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Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by jacquesm »

closewith wrote: post #576
jacquesm wrote: post #571

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Reporting is messy and due to the EU's fragmented linguistic nature harder to come by than it probably should be. The balancing act is to increase stockpiles whilst supplying Ukraine which is consuming almost as fast as we're producing. Precision weapons you are right about, those are dwindling, but at the same time this is the one area where Ukraine internal production is beginning to outnumber imports (and their mo…

This is absolute fantasy. Stockpiles are only depleting, production hasn't and won't come close to meeting demand, and until there's a shooting war inside the bloc, it won't.

Unless you are privy to secrets at a level that they contradict the EU official figures + the figures from the defense contractors that I am tracking this is as accurate as I can make it.

I do not have access to information from the military other than what gets published but that's good enough for me as long as I don't see contradictions.

Here is one article from a while ago:

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/04/07/rheinme...

They were aiming for a 100% supply to Ukraine + stockpile increase for 2026 and I see no reason to disbelieve that other than your comment, if you want me to re-calibrate my position on that you're going to have to supply some sources.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by tastyface »

iso1631 wrote: post #273
nickdothutton wrote: post #233

I think there is a pretty good chance US is in the late empire phase. This is not about a single President or party, or even single geopolitical event/development.

> This is not about a single President or party I've seen roughly two types of American commentators over the last year. The ones that cheer this stuff going on, which HN has plenty of, and the ones that think "come the midterms/2028/impeachment everything will go back to normal" The latter are massively mistaken, it would take decades for the US to rebuild its standing in the eyes of the world, and there is no evide…

I haven't seen almost anyone suggest that everything will go back to normal post-2028? Every Democrat I know is expecting a painful and protracted fight for the soul of the country.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by cnd78A »

vrganj wrote: post #143

> As a source puts it, the French said: "Would you like more soldiers? You could have them. Would you like more naval support? You could have that. Would you like more air support? You could have that too." Thank God for the French. I long thought their strong Gaullist stance on sovereignty was a bit silly in today's world, but turns out they were right along. Europe can't trust any outside powers. Any external depen…

I can see you aren't french, nor know the culture, else you would have known that those were only words. false promise and pretending isn't seens as really bad in france. Words are just words. Foreign naive beliefs about our culture is realy cute.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by torginus »

throwawayfour wrote: post #503
torginus wrote: post #243

The F-35 is mentioned in the article as being readied for the defense of Greenland. I wonder what the 'easter-eggs' Danes would've found out about it if they went up against the US. (I think I know, it has to do with how its 'stealth' works.)

Well if that were to happen, that would be the end of a lot of defense business that the US does with many countries around the world.

I mean it has already happened. The F-35 relies on very thick (10cm+) layer of radar absorbing structures with special internal geometries (don't wanna go into detail regarding this).

Unfortunately if the precise construction of said structures is known, it becomes vulnerable to specially crafted radar pulses which make it generate strong returns.

So it's paramount that the exact layout be kept secret (and likely there's some variation between manufacturing batches, but this is just conjecture).

Needless to say, the US very likely has this info on every jet it sold, and a sufficiently motivated and sophisticated adversary can likely figure this out if the plane spends a long enough time in front of their radars.

That's why the US has been extremely careful about where and how the F-35 gets to fly.

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Post by pezezin »

srean wrote: post #482
libertine wrote: post #477

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Ok, thank you for clarifying because I thought you were coming from a different place. Well I disagree. I don't think the Holocaust took away the word "holocaust" and stripped it off from it's meaning, and from being able to be used to describe other events. I also don't think that was the intent behind the choice. So much so that I've capitalized the Holocaust. If it's the right choice or not to name it, I trust the…

Perhaps a Hebrew word would have been the most appropriate in this case. Holocaust is an English word and it is not a proper noun. In any case it's too late to change anything. Upvoted because I think your comment was downvoted out of emotions this topic triggers.

It is actually a Greek word, that's why it is the same in most other languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_(sacrifice)

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Post by aprentic »

Teever wrote: post #559
jacquesm wrote: post #451

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They are for me.

I perused the links that you provided in another comment. How much of these products are sourced from EU materials? Like is the copper in the wires from the EU? Is the wire made in the EU and coated with insulator there too? Are the motors wound in Europe?

It's hard to tell without the spec sheets.

The magnets are almost certainly from China.

The top copper producer in the EU is Poland so that's a possible source of copper. They're pretty far down the list though so it's likely that a large part of the copper is coming from places like Chile (top producer in the world).

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Post by mattmaroon »

maybewhenthesun wrote: post #574
mattmaroon wrote: post #488

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I don’t.

ok, the I apparently read different threads. Which is very well possible of course.

They can be tough to spot. (Which it sort of has to be to be a dog whistle.) Did you spot the one in that resignation letter the other day?

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Post by batiudrami »

nickdothutton wrote: post #233

I think there is a pretty good chance US is in the late empire phase. This is not about a single President or party, or even single geopolitical event/development.

It is interesting to me, as an Australian, that it almost seems like Osama Bin Laden won. The fall of the US commenced when they let the fear in, and that was September 2001.

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Post by jacquesm »

collingreen wrote: post #500
jjtwixman wrote: post #34

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Yeah the US we knew is gone. I think about this sometimes when I am listening to American music from the 20th century, how much soft power they had, how great they made America sound either directly or indirectly. That America that we all looked up to and admired is gone. Pity.

As an American I feel this way too - there is a nostalgia and disappointed yearning for what was probably a propaganda pipe dream. I find myself disappointed and indignant at the long list of bullshit we are doing right now but I'm surprised by my own extreme sense of betrayal over how we don't even -want- to be "the good guys" anymore. I know the US has a long history of evil, dont get me wrong, but until recently (…

I think a lot of us do. But right now that promotional material looks more like a rigged Microsoft demo than the real thing.

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Post by pezezin »

frm88 wrote: post #386
ericmay wrote: post #313

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> You live in a multi-polar world, there are three major power blocks and Europe isn't one of them, though that may change now (we're sick of war, but we're also sick of the threat of war, which one of the two will win out is up for grabs). There is - or rather, was, by now - Russia, China and the USA. Russia is unacceptable for many reasons, China is too clever for its own good in the longer term and the United Stat…

What soft power is the Chinese capitalizing on? https://cdn.ihsmarkit.com/www/images/0421/mapoverviewofchine... https://africacenter.org/spotlight/china-port-development-af... Two maps that show a small selection of Chinese infrastructure projects in Africa. See all those harbours? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power_of_China For example, one-third of the top 100 mobile games in Japan currently come from China.[…

> For example, one-third of the top 100 mobile games in Japan currently come from China.[20]

China is indeed taking the mobile game world by storm. Go to Akihabara and you will see these huge billboards of Chinese games like Genshin Impact or Honkai Star Rail. China is starting to outplay Japan at their own otaku game.

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