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The most frustrating thing about Ukraine is just how all this stuff is in the open and publicly available, yet people keep running around and pretending that the war isn’t the result of NATO expansion.
0·1 day agothis is what happens when you spend 30 years smelling your own farts
0·1 day agohe kinda looks like an action figure of a Bond villain
Happy bday comrade!
I agree this obviously goes beyond Trump. My view is that this is primarily about preventing Eurasian integration. The biggest problem the US has is that it sees China as its main geopolitical rival, and needs to refocus resources away from Europe. However, if the US simply left, then Europe would start becoming economically integrated with the east by necessity, and that would necessarily translate to a geopolitical realignment. The conflict with Russia provides a solution to this problem. Europe is now forced to devote its resources towards filling the gap the US is leaving in NATO, while Russia is similarly forced to devote increased resources towards military spending. The hostility between Europe and Russia also means that any serious economic integration of Eurasia is significantly delayed. Although Europe continues to build economic relations with China, there is an atmosphere of distrust, and Europe ultimately sees China as being aligned with Russia. Thus, the trade relations between them are tepid at best.
To sum up, I think that increased military spending is a way to keep Europe down and tie up Russia while the US pivots to attempt and contain China.
a good example of Betteridge’s law of headlines
0·5 days agoI often thing about what could’ve been if all the resources and ingenuity that goes towards the military industry was devoted to space instead.
oh it absolutely is
I guess DPRK isn’t safe for you pedos and sex pests like the south
no shit, western sex pests would get thrown in jail in DPRK
I do think the moon is by far the most practical target for a self sufficient colony in the foreseeable future. There are all the resources you could want, you could pressurize existing lava tubes and use them as habitats. There is water, and you can split oxygen out as well. There are rare earths available, so you could even build stuff like electronics and computer chips on site. As you note, solar power is readily available as well.
Once industry is established on the moon, the next step could be to build a space elevator, which we know we can do with existing materials since the gravity is low and there’s no atmosphere. A space elevator would allow moving massive amounts of matter into orbit effectively for free. At that point, we can assemble space ships in orbit that would never actually have to land anywhere. We could also build habitats like the O’neill cylinder, and so on. This would be the gateway to deep space exploration and habitation.
The big advantage of Titan over Europa is the fact that you have an atmosphere. It would make life on Titan feel fairly normal in a sense that you just need to put a thermal suit to go outside. I imagine easy access to hydrocarbons is probably more useful than simply having water, because it means having a supply of energy, useful chemicals, and building material. Water can always be extracted from the environment if you have energy to do that.
It’s amazing to me how the west never considers the idea that people living in a particular place have their own agency, and that there will be a response to their meddling.
0·6 days agoThat’s not true, they will proceed to continue providing political and material support for the genocide.
Israel threw the west a real curve ball doing a completely unapologetic genocide without even trying to hide it. All the moral posturing that we saw over the past three years in Ukraine is now crumbling in the face of such blatant hypocrisy. All of a sudden it turns out that unprovoked wars are justifiable, that it’s fine to murder civilians by their thousands, to bomb infrastructure, and commit every atrocity under the sun. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to explain the contrast to the western public.
Polls I’ve seen seem to show that majority now recognize they’re not getting those back at this point.