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Peter Todd 8 months ago
As I said, find me an example. You haven't yet. Trump says a _lot_ of stuff. Let's see what is actually done. That said, deporting US citizens who got their citizenship fraudulently is reasonable. And using El Salvador for extra prison capacity can be reasonable too.
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Peter Todd 8 months ago
image Great example of how morally bankrupt diplomacy often is. The truth is, negotiations with Russia are high time preference nonsense. This latest massacre was completely intentional, pre-meditated, and a common event. Russian culture is irredeemable evil and needs to be wiped out, not negotiated with. But that conflicts with Trump's campaign promises of a quick end to the war…
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Peter Todd 8 months ago
Downed Russian suicide drone on display at an outdoor sports store in Kyiv, IIRC a Molniya-2 model. Notable how cheaply made they are. Just balsa wood, vacuum molded plastic, tape, and hobby-grade servos and other electronics. Still, these kill people.
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Peter Todd 8 months ago
This is the sort of drone that Ukraine is successfully using to attack Russian targets, in this case a fiber optic plant in Saransk, about 1000km from the border. Basically a cheap Cessna-like small plane, built in Ukraine, fitted with a droppable bomb. This particular plane already dropped its bomb elsewhere, and was using the airframe itself to crash into the electrical switchgear outside the facility to destroy it. (Ukraine has actually developed automated bomb dropping software for its drones) Russian anti-aircraft defense is in a sorry state... Ukraine could absolutely win this war by destroying more economic targets in Russia like this and crashing their economy. The main issue is the psychopathic "anti-war" "peaceniks" who care more about Russian "civilians" than Ukrainians.