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by Aos Si » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:36 pm
ScholasticSpastic wrote:I think, globally, it makes more sense to invade the US for oil. You won't get much out of us, but you'll eliminate the primary consumer. Then, having brought down demand, you can expect the prices for everyone else to drop.
Very wise but I'm not sure we can justify it being Western, and no one quite hating you enough, I mean you came close to garnering world wide despite from the Bush era but he's in Narnia now where he always belonged. Plus of course even the vast ranged powers of Europe couldn't take the US, and vise a versa, it's probably best to avoid super powers unless they are on the wane like Russia.
Even then "never fight a land war in Asia." If we do go in it'll have to be fast and in spring, lets not do another Napoleon or Hitler.
If Texas secedes then now we are talking.
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by Pensioner » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:52 pm
ScholasticSpastic wrote:I think, globally, it makes more sense to invade the US for oil. You won't get much out of us, but you'll eliminate the primary consumer. Then, having brought down demand, you can expect the prices for everyone else to drop.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:12 pm
Pensioner wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Pensioner wrote:My car has some oil in it, for fuck sake don't tell those Yank bastards as I have not paid for it yet.
We wouldn't come after Euro petrol. It's way to expensive to justify an armed invasion.
When did you guys justify an armed invasion I must have missed that one.
"Justify" => "I want it". Deed done.
Anyway, I was talking about the cost, not the morality.
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by Pensioner » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:43 pm
Gawdzilla wrote:Pensioner wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Pensioner wrote:My car has some oil in it, for fuck sake don't tell those Yank bastards as I have not paid for it yet.
We wouldn't come after Euro petrol. It's way to expensive to justify an armed invasion.
When did you guys justify an armed invasion I must have missed that one.
"Justify" => "I want it". Deed done.
Anyway, I was talking about the cost, not the morality.
Spoken like a true supporter of Seth.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:42 pm
Pensioner wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Pensioner wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Pensioner wrote:My car has some oil in it, for fuck sake don't tell those Yank bastards as I have not paid for it yet.
We wouldn't come after Euro petrol. It's way to expensive to justify an armed invasion.
When did you guys justify an armed invasion I must have missed that one.
"Justify" => "I want it". Deed done.
Anyway, I was talking about the cost, not the morality.
Spoken like a true supporter of Seth.
Oh, no. I just like invading countries.
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by JimC » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:58 pm
Gawdzilla wrote:
Oh, no. I just like invading countries.
I'm sure you can get medication for that...
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by Alan C » Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:13 am
France hasn't been invaded for at least the past 30 minutes.
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by Robert_S » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:08 am
ScholasticSpastic wrote:I think, globally, it makes more sense to invade the US for oil. You won't get much out of us, but you'll eliminate the primary consumer. Then, having brought down demand, you can expect the prices for everyone else to drop.
Who would want to lower the market value of something they own?
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by ScholasticSpastic » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:53 am
Robert_S wrote:ScholasticSpastic wrote:I think, globally, it makes more sense to invade the US for oil. You won't get much out of us, but you'll eliminate the primary consumer. Then, having brought down demand, you can expect the prices for everyone else to drop.
Who would want to lower the market value of something they own?
Surely we can't be the ONLY net-importing first-world nation?
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by jaydot » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:43 am
alaska. they got plenty oil and you get ms palin as a freebie.
open source the world.
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by Robert_S » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:45 am
jaydot wrote:alaska. they got plenty oil and you get ms palin as a freebie.
Maybe we can sell her back to the Russians.
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by Aos Si » Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:04 pm
Alan C wrote:France hasn't been invaded for at least the past 30 minutes.
France actually has an amazingly good track record when it comes to war. It just tends to be the last 70 years people focus on. Same goes for Italy although they had the Romans so they don't get half the stick France does.
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by Coito ergo sum » Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:11 pm
Crumple wrote:All your oil belongs to me?
It seems, as far as stealing oil, we are quite bad at it. I note the doubling of the price of fuel here in the US in the past year. We are just not seeing the results from all these oil seizures.
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by Coito ergo sum » Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:14 pm
Pensioner wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Pensioner wrote:My car has some oil in it, for fuck sake don't tell those Yank bastards as I have not paid for it yet.
We wouldn't come after Euro petrol. It's way to expensive to justify an armed invasion.
When did you guys justify an armed invasion I must have missed that one.
Us? Seems as if Limey leads the way in every effort. The latest one, Libya, we were reticent to take action, and only intervened after the Brits and the French chided us as not showing enough concern to a worthwhile cause....
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by Clinton Huxley » Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:52 pm
Aos Si wrote:Alan C wrote:France hasn't been invaded for at least the past 30 minutes.
France actually has an amazingly good track record when it comes to war.
Let's not mention Agincourt and Crecy.
No....lets mention them
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