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In a hypothetical limited war, where both countries were consciously deciding to follow agreed upon limitations, industrial infrastructure like fuel supply chains might be considered off target. The war in Ukraine is not a limited war in this sense. Dual-use infrastructure has been on the table...

It disarms them among what actual moderates exist out there. Lefties and those who refuse to get out of leftist media bubbles will still swallow whatever is fed to them.

No, I am not shifting the goalposts. Oil/fuel infrastructure is always a useful military target, while also serving civilian utilities. I had not realized at the outset of this exchange that you were (somehow) ignorant of the fact that Russia has been bombing civilian infrastructure since the...

You seem to have missed the fact that the Russians have been fairly explicit about genocidal intentions towards Ukraine. And that they have been targeting infrastructure that does not directly support the war effort, like power infrastructure that isn't directly connecting a factory to the...

Yes, civilians use oil too. However, civilians and military use pretty much every basic supply and good, so by this logic, everything except for actual tank factories doesn't count as a military target. That's not how war works, or has ever worked. Stopping the fuel supply is one of the...

I'm sorry, but are you seriously saying you think that oil refineries are not military targets during an industrialized war? This is pretty important here.

Confirmation bias is a hell of a thing. It can be worked against, and successfully, but it requires two things: 1. Humility. 2. Understanding that your emotional reactions are both not the highest indicator of truth, and a pretty low-value indicator of the truth overall.

It was a small riot, including breaking and entering for some offenders. Some misdemeanor charges are appropriate, and if accusations of assault and battery are actually substantiated, more serious charges for them. What it was not was an attempted violent coup or insurrection, and it's not...

Do you actually believe that the January 6th Riot was an attempt to overthrow the Republic?

You underestimate the raw fury against Biden and the Dems for what they've been doing.

If the RNC tries to throw Trump out, there will be a revolt on the state level parties, and I suspect they control what actually goes on the ballot in their given states. And the only states where the local party might be sufficiently establishment-controlled, are probably deep blue states anyways.

Here in Iowa at least, they don't.

The plan may be that she's trying to win at least one state, because if she can get some primary votes, she can try to claim the candidacy if the Dems manage to force Trump out via lawfare.

If one of the other candidates could take Iowa, there was a chance against Trump. And nobody knows for sure which way Iowa will go until the voting happens. In the Caucus I was part of, Trump barely took 50%, but of course the rest was split up among DeSantis, Haley, and Vivek. Once Iowa was...

'Go on' how? I've laid out my position multiple times across multiple threads. I'd be willing to give you a recap/summary anyways if you want, since unlike some posters I don't recall you being caustically belligerent about the issue, but ping me on an actual Ukraine thread if that's what you want.

If you want to be taken seriously, stop putting strawmen in people's mouths. I'm not going to try to claim what Zachowon or Bacle think, but pretty much any of the rest of us who favor supporting Ukraine have a much more even-handed image of how the war is going than what you're depicting here.

Tribalist society tends to suffer more parasitism, not less.

Between the urge to brag, and the urge to confess, one of the two usually gets them.

Yes, show how much less coherent and competent Biden is than his predecessors.

I doubt Vivek would be press secretary. He has his own business & etc to run, he's a multimillionaire entrepreneur, not a reporter or professional 'be in front of cameras' person. Head of Treasury? Maybe. He'd probably see that as a place where he could try to implement useful reforms that...