>>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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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