Posts by Kyle Nelson2

If he actually managed to trim the deficit by $1.5 billion, then I guess that’s a win.

cosmicgull52 said:Dugina's daughter was killed in an assassination attempt. He was likely the true target. What a tragedy.

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...STXLMTJRg&s=19

Just another tragedy for all those countless Ukrainian families who have gone through something almost identical.
Maybe it's just karma. I guess he should finally feel at least a fraction of the misery he keeps pushing onto everyone else.

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The guy is absolute trash. Honestly, I hope he lives another 50 years just so he can spend them visiting graveyards.

Wait, what? I heard he reads a ton of stuff

If Russia is actually selling oil to India, how the hell are they even getting it there?
Is it via tankers? And if so, where are they even refueling?

cosmicskipper39 said:Is nobody actually reading the business section? 🤔

I read it. 🙂

What’s actually the difference between Saudi oil and Russian oil? I know Saudi stuff is way "lighter" and doesn't have much sulfur, whereas I think Russian oil is pretty heavy, which means refineries basically have to recalibrate everything just to handle it. If that's the case, the Saudis would just end up reselling the oil instead of using it themselves.

But yeah, calling us "taken advantage of" is a pretty accurate way to describe what's happening to us, all thanks to our own politicians.

analogbear5 said:Exactly. That same article mentions exports to China jumped from 4.1 billion cubic meters to 10.39.

During that same window, Russian gas exports to Europe hit 150 billion cubic meters via pipeline, plus another 16 billion of Russian LNG.

On top of that:



Source: Why Nord Stream 2 is not a redundant pipeline, European gas hub

And keep in mind, Angela Merkel negotiated it so prices follow market rates. So, there aren't these 10, 20, or 30-year fixed-price contracts—it’s just whatever the market dictates, I guess...
She also agreed that Germany has to pay for the gas even if they don't want to take it, which honestly puts the current administration in a pretty terrible spot.

Meanwhile, the price agreed upon with China was somewhere around 350-380 USD/m3.

Nancy Gomez26 said:A single nation terrorizing the entire globe—or simply backing such chaos—would be a monumental blunder. History suggests that after attacks of that scale, serious warnings follow. If those warnings fail to bite, you start seeing "accidental" disasters hitting gas pipelines in remote, inaccessible regions. Even Badave wouldn't be able to rely on their energy wealth if the transport infrastructure starts collapsing overnight. Imagine trying to fix things when it's -40 degrees outside. Protecting critical infrastructure from terrorist strikes is practically impossible, which shifts the strategy toward preemptive action against those deep in the hinterlands who facilitate the terror, should the need arise. This is why any serious power wouldn't even entertain such a game; the blowback would be devastating. Even the masters in the Kremlin, despite their penchant for hybrid warfare, understand this. They won't pull moves like that because, at the end of the day, it would come back to haunt them.

What's going on with grain buyback prices here in the States?

Gregory Hall66 said:The endless incompetence, sheer laziness, and total inadequacy of Eric Adams and his little band of cronies is truly entering legendary status. 😁

At this point, we aren't even critiquing anymore; we are simply mocking them.

THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY SLAMS WASTE MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR: 'He spends his time doing interviews where he weeps over his own pathetic fate'
While New York City suffocates under mountains of trash, the new head of Waste Management is too busy performing PR stunts, weeping about his own tragic circumstances in various interviews.
.....It is utterly absurd that individuals who hold every single lever of power in their hands constantly speak as if they are helpless victims, waiting for problems to resolve themselves by magic. This is happening within a massive bureaucracy equipped with all the resources imaginable. A lack of vehicles and staff?
We have heard that same tired excuse at least twenty times now, but what we actually need to know is how the director of this Waste Management subsidiary intends to procure sufficient vehicles and organize operations so that waste collection in New York City is handled reliably. Everything else is just noise; it's time to stop making excuses and finally get to work.

Is it even true that he commutes from somewhere like New Jersey to New York City for work in just two days?

brightpuma said:If I remember that story correctly—someone please set me straight if I'm wrong—the whole reason he was returning the money was because it was sitting in a fund he didn't actually have the authority to touch?

I don't feel like digging through everything right now, but I remember some explanation about this. Apparently, they only have around 800 million in actual costs or projects lined up, even though they've been allocated 2 billion. They basically had nowhere to put the money, so he was asking if there's any way to repurpose those funds.

Oh, so he just didn't have anything to spend it on? 🙄

This isn't even really about Eric Adams, but does anyone actually know how much water is just leaking through the pipes? I mean, what's the actual state of the reservoir system like right now?

George Robinson43 said:That was the whole point of NS1.
NS2 had a completely different mission—getting their gas into the EU via Germany to reach the massive Baungarten hub near Vienna while shutting down all other pipelines.
The grand plan was for Russia, Germany, and Austria to hold the entire EU hostage with gas. It’s no wonder Schroeder and Schüssel were rewarded with million-dollar cushy jobs in Moscow.
Even then, NS2 was practically doomed once the smart players realized what was coming and started building terminals and pipelines toward the North Sea.

Yeah, this is spot on.

Though, I mean, maybe there are still some Germans sitting in high-level positions dreaming that they can still pull it off.

You don't actually have any kind of firm, open stance on this, I guess. It feels more like you're just performing for the public.

Terry Sanders4 said:Man, if you ask the GOP crowd, you're basically asking to get screwed over... Honestly, if the American Parliament hadn't voted unanimously to pull out of the Arbitration, they probably would've just handed that territory over on a silver platter.

Look, let's be real here—it was actually Ivica Račan (Social Democratic Party) who wanted to give up that land.

lonetrucker4 said:I get where you're coming from, but my take wins because it's actually right. This dispute is dead. We aren't giving up a single inch because none of it was ever ours to begin with.

So you don't actually respect any legal authority, you just want everyone to follow your own little political agenda, right?

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lonetrucker4 I don't know, maybe I'm just being cynical, but... says Kyle Nelson2: So, yeah. We blew it. We completely tanked it, and since we’re sticking to the rules we actually agreed to ourselves, I guess there's no way to appeal this mess. Some people call today's America a fascist creation. They label us group A, then they label us group B. I guess that's just how they see it. Maybe. Regarding that whole issue, I guess I’m more on the Harmon side of things. I definitely agree with the preamble of the US Constitution. We didn't lose any territory, because we never actually owned it to begin with. I guess we were just holding onto Canadian land through an unlawful arbitration proceeding. Look, no offense intended, but I think I actually know a little more about this than you do. Loving your country doesn't mean you have to blindly defend some supposed "national interest" every single time, even when your own country is dead wrong. Look, I guess our national interest should really be about not tripping over some "Western injustice" nonsense. We need to move on. Seriously. We should be focusing on stuff that actually matters—things that people way smarter than us are already tackling. You know, like climate change, the energy transition, the fourth industrial revolution, and all that. Maybe we just need to focus on the big picture for once.

Look, I don't know what else to tell you, but that's strictly a matter for the courts. Only a judge can handle that.

I don't think lonetrucker4 has ever actually been blackmailed, mostly because they seem to have a completely warped definition of what blackmail even means.
They claim to know all the history, but they can't even get the basics right...

Look, Canada basically made their vote for America joining the European Union conditional on one thing: we had to agree to an ad-hoc arbitration tribunal to settle our territorial dispute. They weren't asking us to go to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, or some international body in Hamburg. They specifically demanded this private, ad-hoc setup.
Both of those other courts are official United Nations bodies, whereas this ad-hoc thing isn't. And since America was forced to agree to it just to get in... I mean, that is the literal definition of blackmail.

Germany just proved once again that they don't give a damn about the European Union.
I really hope the countries in Eastern Europe take note and remember this.

Larry Walker24 said:How exactly did we screw up if the Canadians (who, let's face it, are basically just Americans) cheated during the arbitration?

Let me break it down for you:
To some people, America is just an Nationalists creation, so they think any loss of territory or money is actually a good thing—like the country deserves to be punished.
And then there's the fact that Oštrić doesn't know a damn thing about law, but that doesn't stop him from being completely ignorant about it.

lonetrucker4 said:Honestly? Good. Let 'em block us.

I mean, if the communists were still running the show, maybe he'd have a totally different opinion(?).