burger1 wrote: ↑Sat, 23. Aug 25, 09:57Ukraine and it's allies need to increase weapons production and destroy Russian forces.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but what part of we are running out of rare earths availability to produce missiles, drones, etc. is not understood?
We can't just produce more with the wave of a hand. Rare earth minerals may not be the only reason, but is one that the military supply chain is highly vulnerable to. Arms manufacturers are already slowing or stopping production because of this very reason. Sure, we could revert to "old technology" and change our designs to not use rare earths, but again, not be the wave of a hand and not with very effective results.
I don't understand how people seem to think that we have unlimited means by which to cause explosions and shoot pretty rockets into the sky on mass scale forever. US weapons supplies are depleted. Same with other countries. Except for China.
Also, it's not just Russian and Ukraine lives that we are talking about destroying with our fancy equipment. Conservatively, the war has already killed many millions of animals and other wildlife, directly or indirectly — and the ecological damage will last for decades.
Of course no one cares very much about what non-humans want. We are so bloody concerned about artificial lines drawn on a map. We continue to behave like the uncivilized brutes that we are. The outrages we witness in Israel/Gaza, Ukraine/Russia are not anomalies. This is how people have always behaved toward each other and everything else that moves.
Alas, likely the war will rage on and Ukraine will lose more and more territory, before they accept the inevitable increasing loss. Meanwhile, suffering prevails as always.
