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Guess I'm confused as to why Poland had to give them to us so we could give them to Ukraine or why they had to go to Germany first?

Secondly, Putin stated that any country that let planes take off from their territory to help Ukraine would immediately be considered an enemy combatant... so in this exercise, who becomes the enemy combatant? The United States, Poland, Germany, all of the above?

Guess I'm confused as to why Poland had to give them to us so we could give them to Ukraine or why they had to go to Germany first?

Secondly, Putin stated that any country that let planes take off from their territory to help Ukraine would immediately be considered an enemy combatant... so in this exercise, who becomes the enemy combatant? The United States, Poland, Germany, all of the above?[/quote

I think your second comment answered your first one.

Anyway, the US nixed the plan.

Like everyone else on here has already said, thanks very much for providing all the tweets. You have made DT the place to go for news on Ukraine!

So, question, say Russia defaults. What is the domino effect of that for their economy?

Tell me if I'm wrong. But, doesn't the u.s. export a lot of oil? While at the same time, importing a lot of oil? Am I wrong there?

Why do we import from Russia?
U.S. West Coast (USWC) refineries rely on imports of light sweet crude oil from other countries, including Russia, because access to U.S. produced light sweet crude oil is challenged by geography, transportation and logistics.

Our refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) import heavier crude and unfinished oils from Russia that our complex refineries can transform into other products including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

Gasoline and diesel represent only a small part of Russian imports to the United States, largely going to the East Coast. The U.S. East Coast is reliant on foreign sources of refined product due to lack of local refining capacity and infrastructure to economically move products from refining centers along the USGC to markets along the eastern seaboard.

Why have Russian imports increased?
In 2021, increased Russian imports to refineries in California and Washington state have helped offset lower volumes of light sweet crude imports into California from other countries—notably Nigeria—and lower volumes of U.S.-produced crude oil shipped by rail to Washington.

Increased imports of crude oil to the USGC region in 2021 were largely driven by disruptions to U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil production caused by Hurricane Ida and have since declined.

And, since 2019, U.S. refineries have increased imports of unfinished heavy oils from Russia to help replace heavy sour crude from Venezuela that U.S. refineries can no longer import.

https://www.afpm.org/newsroom/blog/oil-and-petroleum-imports-russia-explained#:~:text=U.S.%20West%20Coast%20(USWC)%20refineries,by%20geography%2C%20transportation%20and%20logistics.

how much does a solar farm cost?

The model revealed that when the size of the solar farm reaches 20% of the total area of the Sahara, it triggers a feedback loop.
This scenario might seem fanciful, but studies suggest that a similar feedback loop kept much of the Sahara green during the African Humid Period, which only ended 5,000 years ago.

So, a giant solar farm could generate ample energy to meet global demand and simultaneously turn one of the most hostile environments on Earth into a habitable oasis. Sounds perfect, right?

Not quite. In a recent study, we used an advanced Earth system model to closely examine how Saharan solar farms interact with the climate. Our model takes into account the complex feedbacks between the interacting spheres of the world’s climate — the atmosphere, the ocean and the land and its ecosystems. It showed there could be unintended effects in remote parts of the land and ocean that offset any regional benefits over the Sahara itself.

Drought in the Amazon, cyclones in Vietnam
Covering 20 percent of the Sahara with solar farms raises local temperatures in the desert by 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to our model. At 50 percent coverage, the temperature increase is 2.5 degrees Celsius. This warming is eventually spread around the globe by atmosphere and ocean movement, raising the world’s average temperature by 0.16 degrees Celsius for 20 percent coverage, and 0.39 degrees Celsius for 50 percent coverage. The global temperature shift is not uniform, though — the polar regions would warm more than the tropics, increasing sea ice loss in the Arctic. This could further accelerate warming, as melting sea ice exposes dark water which absorbs much more solar energy.

This massive new heat source in the Sahara reorganizes global air and ocean circulation, affecting precipitation patterns around the world. The narrow band of heavy rainfall in the tropics, which accounts for more than 30 percent of global precipitation and supports the rainforests of the Amazon and Congo Basin, shifts northward in our simulations. For the Amazon region, this causes droughts as less moisture arrives from the ocean. Roughly the same amount of additional rainfall that falls over the Sahara due to the surface-darkening effects of solar panels is lost from the Amazon. The model also predicts more frequent tropical cyclones hitting North American and East Asian coasts.

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/giant-desert-solar-farms-might-have-unintended-climate-consequences

how much does a solar farm cost?

how much does a solar farm cost?

Crazy because they don't even break their stride with gunfire ringing out.

It’s a long read, but a good one:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/us/politics/russia-ukraine-military.html

Hell, they moved faster toward the Russians. The whole damn country seems to have balls the size of Jupiter. From old women joining the armed fighting, to people stopping tanks with their bare hands, to the David v. Goliath fight they are putting up, to the man and leader Zelinskyy has become… these people keep blowing my mind.