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All this reminds me of is World War 2. Its similar in so many ways its scary. Ukraine is Czechoslovakia, Cold War is the Great War. Russia started rebuilding its Military, The Germans did in 36. So when I say futile I mean in the sense the US has the power to use right now. Its a matter of when and not to wait too long before its too late and you have a revitalized world power.

This is ridiculous,Russia does not represent the same threat as Nazi Germany.

Ok Putin wants restorer the power of his country just like Hitler but Napoleon III
did the same thing when he was emperor, he wanted to restorer the power of France after the fall of the First Empire and you know,he did not exterminate anyone.

China isn't a threat I think because it's more like the British-American relations in the 1800s. Extremely economically tied. Eventually that turns to friendship. Besides China is struggling to be able to be technologically competent and still working with a economic system from the 1800s. China in my view is a threat 40 years from now. Russia is the front threat.

China is not yet a threath to the USA and this is why the Americans must strike now (I'm not talking about a military intervention).

In 1936 when Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland,France should have attacked, she would have won, the Wehrmacht was not ready yet, but in 1940 it was too late.
 
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As for the Russians, they have always had the compulsion to mantain buffer states on their border with Europe. Having NATO on their doorstep does nothing whatsoever to ease whatever historical paranoia it is that compels them to do this.

This is not paranoia, the risk for Russia to be isolated is real (colored revolutions)

I think that above all Russia fears isolation, and this has been and will remain the cause of their operations in Ukraine and the Middle East. I'll start worrying if or when Putin starts carving up the Baltic states.

Well it could be dangerous because the Baltics are in NATO but after all Turkey is in NATO too and I would not die for them and their neo ottomanism dreams.
 
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I was reading this morning that Russia spends 8% of what NATO spends on armaments. Yet Russia is supposed to be the real threat.
Even the guy in charge of NATO today accused Russia and Syria of causing instability in the EU by causing the migrant crisis.

No mention of Turkey who lets the migrants pass freely from Syria, Afghanistan and God knows where, through Turkey and into Greece.

I think we in the West are being told a load of baloney. Some powerful interests have an agenda here. Yet as with all wars, if it comes to that, it will not be their sons and daughters who die.

I think the real problem for the whole world is this, and it appears to be general. The rule of Law and Justice and Truth is either being ignored, swept aside or trashed by powerful interests. These interests are Global in scope and this means the usual Good Guys are now the Bad Guys, leaving everyone confused and feeling betrayed.

I don't think the Americans are alone in being ANGRY! But God knows where this will all end...


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ANYWAY... in the mod the LAG is pretty much gone. The Caliphate grows, and the next version should be much better than the last.
 
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I was reading this morning that Russia spends 8% of what NATO spends on armaments. Yet Russia is supposed to be the real threat.
Even the guy in charge of NATO today accused Russia and Syria of causing instability in the EU by causing the migrant crisis.

No mention of Turkey who lets the migrants pass freely from Syria, Afghanistan and God knows where, through Turkey and into Greece.

I think we in the West are being told a load of baloney. Some powerful interests have an agenda here. Yet as with all wars, if it comes to that, it will not be their sons and daughters who die.

I think the real problem for the whole world is this, and it appears to be general. The rule of Law and Justice and Truth is either being ignored, swept aside or trashed by powerful interests. These interests are Global in scope and this means the usual Good Guys are now the Bad Guys, leaving everyone confused and feeling betrayed.

I don't think the Americans are alone in being ANGRY! But God knows where this will all end...


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ANYWAY... in the mod the LAG is pretty much gone. The Caliphate grows, and the next version should be much better than the last.
The reason for the anger is something I know well. I've hated US politics sense the 2000s. Its a hatred I personally grew up with..sitting there in the open boiling. It's simple for me. It's anti-establishment.

Something a lot of nations don't understand. Americans have never ever been establishment people. That's not the nature of Americans. As lost as our identity has become it's always been as rebels, as those who will take the poor the hungry, who will take in those unwanted. Anarchist. The entire constitutions entire point was to basically say...big governments are horrible for the public. The entire structure was meant to hack and limit anything the government could. There's a reason US conservatism is still around it's because it's tieing on those ideals. Before I sound like a raging conservative I support Sanders. But I understand what Trump is tapping into very well. It's Old America fighting against the Cold War, Iraq War, Terrorism, SJWs, Regressive Progressive, Censorship and most importantly Wall Street.

There's no demon anymore for the US to face and I see it as a drastic shift back to the politics as they use to be. Anti-government, instead of pro-government. Trump is exactly that..he's anti people in power, anti abuse of the Americans (Which is what happens when you give someone power), its tapping into the old ideas of freedom to pursue happiness, freedom to not have the overbearing breath of government on your throat while corporations skip free. It's a calling to making things better, fixing the blaring issues that have for so long been distracted aside by simple sense issues like gay marriage, weed, and etc...those classic talking point. I personally don't trust trump and what he says, it sounds great but I doubt the validity of Trump. I worry him being a disaster but I acknowledge he could be great and 'Make America Great Again!'

There's my MERICA rant. I think it explains the anger better then the BBC article. It seems clear to me because its so close to myself and how I feel.

Also my point never was Russia = Nazi Germany. Only its in a similar situation as them. A corrupt class (The Rich in Russia, The Former Royalty/Military Staff in Germany) The resurgence of military technology in both. (Aimed at you Paddy) The taking of former lands and so forth. Lots of similarities, a leader with what appears total power Putin/Hitler and the capability of turning the nation into a Superpower to bring them back to their previous state.

(Quote Below, Read first, haha)I find it very relevant to the current changing dynamics of American politics all of that coming to this head. The choice of security over freedom and Americans rebelling against all the threatre of security they were convinced to have since the Cold War. It's fighting against establishment, upsetness and anger at the wool that's been pulled over their eyes.

I'll leave my silly rant with this.

BJF 'Raiding french women since 1776.
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
 
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i think, what would be the worst for the US and the world to recieve is :

trump
that would be the ultimate self-punishment

but i think the reason why folks on this planet is angry, is that capitalism is way too much unstable, the last crisis killed the middleclass in the us and the principles of the "social market economy", which were good the entire cold war, are beeing replaced by the big companies and their hunger for profit. This is the reason, why a right wing-populist demagogue and an democratic socialist are just existing in the polls (even when sanders is too old, the democrats seem to loose the youth to the left), and right wing/"fascist" parties in europe come to power
 

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The reason for the anger is something I know well. I've hated US politics sense the 2000s. Its a hatred I personally grew up with..sitting there in the open boiling. It's simple for me. It's anti-establishment.

Something a lot of nations don't understand. Americans have never ever been establishment people. That's not the nature of Americans. As lost as our identity has become it's always been as rebels, as those who will take the poor the hungry, who will take in those unwanted. Anarchist. The entire constitutions entire point was to basically say...big governments are horrible for the public. The entire structure was meant to hack and limit anything the government could. There's a reason US conservatism is still around it's because it's tieing on those ideals. Before I sound like a raging conservative I support Sanders. But I understand what Trump is tapping into very well. It's Old America fighting against the Cold War, Iraq War, Terrorism, SJWs, Regressive Progressive, Censorship and most importantly Wall Street.

There's no demon anymore for the US to face and I see it as a drastic shift back to the politics as they use to be. Anti-government, instead of pro-government. Trump is exactly that..he's anti people in power, anti abuse of the Americans (Which is what happens when you give someone power), its tapping into the old ideas of freedom to pursue happiness, freedom to not have the overbearing breath of government on your throat while corporations skip free. It's a calling to making things better, fixing the blaring issues that have for so long been distracted aside by simple sense issues like gay marriage, weed, and etc...those classic talking point. I personally don't trust trump and what he says, it sounds great but I doubt the validity of Trump. I worry him being a disaster but I acknowledge he could be great and 'Make America Great Again!'

There's my MERICA rant. I think it explains the anger better then the BBC article. It seems clear to me because its so close to myself and how I feel.

Also my point never was Russia = Nazi Germany. Only its in a similar situation as them. A corrupt class (The Rich in Russia, The Former Royalty/Military Staff in Germany) The resurgence of military technology in both. (Aimed at you Paddy) The taking of former lands and so forth. Lots of similarities, a leader with what appears total power Putin/Hitler and the capability of turning the nation into a Superpower to bring them back to their previous state.

(Quote Below, Read first, haha)I find it very relevant to the current changing dynamics of American politics all of that coming to this head. The choice of security over freedom and Americans rebelling against all the threatre of security they were convinced to have since the Cold War. It's fighting against establishment, upsetness and anger at the wool that's been pulled over their eyes.

I'll leave my silly rant with this.

BJF 'Raiding french women since 1776.
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

i think, what would be the worst for the US and the world to recieve is :

trump
that would be the ultimate self-punishment

but i think the reason why folks on this planet is angry, is that capitalism is way too much unstable, the last crisis killed the middleclass in the us and the principles of the "social market economy", which were good the entire cold war, are beeing replaced by the big companies and their hunger for profit. This is the reason, why a right wing-populist demagogue and an democratic socialist are just existing in the polls (even when sanders is too old, the democrats seem to loose the youth to the left), and right wing/"fascist" parties in europe come to power

You know, I think we have something in common.

Here inside the EU, although the overall idea is GREAT, and I'm for a common European identity and getting on together and making it all better for everyone. There is still the nagging doubt that I'm being drawn into some uncontrollable. My representatives in my Parliament do not have much or any say in the European Parliament, which isn't even where the Power lies in Europe. The Power lies in the European Commission. Not Elected AFAIK?

Where is this all going to end? Like you, I'd rather be in Europe, that was for Peace and Harmony and Trade and Good Things. I'm not for a Europe where I have no say, no control, no idea where it is leading me, by the nose, into what?

I just think that behind the EU is some "people with a big agenda", since we said NO in an election and were simply told to go vote again. Democracy? And it happened in France and Holland as well I think?

It just leaves me uneasy. I'm not angry yet, but just uneasy about the whole thing. It is like we are all on a joyride to Hell, and there is nothing we can do to stop it..... eek!
 
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I know that the anger towards the establishment is everywhere,not just in Europe but,is the situation in the US so bad?

I mean what will the voters of Sanders and Trump do if Hillary wins?
 
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I just think that behind the EU is some "people with a big agenda", since we said NO in an election and were simply told to go vote again. Democracy? And it happened in France and Holland as well I think?

You are right.

The big problem with the EU is that many times people have voted NO (danish 1992,french and Ducth 2005,irish,2008 and greek 2015) and yet all european leaders refuse to listen to them and now they are afraid to hold referendums.

The crisis of migrants for example, each country should hold a referendum on whether the people approve or not the arrival of migrants.
 
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You are right.

The big problem with the EU is that many times people have voted NO (danish 1992,french and Ducth 2005,irish,2008 and greek 2015) and yet all european leaders refuse to listen to them and now they are afraid to hold referendums.

The crisis of migrants for example, each country should hold a referendum on whether the people approve or not the arrival of migrants.

but i think this wont solve anything, the people of the middle east will flee whether the door is cloed or not.
the only thing which will change with that is the number of people dying at a border
look to Idomeni, the greeks will have to solve two problems the same time, Migration crisis and financial things
 

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I think you must have done something a little crazy? Because all you needed to do was add # to one line and save it. I even posted the whole file, so you could just copy and paste over the previous file.

I'll attach the file again here.

It goes into the db folder.
Yes, i do know how to inject characters in a code line, if you remember I've done that once before with you :) haha
 

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I'm toying with the idea that this Caliphate can become so huge and threatening to the whole world, that the major Powers not already part of the Caliphate, somehow have to come together to fight it. But you cannot fight it with armies alone, it is too strong already.

You need new technologies, but even your own scientists are not enough. Your best techs are not enough. Your usual enemy possibly has better or equivalent scientists and different 21st century technologies. It is only by combing all the scientists and all the technologies, can you possibly get enough tech, get enough new stuff to even stand a chance against the Caliphate.
 
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What do you mean by WAD

Works As Designed.

You may not have realised but isis is just one country. They are surrounded by enemy countries, yet they must survive long enough seeing as the game begins in June and the Russians don't turn up until September 30.

How to achieve that and be bombed by the USA etc on a daily basis. Decisions as to who is actively attacking isis is a game design decision.
And you need to allow for the fact that isis may win and create the caliphate.
And allow for the Russians/Syrians winning and the FSA and the al nusra front, and Turkey and Saudi getting involved, not to mention Iraq and Iran. And Hezbollah and not Israel.
And not Holland, Spain, Germany, England and France when you don't want them, yet.

It can takes weeks to set this kind of thing up. I'm still working on adding new stuff and balancing that.
 
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Interesting read: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35406324
Thank you Novapaddy for the insightful Article. IT does shed light on the major problem that America has to deal with today.
One of the points that American's seem to forget is that up until the end of WW2, America WASN'T the Global Leader of the "Free World". Before WW2, America was much more concerned with itself. But Since WW2, Certain parties in America took it upon themselves to become "The World's Policeman".
Personally, looking back through the lens of History and hindsight, maybe America shouldn't have done what it did to foster the "Cold War" for one. YES the USA was the causation of the Cold War in it's entirety. WE, the USA stabbed The Russian People in the back after WW2.

WW2, the European conflict WOULDN'T have been won by the Allies, and YES Emphatically, Soviet Russia and the Russian People did the MOST dying in that Conflict than ANY OTHER COUNTRY BY FAR. And what did the Truman Government do after those Russians gave so many of their lives for the western Democracies????

They FUCKED THEM UP THE ASS without lube of any kind. Yes, Stalin was a dictator. That is a fact. But the USA since Truman has and only does respect any and all international treaties ONLY IF THOSE TREATIES SERVE THE AMERICAN POWERFUL.

There is an old saying: Power Corrupts and Absolute power Corrupts Absolutely. The Electorate in the USA is still kinda naive and it doesn't get the fact that WE THE PEOPLE have allowed the Corrupt to be placed into Power by the Corrupt themselves. BUT we still Don't want to do anything about it. We still just want to watch Football on a sunday and watch those "great reality shows" like Survivor and the Karkashians all the time. WE don't care what anymore when our neighbor get hurt or attacked by a criminal or if our neighbor's children get killed at SCHOOL. We just keep burring our collective heads in the sand or we fall off the deep end and turn to the logically silliness of Evangelical and televangelical crap! WE want to rewrite REAL history to remove the actual parts that show how far we have moved to the Political Right side of the political spectrum.

And just to make clear, the RIGHT side of the political spectrum is where the NAZI's of Europe are located at.

One of the things that Made America so great after WW2 was the concept of Giving a shit about the down-trodden. Caring about "Your fellow man". NOT about how much profit you can squeeze out of the naive citizenry.

SO YES some Americans are Rightfully ANGRY at the persons who think they represent the General American Citizen. BUT those persons DO NOT represent the General American Citizen. THEY represent what is fundamentally wrong with the USA.

Corporations are NOT PEOPLE!!! period, end of statement. IF one looks at how Corporations were designed you will emphatically note that a Corporation is a group of people entering into an agreement so that those persons LIABILITY FOR FINANCIAL LOSS is mitigated, meaning lessened, if the "powers that control" that Corporation get too greedy or violate the Tenants of "Good Citizenry". Meaning that the Citizens respect other citizens and don't take unfair advantage financially of those same Citizens who are the rela causation of threat Corporations Wealth and existence in the first place.

Very sorry for getting off topic, But it was a very good and truthful article.

Thank You once again for novapaddy putting it up here for us all to enlighten our minds upon :)
 
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Hey so i noticed in the DH launcher where it says "Current Version of the game" now it says ??? and i know that it used to say 1.04 in that box. SO please confirm my thiking that somehow my base game DH 1.04 got corrupted; since it says ??? now. And to correct the Intelligence tab ctd. All i should have to do is reinstall a clean copy of the base game and then just put the "Mods" folder back into the game and everything should be fine.

Does that sound like a logical and viable solution to the current dilemma that i'm having?

And YES, what you have written in the "Events" file is exactly what i have in my messed up version of PUTIN 2.0 :)

But thank you greatly for putting it up again for my benefit.
 

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Hey so i noticed in the DH launcher where it says "Current Version of the game" now it says ??? and i know that it used to say 1.04 in that box. SO please confirm my thiking that somehow my base game DH 1.04 got corrupted; since it says ??? now. And to correct the Intelligence tab ctd. All i should have to do is reinstall a clean copy of the base game and then just put the "Mods" folder back into the game and everything should be fine.

Does that sound like a logical and viable solution to the current dilemma that i'm having?

And YES, what you have written in the "Events" file is exactly what i have in my messed up version of PUTIN 2.0 :)

But thank you greatly for putting it up again for my benefit.

Yep, sounds like your game is corrupted. Would explain a lot.

EDIT: I just hope now that my game is not corrupted, as I was testing the mod Edge of Darkness on this same install of dh1.04 and THAT mod was corrupted.

Perhaps I need a fresh install just to be sure to be sure.
 

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Thank you Novapaddy for the insightful Article. IT does shed light on the major problem that America has to deal with today.
One of the points that American's seem to forget is that up until the end of WW2, America WASN'T the Global Leader of the "Free World". Before WW2, America was much more concerned with itself. But Since WW2, Certain parties in America took it upon themselves to become "The World's Policeman".
Personally, looking back through the lens of History and hindsight, maybe America shouldn't have done what it did to foster the "Cold War" for one. YES the USA was the causation of the Cold War in it's entirety. WE, the USA stabbed The Russian People in the back after WW2.

WW2, the European conflict WOULDN'T have been won by the Allies, and YES Emphatically, Soviet Russia and the Russian People did the MOST dying in that Conflict than ANY OTHER COUNTRY BY FAR. And what did the Truman Government do after those Russians gave so many of their lives for the western Democracies????

They FUCKED THEM UP THE ASS without lube of any kind. Yes, Stalin was a dictator. That is a fact. But the USA since Truman has and only does respect any and all international treaties ONLY IF THOSE TREATIES SERVE THE AMERICAN POWERFUL.

There is an old saying: Power Corrupts and Absolute power Corrupts Absolutely. The Electorate in the USA is still kinda naive and it doesn't get the fact that WE THE PEOPLE have allowed the Corrupt to be placed into Power by the Corrupt themselves. BUT we still Don't want to do anything about it. We still just want to watch Football on a sunday and watch those "great reality shows" like Survivor and the Karkashians all the time. WE don't care what anymore when our neighbor get hurt or attacked by a criminal or if our neighbor's children get killed at SCHOOL. We just keep burring our collective heads in the sand or we fall off the deep end and turn to the logically silliness of Evangelical and televangelical crap! WE want to rewrite REAL history to remove the actual parts that show how far we have moved to the Political Right side of the political spectrum.

And just to make clear, the RIGHT side of the political spectrum is where the NAZI's of Europe are located at.

One of the things that Made America so great after WW2 was the concept of Giving a shit about the down-trodden. Caring about "Your fellow man". NOT about how much profit you can squeeze out of the naive citizenry.

SO YES some Americans are Rightfully ANGRY at the persons who think they represent the General American Citizen. BUT those persons DO NOT represent the General American Citizen. THEY represent what is fundamentally wrong with the USA.

Corporations are NOT PEOPLE!!! period, end of statement. IF one looks at how Corporations were designed you will emphatically note that a Corporation is a group of people entering into an agreement so that those persons LIABILITY FOR FINANCIAL LOSS is mitigated, meaning lessened, if the "powers that control" that Corporation get too greedy or violate the Tenants of "Good Citizenry". Meaning that the Citizens respect other citizens and don't take unfair advantage financially of those same Citizens who are the rela causation of threat Corporations Wealth and existence in the first place.

Very sorry for getting off topic, But it was a very good and truthful article.

Thank You once again for novapaddy putting it up here for us all to enlighten our minds upon :)


I am not a leftist but the problem of America and the Western world in general is the neoliberalism and the market economy.

We need less free trade and more protectionism.
 
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