I am certainly not buying Chinese products like there is no tomorrow.
There are quality Chinese stuff, but the Chinese business practices needs to be filtered through people with honour and decency.
Intelligence organisations are working in a different universe from ordinary people.
Chinese intelligence would behave the same way.
The Chinese will sell you a ”64GB” USB stick with a 128MB real capacity.
I have several friends that got scammed this way.
Business relations have similar...
Everyone knows that Chinese will cheat, con and betray to make a buck, so why would China not be ”building” 1000 schools as the lowest bidder leaving Iraqis disappointed when they realized they been conned?
Some of the things the US was tired off was Iraq shooting SAMs on coalition aircrafts...
It was the same war, and the reason for terminating the ceasefire was given in the authorization Congress gave Bush. It was a lot more than WMD. The key trigger was the Iraqi lie claiming 500,000 kids died due to sanctions, and that caused immense pressure to terminate the sanctions which would...
https://apnews.com/article/sweden-nato-budget-spending-defense-military-9e3a2464703100f5dddc84251d4594e7
FILE - Swedish soldiers from Skaraborg’s Swedish regiments take part in a training exercise as part of the preparations for Aurora 17 field exercise, in Skovde, Sweden, on Sept. 14, 2017...
Target of 1,000 vehicles: Ukraine, Sweden agree on joint production of CV-90 IFVs
10 September ,2023: 02:12 PM GST
Ukraine and Sweden will jointly produce the CV-90 IFVs with better all-terrain performance and reinforced multilayer armor, with a goal of arming Ukrainian forces with 1,000...
Actual research shows that you can see a candle at up to 2 km away.
https://physicsworld.com/a/how-far-away-can-you-see-light-from-a-candle/
The lights used on a carrier would be brighter than a candle.
Poor visibility would reduce the range.
Affairs are not accepted as normal. They are considered part of the private sphere where government should not be involved. They are still considered shameful.
Let me rewrite that: We will restrict Your freedom when you adopt strategies used by Nazists and Fascists to bully people.
You do not need 1 million Excalibur to make 500,000 troops leave Ukraine.
Pricing for the Excalibur is $68,000 when you buy thousands.
A large part of the price is to cover the development cost, when buying a few thousands per year. If orders of 100s of thousands of Excalibur were placed...
No, they are polyamorous relationships. Don’t try to redefine well known words.
You cannot be polygamous, unless you marry more than one at the same time.
Polygamy almost always means a man can marry multiple women.
Polygamy then makes the society unbalanced leaving many men without women to...
Polygamy is marrying more than one person. Having a lover outside marriage is not polygamy.
Marriage has a lot of legal implications which are completely lacking in ”affairs”, unless there are offspring.
I prepared a long answer and when pressing ”save”, I got a security warning, which happens when it takes too long to answer. I cut the answer, refreshed the page and pasted, ending up with a mess. Here is a clean version. The other deleted.
Selling stuff is not ”providing aid”
Russia quite...
That table is severely screwed up.
It shows external debt only.
Sweden’s internal and external debt is 17,1% of GDP. This table claims the external debt alone is 159,5% of GDP.
With a guy that follows the advice of the guy last speaking to him, you bet…
Trump did not provide aid, he sold stuff. He likes to sell stuff.
Russia is still going bankrupt.
You adapt your defense budget according to expected threats. The US certainly does not spend as much as it did...
In 2021, the EU imported 40% of its gas from Russia (around 155 billion cubic metres), the vast majority coming through pipelines. In the first half of 2023, that shared plunged to less than 15 per cent. The EU has ended all imports of Russian coal. It's reduced Russian oil imports by around...
Noone sane has any respect for Trump.
He is clearly a Putin puppet.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/17/politics/trump-soft-on-russia/index.html
You mean the Trump that blocked sending arms to Ukraine approved by Congress?
Trump wanted Europeans to increase their budget and spend the fresh...