Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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Perhaps. What I think will happen is that the NATO will not allow Ukraine in and that could be the end of it, no war and no sanctions.
1. Send Blankets.
2. Send a strongly worded letter.
3. Go to war.
Option #3 can be used to distract the public from the border situation, Covid mandates, Afghanistan withdrawal and the inflation issue. It can also be used to line the pockets of the military industrial complex. Remember, in chaos there is opportunity.
1/19/2022 11:02 AM
Take it easy, that sounds like a conspiracy theory. In Biden's presser today he just told Russia it is all yours, there is not going to be a war.
Perhaps if the US was on friendlier terms with Putin maybe there would not be a war at all.
1/19/2022 6:19 PM
Yeah, let's be friends with the murderous KGB cretin. Fidel Castro with nuclear weapons.
1/20/2022 6:10 PM
You are right, war is the best approach.
1/20/2022 8:42 PM
Agreed, especially after having that wimp Trump who never had the stomach for war.
1/20/2022 8:42 PM
I didn't suggest war, but Putin is bound for war. We are to surrender without a fight? (And I know: "It isn't our fight.") Yes it is, unless you want Putin dictating what the US must do for the foreseeable future.
Agreed war it is. Putin was bound for war since 2016 when he put Trump in office. If we take out Putin now the Russians will not be able to interfere with 2022 and 2024 elections. I do not want to see Putin dictating what the US must do in the future. I do not want war either but I see no other choice if are to save our democracy.
All we are saying is give war a chance.
So we are going get a test of the systems or not?
1/23/2022 5:50 PM
Our biological warfare defense system is already under test.
Yes. The perfect war would be one that disables the adversary's economy with no retaliation.
The perfect weapon would be a virus that mutates faster than antidotes and vaccines can be developed.
1/23/2022 5:50 PM
Yep, probably test to failure.
More talk that a Russian invasion is almost certain.
So let us war game this.
(1) Russia goes in and NATO and the US do nothing.
(2) Russia goes in and starts a limited shooting war with the US. I doubt 8k US troops are going to do much but at least we tried.
Biden Blames Trump and the media declares this a great victory. Neil Young is sent into exile to Winnipeg.
(3) Russia goes and the US sinks a Russian ship, the Russians sink a US aircraft carrier, US nukes a tank column. Russia
backs down.
(4) Same as (3) but Russia keeps going and nukes a US fleet. US backs down
(5) All out nuclear war.
(6) All out nuclear war but we find out that having our weapons labs becoming for profit operations was not the best idea.
On a more serious note, maybe all that will happen is Russia takes over Ukraine, the US and and EU put sanctions on Russia, Russia agrees to leave Ukraine but a very friendly government is put into place.
"Russia goes in and starts a limited shooting war with the US"
Where? US troops aren't going to be where "Russia goes in." They're going to be in the Balkans and Poland. Get a grip.
Where? US troops aren't going to be where "Russia goes in." They're going to be in the Balkans and Poland. Get a grip.
1/28/2022 5:24 PM
A shooting war could be they shoot down any US war plane going into Ukraine, sink a ship, or engage with any special forces on the ground. Also limited could mean some US troops go into Ukraine. You seem to have lack of understating of how warfare has been fought in the last 100 years or so. I am not sure what the advantage to the US could be be unless Russia backs down.
If we do not go to war and defeat Russia before 2023 then there is a chance Trump come could come back. Think about it, would you rather risk a nuclear war killing millions or having Trump back as president in 2024? I think the choice is clear.
2/05/2022 4:57 PM
Agreed the best approach is to go to war with Russia, that is what educated sane and enlightened people would do. Stop listening to Joe Rogan and Alex Jones. If you work at LLNL I expect that went to college and know better.
2/05/2022 4:57 PM
It is about much more than that. Try to keep up with actual global threats to democratic countries. The US administration may be blinded by progressive nonsense but other countries aren't.