“Let us be the generation that when history is written about our time — in 10, 20, 30, 50, 80 years from now — it will be said: When the moment came, we met the moment. We stood strong. Our alliances were made stronger. And we saved democracy in our time as well,” Biden said.
In 50 years time Russians will be visiting a regular war exhibition in Moscow and just laugh at that piece of shit Abrams tank thinking damn how on earth did people 70 years ago think this piece of trash was any good in the same way we look at those cute little WW1 tanks and say "awww so cute look at that really what were they thinking this is a literal metal box on tracks that can barely move".
Maybe but the page revision shows this reference was added in 2024, the person editing this had access to the current version. All of the links there are shit even the old ones are not any better like this its a story by some caricature named cracker who seems to have built an entire career of being the "Chinese correspondent", citing "No First Name" Zhang telling an outline of why China might need this. No facts or anything and the only other source is surprise surprise a literal San Francisco based NGO "working to free political prisoners" lol.
This is the standard of wikipedia.
The EU is definitely suffering but please remember that EU social democracy to the extent it still exists, far exceeds the working class privileges of the regular American. It would be a joke to even compare the two. To suggest Europeans are suddenly going to migrate to the US is to ignore American's own cost of life crisis, don't we get people constantly complaining about rent and stuff here on HB? Most are not European you know.
Everything from healthcare, housing and education is still far far more expensive overall in the US than the major EU countries and again, while we can argue whether some German IT guy would work in California/Texas that IT guy is not ever going to be working in a McDonalds in Atlanta or Michigan unless Berlin is firebombed again.
There is no disagreement that EU economy is not going well, but keeping perspective in mind we are talking about neoliberal mainstream economic terms most of the time, GDP stagnation doesn't mean a G7 country is suddenly in the same material conditions as some African country overnight.
There is no reason to believe its retail actualy buying this like the first time as its not 2020, people already lost their money the first time and inflation fucked with everyone's disposable income etc. Of course there is some but this time I think its just the usual hedge algos reacting to "sentiment" analysis i.e media reports, news, social media etc. That and of course the fact the ridiculously high IV means there is definitely some ridiculous hedging that must be done constantly and that leads to this loop too.
Setting the US up for receiving an influx of white European immigrants over the next two decades, who will be replacing the non-white immigrants that have been the backbone of US economy for decades.
That is a massive copeium dream not even MAGA believes that, if anyone actualy thinks massive amounts of French/German/Italians are going to cross the Atlantic just to work in a Mcdonalds for not even $15 an hour.
We need to wait for WW3 and complete actual massive death and destruction of European cities for this to be even remotely feasible.
But even if you disregard all of that, in 20 years time climate change will sink Florida and make most of the USian south a massive shithole. The current "liberal" paradise of NW/NE will have to deal with their own internal migration problems. I foresee chuds trying to raid and kill liberals well before Americans being open to such a massive immigration, even if white Europeans, they tend to be technically quite a bit more liberal than Americans liberals even.
Again chuds would rather kill white liberals than work with them. Of course when under threat liberals will always work with the fascists anyway, but it doesn't mean there wont be conflicts.
In 20 years I'd bet on EU's internal migration issues(periphery towards the center/north) before anything else. Also its a given they'll be genociding every African/ME migrant crossing the Mediterranean too. They'll be busy closing their borders both ways.
Russian missiles have targeted Ukrainian infrastructure for years, and by this point it's pretty clear that for all the previous talk of "the gloves will come off this time," they do not have some massive stockpile of munitions waiting for the signal. Rather by now the quantity of Russian strikes are strictly limited by their rate of production. There is also not much more room for Russia to expand their scope of acceptable targets.
Not sure this is the correct narrative here.
By "years" you mean exactly 2 of which the first 6 or so months they did in fact limit their strikes to logistics only, specially the first 2-3 months which was about trying to knock out Ukraine via the diplo pressure route, if you recall the fact Russia was not targetting Ukraine like the usual NATO shock doctrine was a talking point in their favor back then. The escalation came when they decided to start systematically targeting Ukrainian energy grid in 2023(18 months maybe) and by all accounts it has been extremely successful at that, massive shortages are common for months.
The other side is there have been repeated occasions where they targeted high level officer buildings, some times even apparently killing/injuring western/NATO officers. I think there was a particular noticeable one in a hotel a few months ago.
The point is, Russia has demonstrated they can go after "high value" targets if they want to and there is definitely a moral/political cost to this. It is incredibly irresponsible to think Russia doesn't have a WW3 stockpile either, they're not amateurs, they've inhereted the Soviet doctrine for the most part which always included massive preparations for exactly such WW3 scenario against NATO.
For the hypersonic missiles specifically, I'd imagine they treat their reserves as just as important as their nuclear stockpile, it is afterall a massive strategical advantage.
But regarding their limitations right now yeah ultimately you're right, it is completely logical they wont launch some 200 hypersonic missiles in one wave just because they can doesn't mean they should or would, if they can only make idk 20 a month that is what they have to work with in the short term.
Yeah and even Japanese nationalists are likely to point their guns towards South Korea rather than China.
At the same time without US interference East Asian cooperation is far more likely than not.
Not malfunction? I think we all just overreacted to 2022 and their support for Russia, thinking that China has a mature understanding of anti-imperialism and that they were willing to at least put weight behind their words.
What happened since then was a complete rejection, straight to our face, multiple times where they repeatedly tell us they don't want conflict, they don't want a new bloc, they don't want a cold war etc... They praise Kissinger, they make silly gestures at Taiwan while the US calls their bluff every single time, they say the half correct even thing about Gaza while we should just ignore its over 6 months and not a single sanction or any diplomatic move against Israel. They meet with Biden and cheer, they meet with Yellen, Blinken. They make angry faces and noises but also turn around and welcome the demons into their home. Its all a clown joke if you want any sort of communist world view behind these actions.
And that is not barely half of it, at this point its like believing lightning strikes the same place 5 times or something.
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