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Unless you're speaking about American politics, the opposite is true. Enormous quantities of European artillery production are finally coming online while Russ

Unless you're speaking about American politics, the opposite is true. Enormous quantities of European artillery production are finally coming online while Russia's stockpiles of artillery and vehicles are finally running dry. They won't "run out", but they can't continue pushing forwards with only what they are able to produce fresh themselves. Much like the missile strikes - sure they won't literally "run out" as long as they continue production but Russia can no longer throw 500 missiles a month at Ukraine anymore because the stockpiles are gone. Now the biggest problem is glide bombs, but that is being mitigated also. The situation with the power grid is quite serious, though. It's going to be a very difficult winter for civilians. It's a damn shame that western nations couldn't pony up sufficient air defense before it was needed rather than waiting until after it was too late.

OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
>Unless you're speaking about American politics, the opposite is true. ...The situation with the power grid is quite serious, though. It's going to be a very difficult winter for civilians. This is what I was talking about.
- jaybrendansmith 2y ago
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  - OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
    I think you overestimate the voting public and underestimate the institutional support he has. Rumors of his political demise have been floated for years, "This time, for sure!" and he is the nominee for all that.
    - jaybrendansmith 2y ago
      Yes, all the billionaires are doing everything in their power to consolidate the US into a Corporate State. Trump is their way of launching their 'Project 2025', essentially a minority of people trying to overturn the will of the people. “There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”
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  - simonblack 2y ago
    In a country of 350 million, the only two selections are Trump and Biden? Surely there are hundreds of thousands more suitable candidates. We always get the leaders we deserve.
    - chipdart 2y ago
      > In a country of 350 million, the only two selections are Trump and Biden? Trump is a baffling choice of candidate for how bad and utterly unsuited it was. Trump is a candidate who won an election thanks to a massive wave of foreign interference and, even though he was handed a nearly ideal set of circumstances, fumbled his term so hard that lost an election as the incumbent against a lackluster challenger. On top of that historical show of incompetence, who already earned him a the top spot in the ranking of most incompetent US presidents in US history, there's hi coup attempt to force the US into a fascist dictatorship which included plans to assassinate his own vice president along with other political rivals. If that is not enough, there is his criminal history and spiral into dementia. This is the best that the Republican Party managed to pick among it's ranks as their best and brightest. I'm convinced that the Democratic party only entertained the idea of pushing Biden due to a) being a sitting president and incumbent, who historically tends to ensure second terms, b) his outstanding tenure as president even though circumstances were far from ideal, c) and the high-stakes risk of allowing the US to succumb to the push for a fascist regime.
ffsm8 2y ago
> It's a damn shame that western nations couldn't pony up sufficient air defense before it was needed rather than waiting until after it was too late. For the record: Ukraine has no defense agreement with any of these western nations that are currently supporting them, and there is 0 chance that - if roles were reversed and another European nation had been attacked - that they'd have supported this theoretical victim. The way you're phrasing that is honestly outrageous.
- tim333 2y ago
  Dunno about zero chance. I'd imagine they'd help if they could. The UK and US provided "security assurances" to Ukraine in return for it giving up its nukes.
  - dralley 2y ago
    They helped with the evacuation of journalists, embassy workers and translators from Afghanistan.
- chipdart 2y ago
  > For the record: Ukraine has no defense agreement with any of these western nations that are currently supporting them (...) Why do you feel this is relevant? > (...) and there is 0 chance that - if roles were reversed and another European nation had been attacked - that they'd have supported this theoretical victim. I'm also not sure what leads you to believe this is relevant at all. Ukraine is surrounded by NATO members. If NATO is not enough to counter a threat, things would be far bleaker for Ukraine as well. What point do you think you're making?
  - 57FkMytWjyFu 2y ago
    No it isn't. The country to the right is not in NATO. The country to the north is not in NATO. Transnistria is a None-Of-The-Above. Are the navigable waters of the Black Sea 'in NATO'? Neighboring is not surrounding.
  - ffsm8 2y ago

OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago

>Unless you're speaking about American politics, the opposite is true. ...The situation with the power grid is quite serious, though. It's going to be a very difficult winter for civilians. This is what I was talking about.

jaybrendansmith 2y ago
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- OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
  I think you overestimate the voting public and underestimate the institutional support he has. Rumors of his political demise have been floated for years, "This time, for sure!" and he is the nominee for all that.
  - jaybrendansmith 2y ago
    Yes, all the billionaires are doing everything in their power to consolidate the US into a Corporate State. Trump is their way of launching their 'Project 2025', essentially a minority of people trying to overturn the will of the people. “There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”
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- simonblack 2y ago
  In a country of 350 million, the only two selections are Trump and Biden? Surely there are hundreds of thousands more suitable candidates. We always get the leaders we deserve.
  - chipdart 2y ago
    > In a country of 350 million, the only two selections are Trump and Biden? Trump is a baffling choice of candidate for how bad and utterly unsuited it was. Trump is a candidate who won an election thanks to a massive wave of foreign interference and, even though he was handed a nearly ideal set of circumstances, fumbled his term so hard that lost an election as the incumbent against a lackluster challenger. On top of that historical show of incompetence, who already earned him a the top spot in the ranking of most incompetent US presidents in US history, there's hi coup attempt to force the US into a fascist dictatorship which included plans to assassinate his own vice president along with other political rivals. If that is not enough, there is his criminal history and spiral into dementia. This is the best that the Republican Party managed to pick among it's ranks as their best and brightest. I'm convinced that the Democratic party only entertained the idea of pushing Biden due to a) being a sitting president and incumbent, who historically tends to ensure second terms, b) his outstanding tenure as president even though circumstances were far from ideal, c) and the high-stakes risk of allowing the US to succumb to the push for a fascist regime.

ffsm8 2y ago

> It's a damn shame that western nations couldn't pony up sufficient air defense before it was needed rather than waiting until after it was too late. For the record: Ukraine has no defense agreement with any of these western nations that are currently supporting them, and there is 0 chance that - if roles were reversed and another European nation had been attacked - that they'd have supported this theoretical victim. The way you're phrasing that is honestly outrageous.

tim333 2y ago
Dunno about zero chance. I'd imagine they'd help if they could. The UK and US provided "security assurances" to Ukraine in return for it giving up its nukes.
- dralley 2y ago
  They helped with the evacuation of journalists, embassy workers and translators from Afghanistan.
chipdart 2y ago
> For the record: Ukraine has no defense agreement with any of these western nations that are currently supporting them (...) Why do you feel this is relevant? > (...) and there is 0 chance that - if roles were reversed and another European nation had been attacked - that they'd have supported this theoretical victim. I'm also not sure what leads you to believe this is relevant at all. Ukraine is surrounded by NATO members. If NATO is not enough to counter a threat, things would be far bleaker for Ukraine as well. What point do you think you're making?
- 57FkMytWjyFu 2y ago
  No it isn't. The country to the right is not in NATO. The country to the north is not in NATO. Transnistria is a None-Of-The-Above. Are the navigable waters of the Black Sea 'in NATO'? Neighboring is not surrounding.
- ffsm8 2y ago