They gotta avoid a land-and-sea open-war first. Dock everything domestic and let the buyers’ ships come to them. Refuse to sell to countries that don’t protect even their own ships.

The US Navy is already interfering, and I never suggest they could stop it, but rendering it in-effective/irrelavent after a certain point seems achievable from where I sit. The US hasn’t won a land-war since Korea, and North Korea only really had China’s backing.

Venezuela is surrounded by countries which have every reason to help them end-run US interference, and whatever excuse the US brings to the table this time, its not coming with UN, NATO, or any sort of “multi-lateral”-backing. Again, that’s what the US had in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those still endeded in failure.

There’s no pretending its not about oil and territory this time.

That’s why escorting the tankers is a bad idea. Delay the war by whatever means possible until the US Navy’s interference, at least, can be rendered irrelavent.

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You might want to look-into how first-responders handle leadership. Ideally, everyone who eventually shows-up to help handle the fallout of a crisis-situation is properly trained to co-ordinate things, but you can’t know who actually will handle things until someone steps-up. As a result, the first trained-AT-ALL person on-scene gets the role, period, until they defer, delegate, or resign.

This leads to a lot of top-down and peer-pressure in related-fields to always be training. Leadership-training is often one of the cheapest, only-free, or even travel-room-and-board-included options available.

What they’ve found is that those who step-up lock-in on what needs to be done - all levels from the bottom-up have the idealized overall picture, checlists, exception scenarios hammered-into them, and the importance of keeping-track-of-and-share the details even when you don’t have time to write them down or explain them to everyone.

Therefore, a lot of the related Leadership training revolves around how to document what you can, the importance of finding a replacement-for-you candidate who is paying attention and can understand what you would need to pass-on with minimal explanation. Thus, the person who you eventually defer to, who relieves you and takes charge is usually not the highest-authority or most-experienced person on hand.

The higher you get in these authority-chains, and/or the more experience you get, the more the job is literally stepping back and check-boxing all the peripheral tasks. Taking-up slack or identifying those capable of doing so and stearing them towards those roles while avoiding interfering or conflict-with the … err … “situational” leader that stepped-up first and hasn’t bowed-out yet.

Mind-you, none of this has anything to do with the day-to-day of those involved. People have managed large-disaster-fallout situations for 24-hours-plus only for it to come-out later that all they had on their CV was CPR training and an un-related-job with no prior leadership experience - they may not have even realized that they were in-charge until asked-about it days later. People just kept asking them what to do, and when asked what to do by them, responded, “do you mind handling things a while longer?”; They signed whatever was presented to them and not full of errors, maybe not realizing x document wasn’t just a witness statement.

I guess what I’m getting at is, yes, some people have natural leadership talent, and some people you can train in the role five-ways-from-Sunday and they won’t be suitable or want to step-up, and yes, so much in life requires “that guy” to be in-charge of x location or x situation for whatever time-frame, but …

… the inevitability of the need for a leader does not require the same person be in-charge of whatever for years at a time, months, weeks, or even days at a time. Every leadership role has a hand-book of-sorts, a list of known exceptions, exceptions you may not want the wrong-person handling, and essential, bare-minimum tasks…

Here, I think the First-Responder outlook has it right: everyone gets repeatedly trained for leadership and constantly scrutinized for suitability. There are EMT’s, Fire-men, and of-course Police Officers who are not allowed to work alone(far from just trainees any-more, but not leaders … Barney Fife?), and preventing them ending-up de-facto in-charge of something important, at least on-the-clock, is a big part of why.

Venezuela borders Brazil, which has deep-sea ports itself and borders Peru, which is getting its own mega-port. Technically, a line down to the Rio Negro River would be sufficient on the Brazil side; Might require dredging in some spots, but its average depth is more than deep enough for the largest tanker-ships, and its wide-enough to fit more than a dozen-abreast.

The US is playing a stupid, stupid game. Committing acts of terrorism and piracy on the high-seas. I don’t want the Amazon contaminated, but should it happen, its not Venezuela or Brazil to blame.

Did I complain that boys were facing-consequences for this or something? Short of the escalation you’ve mentioned when it comes to light, they don’t, so … Did I condone the behavior? Because it sounds like you are.

One of us here is pretending that its an a-okay scenario, so long as it doesn’t lead to rape, assault, or murder, and frankly ignoring that only one-of those is out-of-the-question-from-a-girl-enough to be almost-entirely written-off. That one of us? Its not me.

You want to know where those end-points start? One of the paths is right there in four-panels, it doesn’t magically work-out when the roles are reversed, and a double-standard isn’t what’s going to fix it.

Weird that you assume I’m the one with that problem among all of those here. I’ve been very clear that I consider this a maturity-issue for both genders, and that its something re-inforced by society. Boys learn from Girls as much as from anyone else. What’s your excuse for ignoring all-that to come at me with such an absurdly-shallow take?

Wut?

You honestly expect that I was unaware of the attack before seeing this headline? Or the common abbreviations for the state of Minnesota? Should you be quized on the spellings of US states?

Minns is an elected official. On the whim of the Elected Assembly, his name could be irrelavent to NSW tomorrow; It’s far from essential knowlege to anyone outside of New South Whales, and contributes nothing to putting the headline in-context.

Headlines aren’t supposed to spoil the entire story, I’ll give you that, but they should include enough information for one to decide if its relavent to them.

In this case, I gathered the irrelavence of the article to me personally from the byline, and then I made a joke at my own expense and at the expense of the name of a fascist moron who wants to suppress peaceful protests. If anyone should feel bad here, its you for stanning him like his name belongs anywhere besides toilet-paper.

I hate to suggest privatization, but … are private Solar plants and wind under-attack, or just grid-connected-first ones?

Cap (at least new)corporate/industrial grid-demand, outlaw new fossil-fuel plants/buildout, and watch the corpos fight the feds for wind-and-solar tooth-and-nail. They aren’t the ones demanding/defending more coal and gas so much any more(outside of cramped cities, where none of this shit needs to be), as its not the cost-effective option.

Throw in net-metering and balcony solar across-the-board too.

I’m not watching that. I might look-up “Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet” at some point, but the only thing this post has going for it is that that text was available in the Video Description on youtube.

This is the game Trump wants them to play. The should get their client-countries and allied neighbors to do this for them. Build pipelines or transport by rail to ports in other SA countries. He might like that too, but its harder for him to escalate like-so.

You’ve offered nothing for me to need to defend against. Bye now.

The problem with governments is that they were designed with the merely dishonest, incompetent or greedy in-mind. They, and society, were not to designed to mitigate psycho-pathy and/or delusion - the parts that manage that at all kinda just fell-into place for other reasons, and don’t work beyond the local level.

Meanwhile, the psycho-paths in-office and their psycho-pathic/socio-pathic handlers, want you to believe your psycho-pathic neighbor is the problem. You know, the one you merely suspect and label due to factors that probably amount to tribalism and what you each have been told to think?

Congratulations on being the second to spot the part of the lame joke that was self-deprecating and ultimately, yes, the only reason I looked at the post body/content. You too, get a cookie.

As I’ve said already, I recognised NSW in the byline and didn’t read the article as a result, before I commented.

You can read anything more than “Financial” in that thumbnail? Good on ya, mate.

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Look in a mirror? Stop projecting? I’ve sad my peace on this forwards and backwards now, probably twice-over, sure, but …

I blocked the other person who replied to my top-level comment before I went to work last night, replied to something much shorter I saw in-kind today, then you show up and yeah, I gave my initial reply to you more effort than it warranted because I confused your comment for canofcam’s arguments taking a dive into the absurd -literally jerking-off their own ego …

… but no, it was you. Fuck-off. I owe you nothing and wish I could take back the effort I spent replying to your low-effort shit-stirring. You’ve contributed nothing here and are well-into just-trying-to-create-some-drama territory.

I would be happy for you that your experiences and those of my friends(men and women) and myself have so little in common, but that gives you no right to drag me into your non-sense.

You just described exactly why the “tire noise is enough, you just gotta go fast” comment was so stupid, but also yours is stupid and backwards because drivers do drive faster than they should.

You can look both ways and still get hit by a car that was around the corner, just turned onto your street, or was just going that much faster than other cars or what you realized when you saw them. Tire noise is far from enough to call that out and make you look-again, in-time; Even if you keep your head on a pivot as you walk.