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US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

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Looks like we’ve really ratcheted up the sanctions. I remember I asked, with little clue, if we planned to ratchet up sanctions when Russia captured Kyiv. I’m glad we’ve done so while Kyiv is still a free city, although gas prices going up is irritating, and may make me vote Republican come November because they don’t have an agenda at all.
 
Ah. Yeah. I'm not thinking straight. My iphone took a shit today and got stuck in a boot loop. So I've been desperately trying to recover it without wiping. Last backup was a month ago (shame!).

Kept failing during recovery-update and I realized that all of the songs were trying to sync in my library. They all "moved" because my company enabled onedrive sync for everything on my desktop, which includes my music folder. Well, that changes the directory to include OneDrive instead of the normal desktop path. So itunes was boiling the ocean trying to rediscover every song in my library. Unchecked everything and entered recovery mode again and finally started to unpack the update. It's now attempting data recovery, so that's great progress. Gives me a bit of hope.
 
aparch said:
Upside, it was designed differently than Chernobyl so it doesn't go boom as easily.

Downside, no one knows how big the boom will be if some of the safety features were bypassed.

https://twitter.com/JBWolfsthal/stat...49822713569282
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So has a Nuke plant ever been in the vacinity of an active conflict?

Legit question. I think of a nuke plant being something that is truly "1st world" and obviously those places don't get invaded often.
 
RaceBoarder said:
So has a Nuke plant ever been in the vacinity of an active conflict?

Legit question. I think of a nuke plant being something that is truly "1st world" and obviously those places don't get invaded often.
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*edit* I retract my statement. The article below is very thorough.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Sorry, still not going in. Southeastern Europe bathed in nuclear fallout is still better than extinction.

Like, we're doing all we can, but it ain't gonna happen.
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Objectively, you’re correct.

but if you’re someone in the vicinity you may feel a tad different. It’s terrible.
 
The choice is almost out of our hands. If Putin is willing to bomb a nuclear facility then we have to assume nuclear war is on his agenda. This is not some vague threat or high alert this is serious.

We aren't there yet...but we are on mile marker 25 of the marathon and sooner or later someone has to stop him and Ukraine can't do it.

I'm starting to think Macrons people were right...Putin might be losing his grip on reality. I'm not sure anything short of him being suicided will be enough. I hope I'm wrong.
 
Handyman said:
The choice is almost out of our hands. If Putin is willing to bomb a nuclear facility then we have to assume nuclear war is on his agenda. This is not some vague threat or high alert this is serious.

We aren't there yet...but we are on mile marker 25 of the marathon and sooner or later someone has to stop him and Ukraine can't do it.

I'm starting to think Macrons people were right...Putin might be losing his grip on reality. I'm not sure anything short of him being suicided will be enough. I hope I'm wrong.
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I literally don't know how you can come to that conclusion. Putin isn't controlling every minute detail. It takes time to filter this kind of info up and back down. Wouldn't be surprising if he had zero knowledge of this for hours. We have literally zero idea.

and no, we don't have to go in and stop him. The west has every intention right now to watch this play out and hope it takes longer and longer. There's a very clear line we've drawn in the sand and that's the first Russian soldier who crosses into Poland. Before then, there's literally nothing we can or should do.
 
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