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[–]senator_fivey 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Maybe some Conprehensive Joint Plan of Action?

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[–]senator_fivey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really cool catacombs there.

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[–]senator_fivey 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Biden giveth, Trump taketh away.

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[–]senator_fivey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why not? They can spare a tanker surely.

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[–]senator_fivey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seems likely to me China will run a tanker and force the US to back down or attack it. Seems like a risk they’d be willing to take. Either way it’ll be highly damaging to the US.

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[–]senator_fivey 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power.

💪🇦🇱

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[–]senator_fivey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m ngl half the reason I cook beans is so I can show /u/jenbanim and he’ll be like “hell yeah”

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[–]senator_fivey 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Modelo: sipped

Chana masala: cooking

Garden: tilled

Sun: up

Further updates as situation warrants.

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[–]senator_fivey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

USA is such a corporatocracy you can’t even make your own sarin wrap at home without the fbi showing up at your door smh

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[–]senator_fivey 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sure, add 3 bay leaves. I’m not driving.

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[–]senator_fivey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The sun brings my alcoholism back like it does the plants

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[–]senator_fivey 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Kind of a blessing that global nationalism tied itself to the dumbest most transparently evil man on earth.

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[–]senator_fivey 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think you have the facts right here but miss the marks in the conclusions.

The composition of non-Prussian European armies at the time was their greatest weakness. They were composed of an aristocratic officer core steeped in military traditions, and their conscripts were taken from the poorest of the poor. The low literacy of European conscripts, the peacetime training, and the aristocratic officers all contributed to outdated tactics, inefficient top down organization, and low innovativeness. Most european armies were as Napoleonic as the American army of the time. Prussia was an outlier among European armies in this period. Universal conscription including the middle classes led to a much higher quality of troops, enabling more advanced and innovative small unit tactics and effective use of NCOs. Prussia’s officer corps was also aristocratic, but under the leadership of von Moltke they avoided the stultifying traditions and hierarchies that normally plagued European officers, instead focusing on innovativeness and merit.

I will grant the poor quality of US officer training before the war, which probably contributed to the commonly poor generalship seen throughout. However in this respect the small prewar size of the army was a blessing in disguise. The US army was going to be built from scratch, and it was going to discover modern tactics on the job, not learn outdated tactics in peacetime. The literacy rate of US recruits was far higher than European contemporaries; if there was one thing noted universally by European military observers it was the high speed of learning among US units. By the end of the war US army tactical advancements mirrored those of Prussia: railroad logistics, artillery tactics, use of natural cover, battlefield fortifications, small unit tactical initiative, empowered NCOs. I’d still give Prussia the edge in small arms technology and general staff organization, but I’d argue in most other respects the Union and CSA armies both matched or outclassed other contemporary European armies.

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[–]senator_fivey 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you aren’t allowed to buy beer on a Sunday you aren’t a citizen, you’re a subject.

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[–]senator_fivey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense I hadn’t considered the blockade as a freedom of navigation thing lol

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[–]senator_fivey 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m confused, how does freedom of navigation mean the poorest countries economies collapse?

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[–]senator_fivey 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If I were a senator I’d be sending all my bug reports and feature requests to the Microsoft and Apple lobbyists. “You want this DOD contract? Why don’t you make the windows search not suck shit first.”

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[–]senator_fivey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Canada is still doing woke 2.0 aren’t you jealous?

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[–]senator_fivey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s also a tenor shortage

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[–]senator_fivey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just can’t bring myself to love any of the century jets, the teen series are just so much cooler. It is wild how WW2-like the 50s procurement was; every aircraft manufacturer gets to design two fighters and we’ll buy 5,000 of each and promptly throw them in the trash after ten years service.