Azale

Have a thing from the US government.

EU space program is unlikely to accomplish anything because they have close to zero political capital in the public arena EU-wide and literally don't exist outside of that. China space program could conceivably do something but it's extremely unlikely against a dead-set USA since they're still 20-30 years behind at best.

<+azale> i might piss symph off by giving mars to either the EU or china

Protips: 1. I'm like PRISM I see everything; 2. EU and PRC space exploration sucks both privately and publicly so that's like having Nigeria invent FTL.

e: Also the EU is falling apart and you've said the PRC is hella busy, soz. :colbert:

And here's something that may help flesh out India.

You might find this map interesting as basically the American perspective.

Comrade orders shall be in tomorrow.

I'm imagining US would restore OPCON to RoK in the years after the conclusion of the war (~2021-2022) considering North Korea would no longer exist. US forces would then be in a backseat parallel national command to assist with patrolling the southern zone.

Going to suggest from orders and this thing I just read that by 2038, sixth-generation stuff should probably be in "heated competition" like the YF-21/YF-22 competition was in the early 2000s. This would have me rolling out a new fighter in the first few turns and probably spending money on it and selling it abroad, etc. Your call, obviously.

Since I randomly throw stuff at your wall, here's an interesting article on carrier ops and how hard it is to get good safety standards.

Key point: "Between 1949, the year jets started showing up in the fleet in numbers, and 1988, the year their combined mishap rate finally got down to Air Force levels, the Navy and Marine Corps lost almost twelve thousand airplanes of all types (helicopters, trainers, and patrol planes, in addition to jets) and over 8,500 aircrew, in no small part as a result of these issues."

Carriers are hard.

Apparently this is also a thing that's happening, so between it and stuff like bases in northern Australia, the Pacific's a big American military playground.

Cool, thanks

Also forgot to mention: general moves back away from outsourcing critical defense/security positions in the wake of Snowden et al., although contracting clearly not going away entirely given downsizing of certain fields.

Also since I pulled AN OBOMBER and didn't mention TARRISTS once, we smash them and take their candy in the night. All the time. Forever. And blow them up from far away when we don't feel like it.

I'll have stuff done by the morning.

It's all in good fun, although I'll try not to derail your thread on the debt ceiling any further!

Stop wasting your time.

You haven't. But it's nothing I didn't already know

I also subscribed to Jacobin and donated $50 because f-this.

I would say to check them out, and see if their values jive with yours. I'm of the firm opinion that any communist organization is a good communist organization, and at any rate the movement could use more level-headed people who don't get caught up in the petty personal arguments that their ideological forefathers engaged in, and focus on building socialism and organizing the working class.

The ISO has tried to recruit me three times, lol. Opinions on them are varied, but people I know generally don't like them. Their publication is Socialist Worker, which is a decent enough organ, and generally avoids the shrillness that leftist writings can sometimes have (see Addicting Info for a good example of that). The ISO are Fourth Internationalists, aka Trotskyists, which comes with its own set of baggage. I personally think that Trots in general in this country tend towards uber-liberalism rather than Soviet-critical communism, which can be extremely annoying. But they do have, to their credit, the distinction of supporting neither the Democrats or Republicans, which is not a boast the CPUSA can make any more...

Well, not all that much. I left the colonials to get on with their lives, didn't persecute them and didn't do anything good to them, knowing that in an EQNES anything that I did to a colony that invariably had a stability of 8 was only likely to make any problems worse. The colony was originally not just Parisian-Burgundian, though: it was the French Colonisation Society (a chartered company) that founded it, and the investment was joint between several of the French states and happened pre-Confederation. Then it became a joint colony of the whole Confederation when that was formed (unlike French China, which actually was Paris-Burgundy's). When the Confederation was dissolved, (Paris-)Burgundy held onto it, and, I think, the idea was that they got to keep it and also - kind of as a corollary to that - had to pay all the reparations to Germany (but the other states who had a stake in the French Colonisation Society also continued to have similarly large business interests there).