The US will lose WW3

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Regarde Aduck: Oct 19, 2012; c l o u d k i t t e n; Grimey Drawer

stephenthinkpad posted:

Europe battles powder shortage to supply shells for Ukraine

"To make powder, you need a specific kind of cotton, which mostly comes from China," he said.

Nitrocellulose, also known as guncotton, is a key ingredient in gunpowder manufacture.

"Would you know it, deliveries of this cotton from China stopped as if by chance a few months ago," Breton added.

lmao

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Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

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FirstnameLastname: Jul 10, 2022

lol

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TeenageArchipelago: Jul 23, 2013

stephenthinkpad posted:

Europe battles powder shortage to supply shells for Ukraine

"To make powder, you need a specific kind of cotton, which mostly comes from China," he said.

Nitrocellulose, also known as guncotton, is a key ingredient in gunpowder manufacture.

"Would you know it, deliveries of this cotton from China stopped as if by chance a few months ago," Breton added.

lmfao

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KomradeX: Oct 29, 2011

stephenthinkpad posted:

Europe battles powder shortage to supply shells for Ukraine

"To make powder, you need a specific kind of cotton, which mostly comes from China," he said.

Nitrocellulose, also known as guncotton, is a key ingredient in gunpowder manufacture.

"Would you know it, deliveries of this cotton from China stopped as if by chance a few months ago," Breton added.

Gee maybe NATO having all of these conferences about how to confront China, would make China reluctant to trade a good that can be used to attack them

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DJJIB-DJDCT: Feb 1, 2024

NATO really did seem to believe / does seem to believe that they can stage military forces against China while relying on China to produce the goods and deliver the trade that makes that possible, until the moment of NATO's choosing.

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Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

Capitalists will sell the rope with which to hang them, conversely...

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FirstnameLastname: Jul 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPX__g3LpUY

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KomradeX: Oct 29, 2011

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

NATO really did seem to believe / does seem to believe that they can stage military forces against China while relying on China to produce the goods and deliver the trade that makes that possible, until the moment of NATO's choosing.

The End of History really gave the West protagonist syndrome and its just unable to cope that its not actually living in a Tom Clancy story

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Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

liberal governments think: why actually have a military for peer-peer combat if you act crazed enough your MAD deterrent will get you most of what you want from other great powers so all that military spending can just go to the ruling class thanks to their genius in noticing this lifehack.

we are going to be trying to run this policeman of the world bullshit even when naval budgets only allow for a go pro taped to a rubber duckie to patrol the seas until somebody makes us prove we have the nerve (and functional nukes) to follow through on the threat.

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Orange Devil: Oct 1, 2010; Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

stephenthinkpad posted:

Europe battles powder shortage to supply shells for Ukraine

"To make powder, you need a specific kind of cotton, which mostly comes from China," he said.

Nitrocellulose, also known as guncotton, is a key ingredient in gunpowder manufacture.

"Would you know it, deliveries of this cotton from China stopped as if by chance a few months ago," Breton added.

Wow what are the odds?

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The Oldest Man: Jul 28, 2003

stephenthinkpad posted:

Europe battles powder shortage to supply shells for Ukraine

"To make powder, you need a specific kind of cotton, which mostly comes from China," he said.

Nitrocellulose, also known as guncotton, is a key ingredient in gunpowder manufacture.

"Would you know it, deliveries of this cotton from China stopped as if by chance a few months ago," Breton added.

the us still has better microchips though right

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Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

chens general store refused to sell me rope when I told him it was for a celestial lynching party. it's like these chinamen don't respect the rules

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DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

stephenthinkpad posted:

Europe battles powder shortage to supply shells for Ukraine

"To make powder, you need a specific kind of cotton, which mostly comes from China," he said.

Nitrocellulose, also known as guncotton, is a key ingredient in gunpowder manufacture.

"Would you know it, deliveries of this cotton from China stopped as if by chance a few months ago," Breton added.

"We can't possibly grow it here. I mean, that's peasant labor! Something for the help to do."

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DJJIB-DJDCT: Feb 1, 2024

lol now the one thing about guncotton is that the MIC has been trying to sell newer, much more complex and expensive, propellants since the 70's but none of them are better enough to have been worth procuring.

If, however, there's no guncotton to be had...

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Soapy_Bumslap: Jun 19, 2013; We're gonna need a bigger chode; Grimey Drawer

China and US in a game of stop hitting yourself, except China isn't making US do anything and is actually sincerely suggesting they stop hitting themself

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The Voice of Labor: Apr 8, 2020

KomradeX posted:

Gee maybe NATO having all of these conferences about how to confront China, would make China reluctant to trade a good that can be used to attack them

is this why I can't get butterfly knives from aliexpress anymore?

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stephenthinkpad: Jan 2, 2020

NATO wants to talk to China's manager.

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Raskolnikov38: Mar 3, 2007; We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

shells still use cordite?

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WrightOfWay: Jul 24, 2010

NATO should bring back black powder weapons.

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BrotherJayne: Nov 28, 2019

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

NATO really did seem to believe / does seem to believe that they can stage military forces against China while relying on China to produce the goods and deliver the trade that makes that possible, until the moment of NATO's choosing.

I mean, it worked for ze Germans in '41...

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Al!: Apr 2, 2010

gun cotton vs corn bullets

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DJJIB-DJDCT: Feb 1, 2024

Raskolnikov38 posted:

shells still use cordite?

The issue is that alternative propellants are still patented and therefore secret ingredients.

So for example, Rhinemetall's ECL�

Everybody knows that the first thing that happens when it's tested by a government in a procurement process is that samples are sent to a lab, and it's not that hard to figure out what's in propellant, but the problem is that you can't make it because of IP laws or whatever, the government certainly can't send the samples they are given to a company here to reproduce.

This is true for a bunch of things of course, but Next Generation Propellants are all single source because of those IP restrictions.

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Cuttlefush: Jan 15, 2014; gotta have my purp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxW_SoCbIhg

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DJJIB-DJDCT: Feb 1, 2024

but also there's a black powder shortage too.

Saluting blanks need black powder and wax, which should be easy, but supply has been tight for at least two years.

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Al!: Apr 2, 2010

ukranian conscript being handed a hand grenade made out of human teeth duct taped around a picolo pete

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FirstnameLastname: Jul 10, 2022

when the main source of profit becomes cutting labor and running all things with skeleton crews but there's still just as many people, suddenly even common things become really rare and in short supply its weird how that works and i dont think wewill ever understand it

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genericnick: Dec 26, 2012

The Europeans set up an arcane structure of derivative markets to fix their procurement. The Russians just used windows.

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DJJIB-DJDCT: Feb 1, 2024

genericnick posted:

The Europeans set up an arcane structure of derivative markets to fix their procurement. The Russians just used windows.

lol it took me a second

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skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

KomradeX posted:

Gee maybe NATO having all of these conferences about how to confront China, would make China reluctant to trade a good that can be used to attack them

The nitrocellulose would be used against civilians in Palestine and against China itself, and is not a dual-use substance. Now that's a rules-based international order :smug:

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Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

genericnick posted:

The Europeans set up an arcane structure of derivative markets to fix their procurement. The Russians just used windows.

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Delta-Wye: Sep 29, 2005

genericnick posted:

The Europeans set up an arcane structure of derivative markets to fix their procurement. The Russians just used windows.

one weird trick! capitalists hate it!

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Slavvy: Dec 11, 2012

I'll bet FF's underwear is made of gun cotton, just in case

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SixteenShells: Sep 30, 2021

Slavvy posted:

I'll bet FF's underwear is made of gun cotton, just in case

also it's a great party trick to make your underwear disappear in an instant

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Delta-Wye: Sep 29, 2005

stephenthinkpad posted:

Europe battles powder shortage to supply shells for Ukraine

"To make powder, you need a specific kind of cotton, which mostly comes from China," he said.

Nitrocellulose, also known as guncotton, is a key ingredient in gunpowder manufacture.

"Would you know it, deliveries of this cotton from China stopped as if by chance a few months ago," Breton added.

the perfidious chinese and their sense of agency - how dare they!!

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DJJIB-DJDCT: Feb 1, 2024

Are they expecting China to keep giving them high quality copper alloy for shaped charges and wolfram for penetrators up until the moment shots are fired too?

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The Voice of Labor: Apr 8, 2020

resupply battalions looking for charcoal and bird poo poo and piss like kirk when he was fighting the gorn

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Complications: Jun 19, 2014

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Are they expecting China to keep giving them high quality copper alloy for shaped charges and wolfram for penetrators up until the moment shots are fired too?

Why not? Every Western company not only sells to China everything they can, they'll actively work around boycotts to do so. It'd take some kind of direct government interference in the market to keep a capitalist from selling until it's literally impossible and you'd have to be some kind of anathemic atheist commie nazi to interfere with private enterprise!

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HouseofSuren: Feb 5, 2024; by Pragmatica

Complications posted:

Why not? Every Western company not only sells to China everything they can, they'll actively work around boycotts to do so. It'd take some kind of direct government interference in the market to keep a capitalist from selling until it's literally impossible and you'd have to be some kind of anathemic atheist commie nazi to interfere with private enterprise!

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...0%20and%20H100.

Ultimately, the very same export rules that are intended to limit China's access to cutting-edge technology have made it much harder for Nvidia and others to compete in China. Should the U.S. add further restrictions to GPU exports, it could force Nvidia out of first place.

HouseofSuren has issued a correction as of 00:42 on Mar 4, 2024

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uber_stoat: Jan 21, 2001; Pillbug

PISS man, piss for your very souls, for can't you see the the Russians yonder?!

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