Political

Ukraine Part 3

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When the war broke out, the two sides were not even close to being equal. In terms of machines, tanks, APC, Artillery, the Russians has a ten to one advantage. Now, the Russians have no machines to use and are sending in men on horses. Shades of war long ago. The Ukes have a problem with this as they really do not like killing innocent horses. So, instead, they drop munitions nearby to scare the horse and hopefully unseat the rider. Once separated, they then target the man and let the horse run free to be collected later by one side or the other.

There are no replacements coming in from outside as no one will sell to Russia and inside they do not have enough parts to make new ones. They used to be able to refurbish the battle damaged but now even that is too hard.

You may have heard about the death of two pilots when their ejector seat malfunctioned and triggered while stationed inside a hanger. The explosion sent both men through the roof, killing them on contact. The equipment is not designed for sustained combat like they are using it for. What they can repair is iffy at best. At worst, deadly.

Manpower. Russi has so many men under arms, so many troops and so many solders that in just sheer numbers they should have won. Well, they might be. Any battle where the causalties are under four to one, better five to one: for ever one Uke hurt or killed, they had better have killed or injured four or five Russians.

Even the Chechens are running out of men to send. Remember this blood bath from a few years ago? Well anyone who could fight was drafted into this war effort and like the rest of Russia, they are tapped out of anyone more to send.

On the opposite side, the Uke have equipment funneling in from Europe and NATO. They have better tech and better intelligence. Many a times, you have manufacturers onside offering to test this system or that bomb for free, all in service of winning the war but they want to get as much information as they can to better the weapons system or use it for selling to other Western governments. Right now, they are using drones and bots to guard from the sky and on the ground. Using heat seeing and inferred veiwing, the machines are killing Russians who enter their killing field. It is entirely possible that many a man from Russia having entered into the machine’s kill range are dying without knowing their killer is nothing but a bot.

Europe and USA emptied out all their old hardware in droves and shipped it to Ukraine. Now with no strategic reserves left, they are ramping up their war effort in factories all over the west to get their strategic reserves back up to normal and send even more to Ukraine.

Ukes are not getting replacements in the numbers they need but they are not losing as many men either. What trickles in from the West are men and women there to take up arms to defend Ukraine. They are committed to the cause unlike Russia who send mercenaries and prisoners to die at the front.

As the war drags on, there is a stalemate on the front line. Russia will attack with overwhelming men. One battle, had 170 000 men on the Russian side, heading towards a line held by less than 10K! So the Ukes retreat until more troops arrive. The other weapons systems, from artillery to drones to jets make Russia pay for every step they take. But with the willingness to slaughter a generation, they keep sending men forward and the Uke keep killing them. They are getting very good at killing them.

Demographics will take 100 years or longer to repair the damage done in 4 years of war to the male population. Russia’s population is 143 million people. NATO combined has a billion people including 40 million Ukes. Something like a seven to one advanatage in just simple population. Was injuries and death will only effect the Ukes and the rest of the NATO countries can keep doing what they have been doing before, during and after this war is over.

Economics, the economy may be so damaged that it may not recover. Post war, there will be no men to work so they have to import men from other countries. The women will naturally marry what is available, not bother to try to find a suitable Russian male as there are none. So they try to sell oil but no money for capital to repair the many step process before it gets to the port, let alone to a new market. People will have looked for other suppliers to get their oil and might be reluctant to seek a new arrangement at Russia is unreliable.

Government spending and borrowing to feed the war effort may take generations before they can lower taxes to anythung pre war. And even then that is iffy.

You may have seen the recent attack on Kyve using hypersonic weapons. This was seen as a warning to the west. Yes, ya sure. I often take a sledge hammer to hit a peanut. The Ukes have nothing that would stop such a weapon. The Americans might but they are not speaking about it. You use such weapons for a reason not to send anyone a message. Their use was a simple message, not of strength but of weakness and how little there is left to fight with. Russia did not use such a weapon to say watch out, they used it because the stock of bombs was gone and all they had left was this.

Champlain Bridge

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Champlain Bridge
First, one must better understand what passes as political cultural in Quebec. Montreal is an island. Surrounded by the Saint Lawrence river. As such, one must avoid this cleaning water and cross it to arrive in town. There are bridges and tunnels in place to do this. Now for the last generation, Montreal construction has been governed by corruption, collusion and down right theft of taxpayer money in the form of bribery and kick backs, that has been handed to a select gang of criminals. It is said that Montreal infrastructure cost price-wise 20% more and lasts 20% endurance-wise, less than similar infrastructure would cost in Ontario. The problem in part is two fold; first, pay offs, rip offs, political parties and their “Fund-raising” are all paid for out of the taxpayer wallet and billed for already in the price of these construction contracts. The second issue is the lack of competition brought on by the near insurmountable government regulations designed specifically to keep foreign and other construction companies out of province. The simplest of regulated isolationism, can be seen in the demand that all correspondence be in French only. An American company might be able to do the job cheaper but will they invest the time, money or energy to complete all regulatory requirements and do it in a foreign language.
The Champlain Bridge is the busiest expressway in Canada with constant gridlock because it is overused by the population it serves as they head in and out of the island of Montreal. It is nearing its 53th year, having been built and completed in 1962. So it is in need of replacement. Which is expected to cost 4-6 billion dollars. (Due to time and cost overruns, you can expect that price to double.) At the end, what will have happened? They will take a six lane bridge and replaced it with a new six lane bridge. It could not handle the traffic flow before they replaced it, so it will somehow be better able to better handle it when replaced by something better? You have gridlock with 6 lanes, and soon will have more gridlock on a new bridge with the same 6 lanes of span? Is this somehow anything better? Einstein’s definition of insanity is to repeat the same experiment expecting different results. If you are going to spend this amount of money on a new construction using taxpayer’s money in the first place, then charge those same taxpayer’s a toll to cross on that bridge, why not think outside the box and build a bigger bridge that can handle more traffic and thus reduce congestion, serve the needs of taxpayers using it and grant them service for their money?
This topic is rife with possible serious areas that need and demand people’s attention and discussion, like cost oversight, the basic design itself and the question of tolls after. So then, what possibly could ever be more important than these topic? Why the federal government wanted to name the new bridge after local Quebec hockey star Rocket Richard. They were not going to rename the old structure just the new one, causing a hue and cry in the nationalist camp. Champlain, a man none of them even know anything about but he is a historical hero in Quebec, typical, names not substance politics, ignored universal 24/7-365 until some damn federalists tries to put up a new bridge and do not name it the old one. Sort of like, how dare U2 give away for free their new album. What an insult!
This passes for intelligent conversation in certain nationalist circles of Quebec. Ignoring the real issue, to focus yet again on breed and circus that distracts taxpayers from the government’s boondoggle that will for the next 50 years force people into longer lines of commutes into town (Montreal), as the suburbs increase their population density and the bridge simply cannot, and will not handle the car traffic. only now it is by design to not handle this traffic. Yet precisely because it is just built, no one will dare suggest they make a new one to relieve this pressure, for it works as intended. In other words, once the lobster is in the pot, they slowly turn up the heat until supper is done. In this case, the taxpaper who pays the cost to get a substandard build, based a substandard plan, created by substandard conservative government, based on some substandard thinking, aided and abetted by the local nationalist who could not be expected to see any of these issues as problems. After all, the area of Montreal 450 region, a belt around Montreal using the same single phone area code, is not the homes of the Pure Laine literally meaning pure wool, a term referring to the mythical founding Quebec fathers, who are still pure in thought and mind for the Quebec sovereignty movement. While often mistaken for third generation incest survivors who are only slightly deformed, ignoring the extra arm for flag waving no doubt and clear lack of vision or foresight beyond the end of their own noses, so who cares about them anyway.
This is what passes for politics in Quebec. Lots of heat but very little substance, only fit for bug-eyed, bottom dwelling crustaceans also know as Quebec’s taxpayers. Who considering how high and how much they pay in federal and provincial taxes, clearly deserve better.