Wait isn’t nephophile more about liking clouds?

Sell my ass to China. Like, absolutely spread my cheek so the CCP can plow all the natural and human resources of my country in exchange for military hardware and training.

The thing is, the equipment and military is secondary. What I actually want is to tie myself diplomatically to the CCP. And hopefully the economic impact and good diplomatic relationship will push the Chinese government to intervene or at least indirectly support my country in case of war.

Worst case scenario I can be a PITA to invade. Best case scenario, Chinese trade sanctions, and military support force the invader to back off.

I’m choosing China over anyone else because of the potential impact of trade sanctions make them the best candidate. France or USA are also good options

I have hope they draw inspiration from “Supergirl: Woman of tomorrow”

In which case she is drinking and partying to cope with what she lived through after the destruction of kripton

Except nuclear is not very pilotable. More than Solar or Wind. But can’t really be turned off either

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I’m a lot of those things. But I have at least accepted that I am not too broken to heal.

Yeah except right now the biggest issue the Bundeswehr faces is equipment and troop readiness. A report came around 2022 and made noise. After a short exercise 18 modern Puma IVF had been out of action for lack of spare parts on relatively minor issues. And that was on the 10th Panzer division which was earmarked for deployment in Lithuania, not a low priority unit.

More bodies are nice for an army. But those come after the infrastructure has been fixed for what already exist

The cruiser gap as an example. Was never real, it only existed because of the US Navy classification system of time.

The US Navy would call ships frigate or destroyer leader when they had the size and capabilities of a cruiser in the Soviet navy. The 1975 Ship reclassification cleared it up and also made organization much easier than the dozens of confusing hull designation.

If you have an article or maybe remember more details about that story?

The closest I could find is this.

Ukraine doesn’t really operate western helicopter in general so the story may have been about something else. We have reports of the Russian using captured American armor vehicles. So no kill switch in those.

Well then they are fucked. Maybe France’s Snecma is an option and the Japanese also have engines. Pretty much everything else is Licensed copy of American engine or Chinese/Russian which are obvious no.

I think turkey was looking into making their own jet engines. But Erdogan Turkey is about as good of an option as trump USA.

Okay so just to clarify what the software lockdown on F-35 means is that other country except the USA aren’t allowed to create update to the software. Exception for Israel and maybe the UK (don’t quote me) are allowed to modify the software themselves.

It doesn’t mean a instant kill switch. But it does mean that if the USA decides to block someone from update it’s much harder for a country to make their own update.

Except that it’s gambling. The jobs trigger my hyper focus, sure I’ll do in a week a project meant for a month. But inversely, I can be incapable of even thinking about a task and make no progress for weeks.

I mean, meds have made it better.

South African authorities said 23 of the Palestinians had traveled onwards to other countries, without naming those countries, but 130 remained and were allowed in after intervention from South Africa’s Ministry of Home Affairs and an offer by an NGO called Gift of the Givers to accommodate them.

“Even though they do not have the necessary documents and papers, these are people from a strife-torn, a war-torn country, and out of compassion, out of empathy, we must receive them and be able to deal with the situation that they are facing,” Ramaphosa said.

The image isn’t loading. but with that title, if it’s not Battlestar Galactica I will be big sad

Wait the fucking minute. Kissinger? Kissinger got a god damn peace prize…

My god he actually did get it for the Paris peace Accords, before what he did in Cambodia and South America became known.

I appreciate the suggestion. I have been trying to drag myself to a book-cofee place. Just, it’s taking a lot out of me

This will never be me. And I wake up every day wanting to end it. Because I am incapable of the social labor necessary for a friendship.

Edit: Okay so in insight, this is very depressing even for me. This post as a big impact on me.

Revive the Nike-X you cowards. I want to die from the sonic boom of a missile accelerating to mach 10 in 5s