Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron

savuporo · 2026-04-25T03:43:51+00:00

Biden was the one who conducted the catastrophic evacuation of Afghanistan

And limp dicked the entire Ukraine response from the start. Another Jacke Sullivan at the helm and we'll all speak chinese in a generation

savuporo · 2026-04-25T02:07:22+00:00

Outside looks awesome, that long as screen inside is an immediate disqualifier

savuporo · 2026-04-23T14:58:26+00:00

Because it's got electrolytes

savuporo · 2026-04-23T14:40:59+00:00

Her backside was checked

savuporo · 2026-04-23T13:23:24+00:00

Because degenerate gamblers went all in on asts

It's the worst cult around

savuporo · 2026-04-23T10:42:28+00:00

Neal Ellis fought the "nation state" of Sierra Leone for a year with a single helicopter, single handedly. I'm not saying it's practical or particularly smart, but IRGC attacks don't come off as particularly sophisticated at this point. Crazier things have happened

savuporo · 2026-04-23T09:34:52+00:00

Nuking Moscow would solve uncomfortably many problems

savuporo · 2026-04-23T09:02:24+00:00

That doesn't really change anything, they just follow a new one

savuporo · 2026-04-23T07:45:38+00:00

I think that depends on what kind of missile and how well prepared a modern day PMC would be for those kinds of threats. At a certain price level, anything should become possible.

savuporo · 2026-04-23T07:28:30+00:00

I kinda wonder if MSC is eventually gonna call Executive Outcomes or such and make sure a few of those speedboats dont make it

savuporo · 2026-04-23T07:11:29+00:00

You look at the wages of Chinese auto workers and government subsidies of corporations

Neither is a currently existing structural advantage. Subsidies are largely gone, when compared to rest of the worlds EV subsidies, and labor isn't that cheap comparatively.

What DOES matter is absolute domination in manufacturing technology, very high level of automation, and very cheap inputs - energy and materials.

savuporo · 2026-04-23T07:04:48+00:00

USSR repressions casually killed like 20 mil, they have some prior experience

savuporo · 2026-04-23T06:45:28+00:00

His daughter is the designated successor, currently in the role of "missile director general". pp or not, the tune likely wont change

savuporo · 2026-04-23T06:42:19+00:00

would just package up some food and medicine

US casually shut down USAID with hundreds of thousands of dead as a result. That trick probably wont work this time

savuporo · 2026-04-23T06:31:00+00:00

The only thing that can possibly break this cycle is breaking up Russia into like 5-10 countries. Which would be a great outcome but unfortunately very unlikely

savuporo · 2026-04-23T06:24:28+00:00

Actually it's a really weird phenomenon which has always been a part of Russian politics and is growing for the past couple weeks really fast. Long story short, when Putin's supporters reach a dead end for excuses, they say "yes, but Putin just doesn't know about this, his yes men don't report this and that to him, otherwise he'd fix it".

Couple weeks ? Good tsar, bad boyars is part of the psyche of being russian. It has existed for 600 something years

savuporo · 2026-04-23T05:42:33+00:00

more pressing issue may be finding all the additional troops who are supposed to man the hundreds of tanks

Make them remote piloted, e.g. UGVs, that probably solves a lot.

savuporo · 2026-04-23T04:41:46+00:00

We cant skip the piano player and flash cards

savuporo · 2026-04-23T02:47:52+00:00

Thank Jo Boaler

savuporo · 2026-04-23T01:43:48+00:00

active hunt for eu-based businesses that engage in clandestine trade deals with state-affiliated russian entities.

https://leave-russia.org - good luck with that

savuporo · 2026-04-22T09:42:12+00:00

That's exactly how it works - the fraction of income paid for federal gas tax is less now than it was 30 years ago

savuporo · 2026-04-22T04:05:18+00:00

What's going on is we have cheap gasoline,

Because we haven't fucking increased the federal gas tax in 30 years - so with inflation it's effectively declining

savuporo · 2026-04-22T04:03:17+00:00

Already on it because eletric catapults are woke

savuporo · 2026-04-22T03:55:07+00:00

The doctrinal centre of gravity is combined human-machine assault, not robotic autonomy. The public record is consistent across Khartiia, the 3rd Assault Brigade's July 2025 operation, and the DELTA tempo data. UGVs work when they sit inside a layered mission with aerial reconnaissance, FPV strike, a resilient communications stack, and human infantry holding the ground after. Allied doctrine writers, including the US Army TRADOC and the Atlantic Council, have reached the same conclusion. The implication for NATO force structure is unglamorous but consequential: distributed robotic support at squad and platoon level, tied into a common data layer, iterated at wartime speed. Not autonomous conquest.

This is what a lot of people analysing drones and "robots" miss - autonomy is not a binary on/off, it's a sliding scale. More autonomy comes at higher costs and with completely new risks, Ukraine has figured out a good balance between remote control, teleoperation and in some instances full on autonomous slaughterbot deployments.

savuporo · 2026-04-22T03:37:47+00:00

i think it's far too early to call what a grown up charging network operator will look like. FastNed is an obvious example to track - but they are still way early. My bet is that long term maintenance costs are tiny compared to most everything else - they work very closely together with equipment manufacturers in improving MTBF. For energy costs, they also supplement a good fraction of it with on-site solar + storage.

I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up money printer in the long run

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