We make a lot of sausage in meetings. Brainstorm ideas and figure out what the challenges will be. Having all five or six people there at once is much more efficient than taking back the forth to each one individually.
There are status update meetings, but those are so other people know what you’re doing so if it effects them they can work with it.
My friends with a lot of kids got a used airport limousine. I guess it was cheaper than an express van at the time. That was pretty cool and unique.
The boomers are always on active alert, so would standby be a step down? I didn’t get what this would do. Everything is already ready to launch quickly and has been for decades.
Could you give examples? I’ve found Peruns analysis to be spot on in hindsight.
Or were you taking about Nelson?
It includes both perceived military capacity and geopolitical strategy. Game theory helps with the latter.
Here’s more info on theories of Russian victory from a military analyst specializing in Russian military and a defense economist. That should help with the capacity side of the argument.
Putin jailed opposition parties and critical journalists. He holds elections, but doesn’t give the actual numbers, meaning they’re just polls.
Hmmm? Do you know what game theory is? It explicitly deals with incentive structures and is how academics decode nations motives and goals.
I agree subject matter experts are important. That’s why I linked to a professor on international relations and war who wrote a book on the subject.
Putin that applies to, not Zelenskyy.
It makes no sense as a diversion. Way too much effort for that. They thought they’d face little resistance, similar to Crimea.
Here’s a game theory analysis on the causes of the war. https://youtu.be/pBwT-5z9R5A
Of course Russia’s aims were to get Ukraine to accept their terms in Istanbul, namely that they get to keep what they’ve stolen. Fundamentally the same offer in the headline here.
So stupid to support a dictator
You think Russia will be able to take kiev now? Now that their military is badly mauled, they don’t have the element of surprise, and Ukraine has much more equipment and training than when the war began?
At least on their home turf with their western equipment, yes. Russia is throwing pretty much everything at Ukraine, and Ukraine is doing pretty well.
Plus they’re asking for more money that they haven’t stolen yet. Russia doesn’t even control large parts of the territory it’s decided to annex.
Russia can claim anything is a political reason. Russia and a lot of western nations have more Nazis than Ukraine, but Russia still used that as a justification.
Why would they lose more than they’ve already lost? Their expectation is that western aid will continue, allowing them an advantage over Russia in the long term. Russia thinks Western aid will dry up (maybe due to trump being elected) so their anticipated outcome is better in the long run. When the question of enduring western aid is answered, there will be less of a difference in expectations, meaning continued conflict isn’t advantages since it’d cost more than both sides gains expectations.
I highly recommend looking into the game theory behind the war. https://youtube.com/@gametheory101
This memorandum would be just at much of a joke, I’m for Russia will write or argue in such a way to make whatever they agree to void when they invade again. Russia is really good at changing the definitions of things when it suits them.
Really? Seems to me like they were trying to capture kiev and depose the government and quickly set up one friendly to them. You think that’s happened?
Yeah so why should Russia dictate the terms?
Prehistoric gif coming in!