MrMakabar

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 25 minutes ago

That they will be used as standard infantry. If they would be guards or non combat they would get worse gear. As specialized soldiers, they would get tanks, artillery or whatever. Also it is Russian gear and not North Korean.

In other words they will be used for human wave attacks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just look [email protected] post history. It is not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who do you think is a viable politician, who can win the presidential election next Tuesday and bans private jets and yachts?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (27 children)

The difference is that the Biden line keeps all of Biden's climate laws and the Trump line kills them. So this is not including any climate laws Harris might introduce, however the difference until 2030 between both scenarios is about the annual emissions of the EU and Japan combined! Biden has a lot of flaws, but he has done some actually large scale positive climate action.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump-election-win-could-add-4bn-tonnes-to-us-emissions-by-2030/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

When the war started pretty much every European military placed some massive orders. So new production mostly did not go to Ukraine. But a lot of weapons are domestic and built in a large quantity. Also not everything from the stockpiles was send to Ukraine. That is just too risky.

So long enough to scale up production and use the EUs large economy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Europe has quite a bit in place to defend itself without the US. Something like a million soldiers with some pretty good equipment and training. There are issues, but the EU could defend itself fairly well without the US. It is just that having the most powerfull military behind you makes things a lot easier. The problem is that this makes things easier and the US has a massive intresst in looking strong(Taiwan for example).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Owning your home outright nearly gurantees you have the basic need of housing meet and that is by far the most expensive to meet in developed countries. Food, water, heating and electricity are not that expensive. That gives you quite a bit of security especially when you get older. The big problem is obviously to be able to afford buying a property in the first place, which is hard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

US presidential election

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sort of, but Switzerland is not going to sell you spare parts, ammunition and so forth when you are at war.

Also Switzerland as a neutral country can choose to supply weapons to both sites.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Portugal has very low energy consumption per household and it looks like most cooking is done on oil or gas stoves, which are relativly wastefull.

https://www.odyssee-mure.eu/publications/efficiency-by-sector/households/household-eu.pdf

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Energy_consumption_in_households

 
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To be clear it is not hold in $, but in RMB, gold and rubel. Before the war in held $174billion, so a massive decrease.

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