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There are no stats in that link. Cities may have high total crim rates but the high population contributes to the inflated number. The stat I cited was per capita.

Yet the most violent US states are often the most rural. https://www.southwestjournal.com/most-dangerous-us-states-2023-stay-safe/ Rank State Violent Crime Rate (per 100,000) 1 Alaska 885.0 2 New Mexico 702.5 3 Tennessee 623.3 4 Nevada 606.6 5 Louisiana 573.8 6 Arkansas 550.9 7 Missouri 523.2 8 South Carolina 519.0 9 Delaware 505.7 10 Maryland 492.4

The song does tacitly promote violence.

How many lives were lost taking the strategically insignificant Bakhmut? It's weird you'd use that to spike the football. You're just a Putin Cheerleader.

Ukraine has beaten Russia in battle in just about every instance since the Summer of 2022.

How exactly is it turning for the worse? You saw the leader of Wagner able to take over Russian cities a few weeks ago. Putin doesn't really have the iron grip he'd like to portray.

Or all of Independent Western Media. You even cited some earlier. That's what Putin calls the likes of you. They you shouldn't support Putin's violent invasion of an independent. AND have them rewarded for such an invasion.

You can't even hide your Putin fandom. LOL. The meat-grinder is coming from the Russian side sending their own young men to die in the tens of thousands.

You mean the post invasion referendums? You're really that dense.

They don't because they can't. The Russians are the warmongers here. And you support their ability to annex land.

I'm not denying the existence of a separatist movement backed by Russia. It does not mean that Russia is entitled to that land. There was conflict there since 2014. This is a war for all of Ukraine. Should Ukraine cede portions of these regions they control to obtain peace? Like in the 30's that's just appeasing a tyrant.

Do you have a cite on that? I'm sure there is a Pro-Russian faction in these region, especially now that Russia can deport all Ukrainians out of the region. You play right into Russian Propaganda.

Like with Germany, I suspect these Coal plants are a stop-gap until renewables can be used more broadly. I think it's safe to say that neither country wants to be indebted to the likes of Russia for their energy future.

I don't feel sorry for China. China is ostensibly an opponent of the West. So they aren't particularly concerned with our priorities. So do we force them, or just ignore the priorities because China doesn't play ball? All the while China IS! actually investing heavily in the technology required to move past fossil fuels and creating an environment where all renewable tech has to go through them. So as to the OP of this thread, we in the west need to start investing in this stuff as well, so we don't become dependent on China for batteries and Solar tech etc. Canada, the US and Europe are all moving in that direction. The first world moving past fossil fuels will make a huge difference regardless what China does.

It's a convenient built in excuse that breaking this blockade would be provocation for Nuclear War, which is precisely what I think NATO should do. Famine caused by not letting the Grain get to market is a war crime committed by Russia and Russia alone.

But you've built in an excuse that "Because China" means that we don't have to do anything. Imagine if we had that same view on Human and Worker Rights. China is in a terrible spot right now. They don't have the resources to support their population. One of the reasons they've resorted to Coal is that Climate change has made Hydro electric electricity less feasible for them. The good news for the Globe is that they've entered a demographic crisis where they could see their population cut in half this century. They don't have enough young people to support their manufacturing clout going forward. Western countries compensate for this with immigration. Fat chance of an Asian country doing the same.

Canada has a fraction of the population and manufacturing of China, so I'm not sure how that's a relevant comparison. Canada has already largely removed coal from their electricity generation. So here we're talking about transportation.

I'm not sure using China as an example why we shouldn't move to Green solutions will hole water for very long. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/08/energy-chinas-renewables-progress-comes-alongside-a-coal-power-boom.html#:~:text=In 2020%2C China's Xi announced,for carbon neutrality by 2060.

Isn't that what Carbon Taxes do? There's a tax rebate for it. Also, the Federal Rebate on EVs serves a similar purposes. The divide happens when people claim that the gumint is trying to rip your precious ICE away from you! Much of the developed world has made moving away from Fossil fuels a priority (even China). This is a goal they've all set. We'll see if it's attainable. I'm seeing more and more EVs on the road an in parking lots every day.

Again what type of negotiated peace does this look like? This sounds like something a Putin Apologist would say. Negotiating with Putin only enables him. He's leading the world's #1 pariah state right now. LOL, Alright Comrade.

What type of deal are we thinking? Allowing Russia to annex yet more of a nation's land? To unite Ethnic people within that land? It's the exact same playbook Hitler played from.

We already have EVs that can get several hundred kms on a charge. But they're prohibitively expensive for most people. We're in the stage of early adopters. Like people paying $1,000 for a DVD player. It's a TV, it's an EV. An EV is already a pretty cool car. We're just talking about the Battery being more scalable, cheaper and less reliant on rare earth metals. It's an improvement to the tech. Perhaps using the term transitional was incorrect.

Sure, but like with all tech, we'll need bridge technology. Not everyone with a car needs it to go 700 kms on a single charge. Sodium Ion Batteries are a good solution to bringing the price down and reducing the demand on Lithium.

Neither are into the EV game right now. Honda just released their first EV recently and Toyota still doesn't have a full EV in their line-up. Both, Toyota and Honda, already have assembly plant in Ontario. Don't want to play the game, Go home. Scores of US towns are more than willing to subsidize Stellantis and VW to build Batteries.

There's also a VW plant proposed. But Chrysler is one of the Big 3. What are the automakers you're looking for investment from?