Can us liberals suggest taking over Texas?
Sorry, Vermont. You seemed really nice.
That's a horrible line.
Sorry, Vermont. You seemed really nice.
Ha! "Nice" like in "nice guy". One minute it's a quaint experiment in rustic socialism and the next you're in a labor camp deep in the Alaskan wilderness listening to bob mcmanus complain how Supreme Leader for Life Bernie Sanders has betrayed the true revolution.
Oh what about Mexico. It'd be super convenient and they would so not be expecting it.
This keyboard sure has a lot of buttons! Computing is hard.
Texas has oil too. And lots and lots of wind.
Comment 1 gets it right, though we might get a Caribbean exhibition match (a la Grenada) as a warm-up. St. Kitts and Nevis: watch your backs!
Can us liberals suggest taking over Texas?
Do you really want it?
11: I mean, does anyone really need both Trinidad and Tobago? Quit hoggin'!
You know a place thats got a lot of oil? Canada.
15: Maybe if we focused just on annexing Nunavut, NWT, and Yukon to Alaska.
17: The oil is mostly in Alberta, though.
Northern Alberta is currently on fire, so maybe don't go there right now.
This thread reminds me of a series of Charles Stross novels in which the technology to travel to alternate dimensions is discovered (sort of) and President Dick Cheney plans to use it to get infinite free energy by getting oil from alternate Texases.
They (China, Germany, Saudi Arabia, & the US) have everything they want already, now they are just moving to hold onto it. The US is currently building a 35k strike force with Saudi Arabia, and Eric Prince is moving his operations somewhere around there.
The Romans had the roads, the British had the Navy, we have Predators. Empire is about intelligence, mobility and precision:we will very soon live in a world where Carlos, Castro & Che, Hitler & Heydrich, Mao, and Lenin will not live long enough to even be an annoyance.
Since problems can be killed, problems will make deals.
There's a novel from the 70s or 80s where the US sends a lot of people and equipment back millions of years to preemptively pump all the oil out of the Middle East and into Europe or somewhere. The first team sent arrived decades late, by when the project had predictably fallen apart.
Carlos, Castro & Che, Hitler & Heydrich, Mao, and Lenin will not live long enough to even be an annoyance
Elvis, on the other hand, will remain safely ensconced in a low-profile nursing home, fighting the evil mummy.
You guys are my peeps, right? Right, guys?
we will very soon live in a world where Carlos, Castro & Che, Hitler & Heydrich, Mao, and Lenin will not live long enough to even be an annoyance
Neither will Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, or Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch.
bob, I think you overestimate what a Predator can do. It's just a radio-controlled aircraft. .