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Post by ansible »

mopsi wrote: post #235
danbruc wrote: post #232

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I can offer Russian statements spanning more than two decades consistently demanding that NATO stops expanding eastwards as evidence that this is what Russia cared about. What evidence do you have to the contrary? Why did they invade?

Nobody denies that Russia has tried to do everything they could to leave their neighbours internationally isolated to make them easy to subjugate. Criminals would no doubt like to see the police abolished and security systems dismantled. The question is why should anyone lend any legitimacy to their pretended excuses and sacrifice the freedom and wellbeing of tens of millions of Europeans in the name of imagined Russ…

> Can you perhaps devote a few seconds to my security concerns for a change?

Nope, sorry. It doesn't matter who you are, where you live, or what your concerns are. Russia and Putin insist that you must support Mother Russia, and be willing to die for the cause (of ensuring Putin gains power and wealth). /s

Re: Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone

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Post by dragonwriter »

ansible wrote: post #240
koonsolo wrote: post #238

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You actually believe Putin? Hahaha. > Why did they invade? Like I already stated earlier, because they want to control it like Georgia, Chechnya, Dagestan and Belarus. Only 1 of those countries was considered for NATO membership after the conflict kept going since 91 (considered membership in 2008). > What evidence do you have to the contrary? - Russia invading the North Caucasus (Chechnya, Dagestan, ...), without NA…

It is sad how things turned out regarding the West's relationship with Russia. Back around the year 2000, it really seemed things in eastern Europe were all moving in the right direction. The entire region was becoming more and more democratic, relations were warming up. Prosperity in Russia was increasing, things in general were looking positive. It wasn't seriously discussed, and no concrete steps were taken, but t…

> It wasn't seriously discussed, and no concrete steps were taken, but there was speculation that Russia might join NATO eventually.

Concrete steps were, in fact, taken; with Russia both joining the NATO Partnership for Peace and hvaing a special cooperation deal wIth NATO, with various cooperation arrangements; it blew up when Putin wanted Russia to be admitted to NATO ahead of other Eastern European states, and without the political and other readiness criteriabeing used for other new members.

Re: Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone

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Post by dragonwriter »

koonsolo wrote: post #228
danbruc wrote: post #216

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If NATO has no interest in Ukraine joining, then they could just have said no and avoided the entire mess.

You think Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine if NATO said no to their membership? You're so naive.

They did, after NATO said no to their membership action plan (more immediately, though, they did that to Georgia.)

Its pretty clear that Russia's concern about Ukraine (and Georgia’s) membership in NATO isn't the reason for their aggression, but rather a result of their intended aggression and the complications that potential NATO involvement posed for that.

The Russo-Georgian and Russo-Ukrainian wars are the result of NATO accommodating Russia in this area, not a result of NATO threatening Russia.

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Post by StockHuman »

skjoldr wrote: post #179
dbspin wrote: post #158

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> enforce the state of peace that we all take for granted The majority of the worlds population do not take peace for granted. The question is, to what extend has US hegemony extended war and violence, and to what extent has it depleted it (compared to the available alternatives). Clearly enormous loss of life has occurred in places like Latin America, Iran, South East Asia Cuba etc due to US led toppling of democrat…

That loss of life is not enormous if you look at the overall graph of civilian and military war-related deaths throughout 20th and 21st century. It very obviously trended downwards, especially after the Cold War, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine which caused a spike. Then again, communism resulted in millions more civilian deaths in the same time period. The US impact on the worldwide death toll is often overst…

> US impact on the worldwide death toll is often overstated for some reason

It is only perceived as overstated when the second-order effects of its actions are dropped from the count; the actions of the dictatorships backed and installed by the US never seem to make the tally. Kissinger’s (topical) Chinese containment strategy alone is responsible for as many deaths as the Holodomor. See accounts of Vietnam, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Korea.

Should proxies, direct actions by those one supports, etc. not count? Who knows, but that always seems to divorce foreign policy decisions from their consequences when we do.

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Post by StockHuman »

adastra22 wrote: post #171
yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #96

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The US army has helped stop the russians from killing me and my friends in Ukraine. The russians launch missiles and drones at civilians, like me. Last October, I was sitting at my kitchen table, writing Haskell and working on my startup, when outside my kitchen window the local air defence successfully blasted a Shahed 136 out of the air. Both the missile trail and the cloud from the explosion hung in the air for se…

FYI as it was a little obscure, “sheep” and “sheepdogs” is a reference to a quite famous article by USMC LTC Dave Grossman, author of a widely read book “On Killing”: https://mwkworks.com/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html It is not meant as a disparaging remark in this context to call people sheep. ChatGPT's summary: Dave Grossman explores the concept of three distinct types of people in society: sheep, wolves, and shee…

> the genocide conducted by Hamas

Curious framing, given the circumstances.

Re: Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone

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Post by koonsolo »

ansible wrote: post #240
koonsolo wrote: post #238

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You actually believe Putin? Hahaha. > Why did they invade? Like I already stated earlier, because they want to control it like Georgia, Chechnya, Dagestan and Belarus. Only 1 of those countries was considered for NATO membership after the conflict kept going since 91 (considered membership in 2008). > What evidence do you have to the contrary? - Russia invading the North Caucasus (Chechnya, Dagestan, ...), without NA…

It is sad how things turned out regarding the West's relationship with Russia. Back around the year 2000, it really seemed things in eastern Europe were all moving in the right direction. The entire region was becoming more and more democratic, relations were warming up. Prosperity in Russia was increasing, things in general were looking positive. It wasn't seriously discussed, and no concrete steps were taken, but t…

Exactly!

The North Stream (2) also indicated that EU wanted to trade with Russia. Looking back it might have been foolish, but hindsight is 20/20.

A democratic Russia, with close ties to the rest of Europe, would have meant so much for both the people of Russia and Europe.

In the end, we can be very happy that the system of democracy seems to work better than autocracy, else we would all be screwed.

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Post by yencabulator »

Maxion wrote: post #94
baron816 wrote: post #58

I’ve been watching a bunch of these videos where they war game realistic and pretty far fetched battle scenarios https://youtube.com/@grimreapers?si=lvRNWBee9RfnkxBI . They’ll cover stuff like a Chinese carrier group vs a US carrier group using slightly futuristic weapons. What often decides the outcomes of battles are the accuracy of ships’ air defenses and how many missiles they have onboard. Shooting down superson…

> What often decides the outcomes of battles are the accuracy of ships’ air defenses and how many missiles they have onboard. I always do wonder how realistic these war games actually are? They (at least the war games that are public) always assume at least one or both sides are near 100% competent with their systems. The Ukraine war has at least showed that that is not the case, the best example perhaps being the si…

I think you'd enjoy the story of HSwMS Gotland.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/war-games-swedish-ste...

https://navalpost.com/hswms-gotland-vs-uss-ronald-reagan/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSwMS_Gotland_(Gtd)

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yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #96
zmgsabst wrote: post #82

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The US army has helped stop the russians from killing me and my friends in Ukraine. The russians launch missiles and drones at civilians, like me. Last October, I was sitting at my kitchen table, writing Haskell and working on my startup, when outside my kitchen window the local air defence successfully blasted a Shahed 136 out of the air. Both the missile trail and the cloud from the explosion hung in the air for se…

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Post by dang »

zmgsabst wrote: post #105
yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #96

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The US army has helped stop the russians from killing me and my friends in Ukraine. The russians launch missiles and drones at civilians, like me. Last October, I was sitting at my kitchen table, writing Haskell and working on my startup, when outside my kitchen window the local air defence successfully blasted a Shahed 136 out of the air. Both the missile trail and the cloud from the explosion hung in the air for se…

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koonsolo wrote: post #123
zmgsabst wrote: post #105

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