{"id":89351,"date":"2025-03-04T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89351"},"modified":"2025-03-04T08:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:21:59","slug":"give-a-man-an-f16-he-fights-for-a-day-teach-a-man-to-build-an-f16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89351","title":{"rendered":"Give A Man An F16, He Fights For A Day.  Teach A Man To Build An F16&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I noted the other day, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89333\">support an independent Ukraine<\/a>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there&#8217;s an elephant in the proverbial room that is the European continent &#8211; and it makes sense, historically, that it falls to a Pole to point it out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">POLAND PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK.<br><br>500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mWFikhdQxw\">pic.twitter.com\/mWFikhdQxw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitizenFreePres\/status\/1896581724215394575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only does Western Europe outnumber Russia by almost the same margin by which Russia outnumbers Ukraine &#8211; but the combined NATO\/EU economies are roughly <em>eight times\u00a0<\/em>the size of Russia&#8217;s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is literally <em>every single factor\u00a0<\/em>that they need in place to deter Russia back behind its borders and learning some manners&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;if they decide to muster any of that economic power and, more importantly, social will do do it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Which, outside of Poland, the Baltics, Czechia and (socially) Hungary, I just don&#8217;t see, barring some AfD\/UKIP revolution in coming years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted the other day, I support an independent Ukraine. But there&#8217;s an elephant in the proverbial room that is the European continent &#8211; and it makes sense, historically, that it falls to a Pole to point it out: Not only does Western Europe outnumber Russia by almost the same margin by which Russia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89352,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89351\/revisions\/89352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}