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Thank you for taking your valuable time away from huffing gas to share this invaluable insight.

Here's MIT Professor and former Pentagon advisor Ted Postol explaining why the Golden Dome is a fundamentally unworkable idea. He views it primarily as a political vehicle lacking genuine technical basis. Existing and proposed systems are easily foiled by the use of decoys, making reliable interception an impossibility. The proposed space-based interceptor system would also require tens of thousands of satellites, with launch costs alone in the tens of billions and total costs potentially reaching trillions, making the system economically unviable.

The real danger of this idea is that even the perception of such a defense system's effectiveness could lead to reckless actions by leaders and undermine international arms control efforts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Wzlqh7bIs

US threats mean nothing because the US has no bargaining power, and everybody knows this now.

I'm not here to win arguments with internet trolls. The only pathetic thing here is that you can't help but keep replying to me. It's lile a Pavlovian response.

Why would I care if some ignoramus on the internet takes me seriously?

Literally linked you a NATO military expert proving you wrong, but I guess your reading comprehension isn't so good.

I mean literally what I wrote there. EU countries are subjugating African nations and extracting their labour and resources.

• https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2017/11/15/lets-talk-about-neo-colonialism-in-africa/
• https://thesciencesurvey.com/editorial/2023/07/21/neocolonialism-the-remnants-of-foreign-exploitation-in-africa/

It's obvious to anybody who has even the bare minimum of understanding of what's happening in Ukraine. Don't take my word for it though. Here's what Lt. Col. Alex Vershinin retired after twenty years of service, including eight years as an armor officer with four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and twelve years as a modeling and simulations officer in NATO and U.S. Army, working on concept development and experimentation has to say on the subject:

• https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-war-ukraine
• https://responsiblestatecraft.org/coalition-of-the-willing-ukraine/

Do feel free to show a single official statement from Russia to that effect. The fact that you haven't been paying attention is very obvious. Let's just see what people with a clue have to say on the subject. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/coalition-of-the-willing-ukraine/

Clearly, trolling is your passion as evidenced by this very thread.

Rutte's unique approach to English merely reflects the fact that his intellectual ceiling would challenge even the most ambitious root vegetable.

^ peak reddit intellect spotted on lemmy 🤣

Can't help themselves is an interesting euphemism for defeating all of NATO in Ukraine.

Feel free to provide examples of Russian colonialism in Africa. Last I checked, these kinds of things are happening, where Niger is NATIONALIZING their resources. If Russia was doing what the west was doing, then Niger would have a Russian puppet for a president who'd be selling the country off to Russian corps.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/23/niger-to-nationalize-uranium-to-wrest-control-over-its-resource-from-france/

Either you're utterly clueless, or intentionally trying to create a false equivalence to whitewash western crimes against humanity. Either way, you're a slimy colonizer apologist.

Oh yes, it's so terrible how Russia is helping countries like Niger and Burkina Faso shake off western colonialism. Cry harder.

The living standard of a carpenter in Slovenia is directly built on the brutal exploitation of the Global South.

Funnily enough the economies of all these countries are built on colonial exploitation of the Global South. All of them rely on cheap production in countries dominated by the west. Their economies are not self sufficient.

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