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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I agree (I'm the PP). I think it's a really dangerous time for Ukraine and anyone in Europe. No one likes to be humiliated and this is humiliating for Russia. It does though make the Democrats look "strong on defense", not that it matters to the MAGA crowd anymore. I think my comments were more directed at the pessimists rooting for Ukraine's demise and to show that Biden made a terrible foreign policy decision. Instead, it looks like supporting Ukraine was the right move. It unified NATO, strengthened western alliances, has allowed the U.S. to test out all kinds of new weapons and at a relatively low cost to the U.S. (and without loss of U.S. lives), has revealed that Russia's military was nothing but a paper tiger, has isolated Russia economically and politically, and has potentially provided the U.S. with a resilient ally on Russia's doorstep. I don't at all want to discount the terrible consequences that this has been to Ukraine though. I think I'm just venting my frustrations with Trump and the MAGA crowd who supported Putin and other dictators like him.[/quote]

Right. Understood.

For a European like me, the positive long term consequence is that it makes us less dependent on Russia for energy, forces us to re-examine all our buildings' insulation and energy use, diversify energy sources and *hopefully* hasten our switch to renewables... unfortunately with talks of drilling in the short-term. I really hope we can find alternatives to that. Also, nuclear plants as "clean" energy isn't really clean long-term, since we haven't yet found a way to safely dispose of nuclear waste anywhere on this planet. How long until we designate a satellite in outer space to be our nuclear dumpster (and then promptly have one of our space shuttles crash into it)?

But all this is moot if we get a catastrophic nuclear event.[/quote]

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