peter Zeihan 2020
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If China goes, it’s gonna ripple effect across the globe.
Terthna
Professional Lurker
A lot of corrupt politicians, businessmen, and media personalities would suddenly find themselves without the support of the demon they sold their souls to.
I don't think my violin is small enough to play that sad song.
Typhonis
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Now, now. Show some sympathy...wait I forget I have no sympathy for them. However, they can find it in the dictionary. Between shit and syphilis.
Essentially Ukraines getting some jets, and pilots are being trained to use said jets but the logistics for that all needs to be set up, more and better weapons are being shipped to Ukraine but their arriving too late to really affect this fighting season. Also were sending them stuff were decomisioned so stuff on that level is not being 'stolen' the rest of the hard cash transfers are likely what you should be watching not the equipment.
My guess is that a lot of arguing happened about what Ukraine is going to use the F-16's for anyway, and early plans probably included training pilots only in basic A2A and giving them F-16's early, but that situation was stabilized with ground based SAMs, while A2G is being handled somewhat by Su-24's modified to carry western weapons, so in the end it was decided to give the crew more conventional and longer training in multirole use of F-16.
Speaking of, few F-16's based on the coast may have major effects for the stuff happening over the Black Sea - while staying out of AShM range of Ukrainian coast and avoiding occasional drone is what they have to do now to not lose ships, they will have to deal with the fact that now the AShM launchers can zip over the Black Sea at the speed of a fighter jet, and the Harpoons they carry have even longer range than the ground based ones.
Combined with using drones and foreign intel for spotting ships, this could be very bad for Russian situation on Black Sea.
cheap way for the west to mission kill the russian navy.
*Some* of the Russian Navy; the fleet in the Black Sea is not Russia's only fleet, or their largest.
More Russian boats on the bottom is always good, but let's not overstate how much of Russia's navy is actually at risk in this conflict.
Can we at least agree it will be nice to not have that fleet around?
f1onagher
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The US was the ex-boyfriend that took the hint. China is the one that keeps throwing bricks with poorly spelled threats through the window.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
Ten years of brutal war with the US is eclipsed by two thousand years of unfettered hatred for China quite handily. The Vietnamese despise them with a burning passion.
49ersfootball
Well-known member
PRC is the aggressive sex addict, who cannot control her sexual appetites.
gral
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Agree with the general thrust of the video, particularly agree with what he says about Brazilian foreign policy(and I say this as someone who is studying to join the Brazilian foreign service).
gral
Well-known member
It makes some sense for the ones involved; the problem is everyone involved wants very different things from it, many of those incompatible with the desires of the other members.