Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting
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The NATO wargamed expectation for the Baltic's is that Russia invades very quickly ( faster than the planned ukraine 3 day operation as they're smaller), overthrowing the government before NATO can react in the expectation that NATO would struggle to invade a deafeated nation, and so fragmenting the alliance.
If this sounds insanely risky, well Putin never did it. But as a plan it's not too bad.
I think you know better than me the state of Europe's readiness to counter this, they are extremely aware of the possibility.The other point is that for Ukraine support this isn't just a generic issue with size of military in the abstract, Europe as a whole does not have enough factories producing specifically artillery shells to support the artillery dominated land war in Ukraine.
Ramping those up would take time, so even if Europe tries to help the forms it can take will differ to the USA and force different (worse? I can't judge) choices on the ground. -
But you just described Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. Didn't even get to keep 50 square kilometers of barren wasteland.
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give them to EU or china instead.
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Tariffs need someone to collect them. And sales tax is very much the IRS. It's not automated just because they itemized your receipt.
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Of course he has. That was the whole point. When he didn't fall in line with the plan, Trump and Vance threw a tantrum. Zelenaky will not just accept peace at any price, he's acting in the best interests of his country and I do not blame the man for it.
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The NATO strategy reacted by placing the ARF there + placing some Polish high readiness forces there.
Artillery shell production is an issue,but has been massively expanded during the last year, so has been the production of other ammo- the issue with Ukraine is more the fact that they do not use NATO standards and that there are a multitude of systems in use.But art. ammo also is an issue for the Russian armed forces,so at least in that direction it basically equals out.
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Well, they might just bring back the pinkertons for that
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NATO is still usefull as a framework for cooperation with the UK, Turkey, Canada and Norway.
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ROFL Krasnov Trump and Vanker failed to make a deal, a bunch of losers.
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I actually love this idea of anonymous crowdfunding by the masses. But how could we make this happen? I guess it would have to be initiated from the Ukrainian government.
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I can already guess the excuse: "Europe started the war by not negotiating a peace deal with Russia when it came to Ukraine."
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? I'm from the UK, I'm saying I hope we're not as overtly sleazy with our support.
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Fun fact: Pinkerton is tanned, rested, and ready to go.
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Holy fucking smokes. This was without a doubt the cringiest, most uncomfortable display of lack of professionalism and pure second-hand embarassment I've ever seen from a president and a vice president.
I have so much respect for Zelensky for putting up with that. What an absolute circus.
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Even worse, look at this bullshit: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-844166
Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralized, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there to counter Turkey's growing influence in the country, four sources familiar with the efforts said.
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I mean, the framework is already in place with crypto. The silk road ran for years and facilitated enormous amounts of illegal activity, and in the end who got in trouble? Like one fucking guy.
It's honestly no different than a bookie. You facilitate the transactions and keep a portion of the cut for each transaction. The key is keeping the payor, payee, and broker anonymous
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I mostly agree, but I think the list needs Germany's excellent Leopard (2) tanks, the modern APC variants and all their industry.
Europe also has a lot of good marine yards that can make Navy vessels and submarines.
And it can drum up drone production in a rapid tempo where needed.
What's more, European Steel and metallurgy are out of the door of higher grade than the US, Russia and Chinese productions.
This is a boon to produce heavy armor quickly.So when push comes to shove Europe can no doubt ramp up a unified military industry rapidly, no need for it to take a decade, and keep finances in house.
Another factor that works against the Trump economy if he thoughtlessly pulls the plug on NATO -
yo....do republicans say this is awesome while also saying that gaza was a biden genocide? very curios as if the US pulls out, russia will destory ukraine and then probably europe.
