You could imagine a policy setting aside a certain amount of production solely for domestic use. This would keep prices low here, but it would also amount to a partial embargo on the rest of the world and would drive up prices there.
Maybe Grandpa Joe can use his legendary powers of persuasion to convince the oil execs to sacrifice their profits for the greater good of the US. Kumbaya, etc.
Just listen to this absolute fucking ■■■■■
Nothing to see here, just a bunch of Russian tanks driving down an open street in close formation in broad daylight, then getting ambushed, while a Ukrainian recon drone watches placidly from above. Soundtrack is apparently intercepted Russian voice communications.
https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1501836848972414983?s=21
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Are the recon drones too small for air defense systems to register them and shoot them down?
The Turkish drones they’ve been talking about have a 40’ wingspan.
Turkish drones seem like attack drones that fly really high up, that tweet showed something near the ground which I assume was a personal drone used for recon.
What happens when we sell oil from the SPR? We sell it at a little below market value and then the oil companies can do whatever they want with it?
Seems like that should be sold with the stipulation that it has to be used in the US.
Oil is a fungible commodity…
Yeah, the lower, smaller, and slower the drones go the harder it will be to differentiate from ground clutter and birds.
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This is mostly correct. From my experience, birds and drones are easily distinguished via radar because drones have much higher reflectivity values due to their materials when compared to a bird that has a pretty small cross-section and hollow bones that don’t reflect nearly as much of the radar signal.
Two things to add here:
- these types of targets would likely not be identifiable for most traditional radar systems period (i.e. either way too small or just lost in the ground clutter) and would likely require some sort of forward deployed radar system that is designed for local monitoring of the airspace
- given what appears to be a general disarray and underpreparedness of the Russians, I sincerely doubt they have this type of radar deployed for each military column. That is just a guess though, I don’t really know enough to be certain.
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Why is Zelensky giving all these in person press interviews in his bunker? Saw one with Sky News and with ABC (IIRC) today. Aren’t there Russian assassins with polonium tipped pens out to get him?
Making Russia and Putin look weak and winning the PR battle. Every day he’s alive is additional humiliation for Putin.
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I can sort of see letting a legit journalist in if he/she has been on TV, known by face etc., but there’s a camera guy and other crew I assume.
Or maybe they just let the reporter in and use their own crew, that would make sense I suppose.
Getting a suicidal assassin close to Z while in a state of war is surely hard to do. It’s not like the old timey days when you could walk up to a president’s theater box and blast him.
They probably screen and pat down the journalists that are there, and only trust ones they are aware of. No one from RT, and no rookie journalist is getting close to Zelensky.
Polonium tipped pens, tho.
Not a new thing.
So you think they will ship a box of pens from Russia to Poland, and then to Ukraine or something?