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Keystone pipeline ring a bell? My grandfather used to own an oil well in Los Angeles. He sold it to the city for $1 because it wasn’t profitable due to production declines. Unused oil leases doesn’t equate to profitable production. However, with oil climbing this high I bet you start seeing some of those unused leases go back into production.

I bet it hits $200 before the administration backtracks on its energy policy.

We could just tell Saudi to pump more or we’ll pull everyone out and they can deal with Iran.

Aushwitz is morally wrong regardless of your moral compass. True evil should be abhorrent to everyone.

Apparently, I’m good at derailing threads. Again I poorly communicated my point via a personal attack, and that was wrong. I would happily buy flea or any who may not agree with me a beer. The US needs to be able to discuss differences without automatically assuming the other side is dumb or a Russian Plant. The air force in the 40’s, 50s and 60s was run by men with vast combat experience. Somewhere in there the notion that academics can solve everything with missiles became prevalent. We saw how that worked out. The hit rate of the Aim-7 in Vietnam was in the single digit percentiles. How was McNamara’s F-111. There is an F in front of it because it was supposed to do air to air. To sum it up, common sense combat experience is extremely valuable and can’t be bought via a degree. And no, I don’t need the standard O-6 speech of how would I fly my jet without AFE. Well, I’d probably inspect my own gear, but I sure as hell need MX and LRO. Finance questionable. Our recent awards ceremony only had one ops winner. We as a whole have lost sight in the value of guys hacking the mish. In my view it’s due to 60 years of domination.

Flea, I’,m an asshole. If anything I enjoyed the ability to challenge my positions. Sorry for being an asshole. And congrats. I’ll buy you a drink.

We have 20 year battle hardened troops if anyone cares, imaginebwhat they could do.

I’m tired of academics telling the the trigger pullers they’re so much smarter. Or the retired people telling me they have it all figured out. Wait, they did nothing in the cold war.

Who ran the AF in the af in the 40s, 50s and 60s?

Flea what are your quals? Let me guess you washed out of pilot training and now teach sos. You are so smart.

You must have been in the 99th percentile on the AFOQT, flown the OV-105A and developed fusion reactors. Watch everyone Brickhistory the worlds smartest man is here.

Yes, if we disagree with you we are clearly imbeciles. Stop assuming your intellectual superiority.

As I said the world has decided the Ukraine is expendable. I hope you are all right and he stops there. He's 2 for 2 on invading non-nato members. What about Taiwan, what message are we sending? We won't sanction Russian oil, what about sanction chinese everything? Every American should want American Food, Energy, Resource (Particularly microchip) independence, or the economic part of the DIME model is pointless.

What is our defense budget compared to Russia? Didn't Flea just say if you can throw more money at the fire you'll win.

Brickhistory, BhasiChuni and you all assume there will be a nuclear war if we stand up to Putin. Who has been affected by PsyOps? To whose benefit is it to assume military intervention=nuclear war?

Thats like your opinion man

Strange some of us want to stop war crimes and protect the innocent. So sickening.

Flea, I agree with you in long protracted conflicts. There is a reason Yamamoto said they had awoken a sleeping giant. The error in your logic is discounting pitched battles which have the potential to end a war. Hastings 1066, Waterloo 1815 and the Battle of Britain are examples. Guess what, all of those battles outcomes were due to the individual fighting man. I guess youre just the type of McNamara commander that sees personnel as numbers in an actuaries math at checkmate.

The war would have been over if the Germans had gained and maintained air superiority. In addition, the British industrial capacity was below the Germans at the time. Newsflash, sometimes the outcomes of battles end wars. Aka Hastings 1066.

Oh wait, the British almost lost the Battle of Britain because they were running out of pilots

So the Battle of Britain was won by academics and British industry because the Spitfires were so much superior to the ME-109. That must be it, those pilots fighting for the sovereign British empire had no part in it.

Really were you there in the silos with the Spetznatz watching the nukes? You're making a blanket statement upon which you have no basis to claim. If we left nukes anywhere without US eyes on them 3 years I'm betting they could figure it out. Or at least remove the weapons grade plutonium and make their on bomb. As Flea said, anyone can figure out how to build a bomb these days. History lesson fall of the Soviet Union 1991, Minsk accords 1994. How exactly did the soviets have eyes on for 3 years?

You don't think the Ukrainians were smart enough to crack the codes of the nukes sitting in the Ukraine? We didn't guarantee that we'd come to their defense during the Minsk accords, but it still makes our leader of the free world standing highly questionable.

I’ve been giving historical examples to justify my argument. Which you dismiss as “not relevant”. I would argue thats typical academic hubris because it might derail your argument. Youre using youtube videos of academics to justify your own non-historical viewpoint. Its like a bunch of professors sitting in a circle smelling their own farts and telling each other how wonderful they are.