@Bad_Banner I suspect they can't and this report is as fake and gay as everything else the UA releases.
@Bad_Banner I honestly didn't read it. The current state of UA is so attrited, that they've even lasted a week is impressive. They have no mobile AA systems, so RU is demolishing them from above. This last gasp push will do nothing to advance Ukraine's goals other than the PR of having something trending on twitter for a few days.
@InvictusManeo @Bad_Banner @IAMAL_PHARIUS @TrevorGoodchild The US wanted to ensure EU and RF never normalize relations to preserve US hegemony. Due to sheer fucking hubris, they instead made RF and China buddies, drove OPEC into BRICS+, de-industrialized the EU, de-militarized NATO, and now have to also deal with a jewish doomsday cult that controls nuclear weapons. I don't think GAE could have fucked it harder if they tried.
@InvictusManeo @Bad_Banner @IAMAL_PHARIUS @TrevorGoodchild All good points, but I think the lack of qualified talent being trained in schools is the most critical part. Ukraine punches above its weight by adapting technology to make up for their lack of resources. I don't think US has the human capital of caliber to do the same. Competent DoD contractors were effectively purged once the clot shot mandates came down back in 2021. Anyone who could get out/retire did.
@InvictusManeo @Bad_Banner @IAMAL_PHARIUS @TrevorGoodchild The more useless diversity hires in the GAE, the better. I want the boog to be on easy difficulty; I'm getting too old for this shit.
@leespringfield1903 @Bad_Banner @casuist @IAMAL_PHARIUS @InvictusManeo @TrevorGoodchild God saves those who save themselves. Start learning to farm because shit's gonna get Venezuelan up in here.
@leespringfield1903 @Bad_Banner @casuist @IAMAL_PHARIUS @InvictusManeo @TrevorGoodchild We're past voting our way out of this mess. I don't trust Elon, either. He promises so much and delivers so little.
@nugger @Bad_Banner @IAMAL_PHARIUS @InvictusManeo @TrevorGoodchild Interesting theory. "Teaching is the greatest act of optimism" -some dead guy, probably.
I volunteer with my local community and teach computer skills, but as years go on, there's less and less people wanting to learn. It's not worth your time trying to teach those that don't want to learn.
@InvictusManeo @Bad_Banner @IAMAL_PHARIUS @nugger @TrevorGoodchild Clearance is a whole can of worms by itself. Software side, most of the work can be done outside a SCIF, but the big contractors need to justify their existing SCIF space and aren't looking to modernize. It's the CRE crisis that's about to blow up, but in DoD contracting. This functionally limits highside software development talent to only prior military. One can get cleared another way, but 80% I saw was like this.
The EU de-industrialization was an old kikes plan after ww2, but being Americans not so insane back then, they denied that and set up the Marshall plan, then caught the dividends (both economically and politically) from it.
Now the US is killing EU arms industry, wrote a bit on this subject already, the US companies want to absorb the european sector and then, probably, have everyone depending on american output and licenses (poland got Patriots and Abrahms, to say) for weapons, weapons softwares and core strategic components.
Now, the thing is... this is not the 60's anymore, and the qualified personnel to work on certain fields is extremely limited.
So are the factories, even more so, particularly in Europe, a yearly output for Leopard or Challengers is considerably lower than most would imagine it to be (hardly, very, into the two digits...).
Back on the personnel, americans pay better, there's no doubt in that, the quiet absorbption however gets complicated, EU companies cannot work on american projects if they don't have american approved personnel, and if they take those figures into american companies or factories, EU-side production grinds completely to an halt.
I recently had a convo with an american colleague on this, and he stated that in America the qualified personnel is either retiring or lacking, so instead of forming young americans into the sector, they take established and experienced figures from wherever they can find them.
Preferably Europe, otherwise is India or Turkey, most of former USmil veterans could be filling these spots for the american industry if they weren't politically vetted out of it, I mean, the pay is real good even at its entry level, but they don't want White guys to have those jobs.
However the entire sector is stretched thin, multiple orders get scrapped, some are subcommissioned to smaller companies, others are left to hang, the priority is NOT business driven besides pretending it is, is purely political, and everyone can easily guess who's on top of it.
Not even America has the required industrial output for what they intend to do, isn't even hubris at this point, not anymore, as said, this isn't the 60's any longer, but once the EU industry is gone the situation will worsen considerably, EU orders will clog the American machine even further, they'll remain unsolved or otherwise, by charging an exaggerated overpricing for it, and most of Europe will be largely disarmed by a certain, well detailed timing.
I haven't even tackled the materials supply chain (most of it is definitely out of GAE's reach which increase the raw price overall, putting smaller national companies out of business for large, national related orders) or the screening, most of USmil veterans could be filling these spots for american industry if they weren't politically vetted out of it.
Subcompanies and suppliers are twisting in agony because "you'll get paid when I'll get paid", but ad infinitum.
Many are rolling over and falling out of business right now, in these days, and I repeat, this is crazy because the sector could be structurally considerably healthier.
sorry for this big autistic effortpoast.