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The long trailer under neigh could itself be uhaul rental. So maybe even 6 is the answer.
In today’s news of “Every accusation the GOP makes is an admission of guilt”:
GOP accuses immigrants of eating pets, while today the GOP began eating its own pet, Laura Loomer.
Why are only 3 dimensional sandwiches included here? Where is the 4 dimensional hypercube sandwich?
I always thought the “fix” to a traditional soldiering iron was a hot air pencil.
We got lucky, if big daddy z took that ride the west would be in a bad place right now.
I’m not so sure. Taking Crimea, but leaving the rest of Ukraine a sovereign state broke the pattern of historical European prelude to war.
- Napoleon started with the Italian campaign, consolidated power in France, pushed through the Czech and Austrian armies into Russia.
- Hitler invaded Poland, then Denmark, then Norway, then Belgium
Putin, by stopping at Crimea, made this look like a localized dispute between two sovereign nations, not the conquest of the entire nation, with more to follow. Had Putin taken all of Ukraine in 2014, that would look very much like a Napoleon or Hitler seeking European domination. The world would have responded very differently I think.
Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Moscow would be forced to use “more powerful and destructive weapons” against Ukraine if Kyiv started firing long-range Western missiles at Russia.
Hey Vyacheslav, what weapons besides nuclear (and maybe biological) weapons does russia have that it hasn’t used against Ukraine already? Do you think if you use a nuclear weapon against Ukraine that that ends the war? Do you think the rest of the world will just say “welp, I guess russia used a nuke, better let them have Ukraine now”. Not even close.
He’s still in a fairly advantageous position militarily right.
For now yes, but he was in a much MUCH better position before he invaded Ukraine.
- Two fewer NATO members on his borders
- The full bounty of Soviet stockpiles of weapons
- The inherent fear about what the “second largest military on Earth” could do
- The power of threatening to use nuclear weapons
- hundreds of thousands of healthy men to drive a national economy
All of those are gone now for russia.
With russia abandoning its ally Armenia in a military time of need against Azerbaijan, it suggests russia is not capable of fighting wars on two fronts. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to hear that Georgia marching forces to take back South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
But it never was actually about that, now was it?
No it wasn’t. I think Putin started with Crimea because he was afraid of losing Russia’s best warm water port after Euromaidan kicked the russian puppet out of Ukraine and Ukraine indicating it would not renew the russian lease of Sevastopol. When that was stunningly successful for russia to take Crimea, and the world mostly allowed it, he thought there were no limits on him taking Ukraine bit by bit. Luhansk and Donetsk invasion was to secure the petroleum and gas reserves found in Eastern Ukraine and prevent Ukraine from threatening Russia’s only real economy power: fossil fuel energy deliveries to Europe and Asian. Again the world didn’t really step in or sanction Putin very much, and he thought Kyiv and the rest of Ukraine would be an easy win.
They have a vehicle they can sell and it’s been out four years: they need to be well on the way to redesigning it and its factory, rather than pushing back on selling it
Only if it can be profitable now, or if its built into the plan to lose money on EV sales to learn the market and refine the product.
It sounds like Ford is focusing on the short term, and they’re not able to make a profitable EV.
The question I have is - how to get India off of the Russian oil supply?
That wouldn’t be good for the world economy. All of India’s consumption would have to come from the world’s supply driving up prices noticeably across the globe (and possibly hurting the efforts in Ukraine because of the association of high oil prices).
The better question is “How do we get India to pay even less for russian oil?”