Trump admin seizes US$120,000,000 owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as stake in an offshore wind project, demands that it be invested in fossil fuel development instead.
Trump admin seizes US$120,000,000 owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as stake in an offshore wind project, demands that it be invested in fossil fuel development instead.
It’s funny how most people who claim “projection” are the ones doing the projecting.
Ok. Without going into every point you made Individually, I’ll cover the most important mistake you made…the difference between “capability” and “scale”.
You keep claiming that NATO isn’t “capable” of doing ‘x’ or ‘y’, because (insert false reasoning here). All of that is easily disproven by the fact that in the EU alone, all the things you claim it can’t do…are already being done. Just not at the same scale as say, China.
The source of your misunderstanding comes from not being able to tell the difference between “capability” and “scale”. Most of the articles you are scraping for your argument, are making that distinction…albeit using subtle language. That’s why you’re missing it. You have to actually read the whole article and understand what they are saying, in order to see where you are getting things wrong.
Your entire assertion that Europe isn’t “capable” of producing artillery shells is also…on its face… completely false. I have no idea why you think that, when a basic Google search will return hundreds of results that contradict you. That, I can only assume, is based on your own bias. You are either skipping those sources because you disagree with them…or you are literally just relying on AI to give you the answers you are looking for, and you’re framing your queries in such a way that it is ignoring the answers you don’t want to hear.
So, back to “scale”. That’s where China has the advantage over Europe. Not on “capabilities”. “Scale”.
The thing with scale is, it’s easy to achieve as long as you already have the capabilities. Capabilities are the hard part. Those take “decades” to produce. That’s why it’s taken China so long to get to where they are now. But, scale? That just takes investment and a relatively short amount of time.
It also requires incentive. Something Europe hasn’t had until recently. Why invest in scaling up your production when you can just buy the product from a reliable source? Except now, that source has become unreliable. Now, they need to scale up production on their own. So, they take all the knowledge and experience they already have, and scale it up to meet demand. It’s all about replication and mass production. Not R&D. That part’s easy, when you already have the capability.
And at the end of all this…you still don’t understand the original point I was making. An alliance is not made or broken based on weapons sales. It’s based on intent, politics and necessity. 1st and foremost, NATO is a defense alliance. The idea is that the member states are stronger together, than they are separately. That’s just basic common sense. So, dissolving the alliance just because your biggest partner leaves the group, is fundamentally the stupidest conclusion that you could come to, based on the entire purpose of having that alliance. It makes literally NO sense. None of the reasons you’ve provided even come close to addressing that basic premise. It’s all just word salad in response to a very simple concept.
You are flailing around, just looking for a reason to be right, without actually thinking about any of it long enough to grasp why you’re wrong.
Oh I thought you were done, but here we have another word salad. Weird how you haven’t actually added anything of substance to the discussion or made any new points I haven’t already addressed. Pretty clear who’s actually flailing around here. Sad.
Lol! You would do much better in conversations like these, if you took the time to read what people write. Not just my comments, but even the subject matter that you claim to know about. Because, as someone who actually does know this topic very well…your confidence only highlights your ignorance.
I literally provided you with sources, which you clearly did not read, and here you are still pretending you’re right. You’re like a poster child for the Dunning-Kruger effect. Thank you for providing some levity in these hard times.
OMG. Ok, now you’re once again admitting exactly what I’ve been saying to you for the last several comments. You have no actual idea what I’m talking about, and clearly no idea what you’re talking about, either.
I addressed the articles you posted. In fact, I specifically responded to what was in those articles, that you seemed to be misinterpreting. It’s obvious that you either didn’t read what was in them yourself…or you simply didn’t understand the content. That’s the entire reason why I talked about the difference between “capabilities” (what you keep talking about), and “scale” (what those articles were talking about).
Those articles clearly support my position…not yours. All I’m doing is trying to help you understand what they’re saying…because you obviously don’t get it.
I love how you just don’t know when to shut up. You just need to have the last word in every conversation because your parents never loved you, don’t you?
p.s. if you had any reading comprehension then you’d realize the articles do not, in fact, support your position for the reasons I clearly explained to you repeatedly in this thread. Simply stomping your feet and repeating that you’re right won’t make it so I’m afraid. I’ll let other people read through this and decide for themselves. Enjoy having the last word that you so desperately need.