{"id":81121,"date":"2022-03-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81121"},"modified":"2022-03-11T07:35:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:35:37","slug":"counterintuitive-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81121","title":{"rendered":"Counterintuitive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Problem:   Oil prices spiking due to world events. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong>:   Turn to domestic oil production, making parts of the US that hadn&#8217;t seen any unseemly prosperity, ever, like my native North Dakota, pretty darn well-off, bringing down fuel and natural gas prices, making the US functionally independent for energy, and spreading prosperity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2020 Dumbass Solution<\/strong>:  Keep US production shut down, go hat in hand to Iran and Venezuela for more oil, keeping Americans straitened and the world less stable.  And <a href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/life\/let-them-eat-teslas-electric-vehicles-buttigieg-colbert\/\">blame the peasants<\/a> for not being woke and upper-middle-class enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Problem 2:  Ukraine needs more hardware. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Commonsense 2020 solution<\/strong>:  Poland, who wants to upgrade its fleet of fighters with modern American designs, wants to give the Ukrainians their Cold War-era Mig 29s &#8211; the plane that is the backbone of the currennt Ukrainian air force.  Just as they are talking about giving the Ukrainiains their old T90 and T72 tanks, since they<a href=\"https:\/\/r.search.yahoo.com\/_ylt=AwrCwGHQRypibCAA.wMPxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Nj\/RV=2\/RE=1646966865\/RO=10\/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.visiontimes.com%2f2021%2f07%2f19%2fpoland-confirms-purchase-of-m1-abrams-tanks-modernizing-military-to-counter-russia.html%23%3a~%3atext%3dPoland%2520is%2520buying%2520250%2520M1%2520Abrams%2520tanks%2520from%2cAbrams%2520SEPv3%2520battle%2520tanks%2520from%2520the%2520United%2520States.\/RK=2\/RS=Wri4.mx4hN3XKvvwuNuVw5a57CQ-\">&#8216;re tradiing up to US-surplus M1 Abrams<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dumbass 2022 Solution<\/strong>:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/bidens-baffling-mig-29-reversal\/\">Vacillate, and demur<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusions:  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Biden is working for our enemies<\/li><li>Some other conclusion that, honestly, I can&#8217;t think of at the moment.  <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Oil prices spiking due to world events. 2008: Turn to domestic oil production, making parts of the US that hadn&#8217;t seen any unseemly prosperity, ever, like my native North Dakota, pretty darn well-off, bringing down fuel and natural gas prices, making the US functionally independent for energy, and spreading prosperity. 2020 Dumbass Solution: Keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81133,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81121\/revisions\/81133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}