[FRIAM] war footing

[Steve Smith]

I like this conception, something ill-formed like this has been brewing 
inside of me also.

I thought COVID would be an opportunity to refactor lots of things from 
noticing how much relief wildlife (esp.  whales?) experienced from our 
"cooling our jets" to  making telecommuting a reality for those who have 
no good reason to schlep their bodies (and oversized vehicles) to the 
workplace daily to refactor 2 income homes to 1 or 1.5 income homes.   
But it looks like we are backsliding on all of those if not actually 
making up for lost time?   Maybe the "great Resignation" belies that...

I like to hope that the net effect of Putin's nonsense on the heels of 
Trump&Co's nonsense is that everyone else might actually get fed up with 
Authoritarian capriciousness and do what it takes to shove it out the 
airlock and get on with our lives w/o so much of the toxic 
something-ulinity.

On 3/2/22 10:07 AM, Roger Critchlow 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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