Europe preps huge defense package in boost to Ukraine: "Never been seen"
-
Definitely not. The orange man and the US in general is equal in my eyes to Russia. A bad, backwards place I would fight if it tried to thrust its diseased member into my current life and surroundings.
Instead, I’d give a lot for what I have now: The relative safety and social progress, as well as the socialist elements such as our guaranteed welfare for everyone without gotchas or requirements, the general atmosphere of acceptance towards sexual and gender minorities etc.
A lot of reasons to “throw my life away”. The life wouldn’t be worth much if I couldn’t be myself, if I couldn’t survive and thrive even when unable to work or function. So I’d rather go fighting for those as opposed to bending over to get fucked either way.
-
Not saying it's not the right thing to do, but I hope America is ready for the loss of jobs that will come with scaling back the military. There will be a lot of associated small businesses and stuff you wouldn't have thought of that will also get defunded outside of direct military spending.
-
Not sure how 0.00006 helmets per capita is the better figure, but there you go.
Yes, I mean, for Germany, being the 3rd largest economy in the world (only surpassed by the USA and China), it would be a real shame if they were not among the topmost supporters in total. Here, it makes much more sense to use per capita numbers, relate to GDP or whatever. Compared to it's economic potential, Germany is merely #15 in supporting Ukraine with Denmark, Finland, and the Baltics doing at least twice as much.
If you deem the bit about the 0..6 helmets per capita to be false, what's the correct take?
-
The answer to that is we pick it up in other ways, like universal health care or building schools, which would benefit the economy in other ways. There's nothing special about military spending that makes it more effective at Keynesian economics than anything else. In fact, it's probably worse.
Not that Keynesian economics was anything other than keeping capitalism going past its expiration date, of course.
-
Stand up against useless wars and military spending
Meanwhile, read about Ukrainian anarchists building drones and sending supplies for their comrades in army.
They know: if you get Putin's regime deployed on yourself, your chances for peaceful activism tumble down to nothing - you can't even hold a blank sheet of paper.
-
Happening but not happened quite yet. It’s still a minefield at the grocery store to shop for things not partially or fully prepared in the US. For seemingly ubiquitous things like cream cheese or pickles, from recent outings.
-
The funny thing is he whines about the trade deficit being $200B (which is a lie, because that's all he ever does) he may actually cause the trade deficit to actually be $200B.
-
Universal healthcare and building schools in this brave new America? They are killing off "woke" spending on renewables so I would not hold your breath for the former.
I think the reality is that new destitute communities will be created next to the former factories that used to supply the MIC.
-
There are air defenses that could potentially shoot down a missile before it hits its target. So one means there's merely a probability of destroying Moscow. A psychopath like Putin may be willing to take that risk, and even if Moscow got nuked, Russia would still exist (though obviously it would be significantly diminished), and he'd have justification for using nukes on Ukraine.
For MAD to apply you need enough nukes to be an existential threat to another country when you're dealing with psychopaths that would be fine with potentially millions of people dying if it means they come out on top in a war.
-
I think he'd be smart enough to not want to take the risk of destroying so much. Yeah he's a psychopath but who would gamble with that kind of destruction... I guess if the nuke failed to explode that's another consideration but I'd assumed even if the air defences worked in any sense, the nuke would still detonate? If that happened in the air, wouldn't it kill/maim a lot of people and taint land with the radioactivity?
What worries me is that the UK nukes are (I think) unable to be used without US authority so at the moment they're essentially useless even as a deterrent. I saw Kier Starmer giving that speech recently and yep, we're in trouble lol, he's no good at hiding his feelings. I almost feel sorry for him, except that I remember what he did to become the labour leader.
-
What's mic?
-
Yeah, I heard that. But I think that Ukraine couldn't actually use the nukes so they were of limited use, like maybe they could have been repurposed or something. But yeah no doubt about it, Ukraine got screwed and now they're finishing the job. I hope they sell their resources to anyone else, China or North Korea before they let Russia or the US have them.
-
What the realistically means is Europe will be starting it's nuclear weapon programs in earnest again. France and the UK have a handful, but it'll need a lot more to be an actual deterrent for Russia.
-
MAGA cultists will gladly eat up all the shit that’s served to them, and even gleefully ask for more of they think there’s even a passing chance that a Dem/liberal/leftie would smell their breath.
The US willing descent towards Gilead has been horrific to watch, as an outsider.
The sooner the rest of the civilised world decouples from that insanity, and hopefully bands together around the common ideals that the US used to (at least pretend to) represent - the better.
-
Where was this three years ago? Europe wants to make sure every last Ukrainian man is thrown into the meat grinder.
-
Our leaders have been too complacent, for what I think is a simple reason: It's easier to depend on the Americans so your own national budget doesn't take a hit and cause you to lose the next election.
Now that we've seen that the US is an unreliable ally and (rightfully) wants to reduce its' own military aid spending, they're hopefully seeing the bigger picture.
-
Military Industrial Complex
-
Well, there are some in the EU who are hoping to bargain with Trump so that we reduce our import taxes on American cars (US has them at 2.5%, we have them at 10%, so we've been doing exactly what Trump is trying to do, at a smaller scale), buy more weaponry from them and as the US ramps up its' gas production, we could buy more of that from them as well - if Trump in return does not put 25% tariffs on everything made in the EU.
It's not a bad deal for either side, really, though it sorta defers the whole making more of our own weaponry part of trying to be more independent of the US. And I'm sure both the automakers and MIC would do what's in their power to persuade Trump to take it.
-
Destitute communities come with a lot of political instability which probably has to be channeled into something, which despite what everyone's been thinking so far, has sort of been, to mixed or poor success with basically every succeeding administration. The protests keep getting bigger, basically. You get a big or well-organized enough one of those, and then there's a chance that you get something much more serious than chaz, or you get a politically galvanizing one-sided massacre, or something else to that effect.
-
Package.... and will EU also print new soldiers on its factories? Even properly and sufficiently training the existing ones takes years.
