[FRIAM] war footing

[Roger Critchlow]

I'm thinking that a way to escalate our response to Putin, without actually
fighting him, is to build a "green war machine".  Start a crash project to
research, develop, and deliver the technology to liberate our european
allies from their energy dependencies on russian oil and gas.  And everyone
else as a side effect.

That this is all stuff that we *cough* should be doing anyway is bonus
content.  But what we can't seem to do for the "right" reasons might be
easily done as a way to thwart an enemy who is so successfully making
himself the most reviled man of our age.

Longer term, the economic effects of the sanctions, the social effects of
the ukrainian refugee crisis, and the demoralization of watching brute
force in action are going to hurt our side a lot.  That may be Putin's
actual endgame for the "operation" while he pretends to be Trump.   Better
to be doing something positive than to be waiting around to see how it
turns out.

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