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Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by frm88 »

spwa4 wrote: post #20

The problem with this, historically is that the way Europe's geography works, a number of countries are just not going to fairly share in the burden of defending Europe, while other countries have the ability to tax foreign trade. Ireland is famous for this, and looking at a map, you can see why. Spain, Turkey and Denmark have historically taxed foreign trade. Additionally a number of countries have "unfair" advantag…

even Spain's current government

Where do you get this from? Is this a remark that comes from antipathy to social democracy? Every speech by Sanchez that I have listened to over the last year has him promoting free trade, even the wiki says so:

Sánchez has been a strong advocate for finalizing the long-negotiated EU–Mercosur Free Trade Agreement,[170] which aims to establish one of the world's largest free trade areas.[171]

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by laughing_man »

lostlogin wrote: post #89
laughing_man wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Another serious question: if this attack was so desperately needed, why did it take Israel to push America into it? It’s almost like it didn’t need to happen. And if we step further back, relation with Iran are troubled, why would that be?

It's more like a nuclear armed Iran is an existential threat to Israel, while the threat to the US is longer term.

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

laughing_man wrote: post #73
fabian2k wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> Serious question: Would you rather the US had started this war or Iran obtained nuclear weapons?

The former existence of the JCPOA "Iran nuclear deal" is what indicates that this is a false dichotomy, not a serious question.

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by pjc50 »

peterbecich wrote: post #55
ragebol wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do renewables create a dependency on fossil fuels? This dependency already existed before renewables in the current sense were a thing. If anything, renewables help existing stock of fossil fuels last longer as you don't burn as much when renewables are generating.

I'm going to guess if net energy use goes up, due to a glut of renewable energy, the gaps on cloudy, windless days will result in greater fossil fuel use than before. There need to be assurances renewables are replacing fossil fuels rather than just adding capacity.

> the gaps on cloudy, windless days will result in greater fossil fuel use than before

How can it possibly, when ""before"" (what dates and countries are we talking about?) was mostly fossil fuel anyway?

Remember that Germany, France, Spain and Poland look completely different in terms of energy mix!

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by laughing_man »

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #104
laughing_man wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> Serious question: Would you rather the US had started this war or Iran obtained nuclear weapons? The former existence of the JCPOA "Iran nuclear deal" is what indicates that this is a false dichotomy, not a serious question.

As I pointed out elsewhere, the "Iran nuclear deal" was very similar to the "North Korea nuclear deal" that prevented the North Koreans from building nuclear weapons.

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by koonsolo »

AntiUSAbah wrote: post #38
ragebol wrote: post #2

It's still baffling to see the US lose so much face in so short a time. There is definitely truth that Europe has relied on US defense for too long, but what the US got in return is hard to put into words and economic terms. We bought your tech, culture, defense and so much other stuff. This rift won't close anytime soon

We didn't 'rellied on US defense'. We have a different policy... We have Mauser, Carl Walther, Sauer & Sohn, Haenel, DWM, Krupp, Reinmetall, Hckler & Koch and more. We know how to do military

I hope you're French, otherwise you are still relying on US defense.

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

laughing_man wrote: post #106
SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Serious question: Would you rather the US had started this war or Iran obtained nuclear weapons? The former existence of the JCPOA "Iran nuclear deal" is what indicates that this is a false dichotomy, not a serious question.

As I pointed out elsewhere, the "Iran nuclear deal" was very similar to the "North Korea nuclear deal" that prevented the North Koreans from building nuclear weapons.

I see your opinion there, and I do not place any value in it.

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by eru »

wolfi1 wrote: post #10
eru wrote: post #9

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Nah, it's mostly the Prussians. Those Bavarians and Austrians and other southerns are too jolly.

you certainly don't know how belligerent the Hapsburgs were

Weren't they supposed to marry, not war?
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