drive it up in lots of ways. Cutting production being one. Making the cost to build new refineries cost prohibitive would be another.

If I'm a say Exxon and the sitting president makes a statement that he wants to stop the use of oil and gas in America, what would you do if you were Exxon?

If I'm a trucker and it cost me $5000 in fuel to get your product to you, do you expect that trucker is going to suck that up? If I'm a trucker. Working on thin margins already and can't afford to float those fuel prices waiting to get paid, am I going to stay in trucking?

If I am the Fed and I raise the cost to borrow capital, is that going to make the price of doing business go up or down?

If I am a business and I am being told to pay more taxes, is that going to raise my prices to the consumer?

If I tell the CEOs that have taken all the risk to build a company and secure jobs and pay taxes and produce competitive products, that they are going to pay more personal taxes because of it. Does that improve that companies chances to keep that leadership?

What president has accomplished all of the above? In less than 2 years?

The shut down during the pandemic didn't help...

This explains (sort of) the fuel issue within the US...what about the rest of the world that saw huge jumps in fuel costs? Surely Biden didn't cause the fuel to go up in other countries....he's not all that powerful and all seeing...

 

[TallTom]

The shut down during the pandemic didn't help...

This explains (sort of) the fuel issue within the US...what about the rest of the world that saw huge jumps in fuel costs? Surely Biden didn't cause the fuel to go up in other countries....he's not all that powerful and all seeing...

So a little about the oil wars now. OPEC led by the KSA did not like oil @$60 a barrel. North America was exporting oil that it had excess of. OPEC decided to boost production knowing that the math said it was somewhere around $35/B was the break even mark for us. They had enough in their banks to win that war. And at $40ish we started shutting off our wells here. This was pre pandemic because we were buying up commercial space @.30 on the dollar in La and Tx from oil companies dumping assets.

Then the pandemic hit. Oil went to what $10 from almost no consumption. OPEC still had money in the bank. So they wait. Pandemic ends, our production is at zero here and cost a bunch to restart. Money we spent to survive.

Pandemic ends. Who gets to name the price of oil now? Russia fared very well in that. They are still selling at a discount. But KSA will be banking for a few years easily now

We can't even make our own ventilators.

 

[Bumblebee]

So a little about the oil wars now. OPEC led by the KSA did not like oil @$60 a barrel. North America was exporting oil that it had excess of. OPEC decided to boost production knowing that the math said it was somewhere around $35/B was the break even mark for us. They had enough in their banks to win that war. And at $40ish we started shutting off our wells here. This was pre pandemic because we were buying up commercial space @.30 on the dollar in La and Tx from oil companies dumping assets.

Then the pandemic hit. Oil went to what $10 from almost no consumption. OPEC still had money in the bank. So they wait. Pandemic ends, our production is at zero here and cost a bunch to restart. Money we spent to survive.

Pandemic ends. Who gets to name the price of oil now? Russia fared very well in that. They are still selling at a discount. But KSA will be banking for a few years easily now

We can't even make our own ventilators.

Shutting down the Keystone pipeline didn't help matters any either....it killed off our oil industry here...

Our glorious leader (Turdeau) is anti-oil as well...which doesn't help...

These people need to see how nasty Li and precious metal mining is.....

 

[Zerks]

I don't love Biden but he was, by far, the best option. I expect he won't run in 24, despite saying that he will. I have no idea who the Dems will put up in his place but whoever it is will again be better than the alternative.

I don't see the country in decline other than the political situation which is at a boiling point.

Just follow housing prices and interest rates to see the carnage that is poised to appear soon. Also watch how the interest rate impacts the national debt for starters. The tipping point for us exceeding our ability to repay the debt is on the horizon. If we default on our debt the places that hold our debt will dump a lot of it and that will mean more inflation. We already took a credit rating hit under Obama and it showed the world something that should never been allowed to happen.

The country had to rebound a bit after the scam demic was declared officially over. To bad so many people lost their motivation to work as the free money was doled out. Too bad so many small businesses were destroyed by the lock downs. Add to that the work force that started working from home and won't be going back to the 9 to 5 grind in major cities like they once did. To bad so many people lost jobs that are not coming back. What a good part of that destruction to the work place will translate into is empty office in commercial real estate in numbers never seen before. What does that mean? It means bankruptcies on a large scale. Better start converting those empty offices to homeless shelters for the millions of illegals that are being imported by the White House and the compromised leader that is taking orders from Obama.

Forget the 2 party political system... it is a Den of corrupt misfits pretending to care about the America we had at one time. Yes, we still have a few good men left... the rest of them are so easy to blackmail and compromise that nothing can stop it until the American people stand up and say no. In the same way parents complain loudly at school board meetings we need to stop feeding the deceivers of our youth. I guess you haven't noticed what gender re assignment surgery is doing to children. Or, how the whole gender dysphoria / pronoun BS is doing to both genders. Check the miscarriage rate spike since the experimental vaccines were injected into millions of American women. As long as we have left and right, conservative and liberal the game of divide and conquer will continue. What kind of American History classes are being taught these days in our public schools?

Right now we need a president and a team that can negotiate and navigate us back to normalcy. What we mostly have now is a period of craziness and hubris for about 6 years in Washington DC. If you don't think hubris in a president is dangerous to our national security then you must not have paid much attention to the tyrants of the past and where they ended up.