yogthos

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

That money is already allocated, it’s not just sitting there in a big pile collecting dust.

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel

The genocide isn’t going to commit itself.

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

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yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

As I explained in my original comment, you can’t just create such industries overnight. These require building out supply chains, training workers, and so on. You can just look at how great reshoring chip production is going despite untold billions being poured into that to get an idea of what a monumental task this is.

Building out an industry on this scale is going to take years if not decades. Providing 100 billion to Ukraine in funding isn’t going to do jack shit. Ukraine is running out of weapons and ammunition. Replacements for any of these don’t exist, and production capacity is insufficient to make any actual difference in the foreseeable future.

Highly recommend reading this article from RUSI explaining these problems rusi.org/…/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-wa…

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

lol the NAFO brigades

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

lol CNN disagrees with you there bud www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/…/index.html

yogthos , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

The problem NATO has with this proxy war can’t be solved by printing money. The issue lies in the lack of industrial production in the west, and you can’t just create a huge industry for producing weapons and ammunition out of whole cloth.

This will be a fantastic vehicle for pushing for austerity in Europe though. The oligarchs have been very upset that Europeans enjoy a social safety net and things like pensions. The need for massive military spending will be a perfect justification for stripping these rights away from the workers. Europeans are about to start enjoying American style freedoms.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to technology in Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week

sounds like it’s about to get more intrusive

yogthos , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.

I’ve enjoyed immensely every book he’s written. :)

yogthos , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Would you rather live in a big city or a small town?

I’ve lived in both, and prefer big cities as long as I’m living in a walkable neighborhood.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to technology in Huawei shrugs off US sanctions with a bumper 2023

Except dems have had the house and the senate at the start of Biden admin.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to technology in Huawei shrugs off US sanctions with a bumper 2023

last I checked democrats continued exact same policy under Biden

yogthos , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to asklemmy in Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.

Ted Chiang

Greg Egan

Peter Watts

Adrian Tchaikovsky

yogthos , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Do you usually purchase digital or physical books? Why?

I tend to buy ebooks nowadays just because it’s convenient. I find ereader experience nowadays is pretty much the same as reading a regular book.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to science in Gravitational waves may have made human life possible

The headline is referring to the fact that iodine and bromine are products of neutron star collisions, it is just really bad writing as often happens with science reporting. The original paper is more clear, probably should’ve just linked to it in the first place arxiv.org/abs/2402.03593