Is that… 5 AC10’s in CT? Or a really weird looking RAC20?
Is that… 5 AC10’s in CT? Or a really weird looking RAC20?
Russia is still feeling the effects of the cold war brain drain that hasn’t helped by their less than inviting prospects for the return of expensive, specialized talent. They will just wind up BEING chinese products, carefully and cleverly rebranded and channeled through government-approved “assembled in motherland” companies in Russia that chinese firms will only happen to have a majority stake in.
Underlegislation leads to a bloated, extortionate upper crust that weilds disproportionate power over those who rely on said financial system. There is a balance, and the problem you outline is the lesser of the two extremes.
That mentality is surely broader than fascism itself. You see it in any hypernationalist state. Rome had “the barbarians.” The British Empire had “the savages.” Nazi Germany had “the jews.” There is always an “other” when the state needs it. Unless you’re painting a broader form of fascism, perhaps.
Glue-Extractor™
There’s an art to it. I’ve read books where the villain wins only for it to be revealed that the protagonist was fighting for the wrong side. The only one who’s title comes to mind is Columbus Day, where humans team up with aliens to fight other aliens that invade earth, only to realize that they joined the “fascist-leaning” side of the conflict as a species-wide pawn.
Let’s take a page from Helldivers and call it “Managed Capitalism.” Surely far better than rootstock /s
Religious makeup
I now explicitly trust this writer and take his word as gospel.
Defense or Prosecution?
China shows it’s fear of “lesser nations” daily. Trust me, Pacifica is watching very closely.
Sci Fi is a flavor of fantasy that favors grounded explainations over magic, yet can’t escape it entirely. In order for something to be sci fi, it must have something in it that can be percieved as “magical,” even in the “sufficiently advanced technology” sense of the word. Jump/warp tech, laser weapons, space warfare in general, most life support concepts, AGI… All magic as far as we know now. Any sci fi without the roots of fantasy is really just modern fiction.
Protection from grit. And because polymers that can resist balistic shock and heat had only very recently been invented by then, and it was “cool” to find a way to make it useful.
Universally incompatible.
That’s a smoke screen. Another is the “liberal brainwashing machine” school system scare. What they fear is the statistic that higher educated individuals trend towards populism and progressivism. They see higher education of youths as a threat to their political base, which turns into “spineless parents sending kids to liberul brainwashing camps funded by the gubmnt.”
Question: We’ve seen sand-filled missiles due to corruption and cronyism, and they were actually transfered to the front line expecting to be live munitions. How many Russian ICBMs do you think are truly functional between the “new” ones and the 70yo cold war hulks?
To be clear, I don’t revel in the idea of a war between the Ruskies and NATO, but Putin is certain to be wondering this, too. How effective are his strategic assets, truly? I’m sure the CIA has figured that out and is guiding US response on that intel. They know exactly how far an insecure dictator can be pushed.
Hey OP, that site has enough trackers on it to give me cancer. Can you link an alt from a more consumer friendly source?
Gotta be honest, maybe it really is the coat of paint, but I could not at all get into ark. Palworld has me hooked tho.
I sure hope fixing/removing MMR is considered a “small update.”
Schrodinger’s remake. It is neither in production, nor canceled, until its release.