| ▲ | breakyerself 2 days ago |
| Sure. We can always imagine an excuse to avoid dealing with the obvious reality. I don't think it's productive though. |
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| ▲ | vntok 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yet Sweden did it too (https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/11/11/why-swe...) and they quote these defense-related reasons. Are they lying, do you believe that Sweden of all countries is under Trump's direct influence re: wind aversion? |
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| ▲ | breakyerself 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Sweden is worried about a hostile neighbor. They're freaked out enough that they joined NATO after generations of non-alignment. Who are we afraid of? If ICBMs are incoming to the Continental United States the world is ending. Regardless of whether we prevent wind farms in any of the 12,000+ miles of coastline. Are we expecting missiles to come from the Gulf of Mexico? People always bend over backwards to justify this administration. It's tiresome. | | |
| ▲ | riku_iki a day ago | parent [-] | | > If ICBMs are incoming to the Continental United States the world is ending. its up to discussion. US has many measures which combined could give them a chance to survive nuclear war, namely: preemptive strike by tridents on enemy's silos(https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...) and anti missile defense. > Are we expecting missiles to come from the Gulf of Mexico? there is a possibility of submarine launch from that direction. | | |
| ▲ | breakyerself a day ago | parent [-] | | Nuclear war isn't winnable. It's stupid and dangerous to pretend otherwise. | | |
| ▲ | riku_iki a day ago | parent [-] | | humans already gave nuclear buttons to politicians and dictators with questionable intelligence, so it doesn't matter what you are pretending to be exactly. |
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| ▲ | LastTrain 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Sweden did not ban all offshore wind projects. | |
| ▲ | jopsen 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Defense related reasons canceled projects early in the planning phase. This is the kind of thing you know years before construction is even funded, much less started. This is a US administration being dishonest, whether for stupidity or to apply political pressure who knows. | |
| ▲ | baobun 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > do you believe that Sweden of all countries is under Trump's direct influence re: wind aversion? It looks increasingly like a US vassal state for every year so that part wouldn't be so surprising. Besides, the article you posted does not support your claim that Sweden blocked all offshore wind construction. On the contrary it refutes it by mentioning some greenlit offshore wind construction projects. |
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| ▲ | nailer 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A conspiracy is not the obvious reality. |
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| ▲ | breakyerself 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Unless the conspiracy is being done by malicious idiots with too much power. | |
| ▲ | immibis 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Project 2025 is a conspiracy that is obvious, is reality, and includes blocking windmills |
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| ▲ | roamerz 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| They were approved by a prior administration that prioritized green energy over national security. There are several other comments above that allege other countries have come to the same conclusion regarding offshore wind farms having a negative affect on radar. |
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| ▲ | anigbrowl 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Great, then they can explain the reasons. Most transparent administration in history, remember? | | |
| ▲ | roamerz 2 days ago | parent [-] | | The reasons are clearly stated and widely reported by multiple news sources: The Trump administration ordered an immediate pause on five major offshore wind projects, citing national security risks due to radar interference. Not much on details besides a “classified study“ but sounds pretty transparent to me? |
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| ▲ | array_key_first 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > They were approved by a prior administration that prioritized green energy over national security. This is delusional. The US has been spending metrics fucktons of money on national security since long before Trump. Biden, like trump, was absolutely a war monger, as almost all US presidents are. He was a center neoliberal politician who love love LOVED the military industrial complex, and it shows in all of his policy choices. This characterization of the modern American Democrats as communist hippies is just so out of touch with reality it's not even worth humoring. It's just wrong. You're wrong. |
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