[FRIAM] war footing
cody dooderson
d00d3rs0n at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 12:27:01 EST 2022
I will have to update my bumper sticker from "Bread Not Bombs" to "Bread,
Solar Panels, and Wind Turbines Not Bombs."
I like that idea. The green war approach would benefit everyone a lot more
than sending in a swarm of weaponized drones.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022, 10:08 AM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:
> 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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