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this would be a period when the Russians would be ramping up internet mischief efforts. Do the math.

how racist is it to just deny 'anyoneness' to over 200,000 souls? Asking for a friend.

Not so much. He has his own dreams of an increased sphere of influence and a rebuilt Russian empire would step on them big time.

if the other team has a big speed advantage you have to play a little more physical - don't know if the Wings have that in them.

he has some very tough decisions to make if the Russian tanks roll. How many lives is a show of resistance worth if it's going to be futile? OTOH, if they have something clever enough cooked up to bloody Ivan, does he have will to give the order knowing that Putin will surely come after him in person.

LOL - you can't miss a spot if you just let it grow...

Mi case rate came in at about 10/100k today. It's falling at a pretty incredible rate.

philosophically, it's easier to be with the players, since they provide the value, but intellectually I can't get past the fact that player salaries help price the live game out of reach of ordinary fans. There's no way to square that circle.

yup - for sure I've heard players, when challenged by people like sportswriters about the fact that they don't know much about the history of the game basically come back with - "time spent on all that doesn't make me a better player today"

that looks like a match. Sad case: Cantor's daughter died after falling out of a dormitory window at UM 20 some years ago.

HaHa - Not THAT Tom Green! And my memory is so bad I just realized it's not Tom, it's was JERRY Green that used to write for the DetNews. But I'm not sure it's this guy or not.

The difference between us and Canada is that if people start blocking roads in the US, gun play will certainly follow promptly.

2nd speaker is Joe Falls, long time Detroit baseball writer, 3rd I think is Darrell Evans of the 84 WS team, but who is the first? Tom Green maybe?

https://www.wingas.com/en/raw-material-natural-gas/heat-from-natural-gas.html LOL - this article refers to something they call a Gas Absorption Heat Pump. In the US we used to call that a gas fired Ammonia absorption air conditioner. Because it was apparently some kind of model, my house had one when it was built (~1960). It had been abandoned in place by the time I bought it. I eventually put a normal electric compression AC unit on the pad. But the only way I figured out what I had was that I knew a little about them because I had an uncle who used to work on commercial units, which were once common in the US (they were obsoletely by modern turbo compressor units). The issue with these units is that they are mechanically complex (thus expensive at small scale) and there is enough ammonia in them to kill you if it leaks out.

Post cold war triumphalism certainly helped cement Putin's resentments. But to be fair, by 1991 most people didn't see why Russia was not on its own way to becoming Europeanized. The idea wasn't that NATO wouldn't get closer to Russia to threaten it, but to absorb it in a great Euro Kum-by-yah moment. That turns out to have been quite the pipe-dream, but I don't know how hard we can be on that hindsight.

Gas is dangerous is and expensive to ship overseas (port siting, compression costs, ship design). There is some international capacity for overseas gas shipment but I'm not up to speed with whether it would even be enough to supply all of Germany completely - most gas moves via pipeline - much safer and cheaper - which is why Germany depends on Russia.

I'm more with MTU that the situations are quite different. The similarity is that in each case we have a western leaning leadership claiming all they need to stand up is our support, but we can't judge the truth of that claim with much accuracy. In Iraq it was completely false, in Ukraine? Who knows? Where things are very much different is that there was a deep unresolved contradiction at the heart of our Iraq intervention that US policy simply ignored/missed/misunderstood, which was that while a western leaning Sunni political elite urged us to enter, our entry was predicated on establishing a democratic state - one that by definition could not fail to result in the Shia majority displacing the Sunni from long held political power, and engendering the inevitable civil war that in fact followed. So the failure of our Iraqi enterprise (or least the vagary of anything one could call success) was baked in from the get go because we were pursuing a policy that was blind to a fundamental reality on the ground we were entering. None of the above speaks to who is right about Ukraine, but it is why it is not a very comparable situation. Ukraine in not a nation with a long suppressed religious majority, which was the single most determinative fact in Iraq.

It depends on how it goes. If there is a credible resistance left standing after an invasion I think you can count on there being western/US arms going to them under the cover of plausible deniability but undoubtedly unwritten somewhere deep in the bowels of the CIA/DOD.

everybody's got constituencies. The thing about a tyrant is that their hold on power may be absolute, right up until it's not. That said, Putin looks as well ensconced as ever.

you are quite the optimist. Form may be temporary but teams making deadline acquisitions usually want to win NOW. Add the fact that he might play better next year to $5 and you get a Vente. ☕ Then again, if Yzerman can spin him into something, it will just add to the legend....

which one got the Canary?

the problem is that it doesn't matter what the US does if we can't pull Europe along. It's easy to talk about what the US should do unilaterally, but those actions are futile if we do them alone - the key is how far we can go and keep the team together. That is the GHWB bar that Biden needs to meet. That is where Putin is counting that the West will fail, and he will be free to make his side deals - esp with the Germans, etc.

gotta keep Bertuzzi - he is a catalyst player, makes everyone he plays with better. Probably couldn't get a bag of surplus Fox-trax pucks for Leddy - he's been terrible. Maybe if we found and burned all his film from this year......🤔 Sure, I could see Yzerman moving Zadina and Namestekov for picks he can package to move up in the next draft - but in the end pretty small potatoes. Move those two and it means we get Veleno back, which is kind of a wash, but also *maybe* Berggren, which could be fun.

Nothing on the ground in Donbas has changed until Russian troops start crossing old lines of control. Do we see that yet? You still have to wonder how long before Putin's generals tell him he has to shit or get off the pot? And it's been in the 40s and 50s all week in Ukraine. Hard ground is slipping away.

Call it historical recency bias. We look at the past through the lens of what is important to us now, which may or not have been important (relatively) to the options that a leader had at the time. The real test is what did a leader choose to do out of the universe of options that were actually open to him, not the universe of what we would have a leader do today. Now it is fair to say Wilson fails the test because he resegregated the Federal Government as an active choice. Even in its own historical context I don't see any reason to forgive that. It's sort of like when they do 'period' piece movies or television. They almost always fail any honest evaluation of their historical accuracy because nobody today would care about what the characters in that day actually cared about. It would make little sense to the present audience (for an example read Pride and Prejudice - it's takes a very active sense of imagination to believe anyone cared about what were matters of life and death to those characters!). Even Mad Men, which started out being about the 60's was really about today within a couple of seasons.