badtakes [he/him]
the drastic disparity between the first soviet astronaut in space and the first american astronaut in space is hilarious. the americans did the bare minimum by strapping the capsule on a glorified missile and launched it straight up so that it barely crossed what qualified as space and then fell straight back down, while the soviets reached space, but also accelerating the spacecraft to over 20 times the speed of sound so that it stays there indefinitely in a stable orbit.
trying to figure out how to put the soviet flag on my first orbital mission in kerbal space program, nevermind that it only uses american engines. I blame the mod creators for making soviet engines cost 3 times more than the American ones and my broke ass space program can’t afford them.
I’m very skeptical of geopolitics as a valid means of analysis. Yeah, let’s just assume nation-states are rational actors who will pursue some arbritrary interests and come up with 10d chess strategies in order to achieve their aims. Class conflict? Is that a country or something? Never heard of it before.
thats just wrong, nato never had to be justified. even after the ussr dissolved and Russia fell on its knees it didn’t go away. if anything this is a complete disaster for us and nato because it’s showing they no longer have the hard power to maintain their hegemony. Russia called their bluff, and indeed NATO was a paper tiger all along.
feels so good to leave random inflamatory comments on youtube with my notification turned off 😎
Does anyone even know what conventional warfare between Russia/NATO/China would even looks like? Seems like it would be fucking insane. The last time such conflicts occured were the world wars. I would be surprised if any militaries are truly prepared for such a possibility.
