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Posted on 04/11/2024 12:36:21 PM PDT by hardspunned
Russia destroyed the largest power-generating plant in Ukraine’s Kyiv region in a missile attack on Thursday, as President Volodomyr Zelensky accused the West of “turning a blind eye” to his country’s need for more air defenses.
Ukraine’s Air Force said it shot down 18 of the incoming missiles and 39 of the drones. Russia fired 82 missiles and drones in total, including six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles – none of which Ukraine’s air defenses were able to down.
(Excerpt) Read more at amp.cnn.com ...
“We engineers know how much our 21st century lifestyle depends on imported raw materials, not to mention manufactured products. So we support any and all efforts to stop Russia from controlling Europe, ...”
North America has all the resources it needs for self sufficiency.
What’s missing is an Elite which wants to lead towards making what we buy. And buying what we make.
Instead we have people like you.
Who want to continue a consumption economy funded by borrowing, and printing a fiat currency.
When the dollar debt pyramid and the $US collapses, North America will be destitute, because it will be dependent on imports it can no longer afford.
But no problem for the Boomers, who have been selling off the future for current consumption their entire lives.
FINISH AS YOU START !
It’s all to predictable, get involved in some war with no end only to cut and run at some point
No, Putin has a special fate for Mr. Z. He will not hang in a public square—that’s what we did to Saddam H. No, Russians are more subtle—a poison cup, an Ice pick in the ear, a sad accident in a car? Maybe someone will give him a defective hand grenade? But, his days are numbered. Once the peace is done—he will no longer be of any use to us or Putin.
At a 19th century level of technology, as I said. We have no aluminum ore, no cobalt, and precious little of a dozen or two other rare but critical minerals. That's just for starters.
“All of our European neighbors and other partners see Ukraine’s critical need for air defense systems,” Zelensky said Thursday. He said if Russia was allowed to continue striking its energy infrastructure, “this will amount to a global license for terror.”
Blowing up non-nuclear power plants is not terrorism. It is a legitimate target used to support its military effort; command, control, communications and air defense systems, and transporting troops by electric powered railroad system.
Gary D. Solis, The Law of Armed Conflict, Cambridge University Press, 2010, page 534:
14.6 Dual-Use TargetsLike the term "unlawful combatant," the term "dual-use target" does not appear in the Geneva Conventions or Additional Protocols. The term "has arisen out of an apparent need to describe the class of objects that do not appear to fit neatly with Article 52.3, i.e. normally dedicated to civilian purposes, such that the presumption that they are civilian cannot be readiloy aplied."68 A dual use target is one with both military and civilian functions , such as an airfield from which both military and civilian aircraft fly. Examples also include electric power grids, oil refining facilities, and radio and television broadcasting sites. Even highways, bridges, ports, and railways can be considered dual-use. They all serve needs of both the civilian community and the armed forces.
At 535:
Dual-use targeting targeting decisions are sometimes easier. Electric power grids have been mentioned. Major General A.V.P. Rogers, folrmer Director of Legal Services of the British Army writes of Gulf War I:The modern military machine relies very heavily on electrical power, especially for command, control, communications and air defense systems. Take away that power and the enemy is severely handicapped and may be rendered blind and leaderless and vulnerable to air attack. The suggestion by [writers in disagreement] that repeated attacks are not necessary where a war is going to be short is unrealistic . . . and the allies were fully entitled to take no risks in that respect. In these circumstances, power sources become military objectives . . . The writer would reject the allegation that repeated bombing of previously disabled electrical facilities served no military purpose. The purpose obviously is to prevent repair and keep the facility out of action.NATO bombers dropped munitions that deployed tinfoil-like streamers to drape over power lines and short them out, requiring days to repair.
I hate Micheal Strahan
Correct. That is why the Congo is so technologically advanced because of all that Cobalt!
Yeah, baloney. I see Brit and US intel accuse him of that but I actually doubt it’s true. DC does anything Putin has in spades.
And if you think it’s disgusting to be rootin’ for Putin, the how disgusting is it to support the direct descendants of the Third Reich? Hell they even claim it with words, symbols, emblems and naming units, streets and memorials to prominent bandera era nazis.
a-holes like you are Ukie trolls!
“DC does anything Putin has in spades.”
So you’d be okay with Putin launching a few missiles our way then?
“And if you think it’s disgusting to be rootin’ for Putin, the how disgusting is it to support the direct descendants of the Third Reich?”
There it is. The “everyone I don’t like is Hitler” bull****. It’s old. Find something new.
There are no good guys in this fight. They’re both hyper corrupt oligarchies and anyone cheering on either side is an absolute idiot.
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North America has all the resources it needs for self sufficiency.
Most of this actually exists as unmined ores..
https://www.usgs.gov/data/cobalt-deposits-united-states
The fact that North America would need to import bauxite is not a sensible grounds to go “full globalist” in terms of total dependence on imports of almost everything.
Of every 100 pounds of metal produced per year, 94 pounds is iron and steel, 5 pounds is aluminum and 1 pound is all the rest.
Half of aluminum is used for food and beverage containers anyway. Before 1973, those alum containers were mostly steel and glass.
Nope. She’s left that industry.
I’d ask if you need any information about weddings but then I remembered I’m talking to you. So there’s virtually no chance you’ll ever actually never need those services.
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Supposedly Assad Senior told Henry Kissinger in the 1970’s:
“You betrayed Cuba. You betrayed Vietnam. Someday you will betray Taiwan.”
The pattern was evident 50 years ago.
If I do get married I’d like her to do it. You can watch.
Zeeper Response: “This is CNN, therefore FAKE NEWS, and thus electrical power is JUST FINE in Ukraine.”
“That fool needs to get to the negotiating table before Putin ends up hanging him in kyiv square.”
Considering all of the war crimes he’s complicit in, the BEST OPTION is to get to a Neocon-controlled country, as he’ll fit-in just fine there.
Where do you think we're going with $34 trillion in debt?
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"If it would not be for the US most Ukrainians still would have a roof over their heads and sleep in their own beds and this war would be over by now. Probably the eastern portion of the Ukraine which has a large portion of ethnic Russians and was constantly assaulted and antagonized by radical groups would have been annexed by Russia and things eventually would have settled down."
Aannnnddd more blame America BS:
"The same goes for Europe if they had not jumped on the US bandwagon. The US purposely damaged the gas supply lines making sure that Europe in general and Germany in particular remains dependent on the US like a colony, just in case they may come to their senses and change their mind."
So what evidence do you have Skippy that the U.S. "purposely" damaged the lines?
Russia had 100% control of all the access points to the pipeline.
Russia had the most to gain politically and economically from these pipelines being shut down. 1.) They divert the gas to domestic use. 2.) They disrupt the economies of countries that have not only condemned the Russian invasion but are actively sending supplies to Ukraine. 3.) They can place the blame on the U.S. as a means to drive a wedge between us and our allies.
Putin throws the switch to shut it down, there would be massive condemnation from the EU, and public opinion would be against him for leaving millions in the cold. He has it blown up, uses his global network of useful idiots to spread disinformation claiming the West blew up the pipeline.
This is a classic example of Maskirovka which is the Russian doctrine of military deception. The doctrine includes strategic, political, and diplomatic means including manipulation of "the facts", situations, and perceptions to affect the media and opinion around the world, so as to achieve or facilitate tactical, strategic, national and international goals.
"Those days when Russia had any ideas of expansion are long gone and over with"
Wow, you just wake up from a 10+ year coma or something?
Your boy Putin has been on an expansion spree for the better part of a decade, and has been boasting over the past several months that EVERYTHING that was once part of the old "Russian Empire" will be once again be part of said empire.... Which means he wants Alaska too stupid.
But by all means keep on being the pathetic little blame America first loser that you are.
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