Food, water, ammunition, communications, charging electrical devices, power banks, the approach of the main forces, evacuating the wounded … Two or three groups in the rear without all this — that’s a disaster

Two or three groups? Man, that must be every creative Russian soldier there is. /s

Just like the last time, the far-right’s global acceptability and credibility takes a nosedive once they have the opportunity to actually start doing things.

Yes, it’s the right call, but it’s sad someone’s actions have made it necessary, I guess.

the hard limit is willpower and material resources.

Which money is an accounting mechanism for.

What this actually means is that people will work for tank manufacturers instead of developing civilian EVs or whatever. Same story for the steel and equipment that goes into it.

TIL, thanks.

Is the West vs. Islamism still a big topic in Europe (outside of immigration rhetoric)? On this side of the Atlantic, it was already “on the back burner” somewhat, and then the Russian invasion happened.

If this is the same poll as before, the rest say probably not, and 5% checked a box randomly (the lizardman constant).

Yes. Unfortunately, it’s a very blunt instrument. The rest of our tariffs have been ultra-targeted, but Doug Ford really wants to do something and this is the main tool he has provincially.

There’s enough rural, conservative areas within those states that would be affected I imagine Trump will have some blowback. How much is hard to say at this point, especially given that he’s still adding and removing his own tariffs all the time.

Do you have a source on that? I’d really expect they’re all on the same grid.

I feel like (official) racial equality needs to be in there, I just don’t know where.

Early vs. late 60’s makes all the difference here. MAD was first coined in 1962, which is the year in question, so obviously it hadn’t grown to the point of being official doctrine, let alone a global, immovable strategic equilibrium. I’m not a professional historian, so maybe I’m missing something, but this has been my take on the period.

In the 70’s the system as we know it starts to develop, and you see the ABM treaty signed as a symptom of this.

And there’s rituals and rules with gravity surrounding them now. During the Cuban missile crisis nukes were seen as just another weapon. At this point they’re more like symbols of state that you can hypothetically end the world with.