The fact that more money is spent on weapons during war does not mean that there is a “war economy” where the regime seeks to prolong the war in order to achieve some financial benefit. The economy is much better in peacetime than in wartime and there is absolutely no financial benefit from trying to extend a conflict.
I have no idea what you’re on about.
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Double it, LFG.
Firstly, that's not what your quote said.
NATO allies have concerns that IF Trump is relected and IF he makes some sort of political deal with Russia then MAYBE military support from the US might decrease.
You keep saying this, but I don't think you can state clearly what a "political solution" even is. It's just a set of words that sound like they might be the result of a considered opinion, but you can't clarify in any meaningful way what they might refer to. At best you're virtue signalling.
Trump ending the war is the unconditional surrender of Ukraine to Russia.
Idiotic or bought solution?
There is currently a tiny coal port there. Gonna take a lot of work to get any ships of any reasonable size based there.
Going from one occupied territory to another. We need drones for Georgia.
What the article doesn't say is that the only ships they have left are PT boats.
Absolutely. Plus they're going to need someplace to park them when the Istanbul canal and complete and the US Navy starts patrolling the Black Sea during the Ukrainian rebuild process.
It's big but Turkiye doesn't follow the usual rules that we do in the States. Who knows if they even pay property owners to tear down their houses. 2035 easy.
The topography near the airport isn't flat...in some cases they are going to be excavating something like 40+m of earth to get down to sea level (+20m for the depth of the canal itself!). The final 10 miles is going to be an enormous amount of earthwork and that's setting aside how many bridges will need to be built, what to do about the huge losses of freshwater reservoirs, and what to do about entire towns that seem to be sitting directly on the most obvious path. I'm not convinced its even a real project...probably more of some domestic political stunt (build the wall) to keep Erdogan's base happy/distracted. I'll believe its real when Russia starts getting more vocal about it.
Judging by how quickly they built the airport I think it can be done. They've already begun the first bridge across and have begun clearing out the valley below toward the Mediterranean and this imagery is upwards of a year old. If anything, this project has been pressured forward by NATO particularly as Russia has gotten out of control. Never underestimate the power of a populist government to get contruction project done ahead of schedule, especially when it comes to forcing entire towns to move elsewhere lol.
Isn't the USA just follows the Budapest Memorandum and provides security assistance to Ukraine against an armed aggression?
You're supposed to duck when someone throws a brick at you. But you clearly thought it was a ball.
