Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Task & Purpose"
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Honestly, anyone who visited Eastern Europe could understand the fallacy of this thought.
- no running water 💧 in many towns, older than the United States
- outhouses constructed on rivers, so overflows clean 🧼 out feces, poisoning above ground water
- pipes are so small for toilets 🚽 that did exist, you had to take your poop 💩 paper 📄 and put it in a garbage can
- rationing of toilet 🚽 paper 📄 to a number of squares per trip to the few public restrooms, handed out by government officials
- black & white TV’s manufactured, when analog color HD was being manufactured in The West
Today, during the invasion of Ukraine, Russians are ripping toilets 🚽 off the floors and shipping them back home, because they never saw them before (even during the days of the Soviets.)
Focusing their best brain 🧠 power for decades, to only build a single better gun, that they could not even manufacture in mass, demonstrates how the centralized socialist society was an absolute failure, in comparison to decentralized societies where freedom is given to people with individual passions to profit from achieving their dream goals.
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@JoseDiaz-zi2mh - “who controls the air space… sea water”
Who the Palestinians wanted. Palestinians were given their land back, which was invaded & annexed by the Egyptians & Jordanians… and instead of standing up a state, they told Israel to manage it all & send them a check.
Palestinians clearly never wanted a state, air & water & border controls, control over taxation… they just wanted a reoccurring check.
If they really wanted a nation, they would implement their own police force, judicial system, prosecute terrorist activities [instead of outsourcing it to Israel], tax their own people, raise an army to protect the opposing sides of the same border crossings as IDF, recognize Israel, and all these issues would go away.
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“war crime is because…”
of use against primarily civilians
Honestly, it does not matter the weapon, targeting primarily civilians brings up war crime status.
For example, when Russians & Turks & National Socialists marched civilians [or even disarmed soldiers] to large pits, shoot them with rifles, and bury them… these are war crimes, even done with rifles.
It is unrelated to nationality & even weapons used, but the target of the action often determines the status.
(There are some other examples, like dam breeched, nuclear power plant targeting, etc. which falls into the war crime arena)
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@andrewcombe8907 - “don’t know why US police departments need these beasts”
Along the southern border, state police get into shootouts with drug cartels crossing the southern border with military vehicles, who are shooting at the state police using 50 cal mounted machine guns
During the 2020 election cycle, hours and hours of footage was aired on the news with cities being burned down, police cars being destroyed, police cars being firebombed, police being assassinated in police cars, etc.
Firemen and Ambulances were getting shot at, during the 2020 election cycle in the US, when responding to people calling 911 during the riots.
Clearly, the past few years demonstrated the need exists to transport police & other first responders safely to a hot spot, not necessarily for day to day use.
Before I saw the craziness during the US 2020 election cycle, I agreed with you. Then, reality set in.
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Hi @EatMyShortsAU -
I might suggest that it is not as much of a one way street for cost, as you suggest, in American weapon systems.
There are military requirements. There are normally bids. The lowest bids that meet the requirements normally win the contract.
Because American Soldiers have a high cost, the weapon systems are designed to preserve American life.
If that means the use of a weapon is to keep Americans out of harm’s way by increasing the distance, the lowest cost for this is accomplished in the bid. The operator is considered in the cost, via requirements.
If the cost is so astronomical for the weapon, the work is spread between various manufacturing points across the nation, to increase likelihood that more state representatives will approve funding. If weapon systems are to be voted by foreign legislators, even if the cost is not so dramatically high, manufacturing may be spread to multiple nations, to put their skin in the game if a bid is lost, so it impacts their nation’s jobs.
If the cost is so astronomical that the US military alone can not afford it, it seems some manufacturing is done with overseas partners who will also bear the cost through future purchases, that their legislatures must vote to fund.
There are both budget constraint & budget expansion pressures. Bang for the buck is not the sole measure for the cost of a weapon system, so is the cost of operator training & cost of a lost operator.
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You are not too far from the truth.
Gaza’s Hamas being backed by Iran is all about Iran trying to gain more influence in the Arabian Peninsula.
It is really less about the oil, as Cappy unreasonably pointed out in his pretty reasonable video. The US was oil independent just 1 President ago, and can be again with a little regulation loosening.
During different periods of time, Iran/Persia controlled large swaths of the Middle East.
Iran already indirectly controls the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala after the second gulf war.
Eventually taking control over Jerusalem (The Temple Mound / Al-Aqsa Mosque / The Dome of the Rock), Medina, and Mecca would place Shia Islam on the top of the world pecking order.
With Iranian Houthi dominated Yemen (holding the 2nd largest Army in the Arabian Peninsula) to the South [fighting Saudi Arabia & declaring war on Israel], Iranian supported Palestinians in Gaza starting the latest war with Israel, Iranian controlled Hezbollah firing from the North in Israel… the Holy Cities all lie in a small stretch in between Iranian backed forces.
Once controlled is gained by Iran, they announce they are a nuclear power, and it is checkmate.
This has the potential to be a nightmare, after Russia set the stage for Persia/Iran by destroying a lot of food exports from Ukraine to the Arab regions.
The US is really a minor blip in this ethnic turning religious conflict, dating back thousands of years…
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31:38 - “or can they rely on their allies”
Nope. A nation that can not defend its own border is not a nation.
Look at what happened in Israel: an Islamist terrorist grouping, which took control of the Gaza Strip by killing all their Muslim opponents, invaded a neighboring nation, r@ped women until their pelvises were dislocated, shot women in the process of r@ping them, stuck infants of the invaded nation into ovens, burned people alive… and when Israel stared hunting down the terrorists in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist terrorists started shooting civilians (especially non-Muslim women Palestinians in Gaza who wore no head)
What was the response of Canada? Discuss ending weapons shipments to Israel?
Nope, liberals in The West demonstrated that every nation needs to supply enough weapons for their own self defense needs, because a day always comes when nations are invaded, and there will always be a left leaning group of people in that nation who are happy to just let it happen, because they think it does not matter.
France experienced this when a sizable portion of their population associated with the leftist workers movement refused to mobilized when Axis powers were invading their territory. The US is experiencing it now when their left leaning base refusing to enforce their southern border, prisons emptied from other nations crossing illegally into the US, illegal crossers stealing & assaulting & killing, liberal jurisdictions freeing them on bond instead of turning them over to ICE, arrested criminal illegal crossers travel elsewhere to other liberal cities to cause mayhem, and prison exporters refusing to take their hardened criminals back when some are actually deported.
A nation without borders is chaos, the sole purpose of national government is to use military guarantee safety for all citizens, residents, guests by enforcing the borders… all other tasks of a national government is icing on the cake.
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“Slash oil production”
Democrat Biden just wanted to help lower oil prices during #ElectionYear2022, to help his political party at the polls.
But looks like Saudi Arabia was right,
the oil market has been dropping,
due to a world wide recession,
so The House of Saud understood the world energy market better than the Biden family.
“Prince… Al Salman”
He is no different from previous leaders, except he has enacted freedoms for women that have never been seen in Saudi Arabia.
“towards an authoritarian government”
Dude, they are a kingdom.
If the King or his designated authority gives freedoms to women, the US should be happy, rather than being upset about the changes.
“Decreasing oil production”
Democrat Biden can increase production in the US by merely stopping their oppressive regulatory actions & unreliability of the US Federal Government by canceling permits.
“authoritarian governments”
The US President Biden canceling permits to build energy pipelines and fill existing energy pipelines, running at 50%, is pretty authoritarian.
“create closer ties with [Russia and China]”
When US Democrat President Biden castigated the family of the House of Saud Prince, it was dumb.
Back channel communications should have managed the situation, and flying over on a photo op is the way a political actor like Biden should have done with ANY royal house.
“Saudi donors… terrorist groups”
The US looked past it because the US government, under Obama / Biden did just this, in Syria.
The US turned a blind eye to the Islamic State as they marched into Iraq, with US trained terrorists & US weapons which they were trained on
“US withdrew patriot air defense”
When Iran 🇮🇷 is pumping missiles into Yemen, the U.S. should never have done this, demonstrating themselves as an unreliable security partner.
The population of Iran makes Saudi Arabia look like a back water village, Saudi Arabia is fighting for their existence, surrounded by Iranian controlled:
- Iraq 🇮🇶 , Syria 🇸🇾 , Lebanon 🇱🇧 , Gaza
And soon to be Yemen 🇾🇪
There is really no way for Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 to protect itself, from every border, from militant & nuclear aspiring Iran 🇮🇷
“Not… burn bridges with Russia”
Uhhh… yeah… because the US has demonstrated themselves as unreliable.
“US… completely pull… missile defense”
This is a mess, there is no reason to pull missile defense from UAE 🇦🇪, never mind Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦, with Iran 🇮🇷 building missiles with no end.
“World Peace… our values”
Iran 🇮🇷 is hardly aligning with US values.
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 aligns much more closely.
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 king is not calling US Big or Little Satan, Iran 🇮🇷 is.
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