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"He will be gone in ... years", the new lying cliche to distract from obvious questions they won't answer. And then, what? They can guarantee it? In three years, sure they can but not now no chance. Makes sense?

I can't figure out, is it just dumb, or watching Fox news non-stop making irreversible changes in the brain? Do you see/understand: 1. He keeps talking about making Canada his "51 state", just yesterday and again. 2. They can disable them in a matter of days, by withholding critical updates (fait accompli, a factual precedent) Can you (still) add 1 and 1 together, for the obvious result? Or can one really lie like this, bold face, right into the eyes of the country and the reality? Or what is it, else?

Sounds like a Gen Zedder, I'm owed that democracy, those freedoms, everything plus a fat piece of cake, or else or I ... what? Who you gonna cry to, where to run if someone big and ugly comes to take it from you? All of it, piece by piece and why not? Who's there to stop them?

Good stuff, non sequitur. Yeah that one. You're about to take off and puff no critical mandatory upgrade imagine? And not even surmising it, already happened. Did you sleep throw it by any chance? If they think you shouldn't engage can make you not to. Is that such a great deal?

Can we recall that not even two months back these discussions would be seen only in post-apocalyptic fiction? Wow. Did someone tweak with the matrix?

That, or lying pathologically. Only two logical options. Stupid: can't see the difference between a painted carrot and real stinking piece of sh*t. Psychotic liar: pretends they are one and same, no difference.

More pathetic and miserable than the Republican goo is only the Democrat's complacency, complicity and inaction. The former have descended and decomposed into a common authoritarian cult, really nothing more than that now, objectively. And the latter, pretend to see and know, and still decide to do nothing. When the chair and the entourage took over the essence. It began quite a while back, really leading up to a total functional collapse of the political system. In real feed, now.

Every contract has a force majeur clause and a concealed critical vulnerability together with a factual precedent may just count as an eligible cause. Litigate it into the ground.

It is confirmed by the fact that U.S. stopped maintenance of the electronic warfare/contermeasures components in the F-16 given to Ukraine making them vulnerable to enemy fire in operation. This is not a "could be" speculation at this point moved past that to real, practical risks and a critical vulnerability, in some realistic scenarios.

We must understand what it means though: the entire fleet can be compromised or disabled whenever U.S. administration decides to override our decision. No consultation and no recourse. Would that still be called "sovereignty"?

"disabled in all senses" is not an insult, it's a condition. Unless you already know the diagnosis. Congrats!

Yes it's called oligarchy in the third world setting. In well over a century of Latin America records we can see that it would swing from open fascist-like dictatorship, to some form of quasi-democracy, to corrupt oligarchy and over again. It won't be going anywhere unless some radical change happens in the society itself, and what could be the chance of that?

It's not "they" it's you! Your are Maga, don't even pretend it. The victim is at fault for anything the psycho decides to do to her. That's as pure Maga as it gets.

This is no hypothetical but real and practical matter. It already happened. Who can say it won't happen again? To throw 100 billion with that kind of a security hole is not even carelessness more like insanity.

This is no hypothetical matter anymore. It was done already with F-16 given to Ukraine. We aren't talking about hypothetical risks but real and present ones.

It's about way more than sending a message and even "killswitch". As the incident in Ukraine with F-16 shows there's mandatory maintenance of certain critical functions that has to happen regularly. And as facts show now, an American administration can shut it down at any time with no notice or recourse. That can disable critical functions or even the fighter as a whole, if a mandatory update was missed. Guess in the easy times we glanced over it as a necessary maintenance (and the revenue stream for the manufacturer) but now the question cannot be avoided, what if it's another hook, same effect and way easier to maintain than the "killswitch"? Just imagine a not-so-hypothetical situation, a developing crisis in the Arctics with some hostile party (guess) but they happen to be buddies with the U.S. administration and the latter wants to "deescalate". All of a sudden you have to tantalize, to lift them off with critical functions disabled or keep grounded with nothing to deter the adversary. Or if Russia attacking Baltics or Poland. What kind of brainless carelessness could justify overlooking such possibilities, given all what transpired recently? Could it be for that very reason that UK has Typhoons, France Mirages, Sweden Gripens and a coalition of Europeans, Eurofighter? A critical dependence in such matters is measured not in dollars but in percent fractions of the independence and sovereignty lost.

Look you must have missed all the news, the threats against Denmark, a NATO ally; threats against Canada, NATO founding member and a long-time ally. Territorial claims against Canada, most recently. The conclusion: people like you are either permanently disabled in all senses, or they have to be permanent, patented !diots. I've no idea and not a slightest wish to know how you got to that state. But you made it, done deal and so I have no intent to discuss anything with the likes of you because it makes no rational sense. You can't talk to a wall. And there's no point in talking to an !diot. Makes sense?

If your adversary can disable them in few keystrokes, what would be the point of the cost? You seriously can't think clearly any longer only in cliches?

It really can't work any other way at this point: the credibility of the U.S. as a trusted security partner will take decades to recover, in the very best, absolutely best scenario. Threats to NATO allies, Denmark and Canada? New territorial claims? Who, with a grain of a sound mind would dismiss them as some sick jokes. The U.S. can control these assets, the episode with Ukraine showed it clearly, and it's a clear weakness and a huge risk to national security to acquire them now. There's no avoiding this argument. The contract will be cancelled, one way or another.

I listened to Carney just now and I have to admit that as a leader he stands levels, in my estimate seven or eight above Poilievre.

An asylum more like it.

There were warnings, harbingers, symptoms and signs: The takeover of the Republican party by MAGA, an authoritarian personality cult is quite unprecedented in the modern history. In the early 20s of the last century, Hitler and his circle established their party on the base of marginals and radicals. In contrast, the Republican party in the USA had a long, and as we thought, stable and reliable democratic tradition. The more astounding and fascinating to observe, in real time its complete decay and demise in such a short, in historical perspective, time. The catastrophic term and nomination of Joe Biden by the Democratic party. Biden wanted to rule like he's some master of the destiny, the time itself. Critical, existential challenges? Who cares, I want to rule like it's the blissful 1990s and who's there to tell me otherwise. What, the reality? Get lost! Then he fell half asleep before the critical job was done, and couldn't be reached by any reason or facts. A failure, and possibly the final one. The decay of democracy touched and affected all parts of the political system. It was a general slow unraveling, then a fall, degradation of the system as a whole. And the citizens couldn't care less. And the society watched it in a complete detachment and complacency. That was the main reason of everything we're seeing these days and all what's going to transpire. I see not a small, but no chance of it coming back together again. Where could such magic be found?

The question matters not now: Krasnov or not, he talks, walks and acts step in step, exactly and perfectly with what Krasnov would do. For all practical purposes, there's no difference.

MAGA is a only a common, regular authoritarian personality cult, it has no ideas or principles other than "eat every peace of sh*t the orange clown will excrete". I honestly can't take it as a fair analogy. Perhaps, at least the voting part of the public century back was more reasonable and intelligent?

In what way? And the opposites have been known to attract.