peopleproblems

Yeah, anyone seeing this as Putin doing jackshit is kidding themselves.

This is about having the US attack Europe. Or maybe just Ukraine. Who knows.

It doesn’t really matter. What matters is that the US is compromised, and Europe needs to be ready for that yesterday.

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You’re making a mountain out of a molehill.

Mexico waffled nothing. They removed the signs. The statement of believe or not isnt consequential.

You might be reading too much into that. The article stated Mexico’s naval personnel removed them as the personnel acted on the information they had. I would highly doubt they were going to go to great lengths to confirm the exact coordinates of the boarder.

Do I think that’s what the Americans were trying to do? Yes. But Mexico didn’t waffle it.

I feel like that’s an unfair question.

Yes. And no. We desired it. But we really should have prepared for disappointment.

Wait why did he open it?!?!?

That defeated the whole purpose!

Gestures broadly to all recorded history.

It’s like their thing.

It’s actually kind of mind boggling. Lenin knew this was a thing and took all sorts of steps to correct it, but his mistake was demanding it to improve by force. “We’re making your lives better now, or else.”

I mean, shit, a big ass group of armed dudes on horses show up in my cold ass disconnected village and they say we need to do x, y, and z to improve our lives or else? Yeah that’s sus.

Spain? Read the room.

Why stop at Gaza right? Israel has a lot of neighbors, might as well walk right into Iran or Lebanon and just start murdering people too!

The tell tale sign of how awful the zionists are is that they aren’t picking a fight with Iran. Syria fell. Syria is starting to rebuild. Palestinians had barely any organized resistance. They only fight those who can’t fight back. Almost exactly like another genocidal maniac in the 1920s-1940s.

Now ‘ere’s what crazy-ol’ u/peopleproblems would do. Crazy ol’ u/peopleroblems would come to the sum of bitches we have in Acquisitions, and say 'how many weeks could a force of exactly Ukraine’s force hold a position with everything we have currently sitting in storage deployment ready, but not otherwise deployed? Ok, and how about all the equipment we have being delivered under contract for that many weeks? Ok, now, get me a number to replace all that equipment with the newest contracts set to immediately fill everything we send for that first chunk. Ok, now double it, and phone the pencil pushers to get procurement offers for this shit from the defense manufacturers. Yes, definitely let their boards know too. Oh, don’t mention where the already purchased equipment is going, that’s national security interest. Just mention the US is interested in making them rich in turn for securing our country for a long time."

“And give that number to Congress?”

“Once the various board members hear first. We gotta feed the handlers before we treat the pawns in Congress.”

“Sir is that, legal?”

“It’s an official act. I just made it legal.”

Well damn, so much for the unmaintained nukes theory

Back at the beginning of the arms race, the US believed Russian propaganda that they had significantly more nukes than the US was capable of producing.

By the time the US had around 4000 nukes, later intelligence revealed Russia had 4. The US decided to maintain the policy of the arms race as it was very beneficial to the defense industry and research.

The cost to develop and maintain a working thermonuclear weapon is enormous, let alone fission bombs. Russia never had the resources to maintain an arsenal the West isn’t capable of intercepting. You may recall the “Iron Dome” missile defence system that was removed from Europe.

The rocket platforms are expensive enough. The nuclear material requires time, maintenance, and a fuck load of power to produce.

I get the fear. China can do it, they have all the resources and knowledge to. Same with India.

Facts of nukes help: Tritium has a halflife of 12.3 years. Meaning after 12.3 years, the amount of tritium in a nuke is half. the 500lbs of tritium in the 60s is now 35lbs today. Obviously I dont know how much is needed to make a nuke, but it’s not easy to concentrate tritium well. The most effective way is replacing control rods in nuclear reactors with lithium rods. But that’s not the real issue. That’s relatively minor.

The problem is weapons grade uranium or plutonium. You need to enrich those to very high % of U-235 to get a big enough blast to trigger the fusion reaction. To do that, enormous, power intensive centrifuge facilities are required. And it takes a long time to produce enough for a fission bomb.

Given that Putin operates on wealth, and the shit state of the Russian military? They didn’t maintain any operational nukes after the Soviet Union fell.

nice. this gives me the incentive to continue down that path. already have one TB SSD for if, not hard to add a second