We will see. Putin has built a very stable authoritarian system that could very well survive him.

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Russia needs to fundamentally change for that to happen. Maybe even disintegrate a lose much of their central and eastern asian territory. Russia is too big to be easily integrated into europe.

we side with Russia, we as EU Ukraine included

Become part of Russia's empire is the only way this works.

I answered your question, you silly person.

Why would any other country rely on us for military equipment instead of working on their own?

It's not just about cost but industrial infrastructure and engineering expertise. There are rich and stable countries, that are unable to make their own advanced arms because their society and culture doesn't value scientific study, education, and manual labor highly.

Saudi Arabia has a limited ability to make arms (assault rifles, armored trucks) while swimming in money. North Korea is dirt poor, but has the culture and determination to build tanks, artillery, ships, submarines, guided missiles, even ICBMs and nuclear bombs.

Which brings me to a point I didn't mention earlier. Buying arms from abroad also buys good will and diplomatic relations. That's a major reason why the Saudis buy mostly American and European arms.

There are many ways to take a stand besides advocating for assassinations.

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Why would any other country rely on us for military equipment instead of working on their own? Yeah it costs money to setup

It costs a ton of money, especially research and development into high tech weapons. Very few countries for example even have the technology to build blades for jet turbines. There's half a dozen companies world wide that have the capability to make jet engines. Or even seemingly much simpler: making good ball bearings is surprisingly difficult and are required for lots of things. High quality optics? Extremely hard.

A weapons system pretty much all countries can assembly is the technical: a pickup truck with a heavy machine gun bolted to it. Making a car or a machine gun is already difficult and few countries have the metallurgy, precision engineering, trained workforce, etc. to make all the parts for them. The microelectronics and chips in the radio? Also not easy to make.

The supply chain is long, even for relatively simple systems. The more advanced the system, the fewer parts the local industry will be capable of producing.

R&D costs will be spread out over all production units. So if research costs 100 million, but you only build 20, it will be a hundred times more expensive than if you build 2000. That's how the F-35 is more capable and cheaper than previous generation fighter jets.

So to build your own stuff, you need to a fairly advanced and diversified industrial base in the first place. On top of that you need money and a big enough number of units for it to be financially viable.

Sweden makes its own fighter jet JAS 39 Gripen. However it imports the engines, electronics, radar, and some other essential parts from the USA. That somewhat better for Sweden because it keeps some of the money spent in the local economy and keeps a trained workforce around. It doesn't create strategic independence from the US though.

I think it's likely he does genetic screening or even gene editing for his offspring. This would align with his other futuristic and transhumanist ideas.

Same. It's a typical story you would hear from a trustafarian wook, who falls for everything "exotic" and "natural" to fill their broken soul.

The only reason I started watching it, was Scavengers Reign. Otherwise, I wouldn't have touched it.

There's the potential for a twist, with some reveal that turns the premise upside down. I'm not holding my breath for it though.

There's an American remake called The Agency, which you could try instead.