[FRIAM] Enamine

[Carl Tollander]

>>The maximalist MAD scenario is a made-up thing.

As are orange juice futures.  Useful as a trade instrument, but you don't
want to take delivery.

C


On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 08:18 Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> One issue seems to be classified tech.
>
>
> https://dnyuz.com/2022/03/09/screw-removal-allows-us-to-send-classified-stinger-missiles-to-ukraine/
>
> We can always make more classified tech.
>
> I agree completely.  Stand for something or fall for nothing.  The
> maximalist MAD scenario is a made-up thing.
>
> On Mar 11, 2022, at 7:07 AM, glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We call on Biden to reject reckless demands for a no-fly zone
> We deplore Russia’s aggression. However, it strains credulity to think
> that a US war with Russia would make the American people safer or more
> prosperous
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/11/we-call-on-biden-to-reject-reckless-demands-for-a-no-fly-zone
>
> Directly on the heels of counter-arguing with EricC about the inadequacy
> of hypocrisy as an argument, this open letter "peacenick" rhetoric really
> gets on my nerves. The sanctions are anemic, and damn near cowardly. The
> tagline to the open letter "safer or more prosperous" is spot on. Because
> *that's* why we do things, right? So we can be safe and prosperous? Safety
> and prosperity are the foundations of our ethics? Bullshit.
>
> Buffers and proxy wars are the epitome of manipulative exploitation. I'm
> no war-monger. But this democratic backsliding and trend toward dictators
> with leaders like Modi, Orbán, Lukashenko, et al *are* the actual front
> line. And that front line isn't geographical. It's ethical.
>
> War, even nuclear, might serve as a tacit demonstration to our right-wing
> friends that freedom, the word they love so much, doesn't lie in safety and
> prosperity. It lies in the recognition of, and united stance against,
> exploitative bullies.
>
> We're lucky I'm not in charge, I guess. 8^D
>
>
> On 3/11/22 02:49, David Eric Smith wrote:
>
>  The notion of “using” buffer states — which I hate, by the way, as an
> attitude of consigning people and regions to disposability categories — as
> a way to allow graded responses and stalemates from which large
> bully-powers could withdraw, would have been the template for most alliance
> treaties.
>
>
>
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