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  1. Non-competes are garbage and anti-market. It’s just employers wanting the free market and competition for them and not for the people they employ. Great decision.
  2. Would have been super cool to get ATACMS in, i don’t know, October?
  3. Looks like this just got passed. Aid to Ukraine will start rolling as soon as POTUS signs. Arms to Ukraine, Taiwan. TikTok has to be sold out from under PRC. We’re so back.
  4. They need air defense and long range fires. Hoping we will see the ATACMS really start flowing.
  5. I’ve lived and worked for the last six years in Europe. Nations that have some of the very best maternity and paternity benefits also have some of the lowest birth rates. We should do that stuff because it’s good for existing moms and babies and not in a bid to boost birth rates. Birth rates have been declining since I’ve been officially off the market and all the ladies just keep hoping that will change. I don’t blame them for not wanting to settle for less.
  6. And the current plan isn’t to send them (Taiwan) F-35s. F-16Vs.
  7. Not trying to condescend to you man. Just pointing out that in addition to all the things that @atomheartbevo points out, they will need to probably do some work on runways, build shelters, redeploy air defenses and figure out a solution for the places they got left behind, etc. The planes are coming from Denmark and other divesting partners are are not new. Ordinarily any nation transiting to the F-16 would get legions of American advisors on site and would have to do extensive facility upgrades. The pilots need more than just proficiency on the jet for air policing missions, they will be doing combat missions almost immediately. It took Slovakia well over a year to get their infrastructure in place for the 14 jets they bought. Ordinarily you’d even have the new crews take a full English course. A lot has been compressed for Ukraine.
  8. I am for seizing Russian assets, but the Europeans are going to be loathe to do so, but are slowly coming around. The only argument I can see for sitting on those assets would be as a bargaining chip if we thought we might get a new Russian leader more amenable to real negotiations. Releasing those funds in exchange for better terms for Ukraine. That isn’t on the horizon. Spend the money. A compromise that might get the Euros on board would be to earmark it for reconstruction that European firms could bid on which would be hilarious and cool.
  9. F-16s aren’t quite F1 cars (that’s the F-35), but they’re for sure sports cars. Ukraine hasn’t had the infrastructure in place to keep them flying. It’s a multi year process to move to American fast jets for nations that aren’t at war.
  10. Being nuanced on Ukraine is a sign of an intelligent person trying desperately to muddy the waters to conceal their actual aims. It’s not derangement syndrome, consider it IFF.
  11. Sending air defense to Ukraine so apartment blocs don’t get bombed is like waterboarding, some absolutely galaxy brain Anastasis takes in here.
  12. Having better weapons so we can kill the bad guys is in fact very good.
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