we have both an extractigator and puller bear at work and ive used both to rip up small stands of honeysuckle, small trees and even large taprooted weeds like burdock. on a versus comparison, the extractigator is a smaller lever with a smaller jaw but the jaws themselves seem sturdier than the...
implying he was crazy? damn, vonnegut out here catching strays
look, all i do is observe the political situation and try to determine who stands to gain. the american government started the war with iran by attacking them in the middle of negotiation. its an unwinnable conflict which is broadly...
sadly the democrats would rather the war continue at least until mid-terms as it and the economic consequences are politically bad for trump, so dem leadership will hold off doing anything that could throw up a roadblock at it until november. how well that will sit with voters on democratic...
i think the present world order up to 2017 was the closest we had to one world government and maybe the closest we'll ever be. the post-ww2 international order and economy kept concentrating power and money further and further to the united states making it the wealthiest country in the history...
oh and in the ultimate irony, the strait of hormuz being closed is also harmful to the us defense industry because now sulfur, a mineral critical for almost all manufacturing, is cut off. whoops
'The Chokepoint We Missed' - West Point analysts
the disruption to liquefied natural gas exports is already leading to major problems
'Demand Destruction has Begun' - economic damage the oil market crisis is causing in Asia
airlines are cutting flights, workplaces are going remote, petrochemical industries relying on LNG as a basic input are...
nobody is stopping, the united states wont put israeli aggression on a leash and iran can shut down the region basically indefinitely. you dont need more than a couple speedboats and cheap drones to interdict the strait and the american navy right now, at its peak ability, doesnt even dare to...
DUBAI/DOHA, March 19 (Reuters) - Iranian attacks have knocked out 17% of Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, causing an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue and threatening supplies to Europe and Asia, QatarEnergy's CEO told Reuters on Thursday.
Saad al-Kaabi said two...
however it is literally not possible to resolve this conflict while donald trump remains president, he'll blow up any peace plan and escalate immediately on a whim if he feels disrespected. america would have to take his social media away and manage him like the portuguese telling their...
iran maybe has more leverage than any country in the history of the world right now. its like if the united states attacked vietnam but also vietnam was the sole source of oxygen in the atmosphere
they're committed to fight, israel has assassinated all the moderate politicians and moderating...
instead of pov footage, what about a time-lapse camera? calculate framerate based on how long you want the video to be and how long the job is estimated to take, set up one static shot, minimal editing, can be pretty dramatic if youre doing a removal
the business psychos like scott bessent are a little more grounded in reality and thus more scared by current events but theyre all bootlickers who dont dare say anything about the emperors clothes either. so who cares
i dont know why you think i need to give them more credit, theyre obviously fools who drank their own koolaid of american exceptionalism and act like it in every arena. yes i do believe they are idiots whose brains were melted by ideology and assumed they couldnt lose, who pushed their chips...
i dont think theres any secret information about trump that could cause his supporters to turn on him. what do you use to blackmail the pedophile rapist president? anything horrible that comes out about him just makes everyone double down. a video could come out showing him taking part in an...
this is one guy's take on the possible consequences. again we're talking about one fifth of the oil on the planet normally going through that strait
Systemic risk: a cascading analysis of the Strait of Hormuz closing
thats another thing for which unintended consequences may come back to bite the united states.
as he mentions, the reason that ship was in india was at india's invitation to take part in their biennial naval exercises, along with dozens of other countries. for them to be sunk after leaving...