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  1. Seems 1956 is forgotten. Hungarians embracing their former oppressors suggests traitors are dominant.
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  2. Reagan Republicans have mostly died of old age or have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. The MAGA GOP reflect understandable rage at the (predictable by anyone sober) utter indifference of Reagan and all other Republicans to the white working class. (Affirming the credulous works for both parties as the public crave affirmation but savagely resent political literacy.) Reaganites sanctified Ronnie because he was a great communicator but his real record was not just the (magnificent) military buildup and restoration of US power after the post-Nam Hollow Force era. The MAGA Republicans were preceded by the Dixiecrats who fled Lyndon Johnson's betrayal of white southern Democrats when he signed various civil rights legislation (not just the Civil Rights Act). Thinking the Reagan or any WASP (only extremely old people like me remember them) Republican gave a rats posterior about working class whites was of course a desperately naive mistake but no one ever accused the general public of being intelligent. The (accurate) perception of betrayal was reinforced by the completely bipartisan NAFTA and other actions gutting the US working class for the benefit of the wealthy as usual. The fall of the US steel and automotive industries are examples of complete establishment failure and deliberate betrayal of the American worker. The MAGA era coincided with the final implosion of the US education system and EXTREME right wing contrarianism driven by GOP/NeoConservative constabulary foreign wars waged with zero strategic (the only kind that matters to adults) justification in A-stan and Iraq. The betrayal of GOP voter trust by NeoCons whose lineage began before and was very much part of Reagan Republican policy (example, arming Iranian Jihadists in return for support of the Contras to route around both parties Congressional objections) combined with geopolitical illiteracy (like forgetting why the Cold War with Russian and China was necessary to save Western civilization) to produce the legitimately enraged but rusticly clueless (even American urbanites are rustic ignorants) MAGA movement. The GOP is too hypocritical, corrupt and intellectually weak (not that the the US ever had an intellectual class which it confuses with liberalism) to fight off the MAGA takeover its decades of anti-worker policies invited, very much including cooperating with Democrats to flood the US with cheap immigrant labor and destroy the (original) Christian American majority forever. The Great Replacement is very old and very bipartisan. None of the above reflects any preference for Democrats who have been Leftist pawns since the 1960s thanks to USSR subversion so effective it took on life of its own, but dissecting them is off-topic here. For purposes of understanding the US view of the Ukraine conflict some perspective is in order. The generations who lived the conflict with the USSR are elderly or dead in the US. Our education system is garbage by choice, very much the fault of local school boards only interested in preparing students for college at the lowest cost. Modern attention spans are conditioned by phones with many Americans not owning personal computers and most of those utterly indifferent to history or (real) politics. Influencers rule. Passion rules. Ignoranc rules and all the above are unopposed. Whole generations of Americans right, left and center ONLY percieve "politics as football" and because they bitterly resent studying issues separately instead adopt a "team ball" approach so they don't have to think. Remember the typical American reads (therefore thinks) at 8th grade level and even more horrifying is not ashamed to be ignorant. (It was not always thus...) They do not know things can be different because when your education has no depth you only live in the moment crafted by someone else's media in order to play on your passions. Because they are intellectually unable to question "their" football team Americans passionately embrace their party and regard dissent of ANY kind as haram. Polarization really reflects irreversible intellectual laziness. While Russian atrocities have some impact the MAGA types so want affirmation they worship former KGB officer Putin because their opponents (everyone else) oppose him. It really is that simple. All anyone wanting their support need do is pretend to be "tradcon" (like the Russian FSB puppet Orthodox Church) and they will be greeted legs akimbo. The weak, soft gutless remaining anti-MAGA GOP don't stand for anything but re-election which is why the only thing getting them any votes is Democrat incompetence. The general public are rightly enraged by Democrats enforcing de-facto open borders to gain more future voters. They want to punish the White House and blocking Ukraine aid is the only way to do that. Remember American Democrats are basically a "socialist internationale" who want to demolish US border control in order to make what Jean Raspail feared global reality. While they support Ukraine that's because they resent Putinist tyranny. Russia is no longer "socialist" so Democrats don't need it any more. US support for Ukraine will probably continue but Ukrainian leadership should have an internal discussion of how to engage US politicians and public the only way that matters, by AFFIRMATION. Reminding Americans Russia helped kill and maim nearly every US military and civilian war casualty since WWII is not out of place because the American public have forgotten that. The US right is so contrarian (angry people are easy to manipulate) that what was the fringe is now mainstream. Europe will have to work as a team and get good during the decline of US democracy, social and even military competence. (We make terrific equipment but do study why our culture loses wars by choosing badly. The subject is beyond the depth of our public debates.)
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  3. They cannot be different. Their culture is NOT Western however they may poorly ape its technology.
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  4. Manned aircraft are becoming force loss multipliers.
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  5. F-16s are easy to maintain even in austere conditions (I spent over twenty years including Desert Shield/Storm as an engine troop later merged with crew chief on A/B/C/D/CJs, this is not speculation) and thanks to the high volume of airframes parts will mostly be easy to manage through existing supply systems (which are global). Getting pieces and parts to Europe is business as usual (FedEx, DHL and UPS make the world go round). While fantasists dream dogfight dreams that's childish nonsense. Vipers are valuable for the variety of standoff weapons they can carry. They can operate in conjunction with other systems including drones to distract Russian AAM and any system which can attack Russian air bases to disrupt launches. Russia may or may not be able to afford 24/7 CAP missions (even if it can those wear out equipment imposing a sustainment burden) and every defensive sortie is one offensive sortie not flown. Aircraft exist to generate effective sorties. Losing AWACS reduces Russian surveillance coverage, not least because heavies must land for refuel, crew swaps (assuming the have enough trained operators), repair, inspections and maintenance. Ukraine will lose a few (it's war after all and not a one-sided US constabulary mission zapping peasants with no air power) but employed properly 16s will do considerable damage and divert considerable NeoSoviet resources. War is not a game of performance statistics but a creative contest between systems of systems.
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