Even his weapons inspector role is fairly non-credible.
He did turn publicly tankie over what was generally understood as a pretext manufacturing job, after playing his role passably.
That's kind of what I'm saying.
Seemed the latter. After the fact clout chasing. Now he's famed as Putin's favorite pedo.
That's another false assumption; I'm far from being the type who cares enough to vote, and if I do I'm not under any illusions that my vote will make a lick of difference. I used to participate in the process a while ago on the local level, but in the past 20 years or so even piddly local elections have become pointlessly partisan & are sold (one way or another) to the highest bidder.
I was thinking more along the lines of heavier artillery, not really small arms. Back in the beginning I was told that it's much easier, faster, and cheaper to just send funds, especially to avoid the risk of high-dollar equipment being "diverted" or lost. My friends over there have always been pretty adamant about not sending valuable stuff like optics or drones for those reasons, although cheaper things like TA-50 or medical supplies are more appropriate. It just takes a long time and units move often enough that their mail is just sent to Kyiv or Kharkiv & they send someone to pick if up every couple days or weeks.
Yes, in the United States where most of the money is being spent to build up industrial infrastructure. If you want to parse which infrastructure is worth federal investment that would be interesting but blanket statements amounting to "the American Federal Government shouldn't invest in local manufacturing" come off as short sighted. Especially at a time like this where an increasing amount of on-shoring of manufacturing is occurring in the United States and it is expected to continue over the next decade. Investing on rebuilding and expanding munitions production is also investing in the talent to build out manufacturing in other fields.
Twenty years of low-intensity fighting is still twenty years of fighting. You'd be surprised.
Actually, we pretty much did. Go look into Clinton's Dividends of Peace initiative. Defense companies were forced to merge, all our M60 tanks were dumped in the ocean to become artificial reefs, and production as a whole was sharply scaled back to the bare minimum to sustain existing stocks.
Military industrial complex replaced government's role in terms of arms production, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Rheinmetall on top of my hwallead. US keeps HIMARS, cluster munitiyyons and Bradleys in stockpile to gather dust insince they're obsolete, granted even obsolete arsenal are better than nothing and smaller nations have arms deals to sell obsolete F line fighter planes, tanks and APCs to name few.
Himars is the launch system, not the projectile.
Even after twenty years of low intensity warfare against insurgents it still wouldn't come close to what a war with the Soviets would be like. The average lifespan of an M60 in a scenario where the cold war would go hot was about 15 minutes. The US was pretty much counting on being able to out produce the Soviets.
Quality over quantity, pack of seething retards in suicide boxes are still seething retards in suicide boxes, Ukraine has gear from NATO countries, modern doctrine and high training.
The YouTube source of the news of this leak (all in Russian(?)); "ВСЕ ИДЕТ СОГЛАСНО ГРАФИКУ! ВСЕ ПО ПЛАНУ | Интервью с @dmytrokarpenko", 7 January 2024:
I hear you dude and I'm not trying to say that the Ukrainians from the 90s (or current day ones for that matter) are some sort of childlike savants free from sin that definitely are not responsible for some fucky fuck games being played today. But unless I'm misreading between the lines here, assuming they turned around and sold some of the ordinance (unsure proper term) to another hostile entity because Slav, isn't the tech so old that it doesn't even matter? And wouldn't that basically be the equivalent of them saying, 'guess we didn't want to win the war' not only by pissing off Western aid givers but also getting rid of shit used to kill Russians?
See above, you need to both make sure that no supply officer decides to get payday + you need to make sure highcommand doesn't get any ideas about potentially triggering WWIII.
Because hitting Russia with Sanctions doesn't matter if no one actually sanctions Russia.
While its annoying, remember Russia's leader doesn't care what international opinion of him is, and we've seen how that's turning out.
And what part of "After peace broke out Bill Clinton began gutting our entire industrial base, military and civilian" are you not getting? Machinery was sold to China, tooling was destroyed because storing it is expensive, and so on. We never built that shit back up during the War on Terror since lo and behold, we had these massive stockpiles that needed to get run down to save on storage costs.
What's crazy is there are retards who actually believe Dugan's "multipolar world" cope will bring about more peace and prosperity. They're so /pol/-brained or propagandized by daddy russia that they actually think Russian klepto oligarch rule is better than the "globohomo" meme they think exists IRL as much as it does online.
The bad part is that air currents brought this polar cyclone thing from Russia to my country too, and 2 days ago I was running in shorts at like 5-10C, now it's fucking -5 and there's too much snow to even try until the pathways/roads get fixed.
The problem is. you've only made the argument for sending 12 ATACMS at a time and not a total of only 12 ATACMS.
