[ExI] Running up against energy limits

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 22:25:01 UTC 2021


On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 3:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Did it seem probable that the US would withdraw from Afghanistan quietly
> in the night evacuating the military first, handing over tens of billions
> of dollars in advanced munitions, while stranding American citizens and
> allies to fall into the hands of sworn enemies?
>

Yes.


>  Had you told me that would happen, I would have dismissed it as
> impossible.  The USA doesn’t do stuff like that.
>

Not often.  But the predictions had specific callbacks to Vietnam.
(Granted, "tens of billions of dollars" was in part due to inflation
between then and now.)
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