The basic problem is that the US corps are making lots of money from providing advanced weapons to ukraine and the about 170 us controlled military bases in the world.
US-controlled, as in the host country cannot enter them or inspect them or arrest anyone there without us permission.
Like The us woman in the uk last year, who killed a kid riding a bicycle, and was quickly removed to the us to avoid a trial -- almost certainly leading to her conviction and incarceration.
And the US is now advancing NATO into Finland and Sweden - a monumental error.
This leads to Finland having to abandon their very good 7.62 mm automatic rifles, well suited to combat in highly forested terrain, for silly nato 5.56 mm rounds (in finlands highly wooded terrain). At very high cost to replace about 5M rifles.
RK62 - the best automatic rifle in the world, pretty much, and one of the major bases for the israeli galil.
I carried one, and was the best shooter out of 200 in my third re-qual required training.
All special forces members, like me, were required to do several re-qual courses every now and then.
It is counterproductive for the US to have such military bases, of great cost and size and personnel.
It is silly for the US popula to pay very high taxes to support foreign military bases and foreign military adventures.
The US has a 50 year track record of having started about 50 military conflicts (wars) and very few successful outcomes afterward.
The US does *very expensive* military offenses really well.
So would most anyone gifted with such resources.
The US has a terrible track record of then later exploiting and using such military gains.
Mostly, I think, because no money is allocated to it.
The Iraq war had 1B dollars per day, and 15M$ per year for reconstruction.
Ridiculous.
The US does "wars" really well and "empire" really badly.
Recent examples are iran, syria, and now ukraine.
I think the ukraine phony war is really really stupid.
And it has most of the EU crippled in terms of energy -- aka money.
About 30% of US exports go to the EU.
If the EU is broke, they wont buy so much of US stuff like amazon, tesla, netflix.
Interesting.
“The basic problem is that the US corps are making lots of money from providing advanced weapons to ukraine and the about 170 us controlled military bases in the world.”
These companies are long established suppliers and innovators too. They are by far and large established companies. There are companies which do the same in Europe in most countries. The US does not dictate the business there and does not control the market. These US companies did not start this war and have not been price gouging anyone that I have seen.
”US-controlled, as in the host country cannot enter them or inspect them or arrest anyone there without us permission.”
Agreements like this are common when a government agrees to have another country stationed there. A US base does have certain agreements which are agreed on. Since WW2 ended these kinds of arrangements are standard even if other countries stationed here such personnel would be granted a certain autonomy to be fair.
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This leads to Finland having to abandon their very good 7.62 mm automatic rifles, well suited to combat in highly forested terrain, for silly nato 5.56 mm rounds (in finlands highly wooded terrain). At very high cost to replace about 5M rifles.
RK62 - the best automatic rifle in the world, pretty much, and one of the major bases for the israeli galil.”
I had not heard that there has to be a switch I question there has to be a change. Maybe so. I see a lot of AK 47 style rifles used everywhere. Plus there are very fine rifles produced in many country. Your country Finland should do as you wish in that manner.
Forcing that to change is just wrong. I do believe the smaller caliber is for valid reasons and the trend is to provide the lower caliber rifles. They are effective and it may be the case that loading ammo to the battlefield delivers more firepower over all because more rounds can be moved with the smaller. If the lethality is considered higher for example they may consider the lower caliber to be the course. You know more than me on the subject I am just mentioning what I have read and been told. No offense.
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It is counterproductive for the US to have such military bases, of great cost and size and personnel.
It is silly for the US popula to pay very high taxes to support foreign military bases and foreign military adventures.
The US has a 50 year track record of having started about 50 military conflicts (wars) and very few successful outcomes afterward.”
I agree we are too involved with conflict. It is viewed in Cold War terms where there was the USSR and the US and their proxies. Even Russia had theirs too. It is undeniable that conflict shaped the mentality. We waste a lot of money overseas. It is rather engrained into NATO and this war in Ukraine in general. I do agree with your points here.
The US is really not into gains as for example Russia is after in Ukraine. We feel we should not be taking over countries. If we did then we would be Empire building. See Iraq oil we did not take and control it though that we went into Iraq to steal it was constantly mentioned.
we needed to do that a lot differently and we do not need to be involved in such things. Our leaders are too quick to be involved in these dumb things. Ukraine is pretty clear cut as to whether we support them or not as seems clear. We are not the only ones doing so.
I do think in this instance there were concerns on the part of Russian speakers in Eastern Ukraine. I can understand that if someone is complaining and picking up their rifle that there are issues to be ironed out short of what there is now which is a mess.
Hope you manage well this winter and that the war concludes.
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