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Re: As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

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Impressive how much propaganda can achieve. The average citizen also wanted to stand up to Saddam, Gaddafi, xi , Al Assad before they take over the world

12 of current EU members lived under Russian occupation for >40 years.

And still, a considerable amount of people in Hungary (in my opinion 40%+, mostly from the poorer demographics) are strongly opposed to sanctions against Russia if that means the utility costs increase. I bet the memory of the countries on Russia's border function better, but don't underestimate the power of falling living standards paired with wishful thinking (that is, Russia will stop definitely at Ukraine's borders).

Re: As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

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6 out of 10 Britons support sanctions against Russia.

I then genuinely hope that the same 6 out of 10 are happy to pay their increased energy bill.

Not everyone cares only about themselves. Some things are worth a degree of sacrifice.

Re: As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

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You make it sound like this is going how Putin wanted it to, and that this is calculated and cunning.

If he didn’t want to prolong the war, why he sent only a fraction of his army? Why they’re attacking only southern and eastern parts and not from Belorus? Looking at last 2 decades you think Putin is incompetent? You can say many things about him but that’s the last fucking thing on the list.

He lost half of his Spetnaz regiments during the first week, and 80 to 90% of the para (that means close to half are dead or incapacitated).

It would be like France loosing half its marsouins and chasseurs alpins, and 80% of the legion in a week. A disaster.

And the worse is that Ukrainian migs are still flying over occupied territory. That's unforgivable. It's the proof that the fox3 capabilities they were boasting about are in fact shit. Now they lost Thales for their optics and avionics, so that might be an explanation on why their engagement range for air to air combat seems limited, but this is a bad look.

Re: As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

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Impressive how much propaganda can achieve. The average citizen also wanted to stand up to Saddam, Gaddafi, xi , Al Assad before they take over the world

Interesting how people care about Ukraine where Russian actions are arguably very localized to military targets but no one is concerned for over 500k dead in Iraq and their current civil war, all caused by certain NATO countries. Half of the ME is on fire, but no one care. Just a bunch of hypocrites.

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Re: As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

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I was thinking about this just the other day: 0. Secure food chains _now_. Nobody is talking about this yet. Droughts + fertilizer shortage + energy crisis + inflation = disaster. Name a single Country that got a good harvest this year. Personally I have begun to slowly store long-storage food items to get way ahead of panic buying. 1. Invest in nuclear power heavily. It's okay saying "people should change their live…

1. It takes 20 years to build a nuke plant, 2 years to do wind and 6 months to do solar. Solving the problem 20 years from now is not solving the problem. 2. In case you haven't noticed, the wind subsidies are now negative. Wind subsidizes natgas, not the other way around. 3. If the lithium supply gets cut off, existing EV's don't stop working. If gasoline gets cut off, gasoline cars are stranded. EV's are crucial fo…

> 1. It takes 20 years to build a nuke plant, 2 years to do wind and 6 months to do solar. Solving the problem 20 years from now is not solving the problem.

As another comment suggested, it shouldn't take 20 years to build a nuclear power plant. "Modern nuclear power plants are planned for construction in five years or less" [1] (with delays, as with all projects of such scale).

> 2. In case you haven't noticed, the wind subsidies are now negative. Wind subsidizes natgas, not the other way around.

Then why is there still a "green tax"? If wind is as great as suggested, why is it being invested into natural gas, and not into more wind?

> 3. If the lithium supply gets cut off, existing EV's don't stop working. If gasoline gets cut off, gasoline cars are stranded. EV's are crucial for self sufficiency.

Lithium is just one raw material, out of many. It's not just power generation, we need massive investments into the electrical infrastructure, green energy to actually supply it (or it's pointless) and a way to feed power from EV's back into the grid on mass (to make up for the shortcomings of green energy). Some of these things will take years and years to fix. Look at how long it took to roll out fiber across the UK, and that's just a small glass cable. In the meantime, the Country actually needs to be able to run.

EVs will one day be the future in one form or another (I still think hydrogen could make sense), but for now and the near future petrol and diesel are here to stay. 2030/2035 will come and go without mass adoption of EVs (the typical lifecycle of a car is much longer than the intended 10 years). I suspect we will see more and more hybrids at that time to aid the transition, but we still won't have the infrastructure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...

Re: As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

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If he didn’t want to prolong the war, why he sent only a fraction of his army? Why they’re attacking only southern and eastern parts and not from Belorus? Looking at last 2 decades you think Putin is incompetent? You can say many things about him but that’s the last fucking thing on the list.

He lost half of his Spetnaz regiments during the first week, and 80 to 90% of the para (that means close to half are dead or incapacitated). It would be like France loosing half its marsouins and chasseurs alpins, and 80% of the legion in a week. A disaster. And the worse is that Ukrainian migs are still flying over occupied territory. That's unforgivable. It's the proof that the fox3 capabilities they were boasting…

Sure buddy.

Re: As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

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Counter-argument. Why are the G7 not increasing the aid to Ukraine, to more quickly end the war and force Russia to settle?

Exactly.. Why not amp up the war against the super power with most nukes in the world. I wonder what would happen if the real civilized world started aiding freedom fighters against UK in Iraq, Syria and Libya? Russia will probably start doing that

Do I understand correctly that what you propose is making this derailed "super"power richer and more connected to the countries it's been trying to subvert for fifteen years?

Re: As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

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1. It takes 20 years to build a nuke plant, 2 years to do wind and 6 months to do solar. Solving the problem 20 years from now is not solving the problem. 2. In case you haven't noticed, the wind subsidies are now negative. Wind subsidizes natgas, not the other way around. 3. If the lithium supply gets cut off, existing EV's don't stop working. If gasoline gets cut off, gasoline cars are stranded. EV's are crucial fo…

20 year to build a nuke plant? You'll want to learn about the "plan Messmer". Or 6 years to build 13 900 MW reactors. When they only had experience with UNGG tech and wanted to use PWR. I think in the end, 55 reactors were build in 12 years, replacing all coal and gas plants except for 2. I mean, 50 000 MW in 12 years, basically. For today equivalent of 50 billions USD.

As if they could do that today. Even China takes over 10 years to build a nuke, no way the west can do it faster.

The US is adding 60GW a year of renewables, 55 of nukes in 12 is not impressive.

Re: As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

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He lost half of his Spetnaz regiments during the first week, and 80 to 90% of the para (that means close to half are dead or incapacitated). It would be like France loosing half its marsouins and chasseurs alpins, and 80% of the legion in a week. A disaster. And the worse is that Ukrainian migs are still flying over occupied territory. That's unforgivable. It's the proof that the fox3 capabilities they were boasting…

Sure buddy.

You really think that reaching a stalemate with a military as small as that of Ukraine was his aim? The equilibrium reached is slowly but surely swinging against Putin.

He ran away from the capital. He is running out of troops and is getting close to conscription. He is dragging out ‘50s and ‘60s tank relicts to fight after losing his prime weapons. His airforce is hiding and his best ship was sunk. His oligarchs are starting to desert him and are getting bombed or falling out windows.

Re: As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts

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Okay this is a genuine question but why are the G7 not backing down when clearly their populations are the ones suffering? It feels strange to me living in the UK that the sanctions have been spearheaded by the US when they are mostly shielded from Russia. Whereas for European countries, it is obvious that they are dependent on Russian gas and yet they are not willing to negotiate. The average citizen cares about the…

Remember when Victoria nuland said " fuck the EU" to Ukrainian authorities?

Remember when Trump imposed duties on EU?

Yeah the rich of US doesn't care.. Sorry

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