slingstone

This is the correct answer.

Money. Money is the reason.

I hate that my country has become an obstacle to sovereign nations having the freedom to defend themselves as they choose and as they need. I think with the way the United States is going, other countries are going to need to move away from using anything American, just for the sake of security and independence. How many times has Ukraine needed American permission to use a weapon? Does anybody have a really independent military industry other than France?

Yeah, it’s that propaganda and the world view it propagates leads to all these military interventions that have gone so well for everyone. It’s also telling that interventions only occur when it’s in the interest of the intervening nation, and any perceived positives for the recipients are dubious, at best. Times when the international community needs to do something, like in cases of genocide, don’t seem to be important enough to warrant much of a response except for hand-wringing and virtue signaling in the aftermath.

This is going to lead to nuclear proliferation, I believe. Few, if any, countries can match the US military machine, so the only way to deter it Is to invest in a weapon that even the United States cannot defend against.

There might be other ways that nations might collectively deter an aggressive United States, but this is the only way I can see many isolated nations being able to defend themselves.

I think we can already see many so-called rogue nations following this path and trying to acquire atomic weapons. This will just make it worse.

I could be wrong. I hope I’m wrong. I don’t think I am, though.

Do countries and companies still license products for local manufacture? I mean, obviously in this case you’ll want the investment, but I remember situations in the early twentieth century where companies sold the plans and the right for militaries in other nations to make weapons in themselves.

I hope this isn’t a dumb question. If so, I apologize for my ignorance.

Mega Man 2

Chrono Trigger

Metal Gear Solid 3

I wondered if they made the jump over here. Guess not, sadly. Reading that sub has made me a better man, because it offers some pretty harsh critiques of male behavior.

In the States, we’re told that raw pork puts you in danger of trichinosis. Does your methodology somehow eliminate that threat?

Why is this not a conflict of interest?

I use Boost for Lemmy. The transition from Reddit was easy for me, and I know little about the fediverse other than the most basic outlines.

Good.

Didn’t Vine do this once, then TikTok came along and did it, more or less? Won’t there just be another one sometime before we know it?

Look what they made Bluesky do.

I think they might need to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

I agree. I just have no idea how to motivate folks to do that. Hence the despair.

Texas, where woke goes to die.

Weeps in despair in South Carolina

That would be phenomenal, but I imagine it’s unlikely.

However, if we’re in the realm of unlikely scenarios, maybe they can give me a follow-up to Xcom: Enemy Within that proceeds from an Xcom victory in the first game. I never got into Xcom 2 because it ignored the buildup to the greater enemy foreshadowed at the end of Enemy Within. Not knocking those who liked what we got…it just didn’t work for me.

Alpha Centauri with the Alien Crossfire dlc

Best 4x ever.