A strategy with a lack of thinking. You blow up st Petersbourg, you get nuclear fire back. If you keep the country occupied with another country, just enough to bleed Russia out, at best you might not even need to intervene militarily, the Russians will take care of their own. At worse you will face a severely diminished foe while you had time to prepare.
So now, the EU and China can start really profiteering from the US system. Thank you Mr president for this influx (and return) of research. I do understand, on the whole, the world is loosing a lot because if the US pulls out of research funding, then it means globally funding recedes. But I’ll take the small gain to compensate the huge loss.
Isn’t France about to recognise the Palestinian state? And isn’t there a current crisis between France and Israel over what is happening with strong words from Macron to qualify what Israel is doing?
I’d warn anyone going to EU services to take note of the new encryption laws.
Self hosted is the way. The only way. (The best way to f-up your data too, so make archives.)
Google is starting to use DRM on all it’s videos so that only the official youtube clients on devices and big browser brands can play them. It also kills all the systems like invidious.
Strange, they both signed the same treaties yet the US usualy keeps their nuclear capable planes in hangars. Do you have any références to pertaining treaty articles?
A Vanuatu Passport… really
Can he be considered part of the “shadow fleet”?
HMD is still Finish (with french capital injected into it), HQ is still right opposite to Nokia’s and they make Nokia licenced phones).
Too tired to read the Nth post saying " country B is doing worse than country A!"
Doesn’t take away how shity country A is…
Maybe the fact country A and country B have abandonned the idea that republics exist for the many to enjoy living in and not the few at the top can explain things.
Poor you. Thoughts and prayers.
Oh crap! I’ve been putting trash in my ears all those years!
The same ban exists in France and most other EU countries. And the fines/administrative closures are quite stringent.
Now I understand why Trump recently used stronger terms about the russian president (while still blaming Ukraine). It was more about moving some pawn in Poland than really doing stuff to help.
No, he can’t really go far with his political power he’ll just get entangled into more litigation… He needs to persuade countries to sell US bonds to bring down the value of the dollar in a significant enough way for project 25 to execute. He’s chosen the hard way so why would we satisfy him by doing exactly what he expects of us? Selling bonds isn’t cashing in on them, it’s just transfering the risk to someone else, a bonds market crash would dévalue the value of the dollar at the loss of the EU, china, japan, the UK etc… Let the dollar go on a softer landing (as it’s poised to do anyway, whatever happens on the bond market) let the country get back on tracks then resume activity on the bond market once the dollar has gained back some health. Accept some losses but have the overall financial losses much lighter for EU states and financial institutions on the long term. No need for the EU suffer for stuff done by america to itself.
Why fight with european consumer prices and get people to moan against the EU or their gouvernement about price hikes? Fight with states actively pushing alternative IT services and defense industry from the EU, through advertising, through hybrid commercial war, spread rumors amongst conspiracy nuts, offer tax cuts for venture capital into EU firms. Get closer to friendlies and just turn your back to the US. Don’t engage, don’t fight. Simply ignore all carrots and sticks until the US gets out of that tantrum. Don’t dump US bonds though, make it illegal if need be, dumping bonds is just helping Trump bring down the value of the dollar, that’s a price to pay to put out that bully but it’s a temporary cost that can be recooped when you dump them strategicaly when the US economy will have to get itself out of the economic hole they are digging.
Misinformed. And it’s good on you to recognise it. It happens to all of us.
It’s a reminder that some people spew stuff for political purposes (even if they don’t need to do it with the current US administration, it faceplants by itself 24/7 without any need for faked information) .
Have a great day.
I always find it amusing that we, in the west, have sent our mining, recycling and manufacturing to China and then clutch our pearls to gasp at how huge China’s CO2 output is.
The problem isn’t only China, the problem is us all.
I think he means that Germany is a very recent country and nation (way more than the US) and was built by one of the nations it now encompasses (Prussia) invading the others under Bismarck. Before that, like Italy, what we call Germany was a mixed bag of principalities, kingdoms and free cities. The problem ,once unified, is that they kept advancing with that mindset, even when the area was no longer German compatible but German similar (Alsace, Lorraine, eastern Belgium, western Poland, Austria…) and got kicked back regularly.
A army’s value is its deterrence. Not its capacity to invade the country’s neighbours (or else, the US would have a much smaller one and spend less of its debt money into it, its neighbours being Canada and Mexico). Deterrence is what keeps the peace to pursue diplomatic and commercial actions with other countries, invasive action brings such a load of costs that even the most powerful armies have to abandon those conquests sooner or later.
Can you imagine it! It was the Russian government all along! Who could have known? A strongly worded letter is warranted! And maybe even a relocation of the 2028 regional meeting in st petersburg… WHAT now! Russia is under sanctions? Why? By whom?
The UN: at the forefront of diplomacy.
I agree with the sentiment but can’t help myself imagining that the AFD now has proof that " The German deep state is against them" and other " democracy is not there anymore". I’m afraid these actions just gives them fuel and countries should resolve what causes those parties to gain momentum in the first place: fight against corporate criminal attitude, fight against smaller everyday offenses and promote how law abiding foreigners are the big majority and maybe go lighter on the publicity of other affirmative actions, but still do them of course.