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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Same reason US needs a huge military. Deterrence and overwhelming force are the only ways to ensure longterm peace and stability.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
The Taliban/Mujahideen didn’t win per se, they just survived long enough for the foreign “empires” to lose interest. Vietnam wasn’t a conventional conflict either. If you’re willing to lose complete control of most of “your” country an
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Politically, not militarily. Same in Afghanistan. US could and did easily win the conventional parts of both conflicts. They lost because they didn’t know what to do after that or didn’t want to escalate it into a full scale war (Vietnam).
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
“neighbors joining NATO” And you think that those neighbors have no agency themselves? Russia is a much bigger threat to all of them than NATO was ever to Russia. If you’re a country bordering Russia, you’re fucked, you’re almost guaranteed
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
In that sense perhaps he was more similar to someone like Hitler, that’s true. But the amount of content he published hardly related to his actual actions. He was a power seeking pragmatist above all else (ideological concerns were usually
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
So Britain doesn’t have autonomy either considering their missiles were made by Lockhead Martin? However my point is that Germany or Poland developing nuclear weapons without direct support of Britain/France is not even worth discussin
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Even if they receive support from CIA/MI6 what’s wrong about that? > peddle anti Russia propaganda Not sure what you are trying to say. Just reporting straight facts with no embellishment is more than enough to 100% discredit the Ru
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Lenin adopted (or lied about adopting) whatever policies he felt would allow him to get into power and then keep it. That was his only real ideology. Not that different from Stalin or Putin, I don’t really get why is that silly idea that Le
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Poland and Germany can just have Ariane make their rockets. Why would they need a local domestic aero-space industry? That seems hardly relevant considering that other European countries realistically can only acquire nuclear weapons if the
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
If Germany acquires nuclear weapons it would be through direct cooperation with France/Britain, nothing else would make sense. So that speed up the process significantly and alleviate some of the concerns.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Or stealing them is easier. Pre modern economies were to a large extent zero sum and violence was pervasive (e.g. there was a lot of overlap between being a merchant and a pirate, you did whichever seemed more profitable at the time).
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
At least people get a vague idea of what war really can be like. Very few people would be attracted by that violence unless it’s extremely romanticized. There were no war movies before WW1 and no major wars for a few generations so there we
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> explained by Elon wanting higher gas prices, and Trump being easily manipulated Artificially triggering an economic recession is a sure way lower oil prices. So how exactly are they planning to do this? Besides that.. if this is really
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Yes, I would assume that certainly correct by weight/per kg. I was thinking more about per $ i.e. a gram of gold costs $100 I’m too lazy to look for exact figures but I would bet that labor costs (maybe even combined with energy costs)
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> should ignore lawful orders from a country they are operating in? By allowing users to install arbitrary software on their computers which is not directly controlled by them? That certainly would be shocking and unheard of.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
So pointing out that the sky is blue when it is indeed blue would be a form of propaganda as well? > It undermines efforts of governments to develop their own capacity If the government is so intent of concealing the problem that it is f
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Is processing and manufacturing steel actually cheaper than gold at any scale? Gold is a very easy metal to work with. While iron into steel especially on a large scale isn’t trivial. I doubt the cost of labor has a meaningful impact on the
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I’m not sure that’s necessarily true (or at all relevant) for a lot of precious or rate materials like gold. I don’t really know but I’d bet that gold requires much, much less labor to process than steel. It’s just much more scarce so the p
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Are you also complaining about the existence of unelected supreme court justices? Cabinet members? Any political appointees? Civil servants? Cause I don’t see how makes sense otherwise.. Fauci was a civil servant and also an appointed offic
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Libertarianism is the opposite of fascism In much the same way as communism is the opposite of fascism and nazism. Yet their methods and outcomes are remarkably similar. However I would say that anarcho-capitalism (i.e. what people lik
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
IIRC it didn't take that long to develop first production versions of macOS? A couple of years maybe? It's not like Fuschia was supposed to be a "fully capable OS developed from scratch", either? I mean it's "
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I wouldn’t necessarily go as far as directly comparing Musk and George Washington. But I suppose there are some parallels [if we take the more cynical] perspective. Both were willing to take on significant risk to upend the established soc
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> certainly not dumb Perhaps but IMHO it’s a very high risk strategy and I doubt it’s necessarily optimal if more wealth is his primary goal (as opposed to his other seemingly highly megalomaniacal ambitions..) So far his actions haven’t
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per... Even if adjusted by all those things the median American is doing very well while the Japanese are about on par with Southern/Eastern Europeans these
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> only absolute living standards. Well the idea is that (correctly or incorrectly) lower inequality would result in significantly higher absolute living standards. Arguably they had been going up at the pace they have over the last sever
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> 250 years ago George Washington His wealth was mainly in very illiquid land. A lot of it was near worthless unless US won the war since it was beyond the line drawn by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and white settlers were generally ba
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Not if US and Russia become “allies”. Then UK/EU companies will become a bigger “threat”. It should go even further e.g. you don’t want ARM installing backdoors on their chips and giving hostile foreign organizations like the MI6 acces
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> meaningful threats True, they cease being “meaningful” the moment you surrender and stop viewing them as threats. OFC it’s all relative, Russia and similar actors having more political/economic influence in the US (and by extensio
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Do you think I was trying to defend China rather than pointing out that if US continues on its current trajectory it will effectively become one of most important Russian allies? > unlimited What do you actually mean by that? Maybe you a
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
To be fair at this point it seems like US is drifting closer to Russia side than China is. At least if they stop arms shipments and other aid. China is barely Russia’s ally, AFAIK they haven’t sold them any weapons. Didn’t try forcing Ukrai

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