Chess and geo-politics
Well, I don't know much about either, but it seems like there are patterns. Opening moves, strategies, and the beginning of the game looks much the same, until a piece (peace) is threatened. Then, you must retreat, advance, or sacrifice for the sake of strategy.
Dunno, it's playing out as I'd feared, now we're talking about pre-empting the enemies of democracy who are funding terrorism, e.g. Syria and Iran... I mean, are we really that stupid as to think that Russia, China, and the whole damn rest of the world isn't supplying arms, munitions, something, whatever to this conflict.
It's time to retreat. Embolden our enemies? These guys are serious, they will attack. And the whole rest of the world hates us. It's time to retreat. We are over here. If they want to attack us on our soil, then they will do that... impose economic or whatever sanctions we can, get serious about energy policy and oil dependence. That's where we hurt them, and help ourselves. Develop some new industry here new electric cars, something...
On a more humourous note... I just got off the airplane, took the metro to the Grand exit, and took the bus to SLU's campus. Not knowing the rules of many of these, I had $50 of cosmetics taken by TSA, saw a girl taken off the metro for not having a ticket, they just ticketed her and were going to leave her wherever they stopped.? Then, the bus people made fun of me for not knowing that the bus-ticketing machine doesn't do change, and they nick-named me "$Ten dollars$". So, there's my "energy conservation", public transportation, plane, train, and bus... In socio-economic descending order.
By the way, plane guzzles gas. Bus, usually empty, guzzles gas, Train, dunno?
U.S. Embassy in Athens bombed last night. Met Anderson Cooper when he was covering the March for Survival, where people protested the corrupt politicians that the just re-elected...
Dunno, it's playing out as I'd feared, now we're talking about pre-empting the enemies of democracy who are funding terrorism, e.g. Syria and Iran... I mean, are we really that stupid as to think that Russia, China, and the whole damn rest of the world isn't supplying arms, munitions, something, whatever to this conflict.
It's time to retreat. Embolden our enemies? These guys are serious, they will attack. And the whole rest of the world hates us. It's time to retreat. We are over here. If they want to attack us on our soil, then they will do that... impose economic or whatever sanctions we can, get serious about energy policy and oil dependence. That's where we hurt them, and help ourselves. Develop some new industry here new electric cars, something...
On a more humourous note... I just got off the airplane, took the metro to the Grand exit, and took the bus to SLU's campus. Not knowing the rules of many of these, I had $50 of cosmetics taken by TSA, saw a girl taken off the metro for not having a ticket, they just ticketed her and were going to leave her wherever they stopped.? Then, the bus people made fun of me for not knowing that the bus-ticketing machine doesn't do change, and they nick-named me "$Ten dollars$". So, there's my "energy conservation", public transportation, plane, train, and bus... In socio-economic descending order.
By the way, plane guzzles gas. Bus, usually empty, guzzles gas, Train, dunno?
U.S. Embassy in Athens bombed last night. Met Anderson Cooper when he was covering the March for Survival, where people protested the corrupt politicians that the just re-elected...