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Are you talking about the US/nato coalition? I think the definition of what winning is has been the #1 issue the past 20 years and that has been demoralizing i
by dillondoyle 5y ago
Are you talking about the US/nato coalition?
I think the definition of what winning is has been the #1 issue the past 20 years and that has been demoralizing in some ways.
Winning was sold as a bunch of different moving targets, often farcically unbelievable like the taliban participating in Democracy. So yeah we lost on that one. Never stood a chance of winning if that's what winning is.
I don't think there's any question in these lopsided conflicts us/nato could have absolutely decimated the other side. But that didn't seem to be what winning was pitched as.
To me that's why it feels like we lost.
I'm more confident - though still worried - about an actual big conflict against CCP/totalitarian alliance. Our reliance on tech scares me the most.
- _dain_ 5y agoFight a war against the country you sent all your manufacturing to, what could go wrong?
- dillondoyle 5y agoyeah!!! i think it's really scary. Same with TSMC and having just one litho company. My biggest fear is having so many billions in planes and bombs and ships and everything else that seems like they won't work if they get hacked. and i assume everything will get hacked in an all out war. This is also why I think Russia has the confidence to potentially do such a large scale invasion. Europe needs their natural gas. Just another reason to spend to get to almost 100% renewables asap.