Notices by Coffeetest (coffeetest@infosec.exchange)

Trump executive order 90-day pause on funding from the Inflation Reduction Act for "review." I am assuming that it is mainly around killing green projects and EV charging and whatever but the IRA does a lot of things for a lot of people.

https://www.bakertilly.com/insights/new-executive-order-pauses-funding-under-ira-iija

#trump #distopia #inflation

@HistoPol Perhaps more is to come with the 1/n but in flight an IRMBs and ICMBs are not distinguishable. So in terms of an object in flight the assessment of risk is the same.

I cannot see any reason why an ICBM cannot contain a smaller warhead - that's all we are talking about. The only distiquishing feature of this new missile is its range. There are many missile capable of being tactical nukes.

RF has subs which can go anywhere and strike anything that matters.

As far as super power - that was the USSR. RF has the economy of a US state and a dramatically failing one at that. Yes, it has nukes but that does not make it a super power.

@HistoPol @theeconomist Economy. You have your sources so you are entitled to your informed opinion but time will tell despite what we believe.

Look at their inflation, interest rates, currency valuation, declining worker population, loss of military contracts, a wartime economy that is rapidly depositing their reserves into a Ukrainian graveyard. What escape route do they have on all of that? Things take a lot more time than most think. We expect to see immediate reaction but organisms struggle to survive despite a losing battle.

Sorry I am not letting you finish your thread before replying. I have to refocus on other things shortly.

@HistoPol Um, the USSR and now the new entity called the Russian Federation cosplaying an empire has ICBMs in service since the 1960s that could target anywhere since long before this new PR stunt of a missile existed.

RF has failed in Syria, seems to be failing in Georgia, has spent hundred of thousands lives making tiny gains in a war with a country it swore to not invade. Its navy has failed to a country without a navy.

Its economy failed catastrophically after a failed military quagmire in Afghanistan and doing its best to repeat that failure in Ukraine.

That the west is allowing him to play checkers is embarrassing. Even with that he'll be lucky to be alive leading North Korean V2. Sure they can cause a lot of pain and misery along the way but RF is treated like they the USSR at their peak.