RubberDuck

Ukraine has been targeting Russia’s radar and early warning capabilities, allowing them to fly drones into occupied territory and into Russia proper to hit high value military targets, refineries, factories and more.

The A50 was in part to coordinate airstrikes on the front, and in part to fill the radar gap.

Now the gap needs re-filling… Again…

In the mean time, refineries and fuel depots burn, airfields get hit, ships get sunk. It’s getting harder every day… for both sides… but the loss rate for Russia is only sustainable as long as their enormous reserves last… But they are dwindling…

This is the attritional warfare Zalushni was talking about. It’s like 2 boxers beating the crap out of each other untill one has had enough, can’t raise his arms anymore, or goes KO. And neither is KO just yet.

LOL, isolationism and no understanding of geopolitics.

The US is as rich and powerful because one of their key exports is safety for their allies.

Once that goes out the window many other things might change or fade away.

Trying to be top dog of a global trade empire and being an isolationist don’t go well together.

And if the US where to abandon Europe/Ukraine, why would anyone care to stop trade with China, once the inevitable clash between the US and China occurs.

The US needs their allies just as much as they need the US.

I read it as you where implying it could escalate to worldwar and I tried to add 2 examples where this did not happen in previous occasions. Was not trying to start a fight :)

Now they no longer provide any support… how will that strong arming work? Give them less? (This is the thing that the isolationists overlook in the US, the US buys their influence).

Sure Ukraine has it difficult, but it has not even conscripted their youngest fittest men. It is silly to think either side currently has the power to beat the other. In the current stance this can last another decade.

So where Vietnam and Afghanistan. Both great powers got their teeth kicked in and withdrew because the wars where no longer politically expedient.

I imagine this is a bit more existential for Putin, but it is also more costly by an order of magnitude.

He does not have to wait for victory in Ukraine. All he has to do if spark tensions and commit to taking some insignificant piece of a NATO country.

A place that is not important enough to throw nukes over.

And then see if NATO dares to respond.

The politicians will then debate if this is really good enough reason to go to war… Causing a fracture to be visible in the NATO all for one doctrine.

Once that is proven false… NATO will start to crumble.

There is no limit to what you can achieve with an infinite amount of expendable labor. Russia shows this all to well.

The EU defence sector needs to be propped up… more 2A7’s… more 155mm, more CV90, Taurus, storm shadow, glsdb, more, more, more. Contracts for production should include capacity for production, especially with munitions.

Because nukes do not exist in your fantasy world?

Plus organizing your army with the goal of stopping a Russian invasion means you get to make other choices than if you need to be offensive. And that gives you even more combat power.

There is no reason to invade Russia… none.

How is this legal?

And then all visitors that where there for other reasons like delivering a package, making repairs etc are now also spammed by these whackjobs.

It’s probably something a sensible adult in their orbit said at some point. But I refuse to distill any sensible thing form that drivvel.

What a stupid take.

• consequences be damned.
• some of you may die but that’s a risk I’m willing to take.

I’m just glad people with these kinds of thoughts are probably not even old enough to vote.

The EU should have gotten way more serious about their own defence sector. Spending large amounts of these procurement budgets within the EU means that a lot of the money flows straight back as taxes from employees, profits, subcontracting etc.

It’s time now to start rebuilding the sector again and do some horse trading with the US for inter-dependence.

Trump acts as if military power is the only thing, (it’s probably the only thing he understands) but the fact the EU is so dependent means they will follow sanctions etc more than they might have done otherwise. But Trump is not of the soft power.

But the peace dividends need to be reinvested, I suggest in best of breed stuff, manufactured in the EU.

Willfully circumventing these sanctions… after trial and conviction the sentence should be a Ukranian penal battalion.

Well the situation is in east Germany unemployment is high, education and labour skill is reasonable to high, ground prices are low and it’s in Germany (the incentives to chose to locate there).

But in the end if a company where to choose solely on those factors Poland and the Czech Republic have all these things (except being Germany) at much lower wages… so the intrinsic incentives for those companies are to not locate to east Germany.

Hence the required subsidies for some of there companies… an artificial incentive is added). That without it the companies would not be there, and in the end I would argue the proximity to Poland and Czech republic mean other companies will not choose east Germany.

So yes, we agree the subsidies are part of the whole package weighed by companies, the artificial incentive (subsidie) is only available to a limited group and this is why I think east Germany will remain a problem area for Germany.

The first one is intrinsic incentives, the second one I should have called subsidies. You are correct it’s messy like this.

Do they though? They are building modern factories with high automations and are getting massive subsidies to do so.

Additionally they need a lot of jobs, the region is poor, so we can only hope that attracting a few high profile players can create an effect that causes others to gravitate there.

As this will most likely also alleviate the AfD problem.

Obviously the east of Germany is never going to prosper, there is no incentive for companies to go and open their doors in east Germany as they can then just move east a few more kilometer and get workers for 1/3 of the cost.

Few, just in time.

Maybe magats should focus on their god emperor and his crimes, insurrection and manufactured border crisis while picking themselves up by their bootstraps.

But that would actually mean doing some real reading and not only sucking the teet of FOX news and other RT-subsidiaries.

The only reason the US is as rich and powerfull today is because they (heavy handedly) interfere in geopolitics and protect(ed?) their allies with that same vigor. Keep in mind the status quo favors the US very much, throwing over the board comes at more risk to Americans than anyone else.

And once he has the numbers he will just sell it again