I do not know how much cross pollination there is between Europe and the Russo-Ukranian war communities. But this youtuber has a background in defense economics and has in-depth analysis of a wide range of subjects in the field. This week an update and analysis of the long war is posted and I thought some people that would normally not see this would enjoy these insights.

A reasonable response with worries we also share. Thanks for that.

I’m from Europe and don’t understand why this should not just be resolved with taxes on the companies.

The record profits of the companies are in my vision because the company does not have to do anything for the healthcare and pensions. So if the company does not have to care for it, but society requires it, this is where the government needs to act. Tax the companies and arrange healthcare and retirement stipends. This solves one issue by solving the other, allowing the company to keep doing what it’s doing without having to think about healthcare… that has been resolved.

Individuals then have retirement benefits and can use private retirement insurance to supplement this.

Defense industry will make this happen if it’s viable. War industry drives much of this. So we will see

A few hundred losing their jobs is kinda misrepresenting the situation isn’t it. If you keep seeing each company by itself in terms of firings but then group the market as a whole in terms of people with money in the market.

It’s either a few thousand with money in the company vs the people fired from that company… Or the market vs all people fired in the market during these waves.

Plus… when you are one of the fired people the impact can be deeply impactful, in the US even as far as having no health insurance. While less profit does not have such an impact.

That was the risk of remaining on the platform the moment musk took over. And if not then, when he started stripping it down and making it less reliable. And if not then, maybe when he started pursuing shadow banning again.

No government or news business has any business anymore being on Twitter. They should use the fedpub protocol and push out their messages there.

This will allow their readers/citizens to use a broad scala of apps to read them, allows more 3rd party apps to integrate them.

Governments and newspapers must hold the reigns over their own infra or risk this happening.

It will be interesting to know if the cables for these things can handle the load. On an individual level probable, but on larger scale?

Absolutely. Hence my original call for a criminal investigation to see if they indeed accepted the risks knowingly as then they should be held accountable.

Like I think all upper management of big oil that knew what they where doing to the planet should be tried in the Hague for Crimes against humanity. I don’t care if they are old and long retired, concentration camp guards are also still tried after all these years.

Maybe they can rent some production space in seattle :P

This is indeed what I meant. I don’t think that someone was actively trying to make the plane unsafe, but in the eternal quest for more profit engineers, best practices and safety reports where ignored to make the plane as cheap as possible, resulting in the current flying grounded deathtrap.

But it was so cheap… Would they think of the shareholders!

They really screwed the pooch with the 737 max9… it’s like the gift that keeps on giving.

I think internal documents and communication should be seized and a federal criminal investigation is in order… someone must have actively fucked with this.

Embrear and Airbus are uncorking the champagne now probably.

My point exactly. Maybe this data should be required to be disclosed.

Mine too. I more mean that what is put on the sticker for sales. That should be an accurate average range for normal use.

Yes we can haggle over “normal use” but the bottom line is that the ranges advertised should be better representative of reality.

All these manufacturers collect tons of data. There is no reason range estimates can’t be better.

He claims it was already done… let’s see how that plays out.

Also your opponent might just forego pretence and summarily execute you when they catch you or claim themself president and be immune to consequences and imprison you anyway.

Yes exactly, also each icmb would qualify (during re-entry they also pickup “some” speed)… but it seems like hypersonic is sort of a marketing sticker thing, like “green” and “low fat”.

The NATO hypersonics that are being worked on should be able to make evasive manouvera at speed, will be interesting to see.

Yes, but afaik the hypersonic term applies to weapons over mach 4. NATO also adds additional requirements for hypersonics, such as manourerability. But they have enough speed to qualify.

Yes they are, but in this conflict the Russians reconfigured some of them and use them in a ground to ground attackrole.

They had shortages of other tactical weapons and apparently a nice stockpile of these missiles.

They are also used against hypersonic missiles the Russians have (kinzal etc.) and ballistics like s300 and s400.

The Roe ruling was one based on a privacy argument that held up. A law explicitly enshrining these rights might have helped.

There are thousands of pages of legal analysis out there that break down how that should work. The goal would be to explicitly state these rights I stead of allowing interpretation by judges.