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In "Critical Path", Buckminster Fuller said that US scrap metal companies were furiously selling scrap to Germany & Japan in 1939 to capitalize on all-time high

• JacobThreeThree 2y ago
  Ukraine to this day still gets most of its gas and oil imports from Russia and also continues to transit Russian gas through pipelines to Europe.
  • Cthulhu_ 2y ago
    Weird, but there's probably good reasons. For one, EU countries that depend on Russian gas via Ukraine would stop their support of Ukraine if they were to stop the flow.
• dctoedt 2y ago
  > US scrap metal companies were furiously selling scrap to Germany & Japan in 1939 In Herman Wouk's novel The Winds of War, an admiral, aboard an aircraft carrier near Pearl Harbor in 1940 or -41, groused to his officers that (paraphrasing from memory) "sooner or later the [Japanese] are going to come steaming over the horizon, burning Texaco oil and shooting pieces of old Buicks at us."
  • pjmorris 2y ago
    I asked my friend to recommend his favorite historical novels, and they were 'The Winds of War' and 'War and Remembrance.' It's amazing how much history is embedded in them, well worth the time to read.