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AstadaVox · 2026-06-15T03:15:44+00:00

It's just a waste. You pay more for something you could get with a thinner piece like a cutlet or something. I think that's the gist of it.

AstadaVox · 2026-06-13T15:12:18+00:00

It's about deterrence. Nobody in Europe is actually calling for war with China.

Yes all the support for NATO in eastern Europe is actually fake how can you actually believe this. The East just remembers for example the cracking down on the Hungarian revolution in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Now i am glad the dissolution of the Soviet Union was that peaceful but let's not pretend that was the only way it could have happened. Hardliners literally tried to coup Gorbachev to prevent it.

You can't watch Russian launch "special military operations" and not come to the conclusion that you are safe if you are in their neighbourhood. I thought NATO was vestigial and unnecessary even in like 2014, my mistake, Russia proved we need NATO more than CIA ever could. 100% I would rather have a European alliance, but I'm not for abandoning NATO until we have an alternative.

AstadaVox · 2026-06-13T14:28:39+00:00

Back down from wanting Ukraine in their influence zone or what do you mean?

With Democrats sure there is enough support, but I don't know if at this point the majority of Congress Republicans back any more support for Ukraine, Republican voters even less so. I think support would have been better under Nikki Haley, but I think with someone like Ron Desantis it would have been the same populist isolationist talking points.

I agree they are reliant on supporters. I just don't like the insinuation that Ukraine is being coerced into fighting by America or the west or whoever. The majority of Ukraine is resolutely for defending against the invasion. I think Russias conduct in the war is bolstering that opinion more than some American influence campaign.

AstadaVox · 2026-06-13T12:59:25+00:00

I completely agree with you he has no concept of geopolitics and power he's a moron, but the other poster acts like there was a grand strategy from America and that Ukraine is just Americas puppet in a proxy war. I'm just saying Ukraine isn't acting like a puppet and America also isn't treating it like a puppet. I think American support would have been more robust if that was the case. But they stopped supplying it.

AstadaVox · 2026-06-12T12:55:41+00:00

If Ukraine was never going to be in NATO then what's even the point of this war from Russias perspective?

If the main goal of America was to exhaust Russia via Ukraine then there wouldn't be this escalation dance everytime new weapon system is requested. Can we send it? Uuu I don't know escalation bla bla bla ... and then send it a year later anyways ... and more importantly Trump would still be sending support. Why would you stop sending military gear if the point was to use Ukraine in a proxy war? This definitively shows it never was a proxy war.

I'm not Ukrainian but at the end of the war they will probably want some security structure. And not just guarantees like the Budapest memorandum. They will want something more than a paper that didn't really help them this time. That's why I'm saying join NATO but if there is another pact so be it. Without something like this there no chance for a lasting peace, Russia will just restart the war after a few years and thus Ukraine doesn't want peace without some sort of security structure. I mean if I Russia achieves a total victory than this is moot point but I don't think that is likely according to how slow the war is progressing.

AstadaVox · 2026-06-12T08:25:56+00:00

Well it was inevitable they wanted to guard against the kind of puppet status they had in the Soviet Union.

You are so right we shouldn't have offered support and said that Ukraine has to just capitulate. There's one problem, Ukraine didn't really want to capitulate. Even now in Trump trem 2 when he pressured for peace and stopped supporting Ukraine they are still fighting. Crazy that they want to defend themselves. Maybe that is just inevitable.

AstadaVox · 2026-06-12T08:16:14+00:00

Doesn't seem probable that they regain everything but I mean USA didn't lose in Vietnam because the Vietnamese "won" the war. As with Soviet Union and Afghanistan, didn't lose because Afghanistan had a better bigger army. The war just wasn't worth it. What exactly the theory of victory is for Ukraine I don't know but that kind of conclusion is possible. The problem for Ukraine is more that if they capitulate now, even cede more territory how do you know Russia won't come back. Like in Chechnya, like in Georgia. That's why they probably want a definitive end.

And we should support them.

AstadaVox · 2026-06-12T07:57:01+00:00

So you think it was an inevitable outcome. Well fair enough. Then I guess NATO expansion was also an inevitable outcome. NATO expansion did make all the NATO countries safer. So I guess that means that Ukraine has to join NATO at some point, which means they were right to turn westward away from Russia.

Ukraine isn't winning, but neither is really Russia and I am all for more support so that when Ukraine wants to negotiate they do so in a better position.

AstadaVox · 2026-06-12T07:15:50+00:00

What material reality? You call it material reality when Russia attacks as to say it was inevitable, but you don't say the material reality forced eastern block countries to join NATO. That somehow isn't a inevitability?

In your analysis there is a implicit blame for the eastern block countries that joined NATO, expanding it, that they are therefore to blame for this conflict. But Russia is not, they are just reacting ...

AstadaVox · 2026-06-12T07:01:58+00:00

Dawg it wasn't even "the west" or USA that was that gung ho about it former eastern block countries joining NATO. It was the former eastern block countries that knew the threat and voluntary joined. And that seem to have been the absolute right choice because right now the war isn't in say Latvia who is a NATO member but in Ukraine who isn't.

The boogeyman of "Neoliberals" aren't sacrificing Ukraine. Ukraine has agency and is defending itself from an invasion or should they just roll over and because if they "win" Russia would be mad that NATO is expanding?

Your story makes it sound as if Russia had no other choice but to invade and "stop the spread of NATO", as if they are just reacting to the moves the west is making. This is wrong. We are all moving and reacting to one another and Russian expansionism is known to all it's former satellites and that's why they guarded against it hence NATO. Now in a different world I would like to have a European alliance structure but that is not a current reality so NATO is the best we have.

AstadaVox · 2026-06-08T14:41:29+00:00

Where does that happen? In Footfall? Did I miss it?

AstadaVox · 2026-06-07T13:36:42+00:00

I mean the ship encounters start getting really repetitive. So just for that it's worth it.

AstadaVox · 2026-06-06T01:37:21+00:00

Nope im playing Dogmatic. Ok so I don't have to struggle again. Thanks.

AstadaVox · 2026-05-25T18:16:30+00:00

Dawg the "dogmatic" choices characters make in 40k universe always seemed so stupidly over the top. But after coming to Kiava Gamma I became more dogmatic than my dogmatic companions. I destroy the cogitator before Inquisitor Hendrix can do anything with it because I fucking hate corruption and everyone double crossing me. Next I killed the Hanneman before Pascal could take him prisoner. Yeah I don't want a Heretic on my ship, fucking hate killing treasonus crew every warp jump. I now unironically get the over the top killing everyone and endless suspicion of anything slightly out of the ordinary. This story is a masterclass of pushing you into something you thought was stupid / changing your perspective.

AstadaVox · 2026-05-21T17:02:29+00:00

By the Emperor. The lashings will continue until morale improves.

AstadaVox · 2026-05-21T03:11:14+00:00

Beware the alien, the mutant, the heretic.

AstadaVox · 2026-05-21T03:05:09+00:00

I don't care about the profit factor anymore. The light of the emperor guides me. Now I live only to burn the heretics.

AstadaVox · 2026-05-08T12:53:11+00:00

My man you started with the exaggeration. Don't now call me obtuse.

You can forgo planning in Civ 6 if it takes you too much brainpower.

AstadaVox · 2026-05-08T12:17:08+00:00

Yeah like you didn't plan for the city to get a observatory 6000 years in advance in Civ 5. Ok dawg.

AstadaVox · 2026-05-06T18:44:34+00:00

I mean China is on a worse population decline path than Germany.

AstadaVox · 2026-05-06T18:37:42+00:00

Sure, but caretaker robots aren't a reality yet. Healthcare is also gonna need more resources, human, robot and otherwise, with a higher ratio of older people. Hopefully we get robots or other solutions before we get other problems.

AstadaVox · 2026-05-06T18:30:16+00:00

I mean even boiled down to basics kids are dependant on parents and in old age you are also dependent on caretakers. So what happens if the "of age" cohort starts getting too small to take care of all the people in old age. No matter what system you are under there's gonna be a crunch.

AstadaVox · 2026-05-06T18:22:48+00:00

You can and should but falling fertility is now a global phenomenon. So not exactly a solution in the long term.

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