to;dr: Republicans don’t want government money subsidizing insurance policies that pay for abortions.

They get their mandatory year of military service and during that year they are forced to sign up for actual military. That body of recruits isn’t going to dry up.

The Russian people will suffer, that’s a given. But will they do anything about it?

I started using Linux as my primary computer about 7 years ago. After a few months of distro hopping, I landed on Solus because it is stable and rolling. I didn’t want to deal with breaks during major upgrades. My system is still going and I have no complaints. I’m just a regular computer user, personal and work (non-tech job). I have to wonder why Solus doesn’t get more attention.

US debt is in US dollars and the US is not constrained on the issuance of dollars. There will be no default. Inflation, yes. Default, no.

Can you describe the opening days of the war, as you imagine it’ll happen?

Yesterday I made the mistake of looking up one of his videos to see what the hype was about. He is quite literally the most annoying & juvenile personality I’ve ever seen online. So much so that I couldn’t even process his claims. He was that annoying.

It is currently owned by a Swedish guy who previously bought out the Russian co-founder.

I don’t think the application will be chatbots.

Understanding the economics of it is beyond what I can reasonably know at this time but I did read that Ryan McBeth argued that the increasingly likely war involving China in 2027 or 2028 will become instant demand for AI services under military use.

OP used a deceptive title. The article doesn’t address aggregate Chinese demand, just demand of a single sanctioned Chinese firm.

Ukraine maintained every part of the Minsk agreement reasonable to keep while Russia was in blatant violation of the agreement. Russia agreed to a withdraw of military forces from Ukraine (including the Dombass region) and refused to do so after signing the agreement. This constrained what Ukraine could reasonably do under the circumstances. To Russia, the agreements were a hiatus in a bigger fight.

The LPR and DPR are not recognized as legitimate entities under the Minsk Agreements. They were added without consent by Ukraine after Ukraine had already signed the agreement.

Russia, what they gain is security

Yes, now bombs fall on Russian cities, power plants go dark, and refineries are on fire.

if this is for “vainglory,” why limit it to the Donbass region

Russia has already expanded their territorial claims beyond the Dombass.

Russia has proven capable of fighting an attrition war that Ukraine cannot

Neither side is doing well. If Russia was capable, they’d be gaining more than a few meters every day.

Russian population benefiting massively from strengthened ties with China

Russian demographics are in the toilet and friendship with China isn’t going to help.

Russia has been strengthened economically

A wartime economy produces encouraging economic figures but cannot be sustained and, when the war produces this kind of strain, the post-war economy is economic collapse. The war has to end someday and it will be ugly for the Russian people when that happens.

I gather that English is probably a second language for you, so I assume you have confused terms. Balkanization is not a color revolution. Balkanization is when a larger country breaks apart into several smaller countries. For example, if a political crisis resulted in a power vacuum within Russia sufficient for the Buryats to declare an independent republic, along with the Yakuts and several others. That would be Balkanization. These new nations would be weak and would be vulnerable to political or military capture by China. The US does not want that. A color revolution, on the other hand, could be a number of things, but most likely a change in the leadership in Moscow without producing a plethora of fracturing states. If the current political regime in Moscow was replaced by one more friendly to liberal, democratic, and market-oriented institutions, that’s one the US would favor, especially if it prevented Balkanization.

Do you bother reading the links you post? Or are you just trying to weaponize time against an ideological opponent? The paper does not address Russian balkanization or the setup of bases in a post-Russian landscape.

The US does not want the collapse of the Russian state and balkanization because the US believes that China would use the opportunity to grab resource rich land from Russia. US’s interests is in Russia being whole, powerful enough to prevent a vacuum, but not so powerful as to be a threat to neighbors. The US does not want Russian land to become Chinese land. And that’s probably what would happen if Russia balkanized.

Finland & Sweden were not controversial for admission and even these took much effort. Hungary has made clear they would never support Ukraine inside NATO. But even if their politics changed to allow it, the Turkish would never allow it, no matter which political party runs Turkey.

But let’s say that Ukraine did join NATO. So what? NATO is a defense treaty and a standards organization. Being a member of NATO just makes you a little harder to invade, it is not a threat to non-NATO neighbors. If Russia did not have an “invade your neighbor” mindset, there would be zero problem with all her neighbors being NATO members. That Russia has a problem with the idea of Ukraine inside NATO is an indication that Russia does not respect borders or national sovereignty of her neighbors. That she opposes it is the reason it is reasonably desired.

1. If you sincerely believe there’s a military industrial complex, you should read these reports and watch the accompanying video: Link.

2. If the people of Taiwan held a legitimate referendum to unify with China, there’s nothing the US could do to stop it. What the US can help stop is a violent invasion and the Chinese military has been readying for exactly that mission. China’s peak ability to do so will be 2027 or 2028 after which most analysts agree that their ability will diminish due to internal demographic & economic issues, US & Taiwan preparedness, and a changing in technology that increasingly favors defense.

There was a time that peaceful unification was possible. That was before China destroyed Hong Kong’s system of democratic rule. The people of Taiwan watched what happened and decided right then that promises given prior to unification would never last under Chinese rule.

I’ll be honest, I’ve only seen a few images of hostages returned to Israel and all of them looked healthy. I had expected their condition to be worse. That said, I’ve not looked at any video and only a few images, so I could be missing something. What are the allegations and evidence of allegations being provided by those who have been returned? I’m not invested in either side of that conflict, so I don’t feel a need for either side to be the “right” side.

It requires more effort to spread intelligent ideas.

The description of events she provided should have produced physical evidence. Bruises at a minimum. Did she publish photo evidence?

The weapons producers are tiny companies in comparison. If a senator got a call from Apple and from Rheinmetall at the same time, he would 100% take the Apple call first. China wants the US to be bogged down with Ukraine when China invades Taiwan. Keeping this war going is the cover they desire to pull off their upcoming territorial expansion which will not be limited to Taiwan.