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To steal a point from a recent radio war nerd, there’s a reason the British military is one of the last places to let children of notable families be tank commanders. The Chally 2 is supposed to have very impressive crew survivability stats. Americans wouldn’t dream of it. If you’ve got name value here you go air force

Honestly this plus "Skyrim-in-space" make me feel pretty confident that this game is going to have staying power just because we know how good the modding community is for bethesda games. Skyrim was panned up front as genre generic fantasy with a pinch of viking magic but has been played continuously for a decade plus because it made for such a good blank slate to add onto. Also I guarantee every current UI issue already has modders working on it. Starfield script extender just dropped and the game hasn't even officially been released

I find our own users desperately more annoying since the federation as well

Suck off me

Biden’s policies are a radical non-break from Trump’s and it’s crazy to me how there isn’t more hay made about that

It’s crazy to me that any military doctrine as a base assumption relies on air superiority. How could you ever assume that if facing off against a peer nation? Though I guess with nuclear armament there’s an assumption that you’ll never face off against a peer level natuon

Bazinga

Germany's green energy push was secretly propped up by outsourcing fossil fuel needs to Russian natural gas. The war in Ukraine and America subsequently blowing up the Nordstream 2 pipeline means Germany will need to find new alternatives to feeding their energy needs. One could hope this results in a speed up of green tech development as it becomes more of a pressing necessity than just, you know, the right thing to do. And hey speaking of knowing the right thing to do and then not doing it because of the perverse economic incentives for ignoring it, it's funny to note that the global leader in green tech is China but due to this new cold war the US is brewing and due to Germany's newly-humbled-into role as Jr Junior partner to the US there's no way there will be the necessary cooperation there between national tech sectors

To answer your question in the complete opposite way: with the rise of BRICS and the neocons staying in power I expect regional powers to expand and crackdown hard on their spheres of influence. The US will paint South America red in a new wave of bloodshed as Operation Condor II kicks off and we may even get the invasion of Mexico that the GOP is currently promoting. Highly doubtful BRICS will ever amount to a real defensive pact, especially since India and China are actually taking part in border clashes and India is working with ANZ to undermine China, so Brazil should be very concerned about whether it can maintain control over not just its region but its own sovereignty. Multipolarity will mirror 1890s geopolitics more than anything else. Will be interesting to see if the “political actions” remain covert and we see another wave of coups and military juntas in LatAm or if the US goes old school and starts making land grabs Panama and Mexican-American war style

The CIA’s playbook isn’t to create movements from wholecloth. They typically find a right wing movement or authority figure that they think is amenable to their cause and then start bankrolling them. If these new regimes are smart they’d start the purges of potential right wing power centers immediately

to only be a smaller infantry group and little armour

So is this all that Ukraine has or is there a larger force waiting in the back to either exploit a breach made in the lines or to try and pivot to another point if the Russian defense overcommits to the initial, smaller push?

All of my layman knowledge of war says that logistics are the actual game winner but I feel completely in the dark on actual army numbers. How many tanks does Ukraine have? How many have been seen so far during the counteroffensive? How many have been confirmed destroyed? I had assumed they had many more than have already been out in the front and that “the true counteroffensive hadn’t started” just based on the number seen, but western reporting trying to soften the blow of how poorly the counteroffensive is going makes me think they actually had far fewer tanks than previously understood and these piddling thrusts might be all they have in them. Who’s to say though

We should simply beat him to death with sticks