Monday, March 23, 2026

War! What Is It Bad For?

     You can't see the dead people from here.  But even ignoring that horrible toll, war is bad for a whole lot of things beyond the obvious, from beer cans to electronics to plastic doodads like...uh-oh: your phone.

     Tamara settles in for a look at the facts. Gas prices ain't even half of it.

4 comments:

Tam said...

Thank you for the link! It is appreciated.

Joe in PNG said...

In war, even when pursuing a good goal with wise & careful men in charge, it's always possible to majorly bugger things up. Sun Tzu marks out the utter importance of care and caution in the opening lines of 'The Art of War'.
I really don't think that the President has spent too much time considering many of the potential downsides, pitfalls, direct effects, long term- well, much of anything really.
The removal of the Ayatollahs & IRC could be a good thing- but I really don't think he's going to do a good job of it, and will probably leave the US in a similar isolated and improvised position as North Korea in the process.

Comrade Misfit said...

I'm hearing that helium supplies have been largely cut off and that hospitals (who use helium in MRI machines) have been told that their supplies have been halved.

Tam said...

Yup. I mentioned that in the linked post!