HORSEMEN OPEN DOORS
NON SEQUITUR by Wiley
NON SEQUITUR by Wiley
(I think this means that Twitter will destroy the world. I suspect that may be right. W)
Now the EU leader steps in. He contacts the King of the North to let him know Stealth bombers are violating his territory, though the King already knows that. But the AC offers the news that they are on Scorch. And he somehow knows all their flight plans. He warns the King not to take any other actions, that the Florida bombing was enough of a retaliation. He has already asked the new USA President to order the Navy to stand down. The order has been followed but the Medditerranian fleet Commander has been deeply offended by the order. He points out that the Ukraine has joined the EU though Russian separatists are fighting for a new country in their western areas. He mentions that the EU will need to put down those fighting there and he will look kindly on a lack of intervention.
An aide leaks the first part of the conversation within the hour, letting the rest of the world know the AC has stepped up to take the lead in world peace and on keeping the threat of total nuclear war from the rest of the world. His legend now increases.
Now about the Scorch Order:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/14/trump-critic-bob-corker-lead-senate-hearing-presidents-powers-order-nuclear-attack/860142001/
WASHINGTON – A retired Air Force general urged the Senate on Tuesday to proceed with caution when looking for ways to limit the president’s authority to launch a nuclear attack.
“Conflicting signals can result in loss of confidence, confusion or paralysis in the operating forces at a critical moment,” said Robert Kehler, former commander of the United States Strategic Command.
Two other witnesses also warned that any attempts to restrict the president’s power to order nuclear strikes could have unintended consequences.
“I’m not sure that’s a wise choice,” said Brian McKeon, a former top policy official in the Defense Department.
“I would be very wary of legislative fixes,” added Peter Feaver, a Duke University professor of political science and public policy.
Concerns that a president could order a preemptive nuclear strike are on the rise in Congress as President Trump continues to trade insults with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. For the first time in more than four decades, the president’s powers to call up the nation’s nuclear arsenal were the subject of a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
“Making the decision to go to war of any sort is a heavy responsibility for our nation’s elected leaders, and the decision to use nuclear weapons is the most consequential of all,” said Sen. Sen Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which held the hearing.
Corker said the time has come to examine “the realities” of the president’s authority to order a nuclear attack. But the Tennessee Republican, who warned last month that Trump’s rhetoric could be setting the nation on a path to World War III, insisted the hearing should not be seen as an attempt to specifically rein in Trump.
“This shouldn’t be taken as something that is specific to anyone,” he said.
Well, yes, but they have never tried this with any other President.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location. Any assets that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, for example food sources, water supplies, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the locale's people themselves.
The practice can be carried out by the military in enemy territory, or in its own home territory. It may overlap with, but it is not the same as, punitive destruction of the enemy's resources, which is done for purely strategic/political reasons rather than strategic/operational reasons.
Notable historic examples of scorched-earth tactics include the Russian army's strategy during the failed Swedish invasion of Russia, the failed Napoleonic invasion of Russia, William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea in the American Civil War, colonel Kit Carson's subjugation of the American Navajo Indians, Lord Kitchener's advance against the Boers, the initial Soviet retreat commanded by Joseph Stalin during the German Army's invasion of the Soviet Union in the Second World War,[1] and the subsequent Nazi German retreat on the Eastern Front.
The strategy of destroying the food and water supply of the civilian population in an area of conflict has been banned under Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions.
The Scorch order is a variant on this act. In this one, if the country is likely to lose the war, the President orders Scorch which is an order to the pilots to fly with the usual targets of military importance, but with bombs ready to explode at low altitude and to drop those bombs when it looks like the plane may be shot down. The idea is to so destroy the land of the enemy, that even a win is a loss. It doesn't matter if a bomb hits a city if you can destroy the food sources of the city.
Only a miracle can save Russia from the coming disaster.
The AC now makes a radio appeal to the planes flying in Russian airspace even as the King of the North warns his interceptors and ABMs to stand down. He is following the directions of the AC and doesn't have any idea why. Despite all their training and their obedience, the pilots of the bombers turn around, shut off their timers and head toward their home bases. No one could have issued an order for them to do that that they would obey.
Another subordinate has been secretly recording this ans it hits the media feeda almost immediately. The worker gets a reprimand.
But then one thing that remains to discuss is the influence of oil:
Russia is the world's largest producer of crude oil. It was the world's largest producer of crude oil including lease condensate and the third-largest producer of petroleum and other liquids (after Saudi Arabia and the United States) in 2014, with average liquids production of 10.9 million barrels per day. Most of Russia's oil production originates in West Siberia and the Urals-Volga regions. However, production from East Siberia, Russia’s Far East and the Russian Arctic has been growing. [Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, July 2015 ~]
Russia's proved oil reserves were 80 billion barrels as of January 2015, according to the Oil and Gas Journal. Most of Russia's reserves are located in West Siberia, between the Ural Mountains and the Central Siberian Plateau, and in the Urals-Volga region, extending into the Caspian Sea. ~
In 2014, Russia produced an estimated 10.9 million barrels per day of petroleum and other liquids (of which 10.1 million barrels per day was crude oil including lease condensate), and it consumed slightly more than 3.5 million barrels per day. Russia exported more than 6 million barrels per day in 2013, including roughly 5 million barrels per day of crude oil and the remainder in products. According to EIA's International Energy Outlook 2014, Russia's petroleum and other liquids production grows modestly over the long term. ~
In 2003, Russia edged out Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest oil producer. In the 1990s, Russia ranked third in the world in oil production, after Saudi Arabia and the United States. Estimates at that time placed proven and potential oil reserves at 8 to 11 billion tons. Russia's oil production peaked in 1987, then began a decline that continued through 1995. In the latter year, the yield was 741 million barrels, 13 million barrels less than the previous year. Output for the first quarter of 1996 was 182 million barrels. [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *]
A) Crude oil - proved reserves: 80 billion barrels (1 January 2014 est.); country comparison to the world: 8. B) Crude oil - production: 10.05 million barrels per day (31 September 2014 est.); country comparison to the world: 3.C) Crude oil - exports: 4.625 million barrels per day (2013 est.); country comparison to the world: 2. D) Crude oil - imports: 17,610 barrels per day (2013 est.); country comparison to the world: 70. E) Refined petroleum products - production: 4.812 million barrels per day (2010 est.); country comparison to the world: 4. F) Refined petroleum products - consumption: 3.32 million barrels per day (2013 est.); country comparison to the world: 5. G) Refined petroleum products - exports: 2.968 million barrels per day (2013 est.); country comparison to the world: 1. H) Refined petroleum products - imports: 28,040 barrels per day (2013 est.); country comparison to the world: 94. [Source: CIA World Factbook =]
Russia possesses one seventh of the world's proven oil reserves. Oil deposits in Siberia are the second largest after deposits in the Persian Gulf. There are some concerns that Russia's oil could run out in the next 30 to 40 years. Countries with largest reserves (2006, billions of barrels): 1) Saudi Arabia (266.8); 2) Canada (178.8, including 174.1 billion barrels of oil sands); 3) Iran (132.5); 4) Iraq (115); 5) Kuwait (104); 6) United Arab Emirates (97.8); 7) Venezuela (79.7); 8) Russia (60); 9) Libya (39.1); 10) Nigeria (35.9)
Russia's Oil-Producing Regions
Most of Russia's oil production originates in West Siberia and the Urals-Volga regions. However, production from East Siberia, Russia’s Far East and the Russian Arctic has been growing. Most of Russia's reserves are located in West Siberia, between the Ural Mountains and the Central Siberian Plateau, and in the Urals-Volga region, extending into the Caspian Sea. [Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, July 2015 ~]
Russia's oil production by region in 2013 (region, thousand barrels per day): A) Western Siberia: 6,422; B) Urals-Volga: 2,310; C) Krasnoyarsk: 426; D) Sakhalin: 277; E) Arkhangelsk: 269; F) Komi Republic: 257; G) Irkutsk: 227; H) Yakutiya: 149; I) North Caucasus: 62; J) Kaliningrad: 26. Total: 10,425. [Source: Source: Eastern Bloc Research, CIS and East European Energy Databook 2014, Table 6 (2014), p. 2. ~]
About two-thirds of Russia's oil comes from Siberia, mostly from huge fields in the northwest part of the region. Much of Russia's oil is produced in Western Siberia in a harsh environment with high production costs and thousand of miles from ice-free ports, which necessitates the construction of expensive pipelines. As much as 20 percent of Siberia is believed to contain oil and gas. Once the area is completely explored, it could produces more oil that Saudi Arabia. Oil was discovered in Siberia in 1965. During the Brezhnev a lot of money was poured into infrastructure projects to develop oil projects.
The second largest reserves of oil are in Siberia in the swampy Timan-Pechora region northeast of the Urals. There are also large reserves east of the Urals and around the Caspian Sea. There are large oil fields north of Tyumen and Omsk. The vast Tyumen oil fields lie in a vast area of wetlands north of Tomsk. There is also oil in Surgut. The main European oil and gas fields are located in the Volga-Ural region, the North Caucasus, and the far north of the Republic of Komi. Three of the richest oil fields—Langepas, Urai and Kogalym—are owned by Lukoil.
Modern Europe has been converting to renewable resources following the example long presented by Israel who has had only the one source of oil: the USA.
The alliance of Iran. Syria and Russia plus the attack on Israel to get a line on the Suez through a military action will be all about locking up all the world's oil and suppressing even the /Chinese rise in power. The Chines Silk Road initiative is partly about getting access to oil by pipelines running to China and and creating a defensible source.
The climate change that will likely destroy the USA in some way has to do with the oil companies wanting huge profits first by suggesting oil will be depleted and they need to charge more for R and D projects and because the USA was their main source of income. "Drill, baby, drill." Pipelines laid and unattended. "Money, Money, money."
Not going to renewables has been one of the unmentioned reasons for the woes of US industry. Cutting oil costs would have helped make industry more competitive. Meanwhile, Koch suggests they are "developing" renewable resources while cheap fully functional solar panels from Europe are being taxed extra to keep them out of the market. No wonder the Koch brothers pay so much to buy politicians.
"Black gold. Texas tea."
The source of the economic power of the King of the North. Even more powerful with the destruction of the US source. No one thinking very long about how the source of that wealth has led to the destruction of the ones who worshiped it.
The horsemen open doors of death and destruction from which issue all manner of death and destruction.
And now the Northern King owes his power to the AC.
Now the EU leader steps in. He contacts the King of the North to let him know Stealth bombers are violating his territory, though the King already knows that. But the AC offers the news that they are on Scorch. And he somehow knows all their flight plans. He warns the King not to take any other actions, that the Florida bombing was enough of a retaliation. He has already asked the new USA President to order the Navy to stand down. The order has been followed but the Medditerranian fleet Commander has been deeply offended by the order. He points out that the Ukraine has joined the EU though Russian separatists are fighting for a new country in their western areas. He mentions that the EU will need to put down those fighting there and he will look kindly on a lack of intervention.
An aide leaks the first part of the conversation within the hour, letting the rest of the world know the AC has stepped up to take the lead in world peace and on keeping the threat of total nuclear war from the rest of the world. His legend now increases.
Now about the Scorch Order:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/14/trump-critic-bob-corker-lead-senate-hearing-presidents-powers-order-nuclear-attack/860142001/
WASHINGTON – A retired Air Force general urged the Senate on Tuesday to proceed with caution when looking for ways to limit the president’s authority to launch a nuclear attack.
“Conflicting signals can result in loss of confidence, confusion or paralysis in the operating forces at a critical moment,” said Robert Kehler, former commander of the United States Strategic Command.
Two other witnesses also warned that any attempts to restrict the president’s power to order nuclear strikes could have unintended consequences.
“I’m not sure that’s a wise choice,” said Brian McKeon, a former top policy official in the Defense Department.
“I would be very wary of legislative fixes,” added Peter Feaver, a Duke University professor of political science and public policy.
Concerns that a president could order a preemptive nuclear strike are on the rise in Congress as President Trump continues to trade insults with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. For the first time in more than four decades, the president’s powers to call up the nation’s nuclear arsenal were the subject of a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
“Making the decision to go to war of any sort is a heavy responsibility for our nation’s elected leaders, and the decision to use nuclear weapons is the most consequential of all,” said Sen. Sen Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which held the hearing.
Corker said the time has come to examine “the realities” of the president’s authority to order a nuclear attack. But the Tennessee Republican, who warned last month that Trump’s rhetoric could be setting the nation on a path to World War III, insisted the hearing should not be seen as an attempt to specifically rein in Trump.
“This shouldn’t be taken as something that is specific to anyone,” he said.
Well, yes, but they have never tried this with any other President.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location. Any assets that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, for example food sources, water supplies, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the locale's people themselves.
The practice can be carried out by the military in enemy territory, or in its own home territory. It may overlap with, but it is not the same as, punitive destruction of the enemy's resources, which is done for purely strategic/political reasons rather than strategic/operational reasons.
Notable historic examples of scorched-earth tactics include the Russian army's strategy during the failed Swedish invasion of Russia, the failed Napoleonic invasion of Russia, William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea in the American Civil War, colonel Kit Carson's subjugation of the American Navajo Indians, Lord Kitchener's advance against the Boers, the initial Soviet retreat commanded by Joseph Stalin during the German Army's invasion of the Soviet Union in the Second World War,[1] and the subsequent Nazi German retreat on the Eastern Front.
The strategy of destroying the food and water supply of the civilian population in an area of conflict has been banned under Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions.
The Scorch order is a variant on this act. In this one, if the country is likely to lose the war, the President orders Scorch which is an order to the pilots to fly with the usual targets of military importance, but with bombs ready to explode at low altitude and to drop those bombs when it looks like the plane may be shot down. The idea is to so destroy the land of the enemy, that even a win is a loss. It doesn't matter if a bomb hits a city if you can destroy the food sources of the city.
Only a miracle can save Russia from the coming disaster.
The AC now makes a radio appeal to the planes flying in Russian airspace even as the King of the North warns his interceptors and ABMs to stand down. He is following the directions of the AC and doesn't have any idea why. Despite all their training and their obedience, the pilots of the bombers turn around, shut off their timers and head toward their home bases. No one could have issued an order for them to do that that they would obey.
Another subordinate has been secretly recording this ans it hits the media feeda almost immediately. The worker gets a reprimand.
But then one thing that remains to discuss is the influence of oil:
Russia is the world's largest producer of crude oil. It was the world's largest producer of crude oil including lease condensate and the third-largest producer of petroleum and other liquids (after Saudi Arabia and the United States) in 2014, with average liquids production of 10.9 million barrels per day. Most of Russia's oil production originates in West Siberia and the Urals-Volga regions. However, production from East Siberia, Russia’s Far East and the Russian Arctic has been growing. [Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, July 2015 ~]
Russia's proved oil reserves were 80 billion barrels as of January 2015, according to the Oil and Gas Journal. Most of Russia's reserves are located in West Siberia, between the Ural Mountains and the Central Siberian Plateau, and in the Urals-Volga region, extending into the Caspian Sea. ~
In 2014, Russia produced an estimated 10.9 million barrels per day of petroleum and other liquids (of which 10.1 million barrels per day was crude oil including lease condensate), and it consumed slightly more than 3.5 million barrels per day. Russia exported more than 6 million barrels per day in 2013, including roughly 5 million barrels per day of crude oil and the remainder in products. According to EIA's International Energy Outlook 2014, Russia's petroleum and other liquids production grows modestly over the long term. ~
In 2003, Russia edged out Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest oil producer. In the 1990s, Russia ranked third in the world in oil production, after Saudi Arabia and the United States. Estimates at that time placed proven and potential oil reserves at 8 to 11 billion tons. Russia's oil production peaked in 1987, then began a decline that continued through 1995. In the latter year, the yield was 741 million barrels, 13 million barrels less than the previous year. Output for the first quarter of 1996 was 182 million barrels. [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *]
A) Crude oil - proved reserves: 80 billion barrels (1 January 2014 est.); country comparison to the world: 8. B) Crude oil - production: 10.05 million barrels per day (31 September 2014 est.); country comparison to the world: 3.C) Crude oil - exports: 4.625 million barrels per day (2013 est.); country comparison to the world: 2. D) Crude oil - imports: 17,610 barrels per day (2013 est.); country comparison to the world: 70. E) Refined petroleum products - production: 4.812 million barrels per day (2010 est.); country comparison to the world: 4. F) Refined petroleum products - consumption: 3.32 million barrels per day (2013 est.); country comparison to the world: 5. G) Refined petroleum products - exports: 2.968 million barrels per day (2013 est.); country comparison to the world: 1. H) Refined petroleum products - imports: 28,040 barrels per day (2013 est.); country comparison to the world: 94. [Source: CIA World Factbook =]
Russia possesses one seventh of the world's proven oil reserves. Oil deposits in Siberia are the second largest after deposits in the Persian Gulf. There are some concerns that Russia's oil could run out in the next 30 to 40 years. Countries with largest reserves (2006, billions of barrels): 1) Saudi Arabia (266.8); 2) Canada (178.8, including 174.1 billion barrels of oil sands); 3) Iran (132.5); 4) Iraq (115); 5) Kuwait (104); 6) United Arab Emirates (97.8); 7) Venezuela (79.7); 8) Russia (60); 9) Libya (39.1); 10) Nigeria (35.9)
Russia's Oil-Producing Regions
Most of Russia's oil production originates in West Siberia and the Urals-Volga regions. However, production from East Siberia, Russia’s Far East and the Russian Arctic has been growing. Most of Russia's reserves are located in West Siberia, between the Ural Mountains and the Central Siberian Plateau, and in the Urals-Volga region, extending into the Caspian Sea. [Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, July 2015 ~]
Russia's oil production by region in 2013 (region, thousand barrels per day): A) Western Siberia: 6,422; B) Urals-Volga: 2,310; C) Krasnoyarsk: 426; D) Sakhalin: 277; E) Arkhangelsk: 269; F) Komi Republic: 257; G) Irkutsk: 227; H) Yakutiya: 149; I) North Caucasus: 62; J) Kaliningrad: 26. Total: 10,425. [Source: Source: Eastern Bloc Research, CIS and East European Energy Databook 2014, Table 6 (2014), p. 2. ~]
About two-thirds of Russia's oil comes from Siberia, mostly from huge fields in the northwest part of the region. Much of Russia's oil is produced in Western Siberia in a harsh environment with high production costs and thousand of miles from ice-free ports, which necessitates the construction of expensive pipelines. As much as 20 percent of Siberia is believed to contain oil and gas. Once the area is completely explored, it could produces more oil that Saudi Arabia. Oil was discovered in Siberia in 1965. During the Brezhnev a lot of money was poured into infrastructure projects to develop oil projects.
The second largest reserves of oil are in Siberia in the swampy Timan-Pechora region northeast of the Urals. There are also large reserves east of the Urals and around the Caspian Sea. There are large oil fields north of Tyumen and Omsk. The vast Tyumen oil fields lie in a vast area of wetlands north of Tomsk. There is also oil in Surgut. The main European oil and gas fields are located in the Volga-Ural region, the North Caucasus, and the far north of the Republic of Komi. Three of the richest oil fields—Langepas, Urai and Kogalym—are owned by Lukoil.
Modern Europe has been converting to renewable resources following the example long presented by Israel who has had only the one source of oil: the USA.
The alliance of Iran. Syria and Russia plus the attack on Israel to get a line on the Suez through a military action will be all about locking up all the world's oil and suppressing even the /Chinese rise in power. The Chines Silk Road initiative is partly about getting access to oil by pipelines running to China and and creating a defensible source.
The climate change that will likely destroy the USA in some way has to do with the oil companies wanting huge profits first by suggesting oil will be depleted and they need to charge more for R and D projects and because the USA was their main source of income. "Drill, baby, drill." Pipelines laid and unattended. "Money, Money, money."
Not going to renewables has been one of the unmentioned reasons for the woes of US industry. Cutting oil costs would have helped make industry more competitive. Meanwhile, Koch suggests they are "developing" renewable resources while cheap fully functional solar panels from Europe are being taxed extra to keep them out of the market. No wonder the Koch brothers pay so much to buy politicians.
"Black gold. Texas tea."
The source of the economic power of the King of the North. Even more powerful with the destruction of the US source. No one thinking very long about how the source of that wealth has led to the destruction of the ones who worshiped it.
The horsemen open doors of death and destruction from which issue all manner of death and destruction.
And now the Northern King owes his power to the AC.
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