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  1. I’m sure comparing “who has the most violent maximalist rhetoric” is a productive line of discussion.
  2. 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/
  3. 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?
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. They telegraphed this and they want the drones and missiles (if they come) to get shot down.
  12. Iran: Please, shoot down our missiles and then let’s just stop ok?
  13. More fun with numbers: we could implement a one-time Elon Musk tax and fund all of the current Ukraine supplemental with less than half of his worth. Elon would still have enough left over to purchase at least 4 Gerald Ford class nuclear aircraft carriers. The idea that we are even marginally impacting our economy with this is just laughable.
  14. We cold double the current supplemental request and we still would not be donating Ukraine the equivalent of 5 thousandths of our GDP, or by another metric one Elon Musk, to fight all Russia.
  15. It’s so wild to shit on these countries that are doing more than and and with donations that ultimately end up in large part in U.S. bank accounts because they are buying stuff from us. If we increased our aid to Estonia level that would be 827 billion dollars and the war is likely over.
  16. Well, they have been. Your idea of the size and ability of these countries is all upside down. Yes, the Czechs have emptied a lot of their inventory and purchased a fleet of Vipers, Venoms, and F-35s (24). The Czech Republic has 10 million people. How many F-35s do you think New Jersey can buy, or the Los Angeles MSA?! The $60 billion package currently being held up in the U.S. Congress is .002 of U.S. GDP, btw. That’s what we’re fighting over. 60 billion is .08 of Polish and .2 of the Czech GDP. Again, we are talking scale. We wouldn’t even move up the list of per capita but it’s a battlefield game changer THAT WE PAY TO OUR FUCKING SELVES.
  17. This is ONE initiative that we are not participating in and so crapping on it unearned. It is easy to find which nations are really in this fight. The United States isn’t on the screen, we are below Canada and Bulgaria. Instead of asking why poorer Eastern European nations don’t wreck their economies and build factories they wont need, you might ask why we have such reluctance to even match a country like Croatia or officially neutral Switzerland since at scale that’s far more useful. I realize this is reality crashing into preferred political rhetoric but on something like this shouldn’t reality win?
  18. We have literally a full accounting of what is going on in Europe regarding supply via the contact group that meets in Rammstein. Anyway to answer your question: https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/03/20/czech-led-bulk-ammunition-buy-for-ukraine-picks-up-steam/ The United States is the NATO Ally that has the defense base to supply most of the more pressing needs like high-end air defense and long-range fires. We are the supplier of choice to NATO Allies for this and we in fact have pressed to ensure we maintained some of these key capabilities as part of our defense industrial base. And now we are sitting on it. Europe is contributing more per capita and in absolute terms but we are the nation that has surplus of extremely key hardware. It’s us or it doesn’t go.
  19. Based on what DJT said, this is probably going to be reframed as a loan, which everyone understands will never be repaid because you don’t give back a Bradley or a Patriot interceptor. It simply has to be framed that way as a sop to the grotesque ego of a man who needs to show he makes “good deals” and to satisfy—not LOW information voters— rather WRONG information voters. Just doing the thing that needs to be done by creating a Rube Goldberg machine for simpletons and half-wits to gawk at. This especially uninspired bit of high school drama would be understandable as politics if the end result wasn’t killing lots of brave people who want to like us. It’s astounding how eager the GOP IS celebrate their own stupid harmfulness.
  20. This is what DJT said about Ukraine earlier today: Almost word for word, with slightly worse syntax, to what you’re posting here. This is the man you’re turning to for your thoughts on strategic competition and American leadership against autocracy: That’s clown shit man. Clown shit. Ask yourself how you got here and if you’re proud.
  21. On Ukraine, as with so much— this exchange is instructive. GOP supporters are simply chronically incapable of making a case for what they want based on facts. Every single argument has to be based on easily disprovable lies and truth manipulation like “blank check, money printer.” It all falls apart if you just acknowledge the world as it exists.
  22. You keep repeating nonsense GOP lines (there’s no money printer) and you are actually making a great point that the NATO Allies outside of us as a whole are slightly larger than the U.S. and have a slightly larger economy cumulatively— and have contributed proportionally. The Alliance can’t undo years of mistakes and underinvestment. We have the equipment and DIB to give stuff. The others don’t. It sucks but it’s what it is. The question is why you want to abandon US leadership in Europe and why you hate the idea of modernizing our own forces while supporting Ukraine and creating America jobs?
  23. Anyone who lives in a world where Bucha, Mariupol, and Irpin happened and where Russia is forcibly deporting tens and thousands of children yet still says the loss of life is “wasted” is being either willfully ignorant or dishonest. This is what armies are for. They exist to fight and die so that other armies don’t rape and murder civilians and kidnap children.
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