Should we be concerned for our future?
#11
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That’s the truth. A previous employer of mine’ExpressJet’used to fly full planes out to these fracker towns. Over a couple years these towns built roads, neighborhoods, schools, and commercial infrastructure off the back of high oil profits. Once they were built oil prices returned to normal, and these towns went dormant. Williston,ND, and Dickerson,ND just to name a couple. It was the Wild West up there, tons of construction dudes, and ‘ladies of the night’ working the late shift to make them happy. Skeleton crews were left behind to keep the massive fracking infrastructure operational.
#13
Hopefully it will show us we can no longer be the interventionist world power that we were after WWII (face it, our war record went pretty much straight downhill from there) and that we need to get our sh1t together instead of telling the rest of the world how they should be behave. We need to be done with the god damn empire building and fix things at home before we lose it all.
#15
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The United States government manipulated the oil markets to fund the build up of these towns. Sky rocketing oil prices afforded Big Oil profits, which they used to fund the build up of infrastructure in these towns. Tax payer dollars never could have achieved this, but artificial spikes in oil could, and did. Whom ever came up with the plan is genius.
#17
Despite what the MSM, CIA, RINOs, and the former party of peace and tolerance want you to believe, Russia only has an interest in the ethnically Russian areas of Ukraine. This non-sense has been going on since 2014 when the CIA successfully supported a "student" revolution that removed the Ukrainian president and installed "our" guy. (They also tried to do the same thing to ethnically Russian areas of Georgia in 2008, but the Russians managed to put that one down.) Once that happened war broke out in the Eastern areas of Ukraine that lead to an unofficial Russian intervention (again, not like the CIA has never done the same thing). During that intervention the Russians shot down MH17. There has been a "ceasefire" for some time now, but they have been basically been at war ever since 2014.
Back to today. Over the weekend the Russian supported rebel forces in Eastern Ukraine said they were going to start fighting again, and I think today Russia officially recognized the breakaway regions. Vlad knows he has the west by the balls because we keep electing leftist politicians who don't understand physics or reality, and go "green" by enriching tyrants (such as Vlad himself) in places that don't exist because the the T.V hasn't told us about them. You are about to start paying for your ESG scores and all that non-sense. TBH, we need something like oil at $150/barrel and the Starbucks groupies to not be able to afford their lattes anymore to wake this country up. This is the only thing that will do it. Too many of us grew up in too much comfort, ignorance, and insulation from reality. Best to get it over with now.
Back to today. Over the weekend the Russian supported rebel forces in Eastern Ukraine said they were going to start fighting again, and I think today Russia officially recognized the breakaway regions. Vlad knows he has the west by the balls because we keep electing leftist politicians who don't understand physics or reality, and go "green" by enriching tyrants (such as Vlad himself) in places that don't exist because the the T.V hasn't told us about them. You are about to start paying for your ESG scores and all that non-sense. TBH, we need something like oil at $150/barrel and the Starbucks groupies to not be able to afford their lattes anymore to wake this country up. This is the only thing that will do it. Too many of us grew up in too much comfort, ignorance, and insulation from reality. Best to get it over with now.
#19
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Everybody…. Assume the crash position!!!!!!!
#20
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Despite what the MSM, CIA, RINOs, and the former party of peace and tolerance want you to believe, Russia only has an interest in the ethnically Russian areas of Ukraine. This non-sense has been going on since 2014 when the CIA successfully supported a "student" revolution that removed the Ukrainian president and installed "our" guy. (They also tried to do the same thing to ethnically Russian areas of Georgia in 2008, but the Russians managed to put that one down.) Once that happened war broke out in the Eastern areas of Ukraine that lead to an unofficial Russian intervention (again, not like the CIA has never done the same thing). During that intervention the Russians shot down MH17. There has been a "ceasefire" for some time now, but they have been basically been at war ever since 2014.
Back to today. Over the weekend the Russian supported rebel forces in Eastern Ukraine said they were going to start fighting again, and I think today Russia officially recognized the breakaway regions. Vlad knows he has the west by the balls because we keep electing leftist politicians who don't understand physics or reality, and go "green" by enriching tyrants (such as Vlad himself) in places that don't exist because the the T.V hasn't told us about them. You are about to start paying for your ESG scores and all that non-sense. TBH, we need something like oil at $150/barrel and the Starbucks groupies to not be able to afford their lattes anymore to wake this country up. This is the only thing that will do it. Too many of us grew up in too much comfort, ignorance, and insulation from reality. Best to get it over with now.
Back to today. Over the weekend the Russian supported rebel forces in Eastern Ukraine said they were going to start fighting again, and I think today Russia officially recognized the breakaway regions. Vlad knows he has the west by the balls because we keep electing leftist politicians who don't understand physics or reality, and go "green" by enriching tyrants (such as Vlad himself) in places that don't exist because the the T.V hasn't told us about them. You are about to start paying for your ESG scores and all that non-sense. TBH, we need something like oil at $150/barrel and the Starbucks groupies to not be able to afford their lattes anymore to wake this country up. This is the only thing that will do it. Too many of us grew up in too much comfort, ignorance, and insulation from reality. Best to get it over with now.
All the apologists have been excusing his poor behavior since the Georgia invasion. Oh it's just Georgia (insert fabricated excuse). Oh, it's just Crimea (insert fabricated excuse). Now it's just Eastern Ukraine because of some perceived slight. Could there be some legitimate gripes from the perspective of your Russian government? Yes. Absolutely. But you don't show up with 150,000 troops backed by nuclear warheads and say "give us that we want or else." That isn't diplomacy. That's hostage taking.
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