Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Hartford has a better arena for the Coyotes than ASU, and they’d sell out eight times a year when the Bruins/Rangers/Devils/Islanders play there.

 

This is from the NYT -- experiences, impressions and voices of some of the people in Mariupol.

So compelling, it's almost unimaginable. But they made it imaginable.

Opinion | ‘At Night I Dream of Mariupol’: Nine Accounts of Surviving a Russian Siege

 

If not for oil production, I’d love the idea.
Amazing factoid: Alaska is only fourth in the US in crude oil production. I assumed it was first by a wide margin. Texas produces 11 barrels for every Alaskan barrel.

 

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Not good. This won’t help the PR campaign.

Video appears to show Ukrainian troops killing captured Russian soldiers.

 

Just saw that. Terrible.

 

False flag.

 

Air bursts cause little significant fallout, which is why Hiroshima is a thriving city today.

 

Just watched the video. War's a bitch.

 

Interesting article on the future of Russia and the possibility of a tactical nuclear strike in Poland.

Is this how Russia ends?

 

It is an artifact of another era (1959), but Pat Frank's novel "Alas, Babylon" is something of a classic of the realistic post-nuclear war genre. There is a nuclear exchange and a guy living in rural Florida survives and becomes part of the effort of a small community to pull together in order to survive. When I say another era, I mean things like the local racist Florida crackers calling Black people "dinges", and all the tech being at early 60's levels, but the basic science and the nuclear after effects were pretty solid. Suddenly things like a box of fish hooks were extremely valuable, while a split bamboo fly rod was nearly worthless, diabetics were dying in droves because their insulin could not be refrigerated after the power grid went down, etc.

It's still on the shelves many places, and while it is dated in so many ways, it is still an excellent primer on some of the basic realities.

Personally, I tend not to worry too much about nuclear war. Several interstates intersect in B'ham, it is a medical, education, tech, shipping and banking hub. It will catch a couple of (or several?) nukes, probably of the H-bomb variety, and the local mountains will tend to channel the blast wave down the valleys where most of us live. I suspect that we'd be dead in an eyeblink unless we were exceedingly unlucky.

 

That was a good read. Thanks for posting.