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I finish a video from Peter Zeihan talking about trade and economic conditions very similar to the 1930s, with him emphasizing that those of us who have studied those times know how that worked out. I look at my feed from DW and see this. That’s enough internet for the day.
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 @danny81693 Are you talking about Karelia or other parts of Finland the Russians stole?
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@omallakas4156 Nope. It took Russia 30 years to get the drilling rigs pumping oil and NG out again. Russian oil fields are mostly in permafrost, which requires US or Canadian firms to manage the drilling and extraction with special rigs that only the US and Canada know how to build. Russia never has been able to make the proper bits, shafts, drilling rigs, or train petroleum engineers and technicians on this very technical aspect of the petroleum industry. Once these oil heads shut off, those points at the origin will be dead for decades, probably forever.
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@CB_GAMES777 Clearly you’ve never been to the Pentagon. The Pentagon doesn’t have rooms like that, nor does it host foreign presidents to create treaties.
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Have you ever studied geographic and mineral resources of nations? I think a lot of people expect that a flag and borders makes them on equal footing and potential with any other. This simply isn't reality. Some regions have vast resources, while others have precious little in critical base foods and energy.
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 @MoeHamHead-bx7og "We are piece-loving people! Stop resisting and we won't have to hit you!" - Russia
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@pshemko__ It really changed once Somalis were invited in. They had to clarify Finnish law on marrying your cousins because of Somalis. Somalis are incompatible with Finland based on culture, climate, religion, and work habits.
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@wahidali9592 What time zone are you in?
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@chris-hg3iv American forces didn't target and kill millions of civilians in any of those places. The #1 murderers of civilians in Iraq were Saddam and the Ba'ath Party, secteraian factions, Iranian-backed insurgents, and ISIS. The #1 murderes of civilians in Afghanistan were the Soviet Union, and now the Taliban. #1 murderers of civilians in Syria is Assad, followed by Russia and ISIS. Libya has had a civil war backed by Russia, Turkey, Egypt, and other factions in the region based on tribal and other factors. The US hasn't targeted civilians in Libya either.
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@coldpotatoes2556 Putin already was planning to invade Finland. One of his foreign ministry secretaries was talking about this in the early 2000s, and was told to shut his mouth. Not just Finland, but all former Tsarist-era territories.
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The problems with Russia are its geography and demographics. Russia has suffered many major brain drains since 1914: 1. The Great War 1.7 million casualties 2. Bolshevik Revolution (persecuted scientists who didn’t accept Marxism, relocated millions of people, causing mass deaths, as well as executions) 3. Russian Civil War caused 7-12 million casualties 4. Holodomor in Ukraine was anywhere from 9-20 million. Mass graves with destroyed records as Soviet policy prevents us from knowing how many for sure. 5. Dekulakization involved liquidation, deportation, and forced labor camps for 1.5 million of Russia’s greatest farmers. 6. Then The Great Patriotic War happened, and Russia lost anywhere from 26.6 million people on-up, many still missing to this day, 6 million buried still unidentified 7. Stalin’s mass executions 8. Khrushchev era collapse of Russian peasants to the cities, low birth rate began 9. Late 1980s-1990s collapse of Soviet Union and flight of Russian intelligentsia, engineers, scientists, professors, technicians 10. Ukraine conflicted from 1914-present Reasonable people have been systematically purged from Russia for over 100 years, whether by foreign wars or domestic policies and extremely bad leadership. This is the plight of Russia.
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The baseline is an expectation that China doesn’t care about human rights though. They ran an infanticide program against their own people for 35 years, as well as the Tiananmen Square massacre. Who knows how many other massacres have happened that never saw the light of day in the West.
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US pioneered hypersonic technology in the 1960s.
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@BM-ef2ph “This hurst me more than it does you! Can’t you see!!!” Doosh dooosh dooosh!!
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Germany was so foolish to shut down their nuclear energy industry.
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@IgorFranknstn27 Netherlands with its tiny population of 17.5 million had $1.018 Trillion GDP in 2021, while Russia’s 143 million people on the largest land area in the world with all their resources had $1.776 Trillion. You start to see how poor Russia is with these comparisons.
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@АлександрКуницын-и6к The US bailed out Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan in the 1990s with Nunn-Lugar. American companies moved in, German companies moved in, and those products ands services were well-received. Nobody wanted to extinguish Russia, especially not in the West. There were attention-deficit hopefuls in Washington DC and Europe who kept talking about the peace dividend, but Eastern Europeans knew history would repeat itself, so they begged to join NATO. The US, Berlin, and London would have preferred to see an economically-strong Russia that isn’t belligerent, to help increase trade and international relations. Russians don’t think this way though, because they’re always thinking about who will attack them next.
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@UserName_no1 Guess who funded and agitated those fringe environmentalists groups? I watched it happen since the 1970s. We were stationed in West Germany from 1980-1982. Anti-nuke was and is a Soviet agitprop campaign that really gained traction as soon as the Russians converted into a net exporter of Oil/NG. Prior to that, they were competitors in nuclear power and saw themselves as pioneers in it. They still use it, but can’t really enjoy cash-flow from it abroad.
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@akafozzy Aurora has been around for over 3 decades, with atmospheric contrail analogies as evidence.
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@paush51 F-35A has the safest record of any fighter in history. It has been flying since 2006, only 2 crashes. 1 was a Japanese F-35A where the pilot was flying normally, then dove into a steep 60° angle into the ocean. 2 was a USAF pilot who left the speed hold on at 202 knots, tried to land it at that speed at night, bounced it off the runway, smashing the landing gears into the wheel wells, then ejected. Well over 500 F-35As have been built.
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@aaronely759 US commercial market chip shortage is separate from DoD contractor chip suppliers. Totally different manufacturing centers supply SC components to DoD subsystem manufacturers from within the US and Canada.
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@cartrips9263 Russia was in free-fall almost under Yeltsin, very unsettling and demoralizing for the people in Russia after the Soviet Union fell apart. US and IMF bail-outs under Nunn-Lugar were designed to help prevent total collapse. The first generation of Russian oligarchs didn’t like the direction the nation was headed because their continued business enterprises relied on a more stable Russia, so they placed contenders in 3 deputy primer minister positions under Yeltsin to move into the throne. One of those 3 Deputy PMs was Vladimir Putin. As soon as Putin assumed the Presidency when Yeltsin resigned on Dec 31, 1999, Putin exiled, imprisoned, or had the 1st Gen oligarchs killed, then handed their businesses over to his cronies to solidify his singular power over the government in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
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@John-hu9qg None of whom have petroleum engineers, drill bits, and rigs built for drilling through permafrost. Norwegians do offshore drilling. Iranians have no permafrost. Chinese and Middle Eastern petroleum engineers have no clue how to do it either. They are exclusively US and Canadian technologies, far more advanced than people might think.
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@ianworley8169 The new Norway-Polish pipeline actually intersects near Nordstream 1 and 2, just south of Bornholm. Someone is sending a message that they can blow that up too, so if Europe turns off Russian gas, “someone" will turn theirs off too.
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@davidgmillsatty1900 Russia started this war in 2014 when Ukrainians ejected Yanukovych. It had nothing to do with NATO.
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@oconnor6456 40k soldiers with air support and artillery can easily take a city of 5 million. A much smaller force took a much larger city in 2003. You might have heard of it. The US forces amounted to 30,000, whereas Baghdad was over 8 million people with a 45,000 defenders. You talk about “anyone with the slightest touch? in military education" without knowing basic recent facts of modern examples. I just happened to be in OIF1 in 2003, so I know a little bit about warfare, having studied it from the 1970s-present with a library and deployment history that far exceeds anything Russia has done. So given your metrics, it makes it even more obvious that Putin was absolutely planning on taking Kiev, and failed miserably. After getting his face kicked in, he shifted over to Donbas to try to save face and gloss over the fact that thousands of vehicles have been lost, with over 10,000 soldiers KIA. Diversions are a basic strategy that even the most incompetent generals have used in warfare. The ability to adapt and maintain logistics to the fight while letting competent leaders work in their space is what most armies never master. Russia has neither the competent commanders, the logistics, or the strategic planning and adaptability because of 6 major brain drains throughout its history since the Bolsheviks destroyed Russia from within. Anyway, on the Eastern front in Ukraine, I see it differently, where Russian forces will be defending and losing ground. Now that the Ukrainians taste blood and see how incompetent and weak Russian forces are, they aren’t going to hold back.
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@EmmaDwan8251 You know that US spending on Ukraine aid is actually spending on weapons made by US defense contractors, right?
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@hadjihawaie The media is opposite of reality in this case especially.
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@MrGolov-te5eb Look at a map of where the explosions happened....right near where the Norway-Poland pipeline flows. Nordstream pipes intersect with Norway-Poland line South of Bornholm. It’s a message that the Norway pipeline can be blown too. Who would do that?
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@tomi-Q I never started that conversation back then. It was being discussed in Finnish news, so I would suspect YLE. My mom was talking about it with some of our relatives. This would have been between 2004-2005.
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It would have been a great aircraft had it been designed and built in the West, using engines that work reliably and have long life, significant use of composites in the airframe, and avionics that were actually useful, driven from a cockpit that had the pilot in-mind. Visibility from the canopy would have been better as well. Drop the airframe weight with composites, use consistent templates for the skin panels (unlike Russian method of hand-drilling randomly), use smaller diameter F404 motors (35” vs RD-33 $1”) and resulting smaller profiled engine nacelles for better aerodynamics, acceleration, speed, and combat radius. Or you can just look at the Baby Hornet with twice the weapons stations. MiG-29 can only carry 6 AAMs. F/A-18A-D can carry 12 AAMs. F/A-18 is vastly-superior in the multi-role mission set capabilities since it has been developed for SEAD, strike, Anti-Ship, DCA, OCA, CAS, and FAC.
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@cikica07 Russia came from Kiev. Yuri Dolgoruki is the founder of Moskva. I have seen his statue in Moskva personally.
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“Stop putting your arm up so I don’t have to keep hitting you!!!!"
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@teosto1384 The detonation sites aren’t that deep, maybe 70-90m. That’s well within many nations’ capabilities. There is a lot of frogman, mini sub, and submarine cat and mouse games in the Baltic between Russia and everyone else. Russia also has a large military footprint in Kaliningrad, and Putin is desperate right now to tip the balance of the scales with levers against Europe and NATO.
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@oconnor6456 The attempted seige of Kiev was repelled from the start, and its logistics convoy was destroyed and abandoned. That was the main strategic objective.
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@Банкивасограбят Finland isn’t Russian. It has its own identity, distinct language, people, and history very separate from Russia. Even when it was ceded by the Swedes to the Tsar in the 1809, it was left mostly to its own devices as an autonomous Grand Duchy. Stalin learned the hard way what it means to try to take Finland in 1939, and lost around 350,000 casualties in 105 days.
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@abmnueve The Capitol city of Karelia was literally in Finland.
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@dpelpal They initiate separation from their own borders so they don’t get hit by S-300 SAMs based out of Ukraine. Su-34s have been getting shot down a lot, with 20 airframes lost as of March 3. That’s 13% of the Su-34 fleet. Only 153 have been built.
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It's one thing to claim you own something thousands of miles away, and something entirely different to secure it militarily.
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We have insane amounts of NG flowing out of the ground in the US, to the point it is almost free.
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@lucabrasi3964 Eurofighter is too expensive to acquire and operate, and the SEAD ECR variants are in development, not even operational. Any Eurofighters equipped for the ECR/SEAD mission will be priority for RAF and Luftwaffe. The only platforms with SEAD capability incorporated into them are F-16CMs, which are high-value late-Block USAF Vipers in operational squadrons not going to any foreign service anytime soon, and F/A-18C/Ds existing service or already retired and mothballed. F/A-18C/Ds have been employing the HARM since the late 1980s, and used certain decoy missiles in Desert Storm as well.
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You mean Afghanistan was softened up for Chinese mineral exploration while European banks have been bailed out with opium money. The money wasted on defense spending in Afghanistan killed several critical defense programs, especially the F-22 Raptor. We never even got multi-year F-22 orders, but we wasted billions on MRAPs, ran thousands of aircraft and systems through 20 years of high dust/sand environment in a land-locked nation that stole billions in defense resources.
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@lik3acholo554 The pipes were already not pushing NG to the market, but remained pressurized. Russia navigates all over the Baltic on a daily basis, and mini submarines are a thing. We don’t know who did this and nobody is going to believe an objective investigation of it if such were done. I would love to see private satellite imagery and shipping traffic, but none of those will expose a mini sub.
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@jannesuominen439 Finland is a Republic with a parliamentary representative democracy on paper, with a lot of leftover church-state underlying records and taxation, and heaps of socialism tacked into it. Then it became a vassal state under the Eurozone on top of that, and is now also a recent NATO power. Finland has lived under the defense support from the US as well, mainly through acquisition of critical aerospace combat systems from the US.
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@tomi-Q There was clarification of the law sought due to Somali immigration, as most Finns knew that you don’t marry your cousins. This is all I remember on the subject from that time. Seems like you’re more focused on the minutiae instead of the dominant topic of why this had to be clarified.
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I agree overall, but Canada just demonstrated to the world a very fascist regime treatment of its people, acting on-behalf of big pharma pushing genotoxic mRNA weaponry and mandates, lock-downs, arrests, and mass property theft of masses of citizens with no due process. Canada needs internal cleaning of house in its government. It's not enough to say you're better than despotic regimes somewhere else.
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@kalez963 Coincidentally, Norway and Poland just opened up a natural gas pipeline that runs right through the same area. The message is clear: “We can blow that too if you stop using Russian NG.” Russian economy needs Europe to fund it, otherwise they go into freefall again, but worse than the 1990s.
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Autocratic nations are typically geographically-challenged and unipolar with cities (one major city with the seat of government). That drives the form of government more than anything.
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@katimboallan4605 The difference was that Saddam launched chemical weapons against his own people and Iran, had people tortured, kidnapped, raped, and murdered by the secret police. We’re not talking about political movements within a democratic process, but removal of a brutal dictator who targeted even his own Kurdish family side. There isn’t really a comparison with anyone in Europe, Canada, or the US.
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@alexae1687 US isn’t bankrupt. The US attracts trillions of dollars of Direct Foreign Investment, while generating trillions in GDP. Most US debt is held by the US private sector, followed by US government, then foreign investors because they all have that much confidence in the US’s 140 year trend in exiting every decade economically and militarily stronger than before. No other empire or nation has ever demonstrated that type of performance.
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Did they mention food shortages in this piece? Food shortages are driving protests in Iran more than anything, because Iran relies heavily on wheat from Russia and Kazakhstan.
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He's been threatening nuclear war from the start.
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@natalieturko4808 Russians don’t look on other human beings with a sense of empathy or humanity though, because they are so used to living in squalor and poverty, constant misery in the extreme cold, cut off from most of the important trade routes in history. They are proud to be low self-esteemed, which is kind of odd in the world. A low lot in life does not accompany humility with them in general, but pride. They still have a sense that they are conquerors, an empire, destined to rule over others when they can’t even maintain their own roads.
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@Sombody123 Sanna was a stain on Finland’s history. Her incompetence and aloof attitude towards Finland’s defense are qualities to be shunned, which Finland finally did.
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13:10 Now explain how China will get Russian Oil/NG without US and Canadian experts providing the Sibersk extraction support services. Russia doesn’t have that capability. They relied on foreign experts in these fields even in the Soviet Times.
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@RememberAuroraColoradoUSA I’ve been tracking the big picture of Russia and Europe since the 1970s since my mom is from Finland. I have lived all over Europe and Russia, and my contacts in the Russian Foreign Ministry were boasting about taking back Russian former territories now that Putin is there back in the 2000s. I kinda wanted to ignore them, but stayed cautiously suspicious and aware. Georgia was on the list, so when Russia invaded Georgie in 2008 while I was in Estonia, I remembered what they claimed and thought, “Looks like Putin’s plans are going forward.” Doug MacGregor has been wrong every month of the war so far. I looked at each of his main statements he puts out, along with his interviews. Every one is wrong so far. Seymour Hersh, an expert? Ha ha!
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Yup. F-16’s nose gear is fragile but the mains are robust. F-16 is also hard to land even for pilots with 1000hrs. It doesn’t like to be put down on a runway.
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@adammarcinkowski-ko3el Yup. F/A-18s make more sense for Ukraine because they have actually been developed over the years to conduct SEAD, strike missions, as well as A2A. Finland, Spain, USMC, RCAF, RAAF, Kuwait, and Switzerland are also candidates. They could avoid any connections by sending their soon-to-be-replaced samples through an overhaul program in the US.
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You don’t have a clue what your’e talking about. All of your assertions are incorrect.
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@Baianoh The US has been helping nations around the world develop with a standard of living revolution since 1945, including China. US saved China from Japan during WWII, then opened up China for trade in the 1970s.
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@cks7709 Russia has never sold S-400 to Iran. FMS sales to ABCIT: Algeria Belorussia China India Turkey Russia sold S-300 to Iran and assisted with integrating Iranian legacy SAM systems with S-300 into an IADS network. Upon completion, Israel flew into Iranian air space with F-35Is without being detected. The Iranian Air Defense chief General was later fired when the Mullahs found out about it through back channels.
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@throughput6674 Knight Wolves and Wagner mercenaries in Donbas began attacks on Ukrainians after Ukraine threw out the Russian puppet, Yanukovych. Putin could not afford to lose control over Ukraine, which is why attacks began from pro-Putin Russian nationalists, not Ukraine attacking Donbas out of the blue.
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@tomi-Q The question was brought up more in the public light as more Somalis kept immigrating into Finland. It was being discussed more in the 2000s.
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@Offllife Who is the only US president that authorized hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine before 2022?
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The foresight into Germany shutting down their very successful nuclear energy industry was crystal clear, and yet they still did it. Why?
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@thomervin7450 Post-WWI US foreign policy was to win as many nations into favor with the US, in exchange for the US securing the global trade routes. After the Soviet collapse, the US quickly became disinterested in this because of the "peace dividend". Neocon and Neolib war hawks have been left out of most foreign policy decisions since, while remaining united on combating terrorism in the wake of 9/11. But not a single winning Presidential campaign since 1992 has had a foreign policy focus.
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Unfortunately, European demographic decline (low birth rates) means none of this is likely. Population collapse is baked into the recipe, unless Europe is ready to become more African. France refuses to collect or publish demographic data, while Germany and Italy have suffered very low birth rates for decades now.
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@solconcordia4315 US is a leader in technological revolutions because of geographic richness of connected rivers and coastal waterways, temperate weather, relatively small government, with a business-friendly environment economically, tons of universities, high technical literacy, and a huge population that isn't densely constricted.
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Multirole fighters are anything but obsolete. MANPADs have very limited range and reach altitude-wise. Modern IADS like the S-300 with SAMs have the reach and WEZ to engage most fighters. Modern IADS platforms are also vulnerable to strike aircraft and cruise missiles.
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The most stable and secure monetary unit is the US Dollar. The reasons for this have far more to do with market sectors other than Oil/NG, the main one being the US’s protection from any nearby regional threats. Regional threats create instability, so money flees from them at times of crisis. Then the fact that the US has the largest economy because of its geography, climate, population, resources, and pioneering of most cutting edge technologies, places the US in a position in history that is unparalleled.
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@musiconabudget3712 Guess where the ME OPEC nations get their security from? Bread? Where do they invest the most?
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 @Alarios711 Who taught you that it's good to punish people who take greater risks to hopefully earn enough to finance their retirement and family demands?
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How much oil is the US getting? US is a huge exporter of oil, with more refining capacity than any other nation. Who actually benefits? China, EU
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Easternperspective How much oil is the US getting from Afghanistan? I'll wait.
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@u.p.1038 Germany enjoys some of the best geography in Europe, with an alliance with the biggest economic and military powers in history since WWII, with huge industrial bases located on rivers that have quick access to the Baltic and trade routes between Central Europe and the UK. Even with all that, Germany is in decline demographically and will fade out over the next several decades. Birth rates are too low. Same for Russia and China. France birth rates are from Middle Easterners and Africans, not French people. Even with all the immigration, France and Germany are still in decline. Too few young people, too many old.
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What pipelines will Russia be using to transfer oil/NG to friendly countries? The technical expertise and tooling just pulled out, so Russia will have an interesting time trying to maintain the flow of its energy that it doesn't know how to extract, especially in Sibersk.
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"Trust the science!"
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Imagine a Middle Eastern country blocking a European country from joining NATO.
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We see right in this piece that land fills and localized pollution are causing literal mountains of trash to catch fire because of the chemicals contained in them, but then talk about global warming and how it’s caused by everyone else. Maybe if India had managed trash, sewage, and conservation of its lands they wouldn’t have these problems. I know it’s easier said than done since India is over 1.3 billion people with endemic localized corruption, built on centuries of code-void construction by peasants.
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Iranian claims about casualties are total BS. I checked.
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@omallakas4156 US and Canadian firms (the only other nations who drill through permafrost) helped Russia establish those drill points with private sector petroleum companies. I've been following this for quite some time, to include all the back-and-forth negotiations, Russia sabotaging the deals with their typical mongoloid behavior, and the drawn-out process that never seemed like it would happen. It's much easier to build a rocket and put satellites in space than it is to develop and manufacture the advanced drill bits and drill rig machinery required to drill and extract through the permafrost.
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@omallakas4156 Nobody that has even rudimentary studied the energy sector overestimated Europe's reliance on Russian NG and oil. Russia is a huge exporter of oil/NG. They just can't re-start many of their drilling heads if they stop pumping, which means they have to find a way to relieve their own supply pressure in a market that's trying to boycott them.
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@omallakas4156 Part of my direct family is from Finland, and I have lived throughout Europe on-and-off since the 1970s, so my finger has been on that pulse for a very long time. I'm not convinced the US did this, since the attack points are so close to the Norway-Poland line. That seems like a message. US has been very active in Estonia, so if we were going to damage the lines, I think it would make more sense to do it in the Eastern Baltic upstream. It's an escalatory measure though that does nothing to help with economic stability, especially in the wake of the British Pound taking a dive. It also could fracture the US-German relationship and push them closer to Russia, since tons of supply flows through Ukraine to Poland and Germany. This incentivizes Germany to pressure Ukraine to negotiate for some type of peace settlement on Russian terms.
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@katimboallan4605 2/3 of Iraq celebrated when Saddam was ousted. They were tearing down statues of him and defacing his murals in a giant party.
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The moment Russia engages in attacks on civilian ships in international waters, the Russian Navy and any flagged vessel for Russia becomes fair game. Not a good strategy.
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@alainmcin Europe makes most of its own food. The Middle East relies on Russian and Ukrainian wheat/grains. That's where the food disruption has already begun. Egypt and Lebanon are the canaries in the mine for the African and Asian famine.
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I think there was a plan with Biden, where Biden would send aircraft to evacuate Zelensky and his family, opening the door for Putin to take Kiev. Zelensky didn't play along, and inspired Ukraine to defend their nation. The whole thing blew up in their faces.
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@Ea-pb2tu Gripen has ZERO SEAD capability though, and limited strike, limited payload, limited range, requires long take off distance compared to any other modern fighter, but has easy to use pilot interface.
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@dexterplameras3249 Sweden hasn’t built much native other than the airframes. They rely on the US and UK for all the critical systems like the engines, landing gear, fuel pumps, hydraulics, servos, Radar, etc. Gripen is a very low-capability lightweight fighter with no SEAD capability.
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@dexterplameras3249 The 2020 AIM-120D3 when fired at optimum kinematic state from an F-15C+ exceeded the range of the 1990s AIM-54C fired from optimum kinematic state from the F-14A. Had the AIM-54 series remained in inventory along with the F-14, it would have undergone the same types of upgrades in propellant and guidance resulting in incremental improvements to WEZ and NEZ parameters. AIM-120C5 can't reach AIM-54C effective range, for example. AIM-120D3 fired from a Hornet or Super Hornet will never achieve what it can from the F-15C+, Typhoon, or Raptor. This gets more complex as you get into the missile model and series, plus the separation aircraft altitude and speed. We were working on AIM-120 integration on the Block 30 & 40 F-16C/D back in the late 1980s, so I'm coming from a place of intimacy with the subject. A huge factor in BVR is IFF against Non-Cooperative Targets. You have to have PID, otherwise you could be blasting an airliner out of the sky like the Russians have done multiple times, and USN did in the Persian Gulf in 1988. Precious few fighters/interceptors have the Radar detection, tracking, and PID range to employ the latest AIM-120D3 to its maximum WEZ potential. R-33 & R-37 series have the propellant mass capacity for more burn time, which results in significant WEZ/NEZ parameters. When used in conjunction with the huge Zaslon or Irbis-E PESA Radars on MiG-31BM and Su-35S, there is a long-look/long-reach problem for smaller fighters that isn't solved merely by giving them a longer WEZ AAM.
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@dexterplameras3249 There are IFF features introduced with solid state electronics Radars already in the 1970s that work strictly in the RF spectrum. They really showed up first on the F-15A with its APG-63, and it was significantly upgraded starting in 1978 with a Digital Signals Processor that was standard on the F-15C/D models, then back-filled into the A/Bs even as we pushed them into AFRES and ANG units. F-16A benefitted greatly from the F-15's Radar developments, but it has a much smaller antenna and less volume for back-end amplifiers, waveform generators, filters, and analog-to-digital converters. F-16C Block 25 got a new APG-68 Radar that has been upgraded until (V)9 through the late Block F-16s (40, 42, 50, 52), which are now being replaced by AESAs with the PoBIT program. F/A-18 benefitted from a lot of the lessons and improvements on the F-15 and has also undergone a series of Radar and avionics upgrades throughout its service life. It had multiple upgrades to the APG-65, then got the APG-73 and now APG-79 AESA. The F/A-18C had at least 2 NCTR parameter capabilities the F-14A/B didn't have, which allowed them to face-shoot MiGs in Desert Storm. The US teen series have mostly been limited to RF spectrum detection, tracking, and PID without relying on IRST like we had on F-101B, F-102A, F-106A, F-8G, F-4B/C/D/J, and some F-14s with TCS. What you'll notice is those Electro-Optical sensors were primarily used on interceptors who commonly encountered strategic bombers that had very powerful jammers to render their Radars useless. IRST is totally passive, so they could use them to maintain sensor tracks for firing solutions for IR-guided missiles. For fighters vs fighters, the US and NATO shifted into aircraft with very user-friendly multi-mode Radars, working in conjunction with AWACS. The F-15s in particular would operate in 4 ships in tactical spread abreast of each other, covering large sectors of airspace getting first-look, first-shoot. If they closed into visual range after multiple AIM-7M shots failed to kill the threat fighters, they would still face-shoot with the AIM-9L/M, which had all-aspect capability. F-22A and F-35s play a different game. So I mentioned the F/A-18C had at least 2 NCTR parameters in 1991. F-35 had 638 in 2016, covering multiple bands in RF spectrum, LW IR, Mid IR, short IR spectrums, with a huge threat library where each target has a multi-spectral profile set. Focal Plane Array seekers don't care about flares because they are locked onto the specific image of their target and its constant location/presentation. Chaff is designed to confuse and distract Radars and Radar missiles from their targets. Without going into details, you can imagine that there are counter-countermeasures for chaff and notching. AESA Radars operate much differently than legacy Mechanically-Steered Array Radars. 2 Fighters with AESAs and Line of Sight LPI data links can maintain track on fighters trying to use common 4th Gen tactics of Radar evasion (notching in clutter while dispensing chaff). 1 Fighter with an AESA and IRST can also maintain track if a threat fighter is close enough, even if it notches against surface clutter. Threat fighter emissions also compromise their location, especially with MSA and PESA Radars vs AESA-equipped fighters.
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@dexterplameras3249 The Israelis had the best dual-mode and IR seekers in the 1980s with the Python 4 for AAMs. Imaging IR was incorporated into the AGM-65 Maverick G model if I recall. For IR spectrum AAMs, digital focal plane arrays are a newer technology that started emerging in the 1990s, not to be confused with older IR seekers like we had in the legacy AIM-9 series or K-13 Soviet copies. Flare Rejection has always been a driving design factor in IR seekers for AAMs since the 1970s. The Soviets relied on moles within the US and European sectors to provide materials samples and technical drawings to counter our IR counter-countermeasures, so they made flares that attracted the IR seekers that had been attenuated to reject prior flares. It’s a cat and mouse game that involves a lot of treason, scientific breakthroughs, counters, counter-counters, subterfuge, etc. We have programmable seekers that can avoid a lot of this at the unit-level with updates loaded into the missile seekers by ordnance crews, as well as multi-spectral targeting that fuses TGT tracks based on multiple aircraft and missile seekers.
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ME oil primarily goes to China and Japan. Russian and North African Oil go to Europe.
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@dpelpal The fins didn’t deploy on a UMPK FAB-500M62 glide bomb that was dropped from a Su-34 strike fighter. The Su-34 was headed south towards Kharkiv. Belgorod is right over the border from Kharkiv.
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Yugoslavia was a UN coalition intervention that included nations outside of NATO. It had nothing to do with NATO's charter or specific NATO mutual defense, and everything to do with the genocide plus the fact that Europe hadn't seen war since 1945. Yugoslavia was the break in 50 years of peace in Europe.
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The math is easy to compare shipping rates vs trucking and rail built by Chinese workers through warlord-infested mountains, valleys, and deserts. Why would I pay 10-40x more for the same product to be moved on Belt and Road, when I can just have it shipped instead?
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@GardeningZ Rail and trucking will never be more efficient than shipping. With shipping, you don't need to expend any energy trying to climb hills and your freight capacity is huge with heavy displacement vessels. BRI is a failure to understand basic physics in freight transportation, let alone regional insecurity and an inability to enforce protection of goods along those warlord-infested routes in extreme poverty nations.
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@senoalamsyah7481 The number of petroleum engineers in the world outside the US and Canada that have the knowledge and skills to do permafrost extraction is basically zero. Name me another country in the world that has land in the arctic and sub-arctic with oil fields. There are only these: Canada US Russia Norway is all offshore drilling. Russia has used foreigners since the Soviet Times for this work. They have suffered/self-inflicted multiple brain-drains, so their limited engineers and technical experts are dedicated to aerospace and nuclear power. The tooling alone for drilling through the permafrost is inaccessible to their current industry. The skill and expertise in using that tooling on the drill rigs is something else as well, not an overnight process. Both of these critical aspects of permafrost drilling do not exist in Russia or anywhere else besides the US and Canada.
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@senoalamsyah7481 No other nations have even been able to figure out how to make durable high pressure turbine blades for jet engines other than the US, UK, Russia, Germany, and France. Russians are the least-durable of those, and they got decades of technical data and materials samples from the US to reach the point they’re at now, which is at least 34 years behind the US. The Chinese don’t have permafrost over oil fields, nor do the Japanese, Koreans, Iranians, or especially Australians. They don’t have the environment to learn how to address this problem, and their institutions do not kick out petroleum engineers from a knowledge base that has been solving the problem for decades. If you do a detailed study of these limitations, you will see why they exist.
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@senoalamsyah7481 Turks just copied Israeli drones. They didn’t develop the technology themselves. Israelis copied US drones. US has been developing and making drones since WWII. Russia and China aren’t even in the top 10 nations for well-compensated petroleum engineers. China has petroleum engineering university programs dating back to the 1950s, but they still have never needed to address the permafrost drilling problem. An even more difficult technology is high pressure/high temp jet turbine blades. China has thrown billions of dollars at that, while embedding spies in Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, and GE in attempts to gain access to the secrets of HPHT turbine blades, and still is failing to make a competent, durable jet engine. Their fighter engines explode on a regular basis, whether they be Russian or Chinese-made. The investment it would take to try to develop the tooling and expertise in permafrost drilling is a significant barrier to entry in that space. They certainly can’t produce it now in the middle of an energy and food crisis.
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@thanos7691 China produces a lot for domestic consumption for over 1.4 billion people, and still burns lots of trash, trees, saplings, and coal. The government can’t control it because people have to survive somehow, so they released a virus.
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Every government exists after having established itself through violence and the threat of violence. Governments often create false flags to target people they feel threatened by, to justify preemptive violence against them (Riechstag fire 1933, Boston Tea Party Massacre 1770, Saint Petersburg bombings 2017, Czarist co-opting of factions within the Bolsheviks , etc.)
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@RememberAuroraColoradoUSA How dare he defend his nation from Russian peacekeepers!!!
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@RememberAuroraColoradoUSA What's your real name? Russian. Russia never lost 90% of its territory after USSR broke up. Russia stayed intact. Putin installing Yanukovych in Ukraine was not a neutral Ukraine, which is why Ukraine threw him out in 2014. Russian BS news claims this was a coup. Ukrainians wanted to trade with the EU and improve their economy like Poland has. Putin didn't want that, so he had Yanukovych sign onto the Russia-Eurasia Economic Pact in late 2013. That kicked off Euromaiden protests in Ukraine for 4 months.
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@Synonomous Poroshenko was President from 2014-2019 after Putin's puppet, Yanukovych, was ousted by 4 months of protests from Ukrainians in response to Yanukovych signing Putin's Russia-Eurasia Economic Pact. As soon as Yanukovych was ousted, Putin's Night Wolves and Wagner mercenaries began killing Ukrainians in the Donbas region, and conducted false flag operations wearing masks.
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@RememberAuroraColoradoUSA Or Europeans don’t want the war spilling into anymore of Europe. You don’t need faceless stockholders or war racketeers for that explanation.
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@adammarcinkowski-ko3el Biden has been on Russian payroll since 1972. That's why his minions and handlers are delaying delivery of artillery shells, missiles, and aircraft while billions flow where? Trump is the only US President who authorized the decimation of Russian forces in Syria at the Battle of Khasham Feb 2018.
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@casval-pj5tb Now correlate that with all the ground Russia has lost. It doesn't add up from the big picture, and they're in an extremely precarious position in Crimea. Once fighter pilots and maintainers are already used to one type of aircraft, transitioning to another is easier than starting from scratch. Since Man-Machine Interface is vastly-superior on Western fighters, the pilot training aspect really comes down to an accelerated conversion and then learning the weapons employment. The logistics hubs and supply chains already exist for F-16s and F/A-18s in Europe, namely Turkey, Greece, Romania, Poland, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, and Slovakia, with a huge favor towards the F-16 enterprise.
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The most pervasive religion in the world is Statism concealed by Darwinism and Marxism, taught as irrefutable gospel in 13 years of church/school, averaging 180 days per year of mandatory attendance, 7-8 hours per day. If you blaspheme the retardation of these unscientific and disproved philosophies, you will be ostracized socially, politically, and economically.
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Every President takes their WH memos and documents with them after a declassification process. The difference is all the presidents from Bush41-Obama actually did sell secrets to our enemies, while Trump didn't.
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@jh5kl Nope. Trump is the only US President who authorized US forces to annihilate Russian mercenaries in Syria, sent Javelins to Ukraine, and threatened devastating consequences if Putin invaded Ukraine any farther. Biden has been a Russian stooge since 1972, when they paid for his hopeless political campaign into the US Senate via the tiny State of Delaware. Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Biden would never have allowed the US military to eviscerate the 2 battalions of the Wagner-led battle group that attacked US forces over the Euphrates River, with 6 hours of JDAM and Xcalibur PGM fire dropped on them by USAF and USMC. Wagner Group is led by one of Putin's close friends.
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@segtha7389 What led you to think of Russia as Magog? I'm interested, because I've studied that my whole life. Who really is Gog and Magog?
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@jh5kl No, the timeliness are exactly relevant and accurate to the discussion. Putin launched false flag attacks against ethnic Russians in Donetsk/Donbas as a precursor to invading Donetsk and annexing Krim. That was in 2014, right after Yanukovych was expelled.
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@danecook6456 US defense industry isn't even in the top 20 highest-revenue markets in the US. Did you know that? Back-up Healthcare Medicare program is over $800 Billion, not including Medicaid, which is another $218 Billion+. Insurance, banking, pharma, big retail chains, public employee retirement funds, big tech, energy, auto, telecom, minerals/ores, farming, are all much bigger than defense. The MIC is overly-emphasized by Russian propagandists because Russia tries to see the US through its own constraints.
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@marioslrzn The USD is backed by 20 huge market sectors built on the abundance of US geography. During times of foreign regional crisis, investors put their money in the US by the hundreds of billions each year. Not into Russia or other failing states.
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@wamnicho Russia has very limited domestic production of low-grade wheat, barley, and potatoes. Once Russia opened up, the diversity of food at Western-built grocery stores exploded. A German company called Globus built huge shopping centers with wide variety of imported goods from Scandinavia, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. It's a night and day difference between the Soviet Times where they had bread lines, empty shelves, limited fruit, limited personal hygiene products, limited or no home care products, etc. I lived all over Europe and Russia from 1979-2016 so I'm reporting to you what the people would see, not guesses by "experts".
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@dosa2990 USD is backed by 10 industries that do over $1 trillion each year in revenue, followed by another 10 industries that do $200-$800 Billion a year. Defense isn't even in those 20 industries, although it cumulatively receives over $700 billion each year in the US. People's understanding of the US economy is extremely limited, both inside and outside the US.
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@abrahampope4580 Only $120 Billion. I'm much disappoint. Those are rookie numbers. They should take notes from CA, NY, and other countries.
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Unless you're the Bushes, Clintons, Bidens, or Obamas who actually all have been selling secrets or providing material aid to our enemies.
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@Baianoh US has helped develop Europe post-WWII, provided European security from 1945-present, helped develop Central America since the late 1800s, Phillipines, Polynesia, Australia, South America, Africa, Middle East, Asia, and even Russia.
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@StoneAgeDudemanGaming That's a terrible assumption. It would be more accurate to multiply by .4 to .6 to get a meaningful number in many cases, but no such rule exists nor would it be accurate in breadth. There are some great private OSINT sources to evaluate actual major weapons systems inventories and Foreign Military Sales.
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 @roeci6 Russia had 456 S-400 TELs before the war. These have to be allocated across the various air defense zone regional units who cover Russian airspace.
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Bezlan made all the mass shootings in the US look pale in comparison. These also shoot holes through arguments for more gun control, since it’s extremely difficult to own semi autos in Russia per law. Criminals don’t care about laws, especially terrorists and school shooters. They will find a way to get revenge somehow.
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@paulzx5034 Weird. Stalin sent the Ukrainian 44th Rifle Division to the Winter War after they invaded Poland in 1939, so it wasn’t a small operation. "The battle of Raate Road is an internationally known encirclement battle fought in early January 1940. The Finnish 9th Division defeated the Red Army elite 44th Division. The 44th Rifle Division was formed in the Kiev Special Military District, and its home area was the region of Zhitomir in Ukraine. The Division was mobilized in September 1939 and participated in the Polish campaign before being sent to Finland.” Russians especially are almost totally-unaware of the history of the Winter War.
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Chinese mineral exploration and restoring the opium crop farming.
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Russia came from Kievan Rus. The founder of Moscow was a Kievan Rus prince named Yuri Dolgoruki who contested the rule of his brother. His statue is prominently displayed in Moscow.
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Oh really? China can manufacture its own advanced systems that only are made in Europe? China can’t even make semiconductors without Netherlands, and those machines, engineers, and technicians were banned from helping China anymore.
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@shamuswalsh9425 The renewable/green energy campaign is largely Russian-driven to undermine Oil/NG in their favor. Remember that they penetrated universities and governments of the West dating back to the 1930s. They laugh at how gullible people have been buying their environmentalist disinformation campaigns throughout the world.
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You meant Russia. It's not even close.
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@oftin_wong US sent record-breaking supplies to allies in the Great War. The US was fighting the biggest naval war in history in the Pacific while also supplying Russia with massive amounts of airplanes, trucks, tanks, and supplies. Then the US, while simultaneously fighting the Pacific campaign, launched into the North African campaign forcing surrender of the Germans and Italians, then we launched the campaign into Sicily, then Italy. People who don't know the basics of WWII make these vapid comments about Russia, without taking the totality of the global conflict into consideration. WWII was bigger than most can comprehend.
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Bolton has no clue about the Russian perspective or even basic facts about Trump-Ukraine policy of deterrence, which is odd. He doesn’t understand that the way Trump has already framed this whole thing makes Putin weak, because a Russian Tsar can’t be seen as below an America President dictating and setting up negotiations on territory that Putin thinks is his already. Trump is already several steps ahead of everyone, and it has to be negotiated very carefully if we don’t want Russia destabilized. Putin can’t afford to be talked down to like this. It’s very telling Bolton doesn’t understand any of this.
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@gabrielconstantinescu6638 US pioneered hypersonic technology and doesn’t talk about it much. There are 2 advertised hypersonic missile programs in the US. Russian hypersonic missile wreckage in Ukraine showed US electronics in it. FDR transferred over technical data and critical materials to Stalin via Lend Lease from the Manhattan Project, while the Soviets had moles throughout the program feeding them data as well. Modern nuke programs started in the UK when they were looking at the Mahabharata within British archeological academics, who then asked the physics department about the possibility of such weapons. That’s when the modern nuclear arms race began. Oppenheimer used to give people the ancient Vedic texts as a gift because of that. FDR and Stalin worked together for a bi-polar world with nuclear weapons. The scientists in the Manhattan Project had the same sentiments about not wanting the US to be the only global super power, so many of them were ideologically complicit in transferring the technical data to the Soviets. There’s a very interesting documentary on it, with the mole program run by the Russian Ambassador’s wife.
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The last 8 US Presidential campaigns have been won by candidates who had domestic focus and foreign policy withdrawal, since the USSR collapsed.
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"The purpose of me killing your family is to stop the killings! Can't you see! I'm a peaceful person!"
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@ryanwalters6184 Yup. Asian population collapse is tectonic in scale. US has healthy replenishment rates. Europe does not, even with immigration.
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Lockheed Martin lost the F-22 multi-year production orders largely due to A-stan. Germany and France used the profits from opium to bail out European banks, while China quietly "negotiated"(bribed) mining rights with Afghanistan. Those are big wins for China. Less F-22s to worry about in the Pacific, and more access to unique minerals needed for batteries and electronics.
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@SwordOfTheSpirit-I- If Russia hasn't staged and launched their own forces as we watched them do, why would Russia need to mobilize 300,000 more? The original divisions amounted to 190,000 soldiers. How many of them weren't Russian?
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@SwordOfTheSpirit-I- The reason for that is to save the main efforts for follow-on invasions of Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland. Zelensky bought all of those nations many years by refusing to go along with Biden’s offer to evacuate him and his family.
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@Максим-ю7й6л Russian separatists, Night Wolves, Wagner Mercs, and Putin puppet groups launched attacks against Ukrain in Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014, after Ukrainians ousted Yanukovych, remember?
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@outofthebox9699 Russia can't destroy Ukrainian army with nukes because Ukrainian army isn't located in one place. Putin also doesn't want to risk finding out if the nuclear weapons work or if their navigation and targeting systems place them on the correct delivery path. Even worse, say a warhead doesn't detonate and is recovered intact by Ukraine. Russian cruise missiles have been analyzed and contain UK, US, Japanese, and Taiwanese electronics and components that Russia can't manufacture themselves.
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You need to split “the West” into Western/Central Europe and then the US/Canada/Mexico. The US/Canada/Mexico doesn’t need external energy, commodities, food, or young people and Russia and China certainly are extremely vulnerable in several of those spaces. Western Europe definitely needs energy and young people. If there ever was a basket case in history, Asia is it. Just look at demographics in any of the sectors. Excess males in China and India, retirement age in China with undercut young ages, fundamental structural problems throughout the spectrum regarding energy, food, security, income inequality, ethnic tensions that make the US look entirely homogenous, and all their neighbors hating them. Most of the “news” networks have been propagating lies about who relies on whom for decades, so that people who follow established networks are systemically misinformed, not educated. This has created a society where most of what people think they know is a pack of lies.
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Turkey has manufactured/assembled F-16C Block 40s under license dating back decades, in Turkey. They were supposed to get F-35As and even manufactured critical components for the F-35 engine until they purchased S-400 from Russia and forfeited their participation in the F-35 enterprise.
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Turkey has a huge fleet of F-16C/D Block 30, 40, and 50 aircraft.
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Hillary's basement server that ran around the clock. Clintons, Bushes, Bidens, and Obamas are nobodies with zero value added to society. That's why they sell out the US. Trump was already a billionaire who doesn't need a dime from anyone.
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 @sapere7 US has been shutting down bases in Europe and withdrawing since 1992. Anyone telling you differently is simply an ignoramus.
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Zeihan has been forecasting this since the 2000s, when I started following his analyses at STRATFOR.
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Media is owned by Pharma, Finance, and other top-20 industries. Of course they will make sure any headline stories support the brands and products.
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 @anitsaraf America certainly bore and continues to bear a heavy external load based on Bretton Woods security and trade agreements.
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Every day Russian forces remain in Ukraine, they should lose a naval vessel.
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 @MrDanisve F-35 is far more affordable than the A-10 because you don't lose airframes and people, or have fratricide incidents like with the A-10.
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@MrDanisve Agreed with one point: F-35A CPFH is more like $11,000. Norway said theirs run at 110,000 Krone per hour.
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@MrDanisve The Norwegian Air Force Logistics Chief, Air Chief, and Defense Minister all said on separate occasions that F-35A CPFH was 110,000 Krone, including fuel, maintenance, spares, and personnel salaries. F-16A is a lot lighter, so the thrust-to-weight ratio is excellent, and they overhauled into the F100-PW-220E. Nobody flies with the original PW-200 motors among the MSIP partner nations (Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark). 56 of Norway's 74 F-16s were upgraded to MLU, so they got a lot of Block 50 avionics with most of the increased weapons and sensor capabilities. (We were on the F-16 program so I'm intimately familiar with it.)
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@MrDanisve The newer motors cost less to operate because there are less parts and they have FADEC, plus the hot core turbine blades are more robust by a significant margin. Biggest cost factors for maintenance are Radar and engine, followed by hydraulics, EPU, FLCS actuators, brakes, tires, cockpit, anti-corrosion work, inspections and depot-level work. The F-16 is a very easy aircraft to maintain. The F-35A is even easier, with a much lower break-rate, higher reliability.
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@scrambaba User name checks out...
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@johnkology9599 I’ve been following Zeihan since STARTFOR in the 2000s. I would read or watch a lot of the presentations and then say, “What?” Then go research their points and find out that their premises and assessments were extremely well-founded. Since I have been to so many of these places they talk about, I would often react incredulously because I hadn’t heard it before, but it turned out to be accurate. Their analysis of the United States was the biggest wake-up for me, because I have lived in 8 different Sates across most of the regions, driven across them untold times, and thought I understood US geography really well. Turns out I had so much more to learn just about the basics, that aren’t covered in university or high school.
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He’s the only US President who sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine, and Ukraine paid for them. He did it right after annihilating Russian forces in Syria at the battle of Khasham in Feb 2018. FMS to Ukraine was authorized March 1, 2018, just to send the message to Putin loud and clear. Neither “side” reports about these facts.
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Welfare state has ballooned in the US and Europe.
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 @easyrebel Governments pilfer social security and pensions. Politicians are thieves in suits who run their mouths a lot to distract from the crimes they commit, and those who finance them.
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@16dutch16 Scandinavian/Nordic countries have their biggest defense programs financed by the US and bigger NATO partners, and the bigger NATO partners have much of their defense financed by the US. Same for their Healthcare infrastructure. The US carries an enormous bill for Europe and has done so continually since 1940.
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@mikesaundersnyc5200 The best Social Security is investing in your family, not accounts run by utterly corrupt politicians in DC.
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Russians fear internal chaos more than anything, and idolize strong men to enforce order. When someone who appears louder than Putin who has proven himself as a real battlefield leader calls out Putin's boyars like Shoigu, it unsettles them.
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Allow me to translate for everyone: “Die Russlandisch pipen ist sticken upf meinen arsch. If wier gibst waffen tsum die Ukraina, zen weir im die scheisseholen, verstehen sie?"
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 @Alec-jo7ic North Korea just announced yesterday they are sending combat engineers to Ukraine to help Russia. 😅😅
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@tharnganbenedict24 The soldiers have to make it back. Have you ever seen what an ATACMS does to truckloads of soldiers or troops in the open? It spits 950 bomblets over a 206m circle, each bomblet weighing .59kg. Sure would suck for the NorKs to eat a few of those missiles upon arrival. ATACMS can reach 165-300km.
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@letranger6750 Probably the same reason Russian Navy chained Somalis to their "fishing boats", then used them for target practice, then burned them alive.
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No, our actual classified documents being purchased by our enemies are located in at least 4 different Biden residences and libraries, with Hunter and James Biden transferring those documents to China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, etc. That's where the Biden family gets its money. They have no talent or products to sell, so they sell out the US to our enemies. Biden has been doing that since 1973.
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It was false flags after Putin lost his puppet, Yanukovych. Yanukivych ran like a little girl back to Russia in Feb 2014 when the Ukrainians protested him for 4 months, after he signed onto Putin’s CIS-Eurasian economic pact. Ukraine wanted to trade with the Eurozone, which Putin couldn’t allow to happen because Ukraine would become more successful than Russia.
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@u.p.1038 French people are very passionate and proud of their culture. When they see people allowed to immigrate there and toss French culture aside, bringing their own culture to replace it, the French get very defensive, but since they have aborted their future children, they don’t get much of a say anymore. Same thing has happened in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. I have seen it firsthand, since I have been living in Europe on-and-off since 1979.
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@robinlillian9471 Putin was good for stability, but he repeated the same cycle the Czars and Communists did with military build-up followed by invading neighbors. This is the curse of Russia.
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Russia is actually the worst offender in that regard, and the numbers aren’t even close.
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These bombers won't fly anywhere near Ukrainian cities. Only their cruise missiles will. Cruise missiles use on board guidance, not any sensors that can be interfered with. The bombers need to be destroyed before they get into weapons parameters.
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@SteveandLizDonaldson Not since later generation IADS with lowered Radar network coverage. US tried it in Desert Storm and quickly adjusted to medium altitude profiles due to proliferation of low altitude systems.
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@SteveandLizDonaldson Tu-95s and Tu-160s especially don't fly in the low altitude bands. They copy US B-52 & B-1B stand-off cruise missile profiles.
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Are you talking about Biden's garage, Penn State library wing, beach house, or residence? You know the ones where foreign nationals have had access for years, or Hunter and James Biden being paid millions by China, Putin, and Burisma? Hunter and John Kerry's stepson received $3.5m in Feb 2014 with their shell company, Rosemont Seneca. That was from the former first Lady of Moscow. Trump's family is totally clean if you look at their revenue streams. They don't take foreign payments from Russia and China in exchange for classified documents.
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@babblo1389 Which regional currency do you think is more stable? (Hint: There isn't one.)
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@lovly2cu725 🤣 Notice how Biden's first move was do undo US energy independence? That lifted the price of oil/NG for Putin. Russia paid for much of Biden's hopeless campaign in 1972 to get him into the Senate using an environmentalist front group called The Council for a Livable World.
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@dosa2990 Neither India nor China have the tooling or specialized petroleum engineers able to conduct drilling through the permafrost in Sibersk. That's a very exclusive skill and equipment set to the US and Canada.
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@nickngunjiri4282 I know. Russia and China entered into 30yr and 25yr energy deals 2013-2014. The Gazprom deal was $400 Billion. Rosneft deal was $270 Billion. This increased Russian Oil/NG as a % of Chinese imports from 11% in 2011 to 14.6% in 2019. Haliburton and Slumberger provided the tooling and expertise for these projects to drill through the permafrost. You can look up the Gazprom-Haliburton deal from 2013 to confirm. Haliburton and Slumberger just pulled out operations on the Sibersk fields due to sanctions. Russia and China don't have a clue how to solve permafrost drilling.
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@user-ov8qv3hp9d I'm citing Russian sources from University of Moscow Economics, study on Soviet economy from 1950-1991. Engineers from Finland, Sweden, and Yugoslavia oversaw major construction projects. US and Canadian petroleum engineers manage permafrost drilling and extraction that Russia can't do by themselves, never have been able to.
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@christopherlees1134 Russia can attack with whatever weapons while Ukraine can't, but Russian can't use Iranian or North Korean weapons....oh wait. Those lines were crossed years ago. So this is a war between Iran, North Korea, and Ukraine, right?
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No, Biden, Obama, Clinton, and the Bushes continue to endanger us by selling secrets and materials to Putin, the mullahs, China, Pakistan, Saudis, etc. All of the above families have been engaged in actual treason for decades now. Trump never took a dime from any of US's enemies because billionaires don't need to betray their country.
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Guess which US President authorized the sale of $150 million with of Javelin anti-tank missiles and Command Launch Units (CLUs) to Ukraine while every other US President denied them before Feb 2022?
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@pinkstardiamond US and UK gave security guarantees if Ukraine promised to hand over its nukes to Russia. Clinton & Obama helped Russia disarm Ukraine in the 90s and 20teens.
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@firebolt100 De-population is already built into the future due to fertility rates tanking. Climate change on earth doesn't explain why we see rising temps on the other planets in the solar system.
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@firebolt100 Multiple space probes and orbiters in the solar system record surface and atmospheric temps of the planets they fly by.
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There are 500 million mouths to feed in Europe, and most of Western Europe + Scandinavia grow their base food products.
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@bradfordkossmann1296 CIA was co-opted by Russia when it formed. Kievan Rus and Muskovite princes have been at each other for over 800 years. US just hasn't been present or interested much in Ukraine, whereas control over Ukraine is seen as an imperative for Russia.
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@tasreasfatemsa8266 My contacts into the Russian Foreign Ministry were bragging about plans for invading Ukraine, Poland, Baltics, and Finland since the 2000s, after Putin was handed the presidency. Nobody wanted to believe it because it was too painful. "Those are just old-timer cold war guys. Europe is at peace now and Russia will be a peaceful democracy. Putin has to play by the rules now."
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@This Ain't My Name War in Ukraine has nothing to do with NATO, and everything to do with Russian imperatives. Russia ceases to exist if she doesn't control Ukraine. Ukraine ousted Russia's puppet president, Yanukovych, in Feb 2014. Look at the timeline.
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@tasreasfatemsa8266 Nobody wants war with Russia. Russian leadership feels the need to start wars to gain buffer zones with the neighbors.
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@tasreasfatemsa8266 When a bear lives next door to you and you keep your distance, but it eventually starts walking into your yard, it’s important for the bear to feels some pain if he starts attacking you.
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@tasreasfatemsa8266 Sounds like your rabid cursed bear needs to be put down.
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Chinese moved in for the minerals. EU needed the opium profits to bail out ECB. US was used as the muscle since nobody else could do it. China laughs all the way to the bank.
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@John-hu9qg Permafrost isn't going anywhere. Climate change is cyclical throughout history, used as a political tool to manipulate people who were trained to behave as slaves in public school for 13 years. Russia relied on foreign petroleum engineers and technicians throughout the Soviet times once they started exploring more for oil/NG, and those PEs managed critical drilling projects from the 1950s-1991. Russia never invested in these skill sets themselves, and has only gotten dumber and dumber over 8 major brain drains from 1914-present. Russian energy will be screwed going forward, since Halliburton, ExxonMobil, and Canada pulled out.
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@basila33 Source: University of Moscow, Economic History of the Soviet Union
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@Прекрасныйнезнакомец-п7ю Why do you think some other state actor didn't do it?
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Meanwhile there's an actual money trail between Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudis and Putin with the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens dating back to the 1970s. Trump's a billionaire already. He doesn't need a dime from anyone. Think critically.
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@M_O_G Trump doesn't need to sell out his Country to make money. The prior Presidents do because they have no value added to society, no talent for business, no talent in anything but lying and selling out.
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@6789uiop Corporate media hate Donald Trump because he got elected without their help. Corporate media are owned by the top 20 industries in the US who couldn't control him like they do normal sellout political prostitutes.
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@nikolacalija2361 10% were celebrating what? Sorry. I can’t see the context to your post.
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Someone was clearly smoking crack when they posted that range figure. MiG-29 is a very short-legged platform meant for point defense like a MiG-23 or MiG-21.
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Russia can throw a lot of armor, long range fires, artillery, air power, and theater ballistic missiles at phased campaigns in Ukraine. It's a mistake to see this with short-term blinders on I think.
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@dragons_hook NATO is a mutual defense pact to defend against Russia, not oriented or structured to attack and take Russian terrain. Russians see everyone on their borders (they stole land from) as adversaries who need to be kept in-check and more land stolen from.
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@sanjeevn4515 Putin was going to invade no matter what. It has been part of his strategic vision since the early 2000s. It has nothing to do with bullsh*t excuses and distractions, and everything to do with keeping Ukraine under Russian control.
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@wk3669 China has one of the most vulnerable currencies and markets in the world. Investors don't want to be holding Yuan when the global recession/depression hits. China has cavernous structural problems with food, energy, retirement age people as the majority, almost half the country in extreme poverty, 45 million excess males 0-49, and now high costs of labor. China is going to be the biggest collapse of a civilization we have ever seen in history, with a terrible civil war caused by the famine.
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@nxtktube Interest rate increase tamps off inflation.
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@divya_212 Canada has huge reserves that Russia has suppressed with puppets like Trudeau and Biden. Trudeau and Biden won't be able to stop the flow now. Between the US, Canada, Norty Africa,, and Norway, all of Europe's Oil/NG demand can be met. This is one of the reasons why Russia and China threw everything at rigging the US and Canadian elections in-favor of their puppets. They succeeded with Trudeau, failed in 2016 with Hillary, but succeeded in 2020 ousting Trump-their biggest adversary and obstacle. This is why Biden killed Keystone. Keystone would have allowed Canada to throw in their huge mid-grade crude into the US shale mix, requiring less energy to refine as a whole. US/Canadian exports combined would have encroached into the Russian sphere of customers. Imagine Keystone open when this crisis hit. Russia tries to hold Europe hostage. US/Canada says no problem, we have endless light sweet and LNG we can send at low cost. World events will make sense in this context.
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@famborealyouths1936 On the following list of priorities, which do you think were highest for Ukraine: 1. Improve their economy by getting on favorable trade status with EU 2. Curtail corruption 3. Get out of the direct influence of Russian puppet regimes 4. Begin exploration and extraction of the close offshore oil fields 5. Join NATO Now on the Russian list according to Putin, which do you think were top priority: 1. Join Russian economy with Ukrainian economy with CIS-Eurasian Union 2. Maintain control through puppet presidents via rigged elections 3. Stop Ukrainian exploration and extraction of oil off the coast of Odessa 4. Reduce Ukrainian defense forces, war material, and munitions 5. Prevent Ukraine from obtaining Western weapons and training
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This is just getting started I'm afraid. 300,000 soldiers are being mobilized for a coming winter offensive. They'll throw bodies at this until they get their way.
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 @chillxxx241 Germany has gone from $1 Trillion GDP in 1985 to over $4 Trillion by 2021. There was a slight decline in GDP after 1995 to 2000, then it climbed since then.
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 @noidontthinksolol EU Army? Who would be in charge? What language would they use? Germany, UK, and France couldn't even agree on workshare or design for the ECA/EFA fighter aircraft.
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@scratchy996 Trump helped strengthen NATO, while being the only President to allow US Forces to bomb and artillery Russian forces for 6 hours in Syria. Trump Russia is not a thing. It was projection from Putin Hillary, Putin Obama, Putin Biden, Putin Kerry. You can literally see the millions sent into Clinton, Biden, and Kerry/Heinz front companies owned by them and their adult children.
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Every President has WH files they take when they transition out. The difference here is Trump is the only one NOT to sell secrets to our enemies, and the former Presidents hate him for it because they are all guilty.
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@dexterplameras3249 Saab is serious but Riksdag wasn’t in the 1980s-2000s. That’s why they mandated a new fighter to do all 3 mission sets of JAS, hence the JAS-39. If Saab didn’t agree, they would have been out of the fighter business forever.
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@Ea-pb2tu Gripens have significantly reduced range once you load them with mission-relevant stores. Whatever sources you're using for performance metrics, they're way off. F-35A has dramatically-better range than the Gripen E or F-16C. Most of the payload on 4th Gen fighters is external fuel, not weapons. When we talk about SEAD, we're discussing the ability to geolocate SAM and AAA threat guidance Radars, while countering and evading SAMs and AAA, and employing weapons against those Radars and AA weapon sites. Gripens do not have the emitter locator sensors, nor do they have any anti-Radar missiles, nor do any Gripen operators train for this mission set. The F/A-18C has been doing the SEAD mission profile since the late 1980s, and was an instrumental platform for executing it during many real-world missions with the HARM and MALD in Desert Storm over 30 years ago. F-16CJ and now F-16CM Late Block Vipers are specifically equipped for the D/SEAD mission profile with the HARM Targeting System pod on station 5L, full HARM capability, LITENING or SNIPER advanced targeting FLIR pod, and pilot interface through the MFDs and HUD to execute SEAD mission sets. Gripen Cs not only have none of that, but have never been advertised as being able to do it.
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@idawulan6789 Not sure where you got 50km effective range for AGM-65 but that isn't correct. There are different variants of AGM-65 with different seekers and 2 different warheads. One warhead is 125lbs, the other is 300lbs. It's a very close range missile meant for busting tanks, not something with stand-off for reaching into IADS nodes.
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@dexterplameras3249 R-77 is the joint Russian SSR/Ukrainian SSR response to the AIM-120. R-37 is much bigger with longer range, like a modernized Phoenix.
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@hb1338 Yup, though Finland has 62 operational Hornets in very high state of readiness, extremely-well maintained. USMC and USN have boatloads of F/A-18Cs in Reserves or retired.
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@Ea-pb2tu US has trained and equipped for this type of war in USAFE for generations. Dispersed basing, hot-rearming/refueling, planning, contingencies, logistics, force structure, OCA, DCA, Strike, SEAD, CSAR, EW, etc. are all core mission sets for USAFE.
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@realnapster1522 And yet every time the MiG-29 has faced teen fighters, it turns to scrap metal.
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@dexterplameras3249 He was one of the few caught. He sold the F-14A/AIM-7F weapons employment manual to the Soviets. When he was caught, it was right there on his bed.
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@pecellele8696 Better pilots in MiG-29s have faced US and NATO pilots in F-16s. In every single one of those engagements, the MiG-29s have been shot down.
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@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531 Another would fill-in in his place after so many years of a weak president. Russian people hunger for a strong singular leader to protect them from all their neighbors, who they have had territorial disputes with for 1100 years.
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@kevinklockzin5280 Your analogy is backwards. It’s more like the hospital hanging the IV lines. Another provider comes along and puts their IV in the patient’s arm. Russia cuts their line and holds the scissors over the other line and says, “What? Don’t you like our service?” It’s very Russian in its fingerprints.
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@Банкивасограбят Yes, I am well aware. My family is from Finland and I have lived there many times. I have also lived all over Russia.
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@Crashed131963 Russian SSR was one of the biggest exporters in the world by the 1970s. They turned oil exports back on in the 1950s, and then increased dramatically year-to-year. Russia also used its massive profits from oil to hide structural cracks in the system, by importing grain, heavy machinery, foreign goods, and foreign technical expertise from Finland, Sweden, and Yugoslavia to do construction and repairs on major projects. Russian agricultural modernization would never have happened without tractors and other heavy machinery from the West from the 1930s-1980s. There are some good Russian Economics University studies on this subject documenting exactly how much oil/NG was exported each year during the Soviet Times.
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Biden has classified documents at 4 different residences and libraries that foreign nationals frequent to gain access to them. Hunter and James Biden have been running that for decades, since Joe became VP and was under more spotlight. Trump doesn't need to sell US secrets. He's been a billionaire for many years before ever setting foot in the WH. They're accusing him of what they are guilty of, nothing more.
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Most Russians support Putin though. Western media highlights ideas favorable to them, without looking at the totality of Russian state control over media and public opinions.
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@chloris6349 The popular opposition leaders have been thrown in prison, poisoned, or both. There is nobody to challenge Putin that anyone can rally behind.
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@jamsedakhtar4275 The British made China invade Tibet?
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@theotheleo6830 I was responding to the claims that all this money being sent was actual cash being spent on beach property. Also, a lot of the aid is value assigned to obsolete (by US standards) weapons and munitions. I live right near a depot where old munitions are destroyed explosively on a regular basis. We haven't heard any of that since last summer.
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Billions spent, and yet where are the munitions? Seems like Biden WH is slowly trickling things along. If you knew that Biden has been on Soviet payroll since 1972, it all makes sense. Who tried to get Zelensky out quickly so Putin could take Kiev?
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@alfisti93 Yes, they came out in the open and admitted it even. They don’t want the people thinking they were attacked by Ukrainians with that large of a bomb. They’re lucky they didn’t kill a bunch of their own people.
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Manas Kumar China will not benefit from this. Critical skills and tooling companies have shut down their Oil/NG operations in Russian Sibersk region, which is where China got 15% of Oil/NG. This is at a time when China is experiencing huge trends in more automobile ownership and an aging population structure. The disruptions to food and energy in China could very well trigger a Chinese revolution/civil war.
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Nobody is going to benefit from these disruptions to markets at a national level. Everyone will suffer, billions of people like they haven't suffered before.
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@jesterjames7633 100% incorrect. Ukraine was attacked when they ousted Yanukovych, Putin's puppet in Feb 2014. It had nothing to do with NATO.
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