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That's the way you destroy a team's spirit right there. :pimp:

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That doesn’t mean that they don’t have a labor cost advantage too. These things aren’t mutually exclusive

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Yes but the technology and automation advantage is 10x more important to the cost of production than the labor advantage.

The real reason that manufacturing is cheaper in Asia has nothing to do with labor. It's ironically because Asians have invested in automation much more aggressively than we have. And they have lower cost of capital. Even their mom and pop owned factories are way ahead of their US counterparts in the age and sophistication of their equipment

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Ukraine is not an independent state. They are a failed state.

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Ukraine ranks 58th in the world GDP. Ahead of many Russian allies such as Venezuela, Cuba, Serbia, Slovenia, and of course your big friend North Korea.

It has elections, which is something you Russian communists don't appreciate.

Your logic is so without merit. But of course you're not a real person. You're just a paid troll. What a sad life. 80 posts a day here and no telling how many on some other message boards. But I guess it's not bad work for a communist.

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Ukraine is still demanding all of their land back too. Do you think that will happen?

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No. The key has always been:

Ukraine security, autonomy, and sovereignty.

The Istanbul deal 3 years ago took all of that away and left Ukraine at the mercy of Russia, literally and figuratively.

The Russian troll farm bot says that they are about to sign the same deal as Istanbul. I do not think that is the case. I think the deal under consideration now is materially different.

If not, then I think Ukraine will keep fighting

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It's the same deal that was almost signed in Istanbul 3 years ago

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Nope.

The reason that Ukraine walked away was the following:

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Ukraine disarm almost completely and commit never to fielding a military capable of defending the
country. The draft agreement specifically imposed the following caps on the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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Less than 100,000 men at arms, and the inability to join any defensive alliances. And the inability to host any foreign soildiers. PLUS having to have Russia and China approve their response to any foreign adversary invading them (making Russia and China their "security guarantee partners"). That deal essentially removes Ukraine sovereignty.

The deals on the table now don't require that. So "why do you lie?" We know why. Because you are paid to do so. And paid poorly.

Signing that deal would have guaranteed that Russia would just roll in at their

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to what end?

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Their resistance and sacrifice and performance on the battlefield has improved their position at the negotiating table.

The terms being discussed currently are an order of magnitude better than what Russia was willing to accept 3 years ago. Essentially Ukraine has guaranteed its own sovereignty through 3 years of war.

That was literally the point all along. Seems to me they've done very well at that.

The secondary benefit -- for all of Ukraine's allies -- is that Ukraine is now the most technologically savy army in the world. They have made incredible advnaces in drone warfare, counter electronic warfare, data integration, etc.

Once this war is over -- or at least paused -- Ukraine will be essentially immune to further Russian agression. And all of western Europe is no rearming itself to begin taking care of their own defenses. Which is a huge positive for the US.

So I think Ukraine has accomplished a lot. And way more than anyone expected of them.

So why don't you flip that criticism around. Russia launced a war to take Ukraine under its orbit and turn them into another Belarus. They failed. So now Putin has 20% of a neighbor. And he basically destroyed it to get it. There are 20 million land mines out there. One million dead and maimed men. Another million traumatized by war. Hundreds of thousands of acres of No Man's Land. Cities that have to be rebuilt.

What did Russia achieve other than hastening its own inevitable demographic collapse? It lost its biggest customers for its biggest products. It shifted its entire economy from civil development to war materials production.

It didn't threaten its own long term viability. It guaranteed its own irrelevance.

To what end? What is the upside of this war for Putin? What is the upside for the common Russian citizen still waiting on plumbing and dental care?

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there a particular reason you don’t use clethodim?

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I do. I mentioned it several times above..i just call it Select because that was its original brand name. I use the generic Volunteer now mostly. But its active ingredient is Clethodim

Imazapyr doesn't kill pine trees obviously....and it doesn't kill legumes. It's safe over clover. But not exactly labeled for it.

The formulation that is labeled for clover is Imazethapyr. But you pay more for a lower concentration. Use whichever one you're comfortable with

PS: Always follow label directions!! :lol:

Well, technically if it doesn't have any grass or weeds then don't spray. But I'm not sure I've ever seen that. Mine always need a grass application of Select and almost always need a weed control as well.

Then they need to be mowed with sharp blades when they head out in late May or June. That will scatter the seed and take a lot of the burden off the plant going into its stress season.