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If they're looking for protection, they damned well better be able to pay for what they get. That's the issue I have, the massive gain of risk for fuck-all reward, for the sake of "charity" or "being the world police" or some other at-my-expense reason. Fuck them, they don't deserve our stuff on...

Of course people are going to run under a for-sale nuclear umbrella if somebody's offering. It being left open after the reason for that deal being made died was profoundly retarded, because it invited the absolute worst-case scenario of direct borders with a nuclear-armed country with no...

The underlying point does still stand because they shouldn't have been because there should be no land border between NATO and Russia. The entire reason for NATO's existence was defense against the USSR, which had members covering all of Russia's borders. Expanding NATO proper to land borders is...

They are not NATO, declared in treaty allies of any NATO nation, or otherwise NATO responsibility. It is entirely "Global Police" bullshit that will cause World War 3 if it is not brutally shut down on "our" side, just like the secret alliances dragged Europe into the culture-shattering...

No, even without arguments about the regime change in 2014 being a Glowop we still have very clear documentation of pulling bullshit with foreign aid in ways that rather unambiguously violate the autonomy guarantees. Unless you can show Ukraine's previous "puppet regime" being demonstrably built...

Mostly, it's going to be about the balance of space in the cartridge and available barrel length, as rocket propulsion outside the platform is much less restrictive than propellant burn inside a gun and can maintain projectile velocity at longer ranges. For current engineering, this is farcical...

@Marduk, you seem to either catastrophically misunderstand Agent23's point, or are engaged in strict "Us vs. Them" tribalism with no allowance for neutrality. Agent23's point seems to be "fuck this whole-ass mess, we have literally no reason to fight this out there", which you are continuously...

The best-fit term for the US's track record is "White Peace", where both sides pack their bags, go home, and go back to business as usual as near as they can.

Resource support is means. Your counter-examples are MOTIVE. Without Starlink, they'd have incredibly limited communications by comparison, utterly crippling any kind of large-scale operation. Without the raw materiel, they'd have faced severe crunches in important areas by now. Without the...

The point still stands that Ukraine's successes are primarily driven by exterior support, because the breakdown of the force is more direct NATO aid than local means of resistance. No, it would be that the Nazis were de facto fighting the USA long before Pearl Harbor, because their opponents...

The Saudis are not being given the money to pay for it, flat-out donated some of it, or getting manpower from volunteers. The Saudi military are a customer of the US military-industrial complex doing their own shit with it, whereas the Ukrainian military is being handed out almost everything...

The fact that there's no remotely plausible world in which they aren't losing a statistically-significant number of votes from the people inside the welfare system who know perfectly well that this is wholly incompatible with their jobs, especially in the realistic use-case where the Republicans...

Oh no, it's quite straightforward to do so. You just have to promise convenience and transparency in welfare. No more cliffs sending people in the red for getting a slight raise, no more applying for a dozen different programs with obtuse details, no more arguing with management for hours. A lot...