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Dreadedvegas t1_jd7tdoy wrote

I do not and will not understand why the US is doing this piecemeal aid.

30 tanks will not make a difference in a conventional landwar. The USA has the ability to send large quantities of mechanized vehicles because its slotted to begin replacement this year. Sending 30 vehicles every 2 weeks is just… mind numbing short sighted.

The training that NATO is doing is too short and too little. 3 months? That’s ridiculous, how can they expect those units to perform combined arms when their fresh conscripts.

Why have long term munitions contracts not been signed? Why is the DPA not invoked? Why is the army so resistant of taking Bradleys out of its reserve units and stockpiles? They are getting replaced.

I just do not comprehend the administration’s position of “not escalating”. Is this just some cold war trauma mentality of nuclear armageddon? The USA literally fought the Soviet air force and air defense forces in Korea and Vietnam. If war didn’t break out from Able Archer and from Cuba why would war break out by sending arms? Why are we so scared?

Why is it considered “acceptable” for Russia to commit war crimes daily by targeting hospitals and residential blocks but unacceptable for Ukraine to target legitimate military targets inside Russia like the airfields where the cruise missile carrying aircraft are coming from or the railways in which supplies are coming in from?

We need to start truly acting like this is a war because our mild response will only embolden future actors. We do not need to directly get involved but I just cannot comprehend why we arent sending ATACMs, more IFVs and tanks. Its a conventional ground war, they need the equipment and they need more comprehensive training.

These decisions shouldve been made last year. It makes me sick that they wait the last minute and then there is a 6-8 month delay. Thats easily another 60.000 dead Ukrainians when there are already serious manpower considerations.

We didn’t go “oh here are 30 planes” to the British and the Soviets in WW2 prior to our involvement. We opened the arsenal of democracy and provided huge quantities of arms, ammo and equipment.

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pegothejerk t1_jd7t8e6 wrote

The US relaxed it’s gag orders in 2014, and there’s a process for requiring that data that leaves a paper trail, which can be studied by courts. It’s also from the US, and not by a competitor nation known to steal intellectual property, a nation state that you can’t touch with information requests about what data or investigations they have on you at all. Am I thrilled what the US has done and presumably will do? Definitely not, but there is a huge difference between the interests and problems between which nation gets data on which citizens.

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NarcissusCloud t1_jd7t4zc wrote

Ok, I would definitely agree with that. I highly doubt any of these jokes are being made with the explicit goal of raising awareness. I would argue that unless you have a large dedicated audience, you're never actually joking to raise awareness. My apologies, I misunderstood what you were going for.

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AudibleNod OP t1_jd7sawe wrote

Working in IT, I've seen the malware trick a few times.

Fortunately it's never something cool or espionage-y. It's just a script kiddie doing it for kicks. Nevertheless, never plug an unknown USB device (not just storage) into your system. And please don't do it on your work computer. All the IT guys are going to laugh at you.

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MGD109 t1_jd7s7y5 wrote

Right cause everyone who ever questions the logically fallacies must be part of the enemy.

If you must know I personally think the American police force is both institutionally and personally corrupt, racist, overpaid, overmilitarized and an embodiment of all the countries failures (or if your more cynical, a reflection).

I just don't think them putting up a billboard is the best argument you could make to prove it or that it has much to do with this story.

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