both your insurance payments and healthcare costs/wages count as GDP.

Venezuela is target #1. Very unlikely to use nuclear weapons. Bomb some more people, and declare victory after Exxon contract awarded.

He won’t confront China

It’s a real concern, but Ukraine war is proceeding to its just conclusion. EU will accept it better than they let on. It’s expected that world will allow US war on Venezuela without any compassion, just weapons profits. Because resisting US through proxy war is more profitable than sinking its air carrier battle group, through nuclear strike/torpedo, there is less risk of doomsday than 1-2 years ago. Europe will try to get nuked though.

These games always seem like random button mashing, ftw to me. Unfair advantage to be 2 player :P

This has the potential for a death spiral on all of the US economy. 1. its highly inflationary. 2. People choosing to not have health insurance is a drop in GDP, and a cause of hospital closures which is another drop in GDP, and access to healthcare. People dying hurts GDP too.

US economy already is highly inflated due to 5% points of GDP higher than every other nation spent on healthcare. Obamacare/ACA was a republican compromise to prevent Berniecare/mediare for all. The GOP criticisms that public subsidies for private extortion just makes the private extortion harsher. But only Berniecare is the answer.

from Russian perspective it would be far preferable for the US to get embroiled in their own version of SMO in Latin America for years to come.

exactly my point. This is not good for world./humans.

reinstalling OS is fairly easy. I expect utlities to “correct age error”.

Yes. Yet another blatant war of aggression by US. More nakedly obvious than usual. Dependence on Russian military aid for months or years to fight it off as a proxy defense against the US is a less optimal/just outcome than ending the war immediately with an explosion in the ocean. World continues to normalize US behaviour instead of assisting its collapse.

It’s just making arms trade profits the solution instead of ending the aggression as the solution.

how Venezuela defeating the Burger Reich would create dependence on Russia

Viet Cong “won” with 10:1 casualty ratio, but more specifically, got a stalemate that lasted longer than US patience. Failure to capture or hold Venezuela by the US is a Venezuela victory, but it will come at costs. Dependence on Russia is needed to prolong a stalemate, where stalemate = eventual loss of patience by US.

if Russia sank a US carrier group that would be the start of WW3

No. Ends war on Venezuela, and ends illusions of US power projection. Whether nuclear weapons are used or not, there’s a right to sink boats making baseless attacks. There’s no reason to start a war on Russia after that, and no one would want to.

The torpedo has huge range. The goal could be to end war instead of humiliation/stalemate, but with dependence on Russia.

a 175m wide road would be well over 35 lanes of car traffic, closer to 58. Not 7.

I don’t like this. Not because Venezuela doesn’t deserve help defending itself, but that Russia could “live test” it’s new nuclear powered torpedo by sinking the Gerald Ford air carrier group. Ending war before it begins, and there still remains the possibility of ending it quickly after it begins. is a more human strategy than maximizing Venezuela dependence on Russia.

Whatever USA is producing is 4x times more advanced than that.

They’re artillery shells.

Russia technology is overall 10 years behind of US

Way ahead in missiles. Hypersonics the US has failed at. new 14000km 15 hour range nuclear cruise missile. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/russia-tested-new-nuclear-powered-cruise-missile-top-general-says-2025-10-26/

USA started using military drones more than 20 years ago.

US still has crap that Ukraine has no use for. New generations test poorly.

They’ve offered conditions to stop, and to not even start, since well before 2022. It’s Ukraine that needs to not have new elections until the last Ukrainian.

why dont they use the good kit to just win

The good kit is nuclear annihilation of US bases in Germany/UK. Russia is accepting theater plot of winning slowly as its economy booms from military production increases. Russia is participating in global corruption by not acting decisively on NATO’s war against it.

the warmongers will say they knew the outcome all along.

Ukraine war was instigated to eliminate nordstream and capture EU to US energy before renewables could take hold. Also sweet weapons profits. Absolutely the theater of it has a predetermined plot ending with Russia winning. The goal was to make that last 10+ years. Any end to any war is a defeat for US energy and weapons profits.

NATO strategy so far has been “hope Russians believe the lies we tell our people to support this war, and further believe that we have always loved Russians and wanted the best for them.” It’s the free world that would resort to absurdly unpopular fascist mandatory drafts instead of high military pay, because western corruption has always been excuses for oligarchist supremacist weapons profits. People don’t care until they are threatened with austerity and conscription.

Russia stops at Zaporishia and Dniepro (and Donetsk) if Ukraine wants to keep losing. Kherson, Odessa, Karkiv if Ukraine really insists. They have other territories they are willing to trade to facilitate important liberations without having to destroy what they liberate. At any rate, the pace of Russian advance has increased in last year, and increased again in last months. It is far higher than the 3.5 year average of the SMO.

Russia withdrew from Kyiv because they were fooled into thinking they got a peace deal.