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Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Tiktok is a plague on humanity
Too true, LOL.
Tiktok is a plague on humanity
Bacle, you should at the very least look up "cost plus" contracts and how those work. Because any American supporting those is supporting ripping themselves off.
These contracts are an absolute joke, and if it wasn't for politicians being controlled by a lot of MIC/DoD interests, these kinds of contracts would never happen in the first place.
I'm not saying just go with the cheapest bidder either. You need to consider quality and what they can deliver, too. But cost plus contracts are bullshit that encourage waste and corruption because a lot of money is to me made in fucking around and not delivering the products.
They're a bad deal for the American taxpayers, period.
@Abhorsen is absolutely not wrong with that.
I know what Cost+ contracts are, and why they are a thing.Cost+ contracts in the DoD exist because the overhead for running high end DoD contracting on a continuous basis, and on multiple projects at once for many contracting groups, will not always be profitable or 'revenue positive' in a given length of time.
Honestly?
I know what Cost+ contracts are, and why they are a thing.
They help keep the lights on, tooling machines maintained, and skilled workers employed between contracts, even if the contracting company may not be profitable over a given length of time due to how a lot of DoD stuff can end up with unexpected overruns due to things discovered during R&D/testing.
It's sad the the one bipartisan thing we see in this nation is pro war bullshit.
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Well, when the Russians are bombing Ukraine on the daily, and invading with ground troops for over a year now, yes, helping provide the munitions and intel to bomb Russians and drive them out of Ukraine does become a bipartisan point of politics.
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The fighting could end tomorrow if Putin would just remove his troops back behind Ukraine's 1991 borders and stop firing across the border.It's sad the the one bipartisan thing we see in this nation is pro war bullshit.
I'm not an ancap such as yourself, but I absolutely share your anti war sentiment. And watching all these people repeat the same kind of neocon and lib lines that got us into Iraq and Afghanistan is frustrating.
My opinion from the very beginning of this is that it's none of our business what goes on over there, let them sort it out. We aren't the world police.
But people have insisted to me since this started how utterly demolished Russia is getting...but here we are more than a year later and the war rages on with no end in sight.
Of course some of the pro war people will come in here to tell me the same old lines about how they're using up old equipment, etc etc.
We'll see. From my studies, it appears that Russia can take a year or so to really get their shit together In a conflict.
This drain of life and resources isn't going to end ANY time soon. Especially as long as tne US is discouraging peace talks. Can't let the defense contractors miss out on rhe money they can make off of this.
Utterly ridiculous to see democrats and Republicans uniting over THIS. I am disgusted and disappointed.
He's not going to stop with nothing. He's not going to walk away from this with absolutely nothing. Nukes will fly before that happens.Well, when the Russians are bombing Ukraine on the daily, and invading with ground troops for over a year now, yes, helping provide the munitions and intel to bomb Russians and drive them out of Ukraine does become a bipartisan point of politics.
The fighting could end tomorrow if Putin would just remove his troops back behind Ukraine's 1991 borders and stop firing across the border.
Putin's madness is the reason there is a invasion at all.
Russia doesn't even have it's 'shit together' like the USSR did; they are having to lean on North Korea and Iran for tech help, because the Soviet schooling system went to shit in 82-86, so most of the engineers and techs are hitting retirement age with few people to replace them inside the country.
There's a reason Russia's oil infrastructure was mostly maintained by Western companies, and not people actually from Russia.
No, Putin is likely not walking away with anything, including his life.He's not going to stop with nothing. He's not going to walk away from this with absolutely nothing. Nukes will fly before that happens.
Not on their own; routing Russian forces and pushing them back across the border would definitely make negotiations easier for the West and Ukraine, instead of relying on Putin's word while he still has troops on Ukrainian soil.The only way this ends is through peace talks and negotiations.
Ukraine also has a decent industrial base of their own; most of the USSR's top shit came from Ukraine, not Russia, and the Ukrainians have put serious air defenses around their industrial sites, as well as move some industrial work out of the country to NATO where Russia won't be able to lob missiles at it.Russia has an industrial base backing them, Ukraine has money from other nations.
Helping defend Ukraine is not 'escalation'; the only people who keep escalating things are the Russians.Russia can keep this going for a long, long time. And they will. Meanwhile each side continues to escalate, Russia is making friends with China and we head further towards nuclear war.
Pretty much every nation who has been under Moscow's thumb wants to make sure they never are again, including the people of Poland and Ukraine; is that really surprising?I see marduk is in here now to come in and preach to a bunch of Americans how important it is that we spend our tax dollars to keep him and his country safe, too. At least his position makes sense, as he has a pretty solid interest in keeping Russia at bay.
Very, very few people in Ukraine want to be part of Russia; have you completely forgotten the 'referendums' that were held at gun-point in Crimea and the Donbass to 'legitimize' Putin's little green men?Yes, Russia was wrong to invade Ukraine, but that doesn't mean I think it's any of our business to worry about. Just as I said in the very beginning of any of this. I don't actually give a shit if Russia takes part of Ukraine. Its just not a concern. I don't care about Ukraine. A lot of them WANT TO be part of Russia anyways. Others are literally out there wearing nazi symbols. I do care about my tax dollars funding a war that could pop off and go nuclear at any time, though.
Your country is in NATO, so it does have to care about security of its members and what ends up on their borders - a Russia hyped up on successful imperial reconquista would not help that. It also signed the Budapest Memorandum, in which it, alongside UK and Russia, promised Ukraine security in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons. If you are so worried about the risk of nuclear warfare, consider the effect such turnarounds where written security guarantees from even world's only superpower turn out to be worthless would have on any future of nuclear non-proliferation, nevermind disarmament.Yes, Russia was wrong to invade Ukraine, but that doesn't mean I think it's any of our business to worry about. Just as I said in the very beginning of any of this. I don't actually give a shit if Russia takes part of Ukraine. Its just not a concern. I don't care about Ukraine. A lot of them WANT TO be part of Russia anyways. Others are literally out there wearing nazi symbols. I do care about my tax dollars funding a war that could pop off and go nuclear at any time, though.
Yeah, sure, Russian "industrial base" and honor among red thieves, much value, very trustworthy, also insert a little generic nuclear scaremongering for a bonus.Russia has an industrial base backing them, Ukraine has money from other nations.
Russia can keep this going for a long, long time. And they will. Meanwhile each side continues to escalate, Russia is making friends with China and we head further towards nuclear war.