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Stay the course!

Much of Russian oil production is going offline and is never coming back anyways. Since the fall of the USSR they haven’t been training engineers at a rate to maintain their own infrastructure. Many of the engineers they do have are nearing retirement age.

As a result don’t have the technical expertise to maintain their own infrastructure oil fields in Siberia. Those fields require oil to flow constantly otherwise the oil will freeze and expand and burst the pipes. The last time this happened was during the fall of the USSR and those well heads took 20 years to come back online and required Western expertise to repair.

They’ve depended on Western companies to build out and maintain those tracts ever since. When those go well heads go offline either through lack of maintenance or through Ukraine attacking storage centers where this oil is kept before its shipped, they won’t come back on again. They will still have tracts of oil fields in the Western part of the country that they can pump, but they will permanently loose a lot of capacity. Your likely to see a Venezuela style gradual drop off in production over the next ten years if they don’t change course and bring back Western expertise.

It doesn’t really matter to the US, we produce a ton of oil domestically and have been switching over our refineries to process it. Europe, China and India will be the ones to really feel the squeeze when Russian oil goes offline.

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Naw homie, this had nothing to do with the USA. This is just some good Ol’ Mossad hijinks.

Sounds like a lot more opportunities to put some spicy batteries in Mid East bound electronic shipments.

You do realize those pagers were made in Taiwan right?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-planted-explosives-in-hezbollahs-taiwan-made-pagers-say-sources/ar-AA1qKfX1?ocid=BingNewsSerp

I played it on game pass. It was a pretty good experience until I used up all the side quests. The main quest held no interest for me. I had no interest in becoming starborn.

Trying to load the game on busy days was probably the biggest negative I can think of.

I can’t pinpoint when Reddit died in my eyes. But I can say the long road to where it is today started with Reddit Gold.

Reddit Gold was a minor change that didn’t do much of anything besides offer a way to collect money directly from the user base. But it was the start of monetizing the site and every decision by Reddit management after that point furthered that monetization at the expense of everything else.

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I don’t think people understand that dictators and even business owners who operate under authoritarian regimes may have a lot of wealth on paper. But everything including their freedom and their lives can be taken away very easily. The wealth itself means very little, in that environment, it’s power that matters.

Spending obscene amounts to accomplish a goal, gain power or to hoard a fraction of your wealth overseas where it can’t be touched or taken away is what matters.

I read an article about an interview with his first ex wife. She described an unhinged self obsessed narcissist. I figured it was his Ex so maybe she was more than a little biased.

However his reaction to being publicly rebuffed by the rescue team during that cave rescue in S.E. Asia is what put me firmly in the anti Elon camp.

Those anti space capabilities already existed prior to this war. The US demonstrated the ability to shoot down a satellite using a fighter jet in the 80s. I’m sure we’ve gotten a lot more creative since then. China and Russia have both developed anti satellite capabilities since then as well.

The Russians, Chinese and Americans all have it. They just understand that physically taking out another nations satellite would be considered an act of war.