Someone beat me to it.
pigginz
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TikTok's algorithm gives different people wildly different results. I watch and like about 80% videos of animals and 20% absurd comedy sketches, and that's what TikTok continues to recommend to me. If you're watching and engaging with stupid liberal bullshit, it's probably going to show you more of that.
Don't forget the goal of increasing European dependence on the USA for energy too. A lot of the work is done but maintaining the rift between Russia and the NATO countries is probably a lot easier if those countries are actively supporting a proxy war.
"One bad apple isn't a big deal. The rest of the apples are fine." - George Washington, probably
The extent to which the industry part of the military industrial complex has been hollowed out and replaced with nothing but grift is pretty astounding. I can't imagine the US could hope to fight a real multi-year war like Vietnam or Korea ever again. It kind of seems like if your military could survive the initial "shock and awe" campaign now, then you could just kind of hold the line while the US helplessly bleeds out.
Overall, Kusti Salm, a senior Estonian defense ministry official, estimated that Russia’s current ammunition production is seven times greater than that of the West.
Russia’s production costs are also far lower than the West’s, in part because Moscow is sacrificing safety and quality in its effort to build weapons more cheaply, Mr. Salm said. For instance, it costs a Western country $5,000 to $6,000 to make a 155-millimeter artillery round, whereas it costs Russia about $600 to produce a comparable 152-millimeter artillery shell, he said.
A US-based media article is claiming that Russia can produce seven times the ammunition at something like one tenth the cost. That's insane if true. I knew Russia was putting up big production numbers, but that big? If that's even close to correct then the idea that the AFU could ever push Russia out by force is utterly delusional now.
For whatever it's worth, I don't think this going to lead to escalation to nuclear war, at least within the next several months.
Russia is in a strong position right now, the Ukrainian offensive is a total failure going into winter, political support for continued arms shipments is cracking, and US election season is ramping up.
If Ukraine does try to use these missiles against targets in Russia, and more importantly and more unlikely if any of those attempts succeed at bypassing missile defenses and actually hitting valuable targets, I think Russia would be foolish to try to retaliate against any NATO or US targets outside Ukraine. The consequences of any such strikes would only jeopardize what's currently looking like kind of an inevitable victory for Russia.
When you say that real serious war ultimately means socialism or fascism, you make it sound kind of final, but fascism is still a form of capitalism and imperialism, isn't it? I think I need to do further reading on fascism.
I have read it but I probably need to read it again.
If the collapse happened (whatever that even means), it wouldn't be like Mad Max because Mad Max is a movie, it's not real. This ideology that individual humans are by nature violent and constantly on the brink of murdering each other all the time has no real basis in science or history that I know of. It does, however, provide a nice excuse for why communism can never work and why you need cops with assault rifles at Wal-Mart.