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[-] Pili@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 1 year ago

2028 lol

That's so nice of them to already plan trade with the future Russian province of Ukraine.

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 year ago

Like that's FOUR YEARS from now 😭 what do they expect from this war

[-] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

For it to be over so they don't have to make good on the deal

[-] vaguevoid@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

they want ukraine to be a client state i guess

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

I have said it before, but western timelines are hilarious. If they really wanted to win this war they would put everything into it and damn the cost (and by cost I mean, damn the low to no profits). But that isn't how or why the western MIC exists. It exists to extract maximum profit from its tax payers. And dawdling, dragging your feet, and making sure everything is done "by the book" means a lot more money for for the ghouls that make up the industry.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

It's also possible that the decades of financialization and deindustrialization of Westoid economies has left this paltry effort the best that the West can do without shocking the war economy into a war footing.

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

They already threw everything at it at the beginning and for the counteroffensive. Russia just outproduced them all

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

A big reason for this is because the west are not asking difficult questions like "should people be making a profit on all these weapons we are making or should we consider streamlining the weapon production process by nationalizing"

The west certainly could compete, but it won't. Because for the US this is not a war of survival, this is just another day of laundering public money with another war.

[-] GlueBear@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

The west can't compete, it moved all manufacturing to the global south and China.

The number one thing we can learn from Russia and China is this: Don't rely on other countries for your food and weapons. Self sufficiency in those areas are a matter of national security and national cohesion.

Neglecting those 2 are ultimately what is finally going to end western hegemony.

Can't enforce a dollar hegemony if you don't have the weapons to back it up.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

I also love to make promises I know I won't have to deliver on for free cred

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

This resembles when you like someone but don't like like them

[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago
[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

That's like when your teacher would say "I promise we'll get to that" whenever they didn't want to answer a question.

[-] LeniX@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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