Posted on 02/11/2023 6:43:57 PM PST by elpadre
Canada?
For what it’s worth I agree whole heartedly. Putin was ready for peaceful coexistence and trade, but those war mongering neocons in the District of Corruption thought otherwise as they never seen a conflict they didn’t like, as long as they can keep lining their pockets in the process.
It would have been nice but unfortunately the US deep state will not tolerate peer or near peer states anywhere in the world. Hegemony is the foreign policy. Hence the endless war on Russia and any country bordering Russia.
The Russian Federation doesnt have an EPA, but they do have the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. It serves the same function within reason because it’s run by patriots and scientists not Green New Deal whack jobs
We have lots of titanium covering the Disney Concert Hall in LA. They can start tearing it off after the 12th round of sanctions.
It’s just payback from when we built the Y-12/SR-71.😎
Nobody forced Russia into an alliance with Red China. It has always been there. You just had to know where to look.
Yup. Lots of titanium ore up on the Iron Range in MN. But Fed and state rats won’t let them mine it.
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An example of rats not allowing mining in extremis:
A few years back when Walker was governor of Wisconsin, there was a proposal to mine iron ore in upper Wisconsin where jobs are few and well-paying jobs are unicorns.
The process would have entailed scooping up the ore which is in surface sand deposits, and via conveyor belt, passed under magnets removing the ore, and the sand, minus the ore, returned to the mine. Jobs, as I recall would have started over $50K year.
Nope, too environmentally unfriendly for the politicians in the legislature. Then ‘protestors’ came on the proposed site and destroyed the survey equipment. They were never caught or punished and the proposal was withdrawn. Upper Wisconsin hopes dashed, returned to semi-poverty.
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment serves the same function
“..China is the world’s largest producer and exporter of titanium and as a result is also one of the leading importers of titanium ore required to produce the alloy”
So we’re enemies with the two largest producers and refiners of Titanium in the world.
...and what do we gain? Maybe forcing Russia to fight an extra year to liberate Ukraine from Victoria Neuland? Not too smart in my book.
By the way, the easiest way to explain the value of Titanium and its importance to a defense industry goes like this:
1. Aluminum is very lightweight, but melts and then burns at very low temperatures (for a metal).
2. Steel can resist heat far better than Aluminum, but is heavy.
3. Titanium is both lightweight (closer to that of aluminum), but melts at a temperature even significantly higher than steel.
It’s going to be fun to see what becomes of our military now that the Neocons have locked out Titanium as a raw material.
The real problem is not neocons but rather neo-isolationists attempting to return America to the 1930’s
“The real problem is not neocons but rather neo-isolationists attempting to return America to the 1930’s”
Seems to me that we had a pretty good deal when we WERE NOT enemies with China and Russia - they mined and refined Titanium for us, and we bought it from them.
Now that we’re ISOLATED from those countries, I’m very interested in how we remain a military power without Titanium.
Your fear is irrational. You assume that Russia and China are the only sources of Titanium
Also, China sourced Titanium is available to American metals distributors at present
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Vlad, you’ll be sorrrreeee!
Like those Oregon counties that are looking to join Idaho, the northern and rural counties of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan are oppressed by liberal elites in their respective state capitals and associated large cities. That is true for numerous other areas: southern and western Virginia, downstate Illinois, upstate New York, south and central Georgia, and so forth.
“....neo-isolationists attempting to return America to the 1930’s”
If you are referring to MAGA you are very much mistaken. MAGA would make the US self-sufficient but not isolationist. MAGA calls for Trump-style trade policies in which both countries get something - win-win. It calls for friendly relationships aimed at peace. It calls for bi-lateral or regional treaties rather than world-wide loosy-goosie deals in which no one takes responsibility for anything.
Trump’s MAGA can not only save America from itself, but put the rest of the world on a path toward peace.
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