This will be a devastating air campaign for the US, many F35s will be lost to mechanical and software failures and it isn’t our fault it is totally Canada’s fault if that happens because if they had bought our jets we wouldn’t of had to break them by trying to use them as airplanes.
In this case, I hope they never figure it out.
The nature of the cancer of fascism is such that even if you train fascists into extremely good fighters they will always abandon their training in favor of fighting in a way that aligns with their fascism, which is as a rule is stupid, blunt, comically masculine, unimaginative and utterly ineffective.
Fascism is attracted to war as an aesthetic to celebrate and worship not a profession to master. The longer russia fights, the dumber their war machine gets as it crumbles more and more into mindless fascism fighting for nothing past a fleeting illusion of control and power.
Absolutely, it is even sadder if they truly believed they were fighting for anything meaningful.
War is awful, North Korea should stop supporting it so their soldiers aren’t thrown into the maw for less than nothing, what could be more cynical than condemning the people who desire to protect their country to meaningless deaths?
As someone from the US I can appreciate the multidimensional crime going on here, my countries past and present is littered with the same story.
Russia has no effective counter to this and without one, concentrated, armored maneuver is categorically a fool’s errand for them.
Amazing they still try in 2026, what a thorough demonstration that incompetence is truly pervasive in the russian military at every level.
Fascists always blame the details of how fascism was carried out for why their plans collapse, they are by definition too cowardly to admit they chose to amputate their humanity in order to arrest their tiny picture of the world before it crumbled into hypocrises and paradoxes.
The stab-in-the-back myth (German: Dolchstoßlegende, pronounced [ˈdɔlçʃtoːsleˌɡɛndə] ⓘ, lit. ‘dagger-stab legend’)[a] was an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory that was widely believed and promulgated in Germany after 1918. It maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front – especially Jews, revolutionary socialists who fomented strikes and labour unrest,[1] and republican politicians who had overthrown the House of Hohenzollern in the German Revolution of 1918–1919. Advocates of the myth denounced the German government leaders who had signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918 as the “November criminals” (Novemberverbrecher).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth#Second_World_War
Sorry, we are only equipped to treat Spoonlifts here.
Fuck Trump but it wasn’t Trump who “destroyed the international rules based order” it was the Palestinian Genocide and the refusal of countries like the US and Germany to stop actively fueling it that catapulted us into a new era of violence and blatant power grabs.
No
Exhibit A people are beginning to describe empty, hollow mass produced corporate slop as AI, it has become an adjective to describe worthless trash and I love it.
Genocide profiteers
Israel will move the goalposts, they have to in order to continue the Genocide of Palestinians.
I have said it before and I will likely say it again, Sam Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin
In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a faith healer for Nicholas’ and Alexandra’s only son, Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia. He was a divisive figure at court, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan.
The extent of Rasputin’s power reached an all-time high in 1915, when Nicholas left Saint Petersburg to oversee the Imperial Russian Army as it was engaged in the First World War. In his absence, Rasputin and Alexandra consolidated their influence across the Russian Empire. However, as Russian military defeats mounted on the Eastern Front, both figures became increasingly unpopular. In the early morning of 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916, Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative Russian noblemen who opposed his influence over the imperial family.
Historians often suggest that Rasputin’s scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the Tsarist government, thus precipitating the overthrow of the House of Romanov shortly after his assassination. Accounts of his life and influence were often based on common rumors; he remains a mysterious and captivating figure in popular culture.[1]
I love it when adults decide to punish kids for the fuck ups of adults by taking shit away from the kids and saying “that will fix it!”.
It will not.
Normal airlift/airdrop crews don’t really require any additional training to utilize palletized launched effects.
From the perspective of a missile designer the ideal launch scenario involves a missile hanging vertically in the air completely away from any humans or vulnerable equipment. The upside down part isn’t really an issue given modern missile/drone sophistication.
Why not drop them like glide bombs?
Because glide bombs require hardpoints to launch and any given airplane can only have so many hardpoints especially for the larger glidebombs that are extremely heavy.
Using palletized launched munitions a single large cargo aircraft can launch a staggering volley of munitions and make the capabilities of a fighter-bomber look pitiful in comparison. You can say that isn’t a fair comparison, a cargo aircraft is optimized to haul shit into the sky, but you have to step back and appreciate that order of magnitude efficiency and how it changes the balance of power in these calculations.
I am by no means saying glide bombs launched from fighter-bombers are going anywhere, but in terms of volume of force people are missing a critical part of the near-future picture of air launched munitions when they ignore the immense depth of capacity an airlift fleet has as a launch platform.
If Abercrombie & Fitch had a tacticool line of clothing, Bovino would be the photoshoot model. I can smell the cologne and teenage insecurity through this photograph even though by all appearances this is a fully grown adult man.
Economics in general can be defined as a set of narratives hunting for evidence, which makes it fundamentally NOT a science “hard or soft” since the pursuit of truth is compromised at the very beginning of conducting any would-be science.
If you go hunting for evidence by forcing abstract definitions and pre-constructed mental structures onto reality and repeating the process until you get promising results, even if you somehow come out with the right answer you aren’t doing science.
A genuine science would welcome these alternative perspectives and subject them to rigorous testing against orthodox theories. The fact that economics maintains competing schools that fundamentally disagree on basic questions—and resolves this through institutional power rather than evidence—reveals that it functions more like competing ideologies than scientific theories.
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The 2008 financial crisis illustrates this problem perfectly. The crisis did not occur because people suddenly became irrational or because of external shocks. It emerged from systematic interactions of rational actors operating within particular rules and institutions—exactly the kind of systemic phenomenon that mainstream economics struggles to understand because of its reductionist focus on individuals.
So is all of Economics and US-style MBA education and “Management science” corporate fluff.
I know it hurts for some people to admit, but Economics is a belief system, a religion without a god but full of cryptids such as “rational economic actors”. It is not a hard science concerned primarily with pursuing the truth but rather a social exercise of maintaining and supporting specific narratives that benefit the ruling class by seeking out evidence for them.
There are people who push back from within Economics and do actual science but they will never be empowered enough to challenge status quo beliefs held by the broader Economics/business community. I consider the few scientists in Economics doing good work to be held hostage within a larger host that is hostile to them.
As far as I am concerned, shut down Harvard Business School, it has hardly done anything but hurt the world by trying to convince us it has answered difficult, meaningful scientific questions with junk work resting on hollow foundations.
This comment on the article from Alex L about sums it up
From my experience in social science, including some experience in managment studies specifically, researchers regularly belief things – and will even give policy advice based on those beliefs – that have not even been seriously tested, or have straight up been refuted. Especially when it fits their prior and/or preferred narratives and/or when it’s just a nice story (I guess ‘companies that do csr stuff outperforming those that don’t’ ticks all those boxes for a lot of people). In that sense, a single study is already a strong basis, comparatively speaking, depressing that may be. Agreed that serious researchers wouldn’t do that, though.
Or this quote from another commenter
incentives don’t work that way in business schools, where career success depends upon creating a clear “brand.” People do not care about science or good research, they care about being known for something specific. So in the case of the junior author on EIS, his career has been built entirely on being “guy who has shown that corporate sustainability is profitable” rather than “guy who does good work on corporate sustainability.”
Plus there are (bad) outside incentives that exist in business schools. As the word “brand” suggests, there are also very lucrative outside options to be gained from telling people something that they want to hear (“sustainability is profitable!”) and very little profit to be made from telling people something inconvenient (“sorry folks, there is no clear relationship between sustainability and profitability, if you want to be more sustainable you’ll have to find some other argument to convince your shareholders”).
Agreed, this kind of catastrophic inability to resist at any level by Democratic politicians and especially Democratic leadership DIRECTLY led to these murders being inevitable. I am not kidding, the inaction of politicians like Chuck Shumer and Hakeem Jeffries directly led to the murder of Renee Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
Blood is on Tim Walz’s hands for not calling in the National Guard sooner as well.
The fascists were always going to choose violence and thus the blood is on the hands of the Democratic establishment for not believing what the rest of us knew, capitulation to Republicans and fascists was always going to end in violent jackbooted thugs executing US citizens in broad daylight for no reason other than to instill fear and terror and hopefully justify more violence.
All the Democratic Party can say for this most awful evolution of US politics it is that they waited until the evidence was undeniable to believe the people who were saying the threat was existential to our democracy.
Cowards were ok with it until now?
Glad they are capitulating to voters but their hesitancy to challenge fascism even as we are drowning in it speaks volumes.
I mean that is kinda it, it is a simple body motion I never learned until yoga that clearly I was supposed to be doing because my body just digests/does all the gassy stuff better, this whole time I just didn’t know.
No one told me “Do downward facing dog, your tummy will feel better!” I just discovered it from doing it so I feel like I wish I discovered that way sooner.
The F35 was built for enriching shareholders, the US military does not even own copyright over the aircraft.
https://pirg.org/articles/the-f-35-is-proof-we-need-right-to-repair/