Above ground pipeline seems like it would be difficult to defend, and easy to poke a hole into. I’m guessing a TBM to create an underground pipeline would take decades and billions of $$.
I think you are confusing it with the Thai "Mayuree Naree" [0].
Honestly, it's best to ignore X/Twitter for this conflict. Internet access has been restricted bordering on nonexistent in Iran since the massacres in January, and most countries in the region have also either locked down internet access or don't interact in the English language social media bubble.
The Ukraine War is the last war where OSINT had significant accuracy - most states have cracked down on information dissemination and enhanced OpSec.
There appears to be a very large gathering of tankers on the west side of the straight when I checked. It seemed about 30+ tankers hovering in the same area. I wonder if they’re anchoring together in a roughly ‘safe’ area to wait things out.
South Dakota actually has a few decent tourist attractions west river: (Mt Rushmore, Badlands, Crazy Horse).
With its proximity to Canada, and relative cheapness, likely pulls in quite a few tourists from up North.
One additional South Dakota attraction (although lessening interest as of late) is how much hunting/fishing is available, and how much the community is interested in the ‘visiting’ hunter.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that, thanks! I guess I was only thinking of warmer places, since that's where I tend to travel to. I personally live a bit too far north to drive to the US (in a reasonable amount of time), so I completely forgot that the US is close enough for a summer road trip for most Canadians.
Trying to steel man the loss a bit, I believe almost 30k of those jobs ‘lost’ were due to a nurses strike, and should show up as a +~30k jobs in the next months report.
Yeah I'll be taking their articles with a grain of salt for the near future. Hopefully a one-time blip. And hopefully they know that their audience is particularly sensitive to screwups like this.
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