I honestly don't think China cares as much about Taiwan as much as everyone thinks.
Taiwan isn't a threat to China and the President elect having a phone conversation with that nation' President is nothing, and I wouldn't be surprised if he invites her to the White House in the future. Is...
so I was reading up on Operation Resultant Fury http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/resultant-fury.htm
which conducted tests using the B-1 and B-52 hitting ships with laser guided bombs. now I don't this would be very practical since the very short range of a air dropped bomb and having...
my point is if the popular vote mattered Trump would have campaigned more in these states.
you can't deny the fact California heavily voted for Clinton over Trump 4 million votes more, and the biggest red state Texas only gave 1 million more votes to Trump over Clinton.
nope without the U.S NATO is pointless
just like without the UK or France the EU is pointless.
if we were to pull out of NATO we would have to work with Russia to secure a long peace deal. no NATO means no threat to threat to Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_California,_2016
4 million more Californians voted for Hillary than Trump. right there is a reason why he lost the popular vote.
funny how the electoral college actually favors democrats over republicans. it's also funny when...
Afghanistan has a lot of natural resources (not oil) but other things. if U.S companies can get a slice of that it would make sense.
as for the equipment
the UH-60A+ is a good bird and I hope we can offer a dozen or so kits to make them into Battlehawks if not they would be better off with...
they will have no choice. i am just saying they could have used a good chunk of that oil wealth to invest in the next new form of energy production -renewable's- what will they do now when renewable's reach parity with oil?? oil will still be valuable since it has dozens of applications.
OPEC/GCC should have started investing in going green back in 2005/8, but no instead they were to busy building 1KM tall buildings and buying Ferrari's
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yeah it's increasing all over. this year 1 out of 100 cars sold in U.S was electric, and I would expect in 10/15 years that will be more like 20 out of every 100 cars sold will be electric. :cheesy:
electric cars are still another 15 to 20 years away before they really start taking market share from oil, but it's just more proof oil/OPEC days are numbered.
let's say OPEC does the cut of 1.2mmbd starting January 1st and I believe want this to last for 6 months
that' s taking 216 million off the market. little more than what U.S imports in two months.
problem is China is done or almost done with filling up it's SPR about 1mmbpd
U.S tight oil...
the wells are already drilled...they just need to be fracked. it'll take 3 to 6 months to get that oil to market.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-23/u-s-shale-fracklog-triples-as-drillers-keep-oil-out-of-market-i8u004xl
I would expect a 500,000 barrel increase by May from the U.S