Buffalox

@ Buffalox @lemmy.world

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2h ago

Russia is supplying Iran with Shahed drones, Zelenskiy says
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Buffalox @lemmy.world 2h ago
Absolutely, Putin hates USA, and will do everything he can to undermine USA.Trump's friendliness towards Russia and Putin is 100% one way only.

3h ago

UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey

I'm not saying it will happen, but that it can happen. And if you don't realize that's how far relations between USA an allies gave fallen, that that is a risk. Then you haven't been paying attention.

3h ago

‘No one thinks we’re keeping the majority’: House Republicans fear they’re losing

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 3h ago

I knew Trump had won the day before the election. Of course I didn't know for sure, but there were so many signs of everything being measured to favor the Democrats.But despite I was sure Trump would win, I was still shocked that the American people were that stupid.I wasn't so surprised the second time, more disappointed. And now everything is falling apart, both in USA an internationally.But I think the rest of the world will be OK, we will just have to figure out how to work with China instead of USA.

3h ago

UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 3h ago

Our Western systems already gave adapted, and all of Europe are working with Ukraine now, be because Ukraine is the global leader on drones.You sound like someone who believes American superiority is a given. Even when USA is winning every battle in Iran, but losing the war.You clearly don't understand what asymmetric war means.

3h ago

UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 3h ago

They don't have to turn them off, they only need to not "delay" armory and spare parts, because of "supply issues."

3h ago

UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 3h ago

Why would I read outdated stupid bullcrap? F-35 is in no way proven to last for a long term conflict.You can't have air superiority with planes that can't fly because of lack of maintenance or suitable airfields.Did you even read what I wrote?Furthermore the skies belong to drones now. If a $5000 drone can shoot down a 300 million F-35. It's such a huge assymetry that the F-35 will look like something as useless as if it was from ww2.It's delusional to invest in F-35 at this point in time. Despite it's technologically sophisticated it is just as outdated as it is expensive.It's the same assymetry we are seeing in Iran, where Americans use 1 million dollar missiles to shoot down $50k drones, and some times they even use more missiles for 1 drone. Resulting in the Iran war costing $6 billion for USA in just the first 3 days!

Instead of just reading old worthless shit, you should also apply some critical thinking.

4h ago

UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 4h ago

Nah I don't believe you, Ukraine has been able to close the skies over Ukraine against Russia, so Russian planes can't enter Ukrainian airspace.Although the Russian planes are not as good as the American, I think that whatever Ukraine is doing could be done against F-35 too.Saab Vigen with AWAC support will probably do well enough, even against F-35. Especially if they were designed for it.But that's irrelevant for now, because they are definitely good enough against Russian equipment, which is what the traditional enemy is using.

If we came at war against other F-35, who would we be fighting against? If it's USA, we wouldn't be able to use F-35 for anything leaving us utterly defenseless.If it's against Russia, and Trump decides to help Russia, we wouldn't be able to use F-35 either.

F-35 is useless, because USA has become an unreliable ally even acting like an enemy. It doesn't matter if it's technologically superior if it's rendered useless by USA.

I also seriously doubt F-35 is very good in a prolonged war, because it requires insane amounts of maintenance, a plane standing on the ground because it requires fixing isn't worth anything. And that's a clear danger with F-35, because it requires about 5 times as much maintenance as Vigen AFAIK. F-35 is also extremely demanding in other way, like the quality of airbases. So a bombed airbase can easily ground F-35 too. Where with the Vigen you can take off and land on a decent road.

F-35 is only superior when you disregard all the downsides. Pressure the enemy to have their F-35 constantly in the air, and the F-35 air defense will quickly collapse.

4h ago

Poll: Trump era tilts US allies toward Beijing

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 4h ago

Have these indicators been trending downward for 20 years,

They have trended down at least since Bush. Obama restored a lot, more than I thought possible. But 2 times electing Trump has resulted in people not trusting USA anymore, even if there's a better administration next time.So I think that for sure these numbers have generally trended down for about 25 years now. But the 2nd time with Trump is clearly the worst. This is not "trending down" anymore, this is the numbers falling off a cliff. Again because the distrust is in the USA population too. We can't trust a new administration either, because the next could be another Trump. Trump is a symptom not the cause.

4h ago

Poll: Trump era tilts US allies toward Beijing

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 4h ago

Trump has done more to destroy USA in a year than Bush did in 8, and Trump himself did in his first 4 year term.There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that China will have clearly surpassed USA as the global leader in 10 years.USA has abandoned all its allies, and USA alone is no match for China. Obviously EU alone isn't either. Only USA together with allies had a chance, but US leadership sucked anyway, for instance in failing completely on environmental issues.

So here we are, we can only hope China will be a better world leader than USA. Or at least not too much worse.

4h ago

Poll: Trump era tilts US allies toward Beijing

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 4h ago

EU citizen here:One major issue where USA has failed completely since the 70's, is sustainable green energy.Europe has worked on that consistently since the 70's, and we now use about half per capita of USA for similar productivity!

China takes this issue seriously, and does way more than USA, despite USA is the worlds biggest economy, they are among the countries that have done the least.

This is even more important than democracy, where USA is absolutely failing too, and not even supporting Ukraine against Russia. An innocent democracy attacked by an authoritarian aggressor that has decided to be the enemy of the west that wants to rebuild a former empire, when there was a strong opportunity for cooperation and economic growth.

USA is also threatening allies militarily, and is waging a trade war against partners and allies.

There is nothing left to cooperate with USA on. USA has placed itself morally below China on all major global issues. And has shown complete disrespect for national sovereignty and international law in every way possible. Something China respects, and has promised to keep respecting.

But Republicans have dramatically increased in their American arrogance and disrespect of other nations and even their own democracy since Bush, So USA isn't even an allied country in the western goal to protect democracy anymore.On the contrary they are working to undermine Ukraine, something USA also did under Biden at the same time as Biden helped Ukraine economically and with military equipment, Biden tied Ukraine's hands on their back, forbidding any kind of attack into Russia! And for 4 years USA has given Russia unhindered access to Starlink, and recent data shows that Russia had 3 times as much traffic using Starlink as Ukraine had!

USA is not a friend to anyone anymore not even their own population or their own rule of law or their own democracy. USA is looking a lot like Russia did in the early 90's. So no surprise that people are beginning to see China as a lesser evil than USA.At least China respects sovereignty and international law, and isn't warmongering like USA.

6h ago

[Combat] Russians shoot down their own Shahed UAV and celebrate.

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 6h ago

For shooting down a drone? Why would that be NSFW?No people are harmed.

6h ago

UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 6h ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr589k5yleo

That article is only 5 month old, if that deal is so new, I cannot fathom why anybody would make a deal with USA at that point?

What does Australia get out of it?

That should have been: HOW does Australia get out of it?

Even though the deal we made on F35 was under Obama, it was such a bad deal, and 100% based on corruption and to help Obama against criticism in congress.The numbers were unrealistically tweaked to make it look good, as if we could maintain the planes for a third what Norway were supposed to, and then have them fly twice as much!!Imagine the fleet we could have, even including AWACs from Sweden and it would still be cheaper both to buy and maintain, and the planes from Sweden are more versatile in many ways. I wouldn't be surprised if F-35 is part of the problem USA has in Iran. All the planes we hear of are older planes, why aren't we hearing about how amazing their new super plane F-35 is? Seems it's completely useless for the conflict?

16h ago

[Combat] Russians shoot down their own Shahed UAV and celebrate.

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 16h ago

NSFW?

16h ago

I Wrote a Movie Review. Cops Took It From A Protester’s Home to Make the Case That He’s a Terrorist.

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 16h ago

“evidence of ideologically driven intent”

Goddam USA has thought police now! Americans can now officially be accused of thought crimes!The absolute worst thing there has been warned about since the term was coined by George Orwell.A key thing that was not supposed to be able to happen in a democracy!

But USA is not a democracy, and Federal agencies like ICE, FBI and NSA are now the Gestapo and the SS (Schutzstaffel) of the Trump regime. And some Americans think there will still be fair elections?!

16h ago

UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 16h ago

Go for it UK! 👍Meanwhile Denmark continues to buy F-35. I've been screaming and shouting about how bad that deal was from the start. And that was before USA threatened the Kingdom of Denmark. It is so stupid that the deal hasn't been cancelled yet. Now we need to get rid of the F-35 planes we already bought!

16h ago

Trump faces new impeachment calls after massive TikTok fee revealed: 'Abject corruption'

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 16h ago

not for the benefit of the citizens of the United States.

Of course it wasn't, it was so the US government could control the propaganda instead of China.

17h ago

‘Cooperation, Not Competition’: Democracy and Participation in Revolutionary Cuba

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 17h ago

What is this? Book advertisement?

17h ago

Why Dems Keep Saying Trump Has “No Plan” Instead of Calling to End the War With Iran

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 17h ago

There are a lot of good Americans, and also exceptional Americans, unfortunately you are a minority.And to be frank, it seems the American population isn't learning, because if they did, they wouldn't have elected Trump after electing Bush twice.Bush was bad and extremely unpopular, yet Trump who is clearly worse than Bush on every single point was still elected twice too.

17h ago

Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars | The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 17h ago

That's a very nice (big) installation. 😀☀️But not as much consumption as I expected from the cost you stated. We use about 500 kWh without the EV, and 650 kWh since we bought the EV, we don̈́t drive so much, our battery can generally last a week on a charge.Electricity must be pretty expensive where you live. Seems like you paid 3 times as much for twice the consumption as we do.

1d ago

US Under Trump Stands Alone Against UN Women's Rights Resolution As Vote Passes 37–1 To Cheers

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 1d ago

They are not as religiously fanatic as the Trump administration.