[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I think you are measuring the US by their own standard instead of applying more realistic standards.

Biden sends out billions of billions of dollars to Ukraine but what actually does that buy them, because it doesn't buy them for example artillery shells, or missiles or tanks. It certainly doesn't buy them manpower or victory so what good does that aid do exactly?

The US dollar increasingly has the problem that there's nothing left to buy, the reason why a company like Tesla was worth as much as the three big car companies combined while producing 0.01% is not because Elon Musk is a super genius but because you could buy Tesla it was a thing that Investors could buy and so much we see now as Capitalism being idiotic is because all those companies and investors and capitalists have all the money in the world and absolutely nothing to buy anymore, the reason why Bill Gates and Blackrock are buying up farmland is because well you can buy it, the reason shitty start ups like WeWork can get billions of dollars is because finally some bank or company can spend their money on something.

The US dollar is reaching a real point where it increasingly becomes apparent that it doesn't buy you everything, the more the US goes for their chosen strategy the less valuable the US dollar becomes because you can't use it to buy things anymore.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Both of them are

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's not though, the establishment for the most part knows how Trump works and it's not like he actually was substantially different from Biden, something something nothing will fundamentally change. If Trump were to fundamentally change things then sure the DNC would get whipped up I mean look at the DNCs discipline when it came to Bernie. The Democrats ultimately don't care that much about winning what they care about is making sure that anyone who would fundamentally change the way things are done is kept away from any position of power. Trump getting elected will shuffle some front facing positions around but the overall policy continues as is, same as it was under Biden, Obama, Bush etc.

The political parties differ only in degrees not in kind.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Not happening the political parties have atrophied their actual political muscles, nowadays only stuff that the bureaucrats and deep state people want can get done, it does seem like a slamdunk but unless there is actual pressure from the government base it won't happen, so if for example instead of Trump you had some socialist or shit even a social democrat then this would get done in a heartbeat but the establishment doesn't really care which senile person wins because they'll just keep on trucking.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

This is super easy to understand though in this guys' case, I remember that name back when he wrote about how the Challenger 2 is a game changer because he was a tank commander, guy has been writing about how all the tank wunderwaffens are going to send the russians to flee in terror several times and now he has to make up new copium why even though all those superior tanks are on Ukraines side they still can't win.

Like this minor british noble is quite literally just a tankie who thinks that tanks are the ultimate weapon and solution to everything.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I know but it is still maddening at least with no-fash there could've been some fucking good old nothern european paternalistic chauvinism at play, but it just looks like they are just mad that the Nazis don't agree to nuke Der Russe and Der Chinese and once they'll agree to this sensible position the german politicians will happily embrace out and loud nazis.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Pretty much, I also don't know if it'll have the desired effect, like yes AfD is polling lower now after these stories but it'll just bring with it a whole bunch of problems because now anyone doing any diplomacy with china is going to get accused of being a chinese spy, like germanys politicians will have to do a sort of self imposed isolationist diplomatic policy because knowing germans that's not where it'll end, are they going to get accused of being a spy if they talk to any BRICS country, maybe any country that participate in BRI, especially if they don't constantly bring up China?

And this is all for lower polling, like yeah people will now probably be not as quick to say that they support the AfD but have their voting patterns changed? And more importantly SEVERAL OF THE AFD POLITICIANS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BEING NAZIS, HAVE BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED AT NAZI-YOUTH CAMPS THEY CARE MORE ABOUT DER RUSSE INSTEAD OF CARING ABOUT NAZIS THEY LITERALLY COULD'VE SHUT DOWN THE PARTY BECAUSE IT'S A NAZI PARTY BUT NO GOTTA DO SOME RUSSOPHOBIA AND SINOPHOBIA.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The death army for me was 4 mercs and 1 retinue which rolled me, I do think that what deep deposit you start with can make or break the game, if you have something useless like stone or deer things are a lot harder than if you had something better like iron

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I mean it's not that hard, like it could've been a south american country or australia but the complete absence of metal exports kinda make sure they are out of the running, also excludes australia so there's really only one country left.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

See I tried to be the villainous manor lord even selected a sinister picture but I was a fool, also farming seems like something you really should only get into in the mid game since you can get by on foraging and burrage plots, planks form the backbone of a solid economy anyways.

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