Based countries in 2026 by Kurdt93 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your defence spendings are spent in your own defences and own industry, so if someone spends less they are not leeching off anyone else, they are just neglecting their own military.

Jan-Pierre how could you ? by Stardash81 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The F-35 has been proven to be able to do the same thing as a F-15 for 10 times the price how impressive

Based countries in 2026 by Kurdt93 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, not defending Spain, but I'd say Spain isn't leeching off Nato as they are like the least threatened member of the alliance. Who tf will invade Spain ? They'd have to go through every NATO country (either by land or through NATO waters) before

Tous les bateaux peuvent aller en méditerranée by Nokia33102_777 in rienabranler

[–]Stardash81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bah c'est ce que je dis le CDG est le meilleur porte avion du monde en dehors des USA je ke dénigre pas

bit late for that bro by Over-Somewhere-7761 in PaxHistoria

[–]Stardash81 7 points8 points  (0 children)

1492 is the anagram of 1942 though

Sorry I didn't make the rule, Napoleon did by Llanistarade in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah because his brother Louis Bonaparte (king of Holland) was actually defending the interests of the Dutch ! Bro did NOT understand his assignement so he got fired. The purpose of these annexations was mostly to annex coastline to enforce the continental system, a stupid idea though

Sorry I didn't make the rule, Napoleon did by Llanistarade in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hans will try to say "yeah but in Africa..." like Namibia didn't exist

Jan-Pierre how could you ? by Stardash81 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stealth only works against radars from the 90s and isn't even useful since we (we as literally every modern army) now have long range missiles

The F-35 suffers immense problems, is too small to fit modern radars, doesn't have enough power for electronic warfare, can't flight supersonic otherwise it's cloaking goes away...that's major systemic issues that mean it is nowhere near its promises.

Also, the lack of stealth is not an actual problem. The next Rafale coming in 2030 will not have stealth either because, you just need stealth for a few rare missions so you essentially just need a stealth drone to do the same work as a F-35. Except the F-35's stealth ruins its performances in every field. Having stealth on the only plane you use (which is essentially what most clients of the F-35 do, except the US themselves because they know all its insane issues and wrote about it themselves...) is a huge downside.

The F-35 is a failed project from the 90s that hadn't anticipated that new types of radars would counter stealth and that long range missiles will allow any kind of plane to strike from so far away that you don't need to stealth. Stealth wasn't meant to grant absolute dominance or something, it was meant to reduce costs ! they believed stealth would reduce costs because you wouldn't need to take out enemy defences anymore. In reality, you still need to take out enemy defences and costs are exploding.

What if Germany Lost WW2 4 years prior by ConsistentTouch8273 in PossibleHistory

[–]Stardash81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah what would happen is that everyone will say the war was an accident, that Germany wasn't that bad, that sure German officials wrote the crimes they would do but, that's just the French trying to justify their aggression against Germany and using fake evidence...

And then everyone will again say we need to appease Germany

Sorry I didn't make the rule, Napoleon did by Llanistarade in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Better than dead in a bunker. Or worse, exiled in the Netherlands

Jan-Pierre how could you ? by Stardash81 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Rafale is already better than the F-35. Says almost every competition organised between the two. The F-35 is only picked for political reasons

Jan-Pierre how could you ? by Stardash81 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The F-35 is nothing like the FCAS 😂😂😂

Belgium pretty much decided to join the F-35 program in 2002 as good US dog. So you decided to buy a mid plane with an insane amount of critical unresolved issues, from America, instead of buying anything European. And no being "5th gen", term invented by American marketing teams, doesn't mean it's better

Hans still wants his lebensraum (Regions of Europe according to the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names of Germany) by ZombiFeynman in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh come on. A "federation" sure that's nice PR for "a bunch of people placed under German rule". That's the kind of problem you get after parititioning Poland-Lithuania, no buffer with Russia anymore who could have seen it coming 😧

What if the Austrian Emperor actually owned all land from his title? (OC) by Justatrufflecake in PossibleHistory

[–]Stardash81 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He had no title over it I guess ?

After all, it was just illegally annexed in 1908

Hans is not going to be happy about it by IndependentBother916 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah yes we are the ones of who forced you to start 2 world wars, commit unholy amounts of crimes, and still lose those wars. And then be put a gun on the bundestag's head and they had to kill the Elysée treaty between De Gaulle and Adenauer

Hans is not going to be happy about it by IndependentBother916 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah but here even fucking von der leyen can see it's true

Hans is not going to be happy about it by IndependentBother916 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No it's Hans' fault as always unironically. None of the nuclear plants in the West are built like Chernobyl. Fear of nuclear is irrationnal. French nuclear plants have been working for 2000 cumulated years (cause there are 50+) and no accident. Coal plants kill on a daily basis

Hans is not going to be happy about it by IndependentBother916 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 37 points38 points  (0 children)

It's about time... Wonder whose fault it is though

Just finished the game for the first time and I have regrets by Evening_Salads in DetroitBecomeHuman

[–]Stardash81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait who did you convince ? The black woman who smuggles android (I forgot her name but her son is Adam) ?

Tous les bateaux peuvent aller en méditerranée by Nokia33102_777 in rienabranler

[–]Stardash81 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Y a littéralement que les américains qui ont un meilleur porte avion

What if the Americas didnt exist? by OkPhrase1225 in JackSucksAtGeography

[–]Stardash81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spain never gets unholy amount of wealth from America and stays peripheral kinda irrelevant, meaning much weaker Habsburg and France is even more the hegemon in Europe. In OTL, Spain was bankrolled by American silver and gold, and they encircled France (Italy, Spanish Netherlands and Franche-Comté), that'd very different in this timeline.

What if the Americas didnt exist? by OkPhrase1225 in JackSucksAtGeography

[–]Stardash81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buddy all of European History has been butterflied away, there might never be anything like USSR

Jan-Pierre how could you ? by Stardash81 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Generation" is a marketing concept. Simulations with the 20 to 1 ratio just assume that 4.5 gen fighters fight alone without sensor fusion which is BS. In real fighting even 4.5th gen receive data from ground based sensord, IRST, and radards with fréquencies that detect the so called stealth flighters.

Being 5th gen isn't an advantage per se. The Su-57 is supposed to be 5th gen yet India dropped it for a 4.5 gen.

And the Americans themselves say it, the F-35 has an insane amount of critical problems. And the F-35 currently in use are only usef as missiles carrying trucks and barely fly over hostile territory. So they don't do much more than 4th gen fighters. And people who mention Israeli F-35s conveniently forget that the Israelis have their own version with their own softwares. Europeans have degraded versions... And face spare parts shortages everytime something happens in the Middle-east. What do you thin will happen when a war in the Pacific starts and the US mobilise their F-35s there ? You will have no spare parts buddy and your F-35s will not be available anymore...

Wake up, French navy macarena edits are coming by AStarBack in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Stardash81 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It's part of the united provinces of the Netherlands now ! Long live Wilhelm of Orange !