And somehow Ukraine during wartime continues to produce more artillery barrels and wheeled artillery systems (2S22s) than any NATO nation today. This capability was stood-up from 0 at the start of the war.

The US has been the top global producer and exporter of crude oil, LNG and other petroleum products for many years now. (This is not necessarily a good thing for the environment) Nonetheless, this is why experts in this area are so confused by the nakedly imperialistic justifications of this Admin.

Seven Days to the Potomac River

The transatlantic relationship has gone through a lot and started with the US immediately trying to cut its losses upon its creation. But this shit is beyond insane. Talking in absolutes is something that is avoided in FP circles but it is hard to see how this doesn't result in serious damage.

For a few days now, I have been obsessed with Frostpunk (it was on Steam winter sale for €3). An attempt to not take a heavy handed approach with the people of my city has instead led me down a path of religious control. There are now shrines next to workplaces and churches everywhere.

A lot of people expect incompetence to slow down or make US military conduct hard. But the US Armed Forces are not incompetent, which is why this force must remain under the control of those that will not use it for shit like this.

How does this make this situation in Venezuela any better? How does this make them less friendly with China or Russia? How does slow down the outflow of drugs? How does this slow down the outflow of migrants? If he is replaced, things continue the same, if not, country plunges into Civil war.

Doesn't really matter if Maduro was behind half the shit Miller & Co believe he did/does. This is illegal and all Western governments should call it into question. This Admin's guiding national strategy document marked European democracies as their enemies for not confirming to their policies.

it is funny that I played the most when I had work (Dec 2024 till May 2025) and started playing less when I my summer break started (Jul-Aug).

Putting together some timelines

This whole saga started back in 2023 when I told Konrad I had nothing against Merchant Mariners (they are indeed valuable people who do a tremendous amount of work) and he decided to pivot hard into this being some kind of underhanded antisemitism. His response was insane:

Innovative ideas back then: (Naval Postgraduate School cooking up diabolical ideas)

Clearly @uticaeric.bsky.social doesn't have the innovative mindset gene. Get on the grind.

All this talk about strengthening the atrophy in the shipbuilding industrial followed by cancelation of major shipbuilding programs that are sustaining whatever dwindling number of shipyards the US has left.

F/A-XX in shambles, Connie canceled, LSM/LAW stuck in perpetual torment, SM-6 production in shambles, F-35C buys at lowest rates, F/A-18E/F line being terminated, DDG(X) sent to the indeterminate future. The US Navy's century of Burkiliation is here. Arleigh-Burkes now and forever.

One of the most annoying things about the Constellation class is that people complain about the fact that the US Navy bought an existing design and then modified it. Like, what was it supposed to do? Operate French and Italian radars, missiles, guns, sonars, combat systems?

I don't even have much to say. This was a good vessel, the USN panicked at the slightest hint of delays and now is killing the program. There has not been a single vessel in US Navy service that hasn't been redesigned, delayed, and had some cost overruns in the last 60~ years.

The deal that is touted as being a major win for Ukraine because it includes a "mutual defense treaty," or "article V," like language, is the only one in which the US already states that if it chooses, it MAY respond to future attacks on Ukraine by simply just offering logistical or economic help.

The Russians leaked a Russian wishlist that could have probably been negotiated as a part of a larger deal to Axios and claimed it was co-authored with US. State Department and WH weren't in on the deal, nor were any GOP or Dem members in FP or Armed Service Committees nor were any US allies.

I have never seen a more embarrassing damage control in 24 hours. 1. Witkoff is an idiot and got used. 2. The Admin is completely out of the loop on what their little failsons are doing around the world. 3. They are tired of a war they aren't fighting. What a clusterfuck

Dan Driscoll is an idiot and they have him running the show in Europe.

Some unfinished maps i recently did showing PLARF brigades and their reach. It also includes US MDTF systems that are being deployed right now. Also included are US-Allied bases in the region and what sort of assets they have regularly. Two DF-11 brigades not included.

Concessions this, Concessions that. They need to bring back Zaluzhnyi, let him put together the multinational III Corps and let it loose on the Zapo front and Crimea.

This Is the type of shit you tell the lone Chinese brigade trying to establish a beachhead on Taiwan after a flight of B-21s wiped out their supplies and Block X Virginias keep sinking the resupply ships.

The problem with trying to force Ukraine to do this deal is that US support has completely dried up. The last supplementals were passed in middle of 2024. The Trump Admin hasn't asked any major new funding for Ukraine..some USAI equipment remains undelivered but that is it. It has little leverage...

How do you in one paragraph go from saying you won't relinquish occupied territories in another country because you need a buffer but condemn another country for having had those same concerns under Assad? Who have had the burden of hosting millions of displaced persons.

International security politics discussions here are somewhat annoying because people want there to be clear cut action-reaction results. The truth is that the world is far more complicated than this and many conflicting and sometimes contradictory things can be true at the same time..

The US is both erratic and burning bridges and yet remains a more reasonable leader for Euros than Germany, Britain or France. Years of Western Europeans completely ignoring the security concerns of Eastern Europe and Southern Europe being located in its own bubble.

In 2022 I was attending a seminar/training for helping displaced Ukrainians find services/get guidance in my city and an acquaintance from Russia who described himself as a "liberal" was mad at me in the West because he couldn't buy GPUs due to the impact of sanctions.

Yes, they were. A single later model Spruance-class destroyer brought more to the fight in 1991 than any Battleship. It could out fight it and out survive it. Their reactivation had less to do with their utility and more to do with Reagan overpromising and underdelivering.

Most countries in Europe be like: -no immigration for any reason -deportation -lower taxes -higher pensions -no new investments -no new construction cause that will devalue our current property -higher spending You can't govern under these circumstances. It is suicidal.

She's just like me fr

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The wonks think history bends to charts and confidence intervals, but the last hundred yards aren’t graphed—they’re clawed through mud, smoke, and screaming metal. You don’t calculate victory, you drag it bleeding across the finish line with grit under your nails and God in your teeth.

Immigration is such a "big problem" to them so their solution is to create a humanitarian crisis that will make this supposed concern much worse.

Israel is a normal state that should be held to account the same as any other state. For the atrocities it has committed sanctions must be placed on it. It must also pay reparations to the people of Gaza and the West Bank. If it shall not comply, it should be cut off from the world.

It is happening

Turns out you don't have to throw trans people under the bus to win. Eat shit Yglesias & Co.

I don't understand Trump's obsession with steam catapults. Why tf would you want the Navy to deal with pressurized oil and hot steam systems that keep putting uneven strain on the airframes of aircraft thus worsening their aging?

New piece on FCAS that the DA team has been cooking: defensearchives.com/news/quo-vad...

Long time no post, today I have this rare image for you guys. This is a photo of Rockwell's Experimental Hover Vehicle for the KKV Hover Interceptor Test (KHIT). Following the start of SDI tech development in 1983, the USAF started working on future tech that would go into space-based interceptors.

Back on my shit

It has been a long time since I last did an AMA, so I guess you guys should throw me some questions you have had for me?

The only class of vessels in US inventory designed to take punishment are aircraft carriers.

counterpoint: look at this modern battleship under construction

Modern tanks have frontal arcs that are more protected (on a RHA equivalent) than Battleships of yore and they are still getting penetrated frontly by the cones of magic. In reality, your armor belt doesn't matter so much when I can fly a 500 lb warhead straight into your bridge

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How are we doing here? What's going on?