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And blockaded the blockade... with ships that have been at sea too long without resupply... that can't get it from one of many us bases in the area due to them all being evacuated... that are evacuated due to Iranian strikes that took out things like an AWACs plane due to a lack of interceptors... those interceptors are about $3 million a pop being used to shoot down shahed drones that cost under $50k... those very costly patriot interceptors have to be used due to the us administrations snubbing of the only nation that has "the cards" when it comes to full on modern drone warfare's offer of support...

There is a hole in your military, dear Lisa, dear Lisa.

And a trillion dollar ineffective military

Put a big ass sterling engine on the roof. But really, the level of waste heat involved does seems to beg for a system if these are going to be putting out that much.

Or they will just not comply with discovery, and also demand the case be sealed. As is tradition lately.

america is not a real nation is it?

They should really try boiling some water with that waste heat, maybe make it spin a turbine or two.

That (in their view) would be even worse, then peaches would become associated with the homeless and lose even more value!

The issue is that the idea of destroying product to protect its value is counter to anything good or reasonable.

Oh boy, if its not the consequences of their own actions.

NICE! Linux has made it everyone!

Seems like a stupid vector for bad actors.

Who is still scanning QR codes? I thought after the nambla stuff people loss interest in scanning a weblink.

Mammoths definitely had a pecking order.

The people who used make that tank run are probably ~~working~~ living up to 16 hour shifts at ~~a tank depot~~ a muddy trench.

They could, but to what end? They can't hit a city or major civilian infrastructure without a outsized response (just think of if they nuked a power plant). They don't have a target that warrents a nuke other wise, unless you think hitting a local command and control will change the war. It will put NATO on the spot (the spot being very anti russian), as well as China and most of the world.

The eye of saron wishes it was half as terrifying.

To save money lets not install kill counters on the kill bots sort of thing.

I think that is one possible way this ends, but you might not like just how long they can keep feeding the meat grinder. I do think that if Ukraine can start taking russian land past the border you will start to see a change. The conscripts that as of now get to stay out of the trenches would be put in hard fighting (that the russians have shown they are not good at without taking massive casualties) and that would likely be the final part to russias internal collapse. Ether that happens due to them running out of prisoners/volunteers/poor people or russia itself being attacked.

I think that might be the only operation they have done that worked. But yeah, not a lot to throw around anymore.

TBH I’m unclear on the exact specifics of how you use tactical nukes, but it’s something different that would end the geopolitical stalemate.

Tactical nukes are used (traditionally in doctrine) very differently then strategic nukes. Strategic nukes are mostly what you think of, large salvos of planet ending multi warheaded monsters that are built to NOT be fired (if you fire these you have lost in a way worse then any conventional defeat). Tactical ones on the other hand are meant to be used on large build ups of military forces or critical assets, think of battle enders not war enders. Where doctrine dictates you use a tactical nuke would be when russia staged the massive build up of troops before the full invasion in 2022. This is the issue with tactical nuclear weapons in this conflict, you can't really spam them without starting WWIII. In fact no one knows how many you could use before the rest of the world retaliates (France might have used one for example in the past but its never going to admit to it, however it is still a topic of discussion many years later). So lets say you have one small yield nuke to use in Ukraine? Where would you drop it? There is not a massive build up of troops, no centralized critical military infrastructure, and if you think about dropping on a city, HA (hope you like living in and of glass because that act will start the process). Actually that is another issue, nukes (even more so the smaller tactical ones) are not immune to getting shot down, so you likely can't reliably target areas under air defenses.

So to give you a TLDR, tactical nukes are smaller weapons designed to win a battle in a crucial point. Not weapons meant to end a conflict themselves, and not meant for things like glassing cities.