@Is_Not_Brian I believe China did offer Iran the Pakistan IADS system: J-10s, pilot training, SAMs, radar, early warning aircraft, and Beidou satellites. They ultimately said no because they wanted to do it themselves. Not sure if this changed since the 12 day war
@Is_Not_Brian NK establishes deterrence with their BM program (which provides a delivery system for nukes) and I remember RWN discussing that they produce an insane amount of artillery shells
It truly is amazing what you can do economically if you just remember the point of an economy is the physical stuff and you don’t hard constrain the making and distribution of stuff to whether rich people are maximizing their “money”.
Spoken to plenty of Latino Trump voters, and many basically said: "The economy sucked for me under Biden. Covid shutdowns, inflation, housing costs going up. Entonces—he's fired. Time for something new." Sometimes it's not more deep than that.
Carville has a line about this...