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Avalonne
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · Nov 11
Almost everything I put out is a bit.
Through sarcasm, criticism, wit.

Life's but a joke and I'm always laughing, if not chuckling.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 49m
Trump's logic is: Putin is white, Gazans aren't.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 5h
Hm, seems like lack of strategic planning and thinking is more widespread than I thought.
Yet, it isn't immediatism that's causing it. No, that's just an eagerness for the NOW! NOW! NOW!

This is just... Strange.
Do people normally not think a week ahead, maybe a month?
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 8h
Lastly, Europe still produces materiel of higher quality and lower cost (Rheinmetall, Thales, Saab) than the US (Northrop-Grumman, Boeing), such that the US's money-value contributions to NATO are inflated by cost-price disparity.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 8h
I think that with the right nudging and a cohesive policy (EU is great for that), Europe can rearm fairly fast, develop tech, AND procure materiel all at the same time with little/no economic hiccups.
This all without the US.

That was our Cold War policy— expecting to be cutoff. Be self-reliant.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 8h
The US also deliberately engaged in a policy of economic vassalisation with Europe, with very limited success.
Europe maintained, though at lower pace, materiel development, production and procurement — most pieces being significantly cheaper than US-produced equivalents.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 8h
I wouldn't say EU has been relying on US for protection.
I would say that during the Cold War, the US used its position far away from possible conflict to leverage materiel procurement— Europe had adopted 5.56 in the 50s only to get shangaiied into 7.62 by the US, and back to 5.56 in the 70s.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 13h
I struggle to understand what exactly russia wins with time.
Maybe less pressure, the unrealistic expectation that sanctions/economic pressure fades, they think Putin is immortal maybe(?), that the russian economy needs time to bounce back?
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 13h
At the end of the day all "russia will steamroll Europe in a war" are miopic or just ignorant. They often quote population numbers, conveniently forgetting: the entire population does not go to war.

Some (today more than half) of the war effort stays at home: logistics, backline, intel, command.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 13h
If you had thought about what you were writing a tiny bit more, you probably wouldn't have written it.

NATO falls apart?
- You're literally from a country that just joined it: Sweden.
- Quantitative contributions do not mean qualitative contributions

Ukraine war has shown the second part amply.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 15h
Simply matched the level of thought gone into your post.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 15h
It's like Smersh coming out of thin air after what, 40-50 years(?) with an insane, russian-financed story about Nordstream 2.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 15h
I always find it fascinating how the most utterly passable and nobody of nobodies suddenly comes out of the woodwork with some "information" gathered from "spurces" that is little other than some crazy story based on vague notions, often greatly exaggerating the abilities of the entities depicted.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 18h
Oh great another guy that thinks money is the indicator of everything.
You probably think Musk is intelligent, too.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 1d
Ahh, foiled again by the magnificent french sarcasm! 😵‍💫
Seriously I love how sarcasm works in French, but it unfortunately doesn't translate to English equally. 😁
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 1d
Also here's a report
stories.iphronline.org/terror-in-th...
Terror in the Details: Western-made Components in Russia's Shahed-136 Attacks
stories.iphronline.org
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 1d
It's been a thing for a while now
b4ukraine.org/whats-new/we...
Western components found in drones used by Russia against Ukraine
Russia’s Shahed-136 attacks are intentionally aimed at the civilian population and infrastructure
b4ukraine.org
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 1d
That they disagree but never reach a consensus (or go anywhere) because they're all arguing about pointless things while missing the major points that actually get somewhere.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 1d
Yet they go and do more of the same in Srebrenica.

I know I'm skipping over the details but how exactly they differ milimetrically is an effort in futility and a great case example of missing the forest for the trees.

It's also 1:1 what the Soviet education wanted out of people who disagree->
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 2d
In 1970, Slovenia was Yugoslavia.

I don't understand why you're arguing just to argue.
And no, someone brought up in the USSR is /obviously/ far more likely to be aligned with Moscow considering the entire education system was/is just indoctrination.

But ok, comtest facts all you like.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 2d
I'm not sorry at all, was merely being polite.

Simply look st Yugoslavia today— Serbia and its unfettered relations with Moscow and you have your answer.

Apropos: understandingwar.org/research/rus...

"Putin met with Former President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik, on October 2"
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 2d
At this point you'd be a fool not to play the bumbling idiot's ego like a damn fiddle. Meloni's so good at it she makes him look like a bigger idiot than he already is AND he defends her every step of the way.

He's a pathetic cretin and the worst thing the US could have elected for POTUS... twice.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 2d
The moron can't even place 2003 in relation to today. Says it was the year before last year. That was 2023. Off by 20 years.

Based on his "information" AI would manage to be even worse.
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 2d
I wonder what other things they'll verify between eachother, maybe that rain falls and not ascends?

Maybe they'll figure out water is wet next!

In all, just 8 children in some weak symbolic gesture whereas Ukriane successfully pressures russia to return like 10-20 in one go....
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 2d
"Reunited" 8 children with their families.
Fails to mention whether the children wee brought back to Ukraine or assimilated into some russian "family".
But hey, they prepared biographies and somehow verified the information between the US and russia sans Ukraine.

What a magic act! Omniscient even!
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Avalonne @avalonne.bsky.social · 2d
Well we got the next 3 years for him to whinge about it and the wars he "ended" (only made things worse).
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