like it is literally just because of random chance and numbers
even the qm is also surprised because it takes some extremely unlucky rolls to fuck up a very simple task
we literally do not vote on the dice numbers
should we switch to 2 die 50 instead of 1 dice 100 to make rolls smoother and not likely to get such extremes?
No, because there is no reason to. Swingy d100 outcomes are normal and part of the process of
not being able to predict what will happen. If we make risky choices, some percent of them will end badly. That's expected. If you don't like it, don't support risky choices.
people have openly stated Algeria and Algerian lives do not matter in this vote so obviously some people are going to vehemently disagree and vote in defense of the Algerians and this simply is not a bad thing
Do
Soviet lives matter? Does risking
everything in a possible nuclear war against people who quite sincerely believe they are justified in launching a nuclear attack against you matter?
The lesson of the Cold War is plain. In a world where both sides have H-bombs and sincerely believe that total annihilation would be preferable to total surrender,
"Never Back Down" gets you and everyone you love killed.
Not a tankie! Don't like Stalin or the historical Soviets very much. Just committed to a hawkish foreign policy based on both ideology and practicality
It ain't practicality if it gets you and everyone you love killed.
That's got to be good, I don't recall him being a major hawk
Yes, but conversely, if
Hubert Humphrey is the one screaming at us and demanding that we pay reparations and make concessions, it means
we done fucked up.
We rolled the French and showed our anti-imperialist creds. I got what I wanted, and if the French genocide the Algerians to the last child over this, that's on them. The Soviets can say they tried their best and it wasn't enough and the French are responsible for their own atrocities.
During World War Two there was a wisecrack, inspired by how the Soviets were engaged in brutal, horrific fighting on the Eastern Front at a time when the Western Allies had largely not come to grips with their Germany.
"Churchill and Roosevelt are adamantly determined to fight Hitler to the last Russian man."
Would-be colonial independence movements are going to be looking at us and thinking "gee, I wonder if the Russians are planning to fight France/Britain/America/Whoever to the last of
our people?"
An ally who backs you into a corner where you will be exterminated is not necessarily a good friend.
And then he gets blamed, not us! I assure you we had no idea how he got those, cant believe he had a secret nuclear program
...Are you being sarcastic, or joking somehow? I really do have to ask.
IMO adopting pure IRST here is a mistake, it means that this aircraft is strictly chained to a controlled interception environment with minimal independent search capability. The S in IRST is pretty notional at this point given the narrow look angle and search rates they had. Outside that it's probably a perfectly competent interceptor and dogfighter, but any nation that can would be a lot better served buying MiG-23/25. So mostly CMEA members, doubt we sell those to just anyone.
My honest impression is that the MiG-21 was always best suited for controlled interception. It's a
short ranged interceptor, after all, not a general purpose air superiority fighter.
