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  1. They need air defense and long range fires. Hoping we will see the ATACMS really start flowing.
  2. 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.
  3. And the current plan isn’t to send them (Taiwan) F-35s. F-16Vs.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Sending air defense to Ukraine so apartment blocs don’t get bombed is like waterboarding, some absolutely galaxy brain Anastasis takes in here.
  9. Having better weapons so we can kill the bad guys is in fact very good.
  10. “AIPAC and the Southern Baptist Convention teamed up to push guns to Ukraine” is a sentence that never before has been contemplated and will make all the worst heads explode.
  11. Republican discourse is going places we can’t even imagine.
  12. Elon is very worried about tax dollars being wasted as Israel (maybe) bombs the last of the F-14s that the Shah bought from us for 2 billion dollars in the 1970s.
  13. I will again draw attention to the Dreher-American Conservative/European Conservative-Vance-Orban nexus. These people are being handled.
  14. LOL at citing a think tank mission statement. “Here at (think tank) we support good things and are against the bad things.”
  15. Quincy Institute produces poll that aligns with Quincy Institute. The thing is that Anastasis knows enough on how this works. From polling to marketing, offering a choice of extremes and a vaguely worded Goldilocks middle will reliably get you the middle. He’s a bad-faith poster on this issue that realizes he can’t just pump pure uncut agitprop, you have to embed it in seemingly reasonable stuff. The nonsense about insufficient controls over weapons and just asking where they are going is a good example, the question is loaded and contains the disinformation.
  16. This is as good as it gets from him. It’s actually cover to allow people to vote for it and then make angry noises at Europe. He doesn’t say “this aid package is bad” and in fact he says Ukraine survival is important to us. Don’t get me wrong, it’s terrible but it’s not as terrible as it could be and gives just enough to Johnson.
  17. Hold the Fort! Defense focused media gets ad revenue from defense industry? What’s next, GM advertises in Car and Driver? Ballistic missiles are not slow-moving drones.
  18. Those are systems that are in short supply and even Ukraine’s best friends don’t want to pull one out to send to Ukraine. They are in demand on the eastern flank. I see their point. Do we want to lose the Patriot in Rzeszow that guards the lines into Ukraine? Our problem is that we let our production atrophy by believing in the peace dividend.
  19. Yeah, religious groups have an absolute first amendment right to do this just like all associations of citizens. They can’t directly endorse candidates but they can argue all they want for changes in law of policy. Whether they should or not is a theological debate. It is interesting that they didn’t get the memo that Ukraine is anti-Christian. But they do know what happened with the Baptists in Russia.
  20. Purple states are the bigger blocker. “Ok, let’s do this and then my state becomes irrelevant and my special interests less compelling and national leaders stop coming to court me and my voters.”
  21. My grandad was a machine gunner on Higgins Boats for the Navy during the New Guinea campaign. He said that the troops had been warned not to try and wander off alone in the jungle because of cannibal locals. Probably a mix of true and war stories and shit you’d tell 19 year olds to make sure they didn’t do dumb stuff in New Guinea.
  22. Great deep dive on the performance of the F-15E agains the Iranian missiles and drones— and what that means for the F-15EX program. The much discussed proposed sale of several billion dollars in jets and munitions has a big chunk dedicated to F-15EX and air to air capabilities. https://www.twz.com/air/f-15e-strike-eagles-defense-of-israel-bolsters-the-case-for-f-15ex A look at the development chain and clients shows that this is a response to Iran.
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