RubberDuck

Sobering analysis… but also what most of us that keep up with the news already know.

Forces slowly devolving, it’s a war of attrition and the costs are not high enough for either side to trigger a collapse. And negotiation is what both sides seem to move towards, but what either side finds acceptable is still light-years apart.

May their fires burn long.

In Russia especially, No good deed is left unpunished

All ICMB type missiles reach hypersonic velocity. It’s gravity that does this.

Actual hypersonics according to NATO, are missiles that use engines to propel at hypersonic speeds AND can maneuver at that speed.

This is the F15 all over again. An actual development to a perceived Russian threat that only exists in Russian rhetoric and dreams.

I’d be courting swiss arms manufacturers to move… Poland wants to be an arms giant.

I will never understand how that works.

I’m not saying she should have stopped the migrants or whatever… but integrating a million people will mean you need to invest heavily in making sure these people land properly, get the help they need (including medical and psychological where needed, language and integration, preventing ghetto forming, housing… etc etc) I’d argue she came up short.

So did the interviewer ask her this? Cause they should have.

She also fed the afd… letting in a million refugees, telling everyone it will be fine and then not actually doing anything to prevent the issues everyone saw coming.

Russian air defense has not the best track record through… but in terms of bang for your buck, missiles and drones are the shit.

Zhiguli… gypsie cars?

Ah their planned obsolescence lead to botnets that fuck every largo company… so that Microsoft gets looked at.

But the American way is to blame hundreds of thousands… or even millions of individuals.

Then the assumption should be the most damning scenario for open AI that this evidence could provide.

At this point of there was a sex tape it would boost ratings…

Yeah as more information comes out… I’m impressed by the mayor of Amsterdam. I never liked her when she was in national politics, but as a mayor she seems to really make an effort to get it right and also acknowledges publicly when she failed at that.

Currently the police have over 45 people they are actively looking for from the Netherlands and have a few outstanding requests to Israeli police too.

Yeah, the reason these where banned is because they cause civilian casualties long after the war is over.

The fact Russia actively targets civilians, and Ukraine is already full of mines and UXO makes this a mute point.

So then a country is free to use them on their own lands to defend themselves and accept the risks this means… because the alternative (Russia winning) is objectively worse.

These treaties work if both sides adhere to them, the moment one side does not, the other side is automatically excused from these rules… and get to choose if they feel the bad outweigh the good.

Same with targeting civilian infra… I feel Ukraine would be in their right to also do it to the Russians… and I’m happy they feel it is their moral obligation not to… it confirms Ukraine is the good guy in this war.

I’ll also bet that if left to fend for themselves, we will rapidly see standards of decorum lowered and less and less things be “off the table”. A cornered animal and all…

Meaning if we want Ukraine to be able to keep up their decorum, we need to help them more.

Or wrapping some explosives around them.

Chill out Magyar :)

If Putin now escalates it will be difficult for Trump… This moment there is little risk worth escalation management.

I think that’s a valid point. If the US military is purged and restaffed based on loyalty to maga the only thing that stands between the world and annihilation at some point would be a person of conscience… Like what happened before in the USSR.