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  • Yeah, that's not useful in this analysis because the opponent has been campaigning for far longer. So while 3 months is a good campaigning time, it's not better than 12 months.

    And of course we campaign year round because of money.

  • I love the cope here.

    1. The shortage turned the war is Russia's favor? Honestly, when was the war NOT in Russia's favor? At literally every juncture Russia has controlled the pace of the conflict using only a portion of its military, while Ukraine has burned through multiple full armies, constantly reacting, and changing very little.
    2. The graph of shell production is hilarious. For years production has been abysmal and yet they expect to nearly double in a year and then double again year later. Really? The article refers to a factory in the USA that is literally 10-years behind schedule and over budget by 100%. There's zero evidence that those projections can be achieved.
    3. "It's easy to blame Western leaders [for this problem. But if we had ramped up shell production we would had not built other weapons.]" How are those other weapons working out for you? Who could have known shells were more important than those other weapons? Hint: everyone who warned you this would happen. Of course it's easy to blame Western leaders for these decisions - they are literally accountable for this domain. We're also talking literal orders of magnitude difference in budget between USA wonder weapons and shells. They quote one facility costing $147M when the F35 program is in the hundreds of billions with the total program estimated to cost $2 TRILLION, and they want to believe that spending $6B on shell production would have been a problem? A trillion for upgrading the nuclear system in the USA and it's not leadership's fault that there's a shell shortage after years of warnings from military experts? Granted the person who said this is from a think tank that likely advised spending those dollars on hi tech trash, so they are probably just covering their ass, but Reuters needs to find anything they can to keep the copium supply flowing.

    If this is the state of internal critique in the West, the West is cooked.

  • Why is Russia so good at this? They have so much less money, so many fewer people, they were completely demolished 30 years ago, and they are shot through with corruption. How could they be so effective at controlling USA politicians and the USA electoral system and the USA Congress and the USA media when the USA spends far more on propaganda, far more on espionage, far more on media, far more on their military, far more on international relations, and has more people and has much longer unbroken period of prosperity and has more control over the world's resources and has more influence over the world governments?

    It just doesn't make sense. How is Russia this good?

  • What are you fucking talking about. Hong Kong has always been part of China. The imperialist monarchical tyranny of Great Britain forcibly occupied Hong Kong and separated it from Chinese governance on a temporary contractual basis. Once that contract was up, Hong Kong was once again part of China but instead of completely overturning everything in Hong Kong, the Chinese government established a way of working called "One Country, Two Systems" that is making the transition away from the dynastic monarchy of unapologetic genocidal racists easier for the people of Hong Kong.

    The fact that the youth of Hong Kong decided to protest part of this process is a function of British propaganda. The protestors elders were not in support of the protests and some even threw their kids out of their homes for their participation. Meanwhile, the protesters in Hong Kong were incredibly violent for a prolonged period of time and the response from the Chinese government was incredibly sedate, patient, and considerate, especially compared to literally anything the USA has done domestically when people protest for the rights of black people.

    Your narrative is fantastical with little to no basis in reality.

  • Goddamn crackers cannot stop centering themselves. You think any nation, let alone the second largest in the world, could make such an industrial shift on the same timescale that Europe is discussing sanctions? It's ridiculous. China has been making this shift for years and it has nothing to do with what Europe is talking about this year.