This is a MASSIVE money grab. Instead of paying up front and outright owning the equipment. Governments will now rent equipment and Infinitum. They will pay for that tank, ship, fighter etc multiple times over the lifetime of that equipment.
You also won’t have old equipment that can be just given away or sold at a discounted rate to allies or friends like Ukraine when an emergency occurs.
This is why you use AI to destroy AI.
After I was perma-banned, I used a bot to re-open my past posts and replace my original content with AI generated garbage.
Salt the fields upon which AI grows.
40+ years of Right wing propaganda and a hollowing out of our education system?
Look up ASTS. They do satellite communications with better technology. Only 5 satellites to cover North America instead of the massive constellation Starlink requires.
They have contracts with the major NA cell services and contracts in place for other regions once they launch more satellites.
You’re looking at it completely wrong.
Fundamentally it doesn’t matter if you are a good person. Even the nicest most moral of us are sinners in the eyes of Christians.
What matters is that you are forgiven by god for your sins. Even if you lie, cheat, steal, murder, commit adultery etc. Going to church and being absolved of your sins makes you a good person and welcome by god.
The worst people I have met are Christians for this very reason. They believe they have been absolved of their wrongs in the eyes of god and you have not.
Some people exist to serve as an example to others…
Alligator Alcatraz is just the first. Republican governors will be tripping over themselves to build concentration camps to supply slave labor other states industries.
Yep that is what I was referring to.
Mark my words Republicans will turn to using convict labor to harvest crops before they ever turn on Trump or admit any faults.
Step1: Round up undocumented immigrants and criminals.
Step2: Put them in prison for “crimes”.
Step3: Profit! Lease them to farms for $1 a day. Since slavery is legal if you are incarcerated. Republicans are going to build an entire underclass of criminals who will do these jobs.
Bonus: None of the brown people or criminals will be able to vote because they are now felons. Farmers will cry and vote Republican if anyone even suggests doing away with the prison industrial system.
The Russian economy is just now fully mobilized on a war footing. Stopping the war would send them into an economic depression.
Victory for Russia in Europe isn’t necessarily rolling through Eastern Europe and Germany at the head of huge tank formations.
But taking the Baltic States and parts of Europe and sitting on them. Would Western Europe and the US come to the aid of those smaller NATO allies and engage in a potentially grinding war to throw Russian back?
Grabbing a few key areas while splitting NATO permanently… That it could do.
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Lol, you seem miffed. Like I struck close to a truth you refuse to acknowledge…
Well, enjoy your “non-vote” and “no support” pitch. This is the result you choose.
And the voters who support Palestine sure did a good job keeping the worst of two options out.
Ohhh well, at this rate the Palestinian question, likely won’t be an issue next election.
It was… but Russian has invaded or conducted multiple military operations in many different countries since Putin came to power…
After say the first 5 maybe the West should have recognized that Russia wasn’t going to be the partner they wanted them to be…
Doubtful, Europe’s demographics are terrible.
The US can change Presidents.
Europe can’t change the fact it is rapidly greying and lacks enough young people to replace existing workers let alone build new cutting edge technologies.
Trump is a racist prick. But Merkel’s world view is what put Putin in power.
Her ignoring the rise of Russia in exchange for cheap oil and gas set the stage for the Ukraine invasion. Her underinvestment in the military and shuttering Nuclear energy plants across Germany were strategic blunders that Europe is going to pay for.
I’m stuck here, I have a career and I’m too old to start over in a foreign country. But I’ll be getting my kids dual citizenship elsewhere and encouraging them to leave if things stay the way they are.
The Onion is on point. I thought to myself “Fuck more Desantis bullshitary” before seeing the URL
No, no… just hear me out… at this point as an American. Perhaps we merge America with Canada instead of Canada with America.
Free healthcare, poutine, learning French in school, the Metric system. I can sign on to that.