Posts by maxieq@mastodon.nu
(DIR) Post #ARhs5mAqDFDJxhABhg by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-01-16T16:36:11Z
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I support Sweden joining #NATO, but we have done what we can, and I don't support going further. If the other NATO members want us, they can take #Turkey by the ear. We're done. I think we should start to construct a bargain package of island based Robot 17 for export to Rojava and Greek Aegean islands at this point.
(DIR) Post #AUJiSUnP2VWybAJ4Mq by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-04-04T18:43:20Z
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@anderspuck @t_mkdf @AndersGottlieb @WarInTheFuture Jokes aside, it's remarkable how both the Baltic Sea and the High Atlantic has become NATO lakes in just a few days. There must be strategic implications for Russias northern fleet being hemmed in from Canada over Iceland and Norway and now Finland.NATO has gotten 1800 km of flight paths for its recon planes to spy on Murmansk and Polyarny. When Sweden joins there will be three large airbases - Andenes, Luleå and Rovaniemi - to operate from
(DIR) Post #AV7EuR84WTTSg2K54q by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-04-28T14:51:32Z
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I haven't seen any high level discussion of how the security situation for Russia has changed when Finland is a part of NATO, and presumably with Sweden coming into the organisation soon.I am particularly interested in the capability increase of NATO in the GIUK-gap and the High North Atlantic. Will the Svalbard treaty be changed now? The Baltic?What about Murmansk oblast, and what's there? How many eyes will we have up there? Will Greenland's importance increase? Iceland's?@anderspuck
(DIR) Post #AV7SHj1nRMwSFmp4cq by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-04-28T18:37:42Z
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@anderspuck And you're one of the better analysts out there for those kinds of questions. :)
(DIR) Post #AX1xd4RC6X99JiE39M by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-06-24T22:44:33Z
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@anderspuck Was anything solved for them then? It seems that a) Putin can't stop an army marching on Moscow, and b) all you need to do to get concessions is to march an army toward Moscow. And then, from another perspective, c) Prigozhin didn't follow through on his threat, and d) he can be bought off easily.
(DIR) Post #AXWH8zKMSClDxWm3P6 by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-07-09T13:44:46Z
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@anderspuck @Loukas @corporalfrisk I have this fantasy that EBU would set up a huge public service mastodon instance so we don't have to rely on capricious billionaires for our social media needs. :)
(DIR) Post #AYBykyl4o7uNX8Ewgy by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-07-29T16:36:39Z
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@anderspuck @Loukas Hasn't Wordpress already activated ActivityPub? I haven't really noticed any from there, but maybe I need to federate myself with someone from there.
(DIR) Post #AYBzbCpdj9WOExHJLs by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-07-29T16:41:14Z
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@Loukas @anderspuck @cordillera Yeah, I agree. I come back to comparing it to Linux neckbeards who treat newbies with contempt. I don't know how many times I've read some confused person being met with a "RTFM" when asking about some Linux thing. It's bad in Linux, which is one reason it hasn't caught on as much. And it's bad here.
(DIR) Post #AYepsR5hNPJ0DLZTEG by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-08-12T14:43:42Z
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@anderspuck Good video! My armchair generalship of course would object to a charge that Ukraine has not achieved with western tactics what was hoped, with a quiet query about whether that depended more on that which has not been provided to Ukraine - air power.
(DIR) Post #AYgNLcsK8Jduo1nlMe by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-08-13T08:25:44Z
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@bluGill @anderspuck Ukraine have shown that they can use manouver warfare, like in the Kharkiv region. It's not like they can't use it. I just think that Moltke's law about battleplans, ie that no such thing survives the first contact with the enemy, is very true. Particularly if you spend months talking about the battle plan in the media.
(DIR) Post #AZWjOMUUHdgso2s2gS by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-09-07T14:45:26Z
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@anderspuck It's kind of like Nord Stream I suppose. I mean, after the war started Nord Stream was such a liability. I think nobody cares much who blew it up - and everyone is kind of relieved the "issue" is gone.
(DIR) Post #AaTO3noCwKDNnQSmtE by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-10-05T17:58:44Z
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If this doesn't break journalists' addiction to Twitter, I don't know what will. #journalism #media #twitter https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/musk-makes-news-links-on-twitter-aka-x-less-useful-by-removing-headlines/?comments=1&comments-page=1
(DIR) Post #AaV3jsitLj3CTk7WSm by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-10-06T11:47:56Z
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@markstoneman @anderspuck When headlines are removed, so is the searchability on the platform. When users search for something, no keywords in the posts make them invisible. Which means keyboard warriors who write conspiratorial screeds about a subject will score higher than newspapers.
(DIR) Post #AbRBWyrHN2xQdgaMXA by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-11-03T18:16:30Z
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@anderspuck @DeeGLloyd Someone much smarter that me once said that Putin was a decent tactician, but a lousy strategist. He could win a fight, but never win a war. I think about that sometimes when I read about Russia.
(DIR) Post #AbT7BmYftbp8uRRJp2 by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-11-04T16:37:18Z
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@anderspuck @KyivIndependent_official Hopefully it's a dance move to get western capitals to get their thumbs out of their rears and provide Ukraine with what it lacks. Air power. Western leaders complain that the Ukrainians aren't moving quick enough, yet have refused until recently to give that which is needed for rapid combined arms maneuvers. Air power. That said, generals should always, always obey civilian leaderships. If this general is freelancing, he should be sacked.
(DIR) Post #Ad7kwV0pgAb38MhwaO by maxieq@mastodon.nu
2023-12-24T05:03:20Z
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@anderspuck @thejapantimes Also, it would give him time to buy millions of shells from north korea and elsewhere, and pile them up in Rostov-on-Don for shipment to Ukraine, as well as train tens of thousands of new recruits. I mean, to me it seems to be a pretty dumb thing for Ukraine to agree to.