I will have to update my bumper sticker from "Bread Not Bombs" to "Bread, Solar Panels, and Wind Turbines Not Bombs." I like that idea. The green war approach would benefit everyone a lot more than sending in a swarm of weaponized drones.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022, 10:08 AM Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm thinking that a way to escalate our response to Putin, without > actually fighting him, is to build a "green war machine". Start a crash > project to research, develop, and deliver the technology to liberate our > european allies from their energy dependencies on russian oil and gas. And > everyone else as a side effect. > > That this is all stuff that we *cough* should be doing anyway is bonus > content. But what we can't seem to do for the "right" reasons might be > easily done as a way to thwart an enemy who is so successfully making > himself the most reviled man of our age. > > Longer term, the economic effects of the sanctions, the social effects of > the ukrainian refugee crisis, and the demoralization of watching brute > force in action are going to hurt our side a lot. That may be Putin's > actual endgame for the "operation" while he pretends to be Trump. Better > to be doing something positive than to be waiting around to see how it > turns out. > > -- rec -- > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > 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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