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  1. A Shift in Priorities - Sequel

    Look, as grim as Dortmund is, most of Russia is even grimmer

  2. A Shift in Priorities - Sequel

    I wonder how long until some power - Russians, Germans, Ottomans etc - decides that the British Isles are too dangerous to leave as they are, and just carpet-nukes them, or sprays them with some persistent deadly chemicals from coast to coast. Even if just the cities and towns are thoroughly...

  3. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    It can get worse. Here is how it looks when a tank with full set of ammo is hit in the autoloader https://www.newsweek.com/russian-tank-explosion-video-ukraine-1706217 (Russian tank near Mariupol, May 2022) The black dot rising into the sky is the turret...

  4. Plausibility check: civilian nuclear energy predates the nuke

    No idea how you would try to argue that because economically competitive nuclear generation is a 1980s state of the art. Building power reactors is significantly easier than building bombs. With 10 more years of civilian R&D and without a WW2 you would get civilian reactors generating heat and...

  5. Use of smokescreen in land warfare

    One could theoretically use dense smoke as an offensive weapon, using bombards throwing smoke shells into the middle of enemy formation to confuse the enemy and break up the formation or at least the coordination with the units as early in the course of the battle as possible.

  6. How would socialism look like (if possible at all) in western Europe and north America?

    After the 1960s GDR required massive external subsidies to keep at least that standard of living going at all. The subsidies came both from the Soviets (who wanted a nice showcase to the West) and by the West Germany (who wanted to avoid a financial collapse of GDR with unpredictable...

  7. Absolutely agree. I like their calm and fact-oriented tone.

    Absolutely agree. I like their calm and fact-oriented tone.

  8. Yes, just reading their ongoing Q&A stream in Telegram… very interesting and explains a lot. I...

    Yes, just reading their ongoing Q&A stream in Telegram… very interesting and explains a lot. I was not aware of Ponomaryovs past until now but it makes sense. They had a very interesting series of reports on events and situation in Donbass leading up to the separatists taking over, unfortunately...
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  9. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Even if the nuclear part of the bomb does not go off, just the conventional explosive lenses in the bomb are enough to tear some bystanders into shreds.

  10. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Basically the GDR used different methods of oppression than your typical dictatorship. They have, at some times, had recruited several % of the entire population to report to Stasi on their neighbours and friends. Many did not actually report anything useful, but you never knew; the idea was to...

  11. Not ISW, I am talking about the telegram channel "Ukraine War Report", they recently renamed...

    Not ISW, I am talking about the telegram channel "Ukraine War Report", they recently renamed themselves - if my memory has it right. https://t.me/RealWarReport May also have been a link in one of the Ukraine reddits. If I may ask, why is it so important?

  12. I was just jumping from link to link on various Telegram channels. I believe it was linked to in...

    I was just jumping from link to link on various Telegram channels. I believe it was linked to in Ukraine War Report. The description sounded interesting so I took a look.
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  13. A Shift in Priorities - Sequel

    Mittelafrican officers serving as "military advisors" on Venezuelan sub fleet - while Mittelafrika basically slowly puppetizes Venezuela.

  14. A Shift in Priorities - Sequel

    He is basically radically de-regulating and reducing the tax burden to get to the other side of the Laffer curve. IRL this has never been tried to the same extent as that would go against too many entrenched interests so it remains theoretical.

  15. German Nuclear Program (Bomb/Reactor)

    You might be mixing up overall uranium content in an ore and U-235 content in natural uranium. The latter is 0,7% everywhere in the world, including Canada. The former obviously varies and there are some rocks in Canada with 5-8% uranium indeed. The enrichment level refers to the U-235 content...

  16. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Look at it the other way around. If you have a reasonably narrow understanding of which institutions are actually eligible to issue tax deductible donation receipts, it is also easily politically justified - instead of increasing the overall bureaucratic effort by a detour via tax office, the...

  17. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Even if you have 100% of your standard budget secured by public funding there is always something that can be added on top with a donation - even if it is just measures aimed at "quality of life" improvement for the patients or personnel. Public funding typically suffers from very tight...

  18. A Shift in Priorities - Sequel

    Put in a very simplified manner, Franz Josef Strauss was a hardcore conservative politician and THE enemy of the leftist 68er movement while Rudi Dutschke (who ITTL prefers to be called by another of his given names) is the 68ers poster child and ideologist.

  19. A Shift in Priorities - Sequel

    That shockwave that was detected around the world? It was not a volcano, it was an ironymeter explosion. (Everyone familiar with postwar German history knows what I mean...)

  20. A Shift in Priorities - Sequel

    A fitting post, actually, just as the OTL power plant in Grohnde - the only block in the world that produced more than 400 TWh - is being closed down prematurely for political reasons. That said, 6 blocks is quite a lot of waste heat for the little Weser...
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