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  1. Allies and partners can replace almost everything except dead Ukrainians. They can’t be replaced, they are the future of the country and the future security providers against Russia no matter what happens. Whether this ends on favorable or unfavorable terms. What is maddening about the delayed aid is that it’s forcing Ukraine to expend more of its most precious resource, which is people. In a defensive struggle you can trade space, mass, and firepower for time. Ukraine has to choose mass because trading for space means more dead civilians and they don’t have superior firepower. This goes against NATO doctrine and planning which has always been to trade for space until superior firepower can arrive in theater and be brought to bear. Back to the issue of saving the younger generation. This goes deep to Ukrainian roots and reality. First, Ukraine was an aging, emigre society before the war. They are not a Middle East insurgent nation with an excess of young males. Second- the deeply agrarian Ukrainians recall the trauma of the Great Famine and Holodomor. First the Ukrainians ate their seed grain. Then they ate the dead, then they starved. A European peasant never eats the seed grain until there is no choice. You eat the livestock, you eat the aging milk-cow, you eat grass and bark to survive the winter before you eat seed grain. The remaining young Ukrainians are the seed grain of a nation and we need to stop pressing them to consume their seed grain as we find excuses not to donate .0003 percent of our GDP in firepower.
  2. CENTCOM’s response to Iran’s attack is concrete evidence otherwise but it’s neat to live in an alt-timeline where it didn’t happen I guess.
  3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/15/iran-israel-russia-drones-missiles/# I’d very much like to see Israeli F-35s absolutely dominating Iranian Su-35s.
  4. I am counting on there being some bullshit that sinks the Ukraine bill, Johnson will say he tried, and we will just give up. Lots of people looking for reasons to throw them overboard.
  5. This man is fixing to charge three bucks to like a tweet on what planet is he going to cut a former employee a break on a car payment? LOL.
  6. Also in Sydney, a radicalized 15 year old Islamist stabbed an Assyrian Christian bishop during mass.
  7. Also, the Aurora was a the base of a really good car doomed by its Olds brand and GM parts bin interior. The Aztek was before its time and previewed where we were going with crossovers. The Fiero finally got good when the Pontiac guys were able to get more power for it despite Corvette guys’ protests. The Honda Ridgeline is a very good and comfortable truck that does everything most people need in a truck. The Cybertruck is shit. These are my car opinions and they are correct.
  8. This is the only way to solve the problem that had been solved before I created it again.
  9. GOP supplemental plan. Take it. Best we are gonna get.
  10. It’s not relevant to try and go down this road because the tax systems are so different. The relevant thing is that nearly all of Europe is doing their share, likely more proportionally in many cases. Which is fine, it’s good. But just take that talking point away. We are behind them.
  11. I’m sure comparing “who has the most violent maximalist rhetoric” is a productive line of discussion.
  12. This violence was is response to the murder of a 14 year old Jewish shepherd. As with most things, the finger-pointing will go back to pre-1948. https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/world-news/discovery-of-israeli-teens-body-sparks-wave-violent-settler-attacks-in-west-bank/amp/
  13. Not a fan of the loan idea but if this pretense unsticks things, OK. I’m a big fan of all the things in this bill. Who knew Iran just needed to attack Israel to get money for Ukraine?
  14. There is lots of blame to go around. What you see in terms of world on fire, but especially Ukraine, is the result of a foreign policy that has at its core the goal of managing crises and not winning or ending crises on favorable terms. We just can’t imagine winning one of these things and especially we won’t allow ourselves to ask “how can we help Ukraine win and not just survive.” If you set the goal to manage crises, you end up with crises to manage. The time to help Ukraine win was 1.5 years ago. The window has closed and now the best we can do is help them survive. Never let lawyers run your national security.
  15. One thing to ponder here is that Iran shot something like 350 missiles, drones, and other projectiles at Israel. Nearly all got shot down, but Iran has now established that option as a “reasonable” response and action, anything less will be viewed as not so serious. We saw in real time how Iron Dome normalized Hamas rocket attacks and established the expectation that Israel should suck it up and just hunker down defensively. Israel will be highly inclined to set a difference precedent with Iran. If an embassy warrants 350 projectiles, how many does an attack on Iran proxies warrant? 20? 100? This is not a sustainable game for us and Israel. Deterrence has failed and Iran can’t learn the lesson that it can shoot missiles at Israel with no kinetic response.
  16. As a side-show, a Russian and Syrian with big followings in Sydney started a social media storm by claiming it was a random guy named “Benjamin Cohen.” Their followers are really stupid so they had to clarify “the Jew.” An Australian news station picked it up, so hopefully he’ll get paid.
  17. Europe isn’t especially violent or war-prone but Europeans and their spin-off/mentee cultures are very, very good at war. This is a big part of why Israel’s existence drives the Islamic world nuts, not really religion or even land for co-religionists. Jews left the Near East as tribesmen and came back organized as a Western nation with Western ways of war, thought, and social organization. Their existence in the middle of the Near East is a constant reminder of what the Islamic world believes is their humiliation at the hands of the West, which is supposed to be inferior. That’s why there’s so many comparisons to the Crusaders.
  18. We had gotten to a point where Biden was talking about conditioning aid to Israel and seeing opinion shift in a big way against Israel and then Iran launches a major attack that accomplishes nothing except probably shaking loose a huge Israel aid package. Lol, maybe the Zionists do control the world, even the ayatollahs.
  19. Trying to think of any nation where there is a such a delta between God-tier civilization and shit-tier rulers. The entire world should team up to Make Iran Persia Again.
  20. Really super cool to watch the Western jets that wouldn’t be an answer for Ukraine shoot down hundreds of Shahed drones like the ones Russia uses against Ukraine.
  21. They telegraphed this and they want the drones and missiles (if they come) to get shot down.
  22. Iran: Please, shoot down our missiles and then let’s just stop ok?
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