The airwar, Russia and the UN Charter Article 23(1)

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Originally Posted by langleybaston

That's a yes, then?

I want to copyright "BU", I am sure it will come in handy over the years.

1. Is not the denial of gas to Poland and Bulgaria yet another huge mistake, if not the biggest?
   1. It adds pressure to prospective wavering opponents, but that is not the case for Bulgaria or Poland. Long term it is an own-goal, with catastrophic effects on Russia.
   2. It immediately hurts Russia's funding of it's war. All nations will be moving away from Russian energy as well as any other product reliance with such a flakey country. f-Troop just perfected sanctions on Russia.
2. In geopolitical and economic terms this will surely echo down the years, as customers [not only for gas] take note that the implied threats are, as circumstances change, actually carried out.
   1. yup. F-Troop just wrecked their own economy for the foreseeable future.
   2. Did the west pay Putrid to frag his own economy, and then blame it on generals and bad wiring?
3. Hitherto BU [BU = Before Ukraine] Western pragmatism's default was "they would not dare do it because it would hit them in the pocket". Wrong. That Rubicon has been crossed.
   1. yup. New bloopers on fails of governments in the future...
4. This is like Putin leading the King to a trick, without being sure if the ace and all the trumps have gone.
   1. Decisions are made by imperfect. people, on emotions, and with bias on the facts that are presented.
   2. Dictators guarantee they get bad info because they are dictators.
5. The scramble for energy security will now hot up to fever pitch. Nuclear, anybody?
   1. ​​​​​​​Thorium Fast Breeder
   2. Thorium Pebble Bed Modular Reactors
   3. There is no PWR that cannot fail, the design has to be stable with a coolant system casualty, no PWR is.
   4. FRG had THTR-3000, a PBMR(MPBR), and was spooked by a minor feed fault that coincided with Chornobyl. Well, 80 minor events. It was a learning experience, and no one ended up with 2 heads.
   5. MSRs were the very first power reactor... they make some sense, more than PWRs. MSR avoids the issues of production that seems to beset the THTR.
      1. ​​​​​​​PWRs use little of the fuel for energy before they have to be replaced.
      2. Thorium cycle can reuse PU, U, at low enrichment and burn the fuel up far more.
      3. Th is relatively abundant, much more that U is.

Designing a power station that can be impacted by a positive void coefficient is up there in the own goal records. putting a moderator in the end of a control rod is another, "is bad" idea. Shooting at nuclear reactors "is bad"...

So, yes, kind of.

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