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Peter Todd pete@petertodd.org 5 months ago

Dude, you realize that in 2022 right after the invasion started Ukraine freely gave assault rifles and ammo to every man and woman who wanted them. A large part of why the initial invasion attempt failed is because of a quick decentralized defense. But that only goes so far. Ukraine is up against an enemy that is perfectly able to mass huge amounts of force in a single location to break through. Ukraine needs to be able to respond to that. And that's not possible without wider scale coordination. Re: "complete fucking genocide", that's exactly what Russia has done in Ukraine. In Bucha civilians were simply mass murdered by the hundreds. Russia has no qualms responding to resistance by simply flattening cities with artillery and airpower. Hell, just the other day Russia used multiple cruise missiles to flatten an apartment building, killing 30 people. Speaking of, how exactly are "3d printed guns" going to stop cruise missiles? 3d printed drones actually do stop shahed drones. But again, that's not some decentralized effort. A big part of making that work is centralized organization: you can't put AA assets everywhere. You need top down organization to figure out how to move them dynamically to be in the best place to intercept each attack.

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jhog57 5 months ago

if you ask me, I’d say private individuals should be able to own fully functioning fighter jets and war planes, similar to how it’s done in the US but an actual functioning units well, yeah, you can’t do much against an ICBM, it largely is a demoralization type of device, it sure could and it does kills lots of people at once, but the demoralization aspect of it is even bigger and you are going for miles to expand on that fear. it is just it is something you can’t exactly win a war with either, because there is not much of a point of turning a country into a a wasteland as it will become unusable sure, there will still be plenty of resources, but not much people you can use to harvest them I don’t necessarily agree that the centralized army should be completely eradicated or abolished momentarily, that will surely help your enemy, but am strongly against less guns=less violence narrative, for disarming everyone EXCEPT for the government and am sure is against collectively owning firearms through government EXCLUSIVELY, I hope you do understand that what I am saying is to keep your 2nd line of defense (your police, your army, your allies) but make ABSOLUTE SURE that your 1st line of defense, an armed trained and prepared individual to be there as a first and foremost priority again, I also am against fear mongering for ICBMs and using that as an argument for disarmament, I just don’t see how would it promote any conclusion other than “we better disarm and give up if we want to live”

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Peter Todd pete@petertodd.org 5 months ago

No, ICBMs, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles are not just "demoralization" devices. They're highly effective, if expensive, ways to take out critical assets that you need to win wars. Long range drones as well. Russia is sending waves of hundreds of propeller (and increasingly jet) powered drones that each can deliver an ~50kg explosive payload. If not for anti-air defenses, each one of those drones could result in important infrastructure being taken out. Leave war up to the experts who are actually fighting it. You don't have a clue how this actually works in reality.