Hilariously those are the two that would probably be containable.

That’s not how human behavior works…

Someone thinks they’re very clever and they aren’t.

That reminds me of this comic strip…

Where I am you’re almost never the only delivery.

They do make multiple deliveries per trip…

Which is about how AI targeting goes these days.

Facial recognition is pretty easily tricked though. Just because it’s working on the Russians does not mean it will work everywhere.

I’m fully aware of what drones are capable of.

Unless it’s set to shoot at anything moving it’s going to be pretty shit. And once the targeting is that wide open you just get a tennis ball machine and waste it’s ammo.

I’m fine with either approach. As far as I’m concerned if services and groceries are an issue then the government just builds more.

It helps, I’m not denying that. But it can only ever slow down housing inflation and it can’t solve a housing shortage. As supply gets closer to demand their profits will start to drop. The only answer to that equation is the government paying them to keep building.

Yeah there’s a few ways to do it. I won’t complain about how it happens.

I’ve been saying it for years. We need to give HUD 500 million dollars (to start) and immunity from all but federal environmental laws. They drop apartment buildings in the highest cost markets with prices set to repay HUD over 50 years, cover maintenance, and two remodels in that time period. And the rent is of course nearly stabilized because it’s not seeking a profit. Then use the near guaranteed asset income to finance the next wave of buildings.

Just start dropping fucking anchors into the market.

They need to do the same thing for groceries too. Starting in food deserts, then monopoly areas, then high cost of living areas. Americans think they would hate it but in reality there would be literal fights to get those apartments.

Medicare Advantage took the house. Medicaid is the government run healthcare for poor people, and normal Medicare is the government run healthcare for old people. Medicare Advantage is the private plan for old people being paid for with a reverse mortgage. After they die the health insurance and the bank get to fight over the house.

Even the builder’s remedy isn’t going to solve homelessness or bring prices down much though. They still need to sell those properties, which means they need to have a price point that makes it profitable to build. So the law of supply and demand actually prevents them from building enough housing because if the price starts to go down they just stop building.

Because they aren’t competing in the way free market ideologists say they should. It generally takes a 200 level economics class less than a day to figure out a price cartel is far better for the companies involved. I’m sure the professionals have their back channels and third party price consultants already figured out.

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I guarantee you I’m not mixing up BTRs, IFVs, and tanks in their numbers. I brought up the Humvee example to show how flexible the specific concept is, not because I thought it was a tank or IFV.

And I just hope you’re right.

I sure hope so. The thing is that the Russians have always depended mostly on ERA to up-armor their tanks. They did it specifically to be able to throw stuff like the T-62 back into battle. (It’s a mix of T-55 and T-64 parts that was a budget creation in the 1970’s) And at the end of the day a mobile hunk of armor with a gun is a really big problem for the other side. That’s why the West fields medium or even light armor vehicles with 105 or 120 mm guns. As long as the enemy needs an anti tank rocket to penetrate it and it can blow out field fortifications it’s a really good investment. (Until recently the US Army light infantry used up-armored humvees with wire guided TOW missiles for this role. Just to show how flexible it can be) And Russian armor will always be somewhat up to date as long as the ERA was attached. They just won’t be as accurate, fast, or reliable as modern vehicles.

So when they say they’re losing 90 tanks a month and replacing 70 tanks a month it doesn’t really matter that they’re not the newest stuff. And it’s having enough of an impact that even with those horrendous losses they’re advancing.

Russia is replacing their tanks at about an 80 percent rate. That’s not great but it’s not disastrous in the short term. And people are people. The only real problem he has right now is the Ruble. But he’s spent decades knowing he needed to harden his economy. So I’m not going to count on his economy blowing up until it actually happens.