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A blog (mostly) about defence policy and military affairs. Some humour, German politics and economic stuff is in between.

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Joined January 2022
Replying to @franke_media
Bullshit ist die Fantasiewelt, in der Sie leben. Screenshot Quelle Destatis
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Replying to @JoaodosReisAlb1
M1s can basically dig in in wet soil. xitter.gq/JonHawkes275/status/13…
Replying to @JonHawkes275
A Pocket History: LEP, like all UK programmes, has a lengthy backstory but in the contemporary space emerged in 2013 as a pure obsolescence management project, replacing equipment that was no longer manufactured or supported and extending functional life without capability lift
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Dude, you're just seeing what you want to see. And the emissions trading system is a largely toothless tiger so far. It's not really driving costs.
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much more It's a well-rounded manufacturing base and very much of it is "mass market" stuff.
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Replying to @Inclutus
Zweigeteilte Wahrnehmung der Realität: Die Linken sehen politische Proteste in Reaktion auf Missstände. Du siehst Hetzpropaganda, die die Proteste als fast nur gewalttätig und zerstörerisch darstellt. Solche Hetzpropaganda ist Standard, gibt's immer wieder.
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Replying to @bayraktar_1love
I wrote about this a decade ago. HAS (hardened aircraft shelters) are not the answer. They can be penetrated easily with PGMs. defense-and-freedom.blogspot… You need to have dozens of lightly protected hiding spots per actual tactical aircraft. pic: 129 kg glide bomb (SDB) vs. HAS
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Replying to @stlouisfed
@stlouisfed Could you make this confusing chart readable? fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g… It seems to be neither an absolute sum in billion USD nor a clean %GDP. The axis description appears to be ambiguous to me.
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American exports aren't what sustained dollar reserves. The U.S. doesn't export much. It was global reserve currency status. That's eroding rapidly. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/our-u… Bond are liquid if someone else buys. Else the Fed does, which devalues the dollar.
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I wrote a blog post applying Fascism checklist on the U.S. very late in 2019. defense-and-freedom.blogspot… It finally garnered interest by early 2025.
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