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by fatbird 8mo ago
Ukraine has an 800k+ man army, and has rejected expansion of conscription to those under 27. They literally have everyone under 27 left to conscript. They're not facing a manpower shortage. That's Russian propaganda. No one is
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by fatbird 8mo ago
It produces its own Neptune cruise missiles (100+), and developed the Flamingo cruise missile. It has its own self-propelled howitzer, and has built more than 200 to date. It rebuilt its bullet manufacturing, replacing the loss of its luh
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by fatbird 8mo ago
Russian unemployment of 2.2% is a bad sign, not a good sign. For practical purposes, unemployment around 4% means full employment, because there's always a portion of the population not working for some reason: taking time off, too dum
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by fatbird 8mo ago
Every day that passes, Ukraine gets stronger: more domestic defense production of what's currently the cutting edge of warfare; deeper financial integration and relationships with Europe; more aid lined up; European powers taking more
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by fatbird 8mo ago
This is a common framing of the Copernican revolution, and it's wrong. Copernicus was proposing circular orbits with the sun at the center instead of the earth. The Copernican model required more epicycles for accurate predictions tha
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by fatbird 8mo ago
The problem isn't spontaneous combustion, it's having an accident where the battery is damaged, causing runaway combustion. No one burned to death inside a Tesla while driving normally. It's always following a crash.
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by fatbird 8mo ago
It's an older meme, but it checks out.
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by fatbird 8mo ago
No, but they all knew he was a pedo/rapist, and were still friends with him and went to the island of a pedo/rapist, and introduced the pedo/rapist to their friends... We don't know how many were pedo/rapists, b
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by fatbird 9mo ago
Don't encroach NATO on their doorstep. Norway, a founding member of NATO, has always shared a border with Russia. Before Finland and Sweden joined NATO, they'd already developed operational compatibility with NATO going back de
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by fatbird 9mo ago
Yes, but that integration is turning into a vulnerability as Trump tries to leverage it for monetary or territorial gains. We won't retain the prosperity we built together by appeasing him. The prosperity is going away regardless. T
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by fatbird 9mo ago
You have a laundry list of complaints about Canada's action wrt the US. What would someone like you on Canada's side of the border offer in response, do you think? All of these issues go back long before Trump, who has made thing
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by fatbird 9mo ago
As people spent time in them, the oxygen would run out and be replaced with carbon dioxide, which is heavier than air and would sink to the bottom. With no exits and no airflow, wouldn't this become a straightforward deathtrap at some
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by fatbird 9mo ago
It wasn't an issue for 250 years, or at least until the Unitary Executive Theory became a dream of the Federalist Society.
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by fatbird 9mo ago
And how much does the U.S. import from the EU?
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by fatbird 9mo ago
Okay. What will the stability be like after NATO is shattered and the EU is no longer a market open to the US?
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by fatbird 9mo ago
The deputy commander of that division is this guy: https://11thairbornedivision.army.mil/dcgo/
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by fatbird 9mo ago
What America got, by being the heavyweight in NATO, was the greatest economy the world has ever seen. America got rich by selling Europe a nuclear umbrella, which kept the peace, and let Europe go cheap on defense and long on developing th
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by fatbird 9mo ago
https://medium.com/the-dock-on-the-bay/ukraine-ran-sting-on-... However, in finding that, I've found some outlets disavowing the story, so treat it as unproven: https://unn.ua/en/news/did
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by fatbird 9mo ago
There's how the people in general remember, and then there's how the politicians and the institutions remember. If nothing else, the changes in institutions will have effects reverberating for decades, with the most obvious insti
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by fatbird 9mo ago
There have been multiple instances of exactly what NRA members decry as federal tyranny: Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc. At not a single one did any number of people exercising their second amendment right ever show up to actually do anything, even
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by fatbird 9mo ago
Trump's passing and his admin getting tossed won't erase the memory that a good third of America was always happy with him and wanted what he actually did. America is now branded with MAGA in a way that will take generations to f
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by fatbird 9mo ago
Trump wants to brag, and be remembered, for adding Greenland to America, in the same way that Alaska was bought from Russia, or Louisiana from the French.
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by fatbird 9mo ago
No one wants Kaliningrad now because it's 100% Russian. Annexing it means adding a Russian fifth column to your country. I'm surprised by this, but my general opposition to ethnic cleansing has been weakened by understanding how
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by fatbird 9mo ago
The US already has 1) a base in Greenland, and 2) and agreement with Denmark that they can arbitrarily increase their presence there. America could increase it's presence a hundredfold and start putting missiles there, and Denmark wou
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by fatbird 9mo ago
Here's how to abolish the electoral college: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta... States with a total of 270 electoral votes agree to award their electors to the winner of the national p
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by fatbird 9mo ago
Bluesky is full of people angry and screaming about Trump. In my feed, at least, though, the "it's all fascism, we're doomed" posters are getting blocked. It's an angry call to action that survives. They're
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by fatbird 9mo ago
Whatever else you think of Bluesky, it's a place where trolling and doomerism are rejected. The nuclear block (and a culture of block, don't engage) does wonders for denying actual trolls an audience, and secondarily for permitti
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by fatbird 9mo ago
The amount of money and guns that have been sent to Ukraine have been critical to its survival. They still have a functioning economy just because of all the financial aid they've received. It would obviously be better if French, Bri
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by fatbird 9mo ago
After the U.S., Germany is the largest donor of money and kit to Ukraine, approximately 1/3rd of what the U.S. gave under Biden. The cost of 13 soldiers hanging about in Nuuk is a footnote.
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by fatbird 9mo ago
They're not there to defend Greenland, they're there to die if the U.S. invades. The U.S. keeps small numbers of soldier on the border with North Korea for the same reason.

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