Trump's Devastating Plan for Ukraine
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And the "European Fighter Jets will be Stationed In Poland" is memeworthy for years to come. It strains credibility to think this is seriously being considered - hopefully the final draft isn't as ridiculous.
However, if you read the NYT, you might think that this was the most serious thing since aluminum tubes.
“Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor.”
As it turned out, Poland paid a very heavy price. But we're damn proud of it.
> This proposal turns the USA into an accomplice of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I could not agree more.
That is the only signal that would make a difference. Carney's Canada knows what's up.
I'm a huge fan of the Gripen myself, and it's arguably the better fighter aircraft if you're in a WVR dogfight against a monster airframe like the Su-35. That being said, air dominance is not the only role the F-35 was evaluated on. There are lots of great European fighter aircraft, but pretty much nothing that rivals the F-35 in strike capacity.
According to your own analysis, does not the Gripen fit NATO's goals much more than than the F-35 A?
NATO, until it was first destroyed via Desert Storm, was just supposed to defend us all from the imperialist ambitions of Moscow.
The Gripen has a dispersed field capability that can be supported by only 2 trained men, and a few conscripts + 2 x 20 TU containers... vs. F-35 A... I feel like only one product is correct for the EU, which has only defensive ambitions.
Meanwhile, with F-35 A, not only is the supply chain a question, but it cannot be deployed unless the selling country, and selling company, feels like it on that given day. This is right to repair/right to save your own effing country. Can someone please explain to me how we are at this point, in 2025?
If Europe doesn't want a deep strike capability against Russia, don't buy the F-35. Fill the gap with a regional stealth-bomber program like China did, or pool the various European stealth fighter projects together in a serious joint project. As-is, the only competitor to the F-35 can be bought from China, who will be more capricious with the supply chain in the long run.
The EU/NATO is still used to sucking on the teet of the USA, even though that is now gone.
I only recently learned that "may you live in interesting times" was a curse, and not a blessing.
Help me win a dark bet with my mother.
Given two locations:
1. Seattle, USA
2. Wrocław, Poland
In which location is the military most likely to be seen outside of my window in 2026?
The second time however, he learned his lesson. He's still a clown but he put his people, ranked by loyalty above anything else, in all key position. They are all knee deep in probably the most obvious and manifest corruption we've ever seen in a Western country. They won't oppose him in any way unless they are sure he's dead or gone forever.
>All Nazi ideology and activities must be rejected and prohibited.
>Ukraine will hold elections in 100 days.
I mean he even said this was his strategy to end the war on day one: threaten both sides with severe consequences until they compromise. Total 1D chess.
I prefer "half-court tennis."
However, given the terms of the agreement, both of our phrases appear to be far too nice.
> Americans have a penchant for what I call half-court tennis, which is: they like to analyze international affairs and wars by focusing on Team America – what Americans did or didn't do – and then that explains causation in the world.
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sarah-paine-japan
I think Sarah Paine could be a bit less harsh, and that would help get her point across better. However, at this point... who cares. Flood the zone.
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Related meta, and the low-point of HN from my POV. No judgement, we all get scammed sometimes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712496
There was some of that but a lot of blame the victim stuff "You don't start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles" etc.
That continues here with this basically Russian written proposal that they'll pause attacking if Ukraine will just stop defending itself.
The behaviour is more consistent with him being basically a Russian asset with them having bailed him out financially, probably have kompromat and helping him get elected president. He can't come out and say that because even the Republican party would probably object.
There was an interesting speculative theory the other day that the Russians are having him push this now because they are worried he'll lose some power after the Epstein info comes out.