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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 Cthulhu_ »

pjc50 wrote: post #97
pfdietz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US is teetering on the edge of a financial abyss. These are all just foreshocks.

People say this about a lot of places, and even Greece is now kind of OK. The US is not yet Argentina. The bad governance is mostly exporting problems to elsewhere, like the new oil crisis for east Asia. Even the ""government shutdown"" (just ended) isn't a problem. It turns out that you don't have to pay air traffic controllers for months.

They have been saying it about Russia for five years now, and while I'm sure they're hurting, it takes a lot more to fully collapse an economy, especially one as big as Russia or especially the US.

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by paleotrope »

aa-jv wrote: post #66
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

Short time? No, the US has been losing its stance in the world since the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, murdering a million people in cold blood on the basis of outright lies. It has been downhill ever since then. The support for the Gaza genocide is just one in a long list of atrocities for which the American state is responsible, and for which the entire world is starting to hold America responsible. The rest of…

Today it's Iran, or maybe Iraq 2003. Or maybe those pharma factories in Sudan in the 90s. Or perhaps the Serbia bombing. Or maybe Iraq 1991. Or again Panama in 88. Or maybe Grenada. Or maybe Laos. Cambodia. Vietnam. Haiti. Japan. China. Phillipines. Cuba. etc.

It's always something. We are always losing our stance.

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by sajithdilshan »

lostlogin wrote: post #136
sajithdilshan wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't comparing Nazis but the reality. Maybe that's your narrative

I thought you were comping 1930s politics to current events. I’m saying that your comment broadly works when you compare current US politics to 1930s German politics (nuclear policy aside).

I think you need to go back to school and learn history before labeling everything which goes against your belief as Fascism. What happened in 1930s Germany is absolutely not what is happening in US right now. US is still a democracy whether you like it or not.

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by sajithdilshan »

general1465 wrote: post #138
sajithdilshan wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't comparing Nazis but the reality. Maybe that's your narrative

You could change Germany for USA in your comment and it would be mostly correct too.

No it's not. Learn the actual history before you make vague comparisons.

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by piva00 »

renewiltord wrote: post #152
piva00 wrote: post #147

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> You don’t understand it because it’s clearly a second language for you. That’s fine. It’s not shameful to have poor proficiency in another language but you should know that your lack of comprehension comes from your inability and it can be fixed with practice.

First: surely you are aware of Hacker News' guidelines about snarkiness, I invite you to read them again and remain civil when trying to have a discussion here.

Second: my failure of comprehension comes from your lack of communication skills, trying to use evasive language to hide a point instead of clearly stating out what you want to say, probably stemming from a general character trait of cowardice, and not my proficiency on a second language.

If you wish we can chat in any of the three languages I'm proficient at but I believe on Hacker News it's pretty good to keep it in English, so next time be clear about your argument or intent, I much prefer to talk to people who don't cowardly hide their speak behind coded language. It makes communication more effective, learn that.

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by spwa4 »

brazzy wrote: post #47
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…

> Historically, they ... you can say Europe was more peaceful than places like the areas of the ottoman empire Um... WHAT ? I'll just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe

Yep. Really. As I said, not because Europe was very peaceful (although most of these conflicts were extremely underwhelming if compared to what ended the era: WW1)

Re: Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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Post by general1465 »

sajithdilshan wrote: post #155
general1465 wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could change Germany for USA in your comment and it would be mostly correct too.

No it's not. Learn the actual history before you make vague comparisons.

It works just fine or is USA not having a war right now, arming like crazy and want to fight for lebensraum with China, while also having meager real economy output? I guess you should learn more about history ;)
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