Comment by sobellian
16 hours ago
The thing about the Russo-Ukrainian war is that it is a failure for both sides. The primary lesson from this war is, how do we avoid ending up like those poor guys? If the US Army fights a war with anyone, let alone China, on the doctrine that it should set up a static attritional front line with drone warfare, the joint chiefs should all be fired.
The US Army doctrine is "have more stuff". The US military budget is about 450% of Ukranian GDP. The F-35 is part of that. As are the nukes.
Don't have Germany be so dependent on Russian gas. Don't tear down nuclear power plants, build more of them instead.
Electrifying the economy with renewables (and I’ll count nuclear as renewable) is the single most important thing countries can do right now to ensure their own military and economic security.
Distributed solar and wind are more difficult to bomb than nuclear, so they’re probably a slightly better choice (especially if they’re built to island / work off grid).
Non-nuclear renewables ("intermittables") need something else as back up. That is almost always natural gas.
That's been causing a lot of problems for Europe for years now.
There's the dependence on Russia, there's the dependence on the North Sea supply -- and the full-scale invasion started while the Danish fields were off-line -- and there's the dependency on LNG imports from actors that are either unreliable (the US) or far away (the US and Qatar) or both. LNG is also quite expensive.
if the US ever trains with ukraine like the brits did, youll find that the current doctrine has no ability to move against ukrainian defensive lines.
this is the current state of the art. it will be a major innovation if somebody figures out something better than "travel during fog"