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Yet tesla stock goes up. LOL.

How the fuck is the stock rising?

It’s down quite a bit this year:

If by hypersonic missile they mean ‘the standard ballistic missiles everyone has had since the 60s’ then, sure.

Exactly. Ukraine gave up land for peace in 2014. Putin said thank you and came back for more.

No, the only solution is to assist Ukraine in stopping Russia.

Russia is free to go home any day. There is no universe where what you mention is somehow a better play for Russia than simply going home.

We must insure they do not win their war of conquest, otherwise there will simply be more.

Donald Trump wants Kyiv to hand over its natural resources as “payback” in return for weapons delivered

We get our payback every time we send lethal aid. The soviet military inheritance is now smouldering wreckage, and a whole lot of invaders are no longer around to kill people.

The more weapons and support we send Ukraine, the higher returns we receive.

What is the original article?

I believe they get charged when products go through customs. If you want them to get to the US side of the ‘gate’, the importer pays the tariff. One inputs the country of origin, the product category, and the product value, and out pops the required charge.

Probably will have some delays as the software get updated, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of Chinese goods get re-routed through Vietnam or other countries with lower import tariffs.

Given they are such a small country, they can certainly produce some things locally. Obvious choices are small arms, artillery, and MRAPs. Anything beyond that they could probably pick one thing to specialize in, such as anti-air missile production or destroyer production, then export these to other countries. They currently export F-35 components, among other things.

However, expanding past that would be too inefficient for their size. Everything else they will need to buy from a partner. This will almost certainly include production from other European countries as well as the US.

2% of GDP has been the NATO suggested ask for awhile now. And with Russia invading European countries, they need to be doing more than the minimum ask.

Edit: I just realized you meant the 1.6% of GDP is also just the increase. That is a damn respectable increase.

Do it!

Putin wants to overthrow the government in Ukraine…

This is not a serious proposal. This is Putin trying to prolong his war of conquest and get others to do his dirty work.

From the source:

In the case of Vyacheslavova and Others v. Ukraine the Court held that there had been violations of the right to life/investigation on account of the authorities’ failure to do everything that could reasonably be expected of them to prevent the violence in Odesa on 2 May 2014, to stop that violence after its outbreak, to ensure timely rescue measures for people trapped in the fire, and to institute and conduct an effective investigation into the events. It also held that there had been a violation of the right to respect for private and family life in respect of one applicant concerning the delay in handing over her father’s body for burial.

sigh

At least those pipelines don’t go to the US, they go to Europe. Europe has an outsized say in this matter.

Europe is fucked. Always gotta have America do everything! ;p

That’s just good planning. Natural disasters can easily require more than that in supplies. Buying extra cans and a few gallons of water isn’t expensive.

You need tiers of capability. Nukes are one, but a more readily used one is the ability to knock out (or at least suppress) ground based air defense. Stealth aircraft like the F-35 are perfect for this mission, they can get in range, fire off an anti-radiation missile, and get out. Non-stealth aircraft may be forced to turn back before they get their shot off, thus leaving the enemy air-defense active and forcing a scrub of the planned attack on what the air defense was defending.

I don’t expect the invader to accept a proposal to stop their invasion. Hopefully Trump realizes this soon and surges support to Ukraine to force Russia to stop their invasion.

Trump immediately announced all previous restrictions on weapons aid and intel sharing to be lifted from Ukraine

Seems he is half-way there in doing what needs to be done to stop Russia’s invasion.

Ukraine said it was ready to accept an immediate 30-day ceasefire in the war with Russia, as the US announced it would immediately lift its restrictions on military aid and intelligence sharing after high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia.

Important first paragraph.

I’m not aware of any repealed Russian sanctions or tariffs.

Russia is in their 4th year invading a European country and the US is looking to back out from their support in the defense of Europe. Gotta do what you gotta do.